Aldeburgh Documentary Festival 2025

Aldeburgh Documentary Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary this November. Since its inception in 1995, the festival has welcomed leading documentary filmmakers including Sir David Attenborough, Molly Dineen (DocFest founder), Paul Greengrass, Asif Kapadia, Kim Longinotto, Kevin Macdonald and Louis Theroux, to name but a few. Selling out within days of its programme announcement, the festival receives 2000 plus visitors over a long weekend that has become one of the fixtures of the UK’s film festival calendar. Renowned for the quality of its programming and the calibre of its guests, the festival screens an outstanding array of new documentaries (including UK and world premieres). All of which are followed by stimulating Q&As with expert panels hosted by some of the UK’s leading media figures and heavyweight political broadcasters / journalists including Martha Kearney, Nick Robinson and Stephen Sackur.

The 30th edition of the festival will take place over the weekend of Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd November. We will be announcing this year’s programme in early October.

Tickets sell out fast and go on sale to Friends of Aldeburgh Cinema before anyone else.

Aldeburgh Documentary Festival is run by Aldeburgh Cinema Trust, a registered charity with a mission to foster film culture and education.