Otherfield Film Festival Presents:
New Documentary Filmmaking
18 March – 30 July 2026
Three insightful films from the most exciting voices in contemporary documentary filmmaking, all introduced by documentarian Jerry Rothwell.
Films in the season
I’m Not Everything I Want To Be
Wednesday 18 March, 20:15
Cert: TBC
In Soviet-occupied Prague, a young female photographer embraces wild nights of rebellion, desire, and resistance to conformity.
Through thousands of her raw and candid photographs and personal diaries, I’m Not Everything I Want To Be traces her twenty-year quest for freedom and self-acceptance.
Mother City
Wednesday 20 May, 20:15
Cert: TBC
Mother City is a cinematically beautiful and journalistically hard hitting story about an extraordinary group of activists in Cape Town, taking on property power in a city still disfigured by spatial apartheid.
Organiser and activist, Nkosikhona Swartbooi tells this story with ruthless honesty as the Reclaim The Streets group struggle against government officials and property developers in one of the world’s most unequal cities.
Marching in the Dark
Thursday 30 July, 20:15
Cert: TBC
A group of women farmers come together to break the vicious cycle of debt and climate related chaos in Indian agriculture that has pushed their desperate husbands to kill themselves, leaving them with their debts.
Initially cautious and reserved, 28-year-old introverted Sanjeevani is slowly drawn into the healing power of community and of sharing their common experiences.
About Otherfield Film Festival
Otherfield is a Sussex based documentary festival dedicated to re-imagining the possibilities of nonfiction filmmaking. As documentaries on the larger streaming platforms become increasingly narrowly focused on celebrity and crime, Otherfield aims to create a window into other kinds of nonfiction filmmaking: films of unheard voices and places, personal films, films made or distributed in innovative or experimental ways. For the last three editions Otherfield has partnered with Depot Cinema to bring films and filmmakers to the festival.