A open mic/scratch night in the city centre's newest mini theatre.

A performance of aerial theatre, spoken word and projections, reflecting on female form in the circus.

As part of the Festival of the Mind, Film Unit will be taking over the glorious Spiegeltent a screening of the sci-fi classic complete with live score.

A story of disenfranchisement, social alienation, prejudice, radicalisation and the rock band Queen.

A series of free talks and meals exploring the idea of creating a National Food Service.

Guillermo del Toro's dark fantasy set in the terror of fascist Spain.

One day in the life of the city, from the perspective of the 346 entrants in this year's Photomarathon photography challenge.

Another face from The Mash Report, Nish Kumar is a insightful satirist whose latest offering, It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves, ruminates on the current political climate.

Hear about the small group of artists who depicted everyday scenes and painted the mundane details of life in the 1950s.

A synaesthesia experience, made up of an immersive installation of sound, light and animation.

A documentary on the rise and fall of what many consider the greatest nightclub of all time.

How would receiving a universal basic income (UBI) – a regular, no-strings-attached sum of money without means testing – change your life?

Uplifting indie rock.

Welcome back, Site Gallery!

An animated rap music video installation, inspired by the inner thoughts of women from black and ethnic minority backgrounds.

Booze experts Starmore Boss lead a tasting session to demonstrate how the way a drink looks can affect our senses.

Three shows from three artists on all the same night. Featuring Richard Hawley and more to be announced soon.

Joe is a war veteran, turned hired gun, who struggles with mental illness, yet continues with his job of tracking down missing teenage girls.

A spotlight on Sheffield's emerging comedy and music talent.

A breathtaking expedition through the world’s last true wilderness, accompanied by sounds from the Sheffield Rep Orchestra.

One of the most exciting producers of today's generation of electronic musicians. With support from Sensoria’s Beats Working award winner.

Poetry and music exploring the impact of British colonial rule and missionary activities on childhoods in Ghana. With Kewku Sackey (KOG and the Zongo Brigade) and Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh.

Artist Rory Pilgrim and poet Carol Kallend look at the connection between technology, disability and care, through a performance of experimental music and dance.

A family-friendly concert combining music, animations and live demonstrations of science.

A performance of a new composition in response to John Addington Symonds (1840-93) and his lyric mediation on homoerotic colour and clothing. By Out Aloud, Sheffield’s LGBT Community Choir.

Jump into a time machine and explore the youth of the famous Han Solo.

An unforgettable film depicting the horror of a nuclear attack in South Yorkshire and the impact on rest of the country.

Feed your mind with a series of fascinating and inspiring talks, exhibitions and events.

Love and intimacy between older people, depicted by the artist Pete McKee.

Art installations and a talk celebrating the 50th anniversary of Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave.

Go on a meditative journey by wandering through three labyrinths across the city.

A stop-motion animated film is set on an island made out of trash and populated by unwanted dogs.

Join Film Unit, Wellbeing Café, and Vegetarian & Vegan Soc for a special supper club and screening.

The host of Viceland's Hate Thy Neighbour brings his new show Vape Lord to town – a confrontational and hilarious exposé on hate and moral confrontation.

A documentary about Reagan-era guerrilla punk concerts in the Californian desert, featuring the likes of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans and Einstürzende Neubauten.

One couple’s journey through bereavement, love, superheroes and enforced pen maintenance.

The world's oldest surviving animated feature film,
telling a story involving a prince, a princess, a witch, Aladdin, and a bunch of demons. With a live score played on a spectacular array of instruments from around the world.

In 2026, no children have been born for 18 years. Society has collapsed, but a miraculously pregnant woman offers a chance for salvation.

Moody soundscapes, mortorik rhythms and percussive drones.

Set in the harsh outback of northern Australia in 1929, an Aboriginal farmhand, Sam, is sent to work for Harry, a war veteran turned farmer.

Food, music, art. In a former warehouse. At night.

Sheffield's distinctly innovative, always interesting festival of sound and vision.

An exhibition of work by Bren Head.

A re-potted version of the world-famous children’s story, featuring live music, eccentric puppetry and lots of energy.

Ellie Dubois's all-female circus troupe reveal the grit and graft behind the big top’s glitz and death-defying stunts.

A documentary about Emily Dickinson, delving deep into her poetry and her hometown of Amherst, MA. Followed by Q&A.

One for synth obsessives. A showcase of synthesisers plus a modular meet-up, talks from the likes of Heaven 17's Martyn Ware, and a session on how Delia Derbyshire created the Doctor Who theme.

A documentary telling the previously little told story of Native Americans' huge influence on popular music.

New music played on vintage synthesisers. Led by Goldfrapp keyboard player Will Gregory and featuring renowned composers, members of Portishead, and more.

Off the back of his successful mission to reunite with his girlfriend Vanessa, Deadpool is faced with new challenges.

Era-defining posters and photomontages, marking the 60th anniversary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

12-year-old Miguel's desperation to be a musician sees him take a journey to the Land of the Dead.

This is Granny's story – 10 pairs of knickers, a leap of faith, a waft of lavender, a blue suit, and true love.

Richard Morris digs into history to examine how England’s largest county took shape both geographically and sociologically, and the inspiration it's had on artists and writers.

This is a show about the world we live in now: essential viewing in a society that just can't seem to relax anymore.

In 2016 Gina Miller successfully challenged the government’s right to implement Brexit without approval from parliament. Here she discusses fighting injustice and speaking out for what you believe in.

A warm-hearted solo show sharing stories of hope.

Christopher Frayling explores the enduring appeal of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its ability to remain a cultural touchstone over its two centuries.

Cheryl is black, lesbian filmmaker living in Philadelphia, who, along with her friend Tamara, wants to make a film exploring black actresses in 1930s cinema.

TV presenter Evan Davis charts a route through the mass of information we are bombarded with daily, to try and work out why the manipulation of facts is so rife.

Historian Fern Riddell delves into the diaries of actress and suffragette bomber Kitty Marion, to tell a story that isn't often included in the relatively sanitised history of the movement.

A game night becomes a real-life murder mystery.

A playful investigation of compassion, companionship and overcoming life's obstacles.

The Parrs, everyone’s favourite family of superheroes, are back.

An unbroken sequence of music including work by Mozart, Stravinsky and Woolrich, accompanied by a new film by Brothers Quay.

Three days of readings, performances, projections, installations and discussions surrounding radical print.

After reconnecting with her emotionless friend Amanda, high-school student Lily is persuaded to kill her awful step-father.

A gentle yet powerful piece of theatre about living with PTSD.

A night of feminist poetry inspired by Maya Angelou, in celebration of Black History Month.

A special screening of Redcon-1, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and cast.

Chris Barltrop presents a one-man play based on the life of Philip Astley, the father of modern circus.

James Dean wannabe Kit (Martin Sheen) and bored school girl Holly (Sissy Spacek) decide to run away together and live in a tree house.

A dance/physical theatre production exploring the depths and effects of human trafficking and modern day slavery.

Living in a small city in southern China, gang driver Xiao Zhang wants to help his girlfriend with her failed plastic surgery by taking her to South Korea.

Political cartoonist Steve Bell reflects on the rapid rise of the Labour leader and the political upheaval that followed his election.

As an attempt to try and expose the Ku Klux Klan, African-American police officer Ron Stallworth decides to infiltrate the organisation.

A funny and profound exploration of British diversity as the very foundation of the nation as we know it.

A coming-of-age rom-com following a budding email romance between closeted boys Simon and 'Blue'.

As notorious as they are prolific.

An installation exploring the collapse of boundaries between the natural and the manmade world.

Shūkichi and Tomi are an elderly couple who journey to Tokyo to visit their now-adult children.

Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece performed from within the Arts Tower's paternoster lift. Revolutionary music in a revolving setting.

A social cycling happening, taking riders from Park Hill to the Arts Tower via iconic sites as well as unsung sights.

Annie Graham (Toni Collette) is a deeply troubled woman coming to terms with her mother's death.

Sheffield's annual festival of words.

Peek behind the scenes at the inner workings of the iconic 1970s theatre.

Construct a fantasy cityscape from cardboard and Lego at this drop-in workshop, designed to inspire the architects of the future.

A day of talks and discussions on Sheffield's rich Modernist built environment, drawing together academics, authors and practitioners.

Bringing together strollers, saunterers, wanderers and meanderers to explore the urban landscape on foot.

A hard of hearing friendly screening of the horror classic.

An immersive screening of a horror classic, in collaboration with Sheffield Horror Society.

From the traditional to the contemporary, Eddi brings joyous life to all forms of song.

A celebration of Sheffield's heritage of post-war architecture. With talks, walks, film screenings, exhibitions, workshops, and more.

A documentary about the capital of Brazil, a concrete utopia born out of the desert. Screening alongside a pair of shorts featuring Sheffield modernism on film.

Alice works as a sheep-shearer, travelling around different farms in North Yorkshire.

A playful, intimate dissection of a relationship teetering on the edge of collapse.

A 1970s horror classic set in a prestigious German ballet academy where something evil lurks.

A showcase of poetry, spoken word, storytelling, puppetry, music and comedy, hosted by Sheffield's feminist arts collective Verse Matters.

An intimate family show tackling big issues with live music and comedy.

Crafts for kids, inspired by bees.

In a remote area of Bulgaria, a group of German labourers compete to win favours with hostile locals.

A David Tennant-starring thriller delving into the moral dilemma faced by a pair of burglars who discover a captive woman.

Roll up, roll up, for a celebration of 250 years of the circus. Read our Hannah's exhibition review.

Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) deals with a series of issues, ranging from a tormented past to fears of climate change and extremism.

An evening with Sheffield's all-star global music collective, accompanied by hypnotic digital animations.

A crew of filmmakers travel around the world exploring the intricacies of human worship.

A season dedicated to artist, feminist and filmmaker extraordinaire. The Grandmother of the French New Wave.

A solo show by artist John A. Pedder.

Misumi is on trial for the murder of a factory owner.

Watch printmaking in action and pick up a print or two to take home.

Two parents bitterly contest custody for their troubled son, the mother claiming the father is violent and abusive and the father insisting the mother has turned his children against him.

A female comedian tries to make a name for herself in working men’s clubs in the 1970s.

Full of a rage that plagues his life, Joseph is close to self-destruction.

Young, newly-wed couple Florence and Edward attempt to consummate their marriage in the summer of 1962.

Peddler street food market goes veggie/vegan.

An exhibition of work by Alison Tyldesley, Paul Evans, John Bainbridge and Rebecca Buck.

Willem Dafoe tramples through Tasmania in search of the thought-to-be-extinct Tasmanian tiger.

A weekend of nosying around some of the most fascinating artists' studios in town.

The story of a mother and her night nanny, starring Charlize Theron.

After going missing for four years, and suffering from amnesia, Travis Henderson reappears out of the desert.

Cutting-edge looping technology mixed with vocal, accordion and composition skill.

Filmmaker Agnès Varda and artist JR travel across rural France, creating giant portraits of the people they meet.

An exhibition spanning 400 years of portraiture, curated by Paul Morrison. Read our review.

A Japanese children's animation about a little girl who takes a magical broomstick ride to a school for witches.

In one of the remote outposts of the Spanish Empire in the 18th century, the local magistrate Zama waits desperately for news of the long-awaited promotion that will reunite him with his family in Buenos Aires.

Andrei Tarkovsky's 1970s science fiction classic.

Journalist Eddie Brock comes into contact with an alien symbiote, turning him into Venom.

A drama set amidst the campaign for action to tackle the AIDS crisis in 1990s Paris.

Two days of old time Christmas shopping. Dickensian dress optional.

Living in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan, Parvana is an eleven-year-old girl on a mission to reunite her family.

A 1960s continuation of the Toho Godzilla franchise.

Approaching the end of his career, boxer Matty Burton suffers a horrific brain injury following an incredibly taxing previous fight.

Sick of their mundane lives at Transylvania University in Kentucky, four friends embark on the daring mission to steal the most valuable book at the university library.

Now an adult, Christopher Robin is focused on his new life, losing his childhood imagination.

A showcase of treasures looking at the extraordinary feats of ordinary people, celebrating 250 years of the circus.

A classic Christmas story for all the family.

With crystals prevalent in touch-screen technologies, medical equipment and more, a group of artists explore the idea that we live in the 'crystal era'.

A programme of exhibitions and events exploring collective artistic activity, reflecting on the lasting influence of the Bauhaus movement 100 years on from its inception.

Each June, the world of documentary descends on Sheffield to showcase some of the most fascinating factual films going.