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Year-round alternative music doc premiere event screenings in London, Brighton, Birkenhead, Hull, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Exeter, Nottingham, Totnes and Reading. London HQ - we host an annual 3-week headline London Film Festival each November featuring 30+ World, European, UK premieres of the latest music doc releases + Q&As. Worldwide All Rights Sales
UK + EU theatrical and non-theatrical, TV, VoD distribution of international music docs. For Bookings, or WORLD Sales & Distribution inquiries email: colm(at)docnrollfestival(dot)com

14/09/2026

Mark your calendars!

Doc’n Roll Film Festival UK is back this October

We return with 20 feature films and 5 shorts celebrating artists, scenes and outsiders. Across 27 screenings and seven London venues, the 13th edition runs from 22 October to 8 November.

Stay tuned for the full programme launch.

Visual identity by Emiliya
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✦ DOC’N ROLL FILM FESTIVAL 13TH EDITION ✦
22 October – 8 November 2026

08/09/2026

For The Music is Black Festival at London’s , Doc’n Roll presents 𝐇𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐄𝐌!

A very special screening followed by a Q&A with Hak Baker and directors ( and ), plus a 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐞𝐭 by Hak.

A seven-year portrait of East London musician and poet , HAKEEM is raw, funny, anarchic and deeply personal, moving through class, masculinity, brotherhood and the pressures of sudden stardom.

▷ 19 September, 6:30 PM
▷ , London

🔗 Tickets via the link in bio.

The Music is Black Festival from East Bank unfolds across an eight-month series of events celebrating the artists, creators and collectives who have shaped the legacy of Black British music and continue to shape what comes next.

04/09/2026

SPECIAL DOUBLE BILL

What connects a punk album made in response to post-9/11 Islamophobia with the campaign to free a man from a wrongful conviction?

For Aki Nawaz, music becomes a way to confront racism, identity and the political climate of post-9/11 Britain.

For Satpal Ram, music and activism become part of a decades-long struggle for justice and freedom.

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐤 and 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐚𝐦 come together for an evening exploring how music can become a language for resistance, and how that resistance can travel beyond the stage.

Join us at The Rio Cinema on 12 September for this very special double bill, followed by a Q&A with directors .raj + 🇬🇧 Mos Hannan 🇧🇩, joined by Aki Nawaz + Nikesh Shukla.

▷ 12 September, 6 PM
▷ The Rio Cinema, London

🔗 Tickets via Doc’n Roll (link in bio)

18/08/2026

Ah, these summer days...hot afternoons, long nights, and the dancefloor calling.

This week we’re tracing the origins of some of the most legendary dance music scenes: a beach in Ibiza, a Detroit basement, an after-hours club in central London, a field in the English countryside, an underground pirate station broadcasting from Hackney’s rooftops. A non-comprehensive list of the pioneers who wrote party culture’s history. Long live the rave.

Many are streaming now on Doc’n Roll TV, while others have lit up the screen at past editions of the festival.

🔗 Browse the collection on Doc’n Roll TV (link in bio)

Featuring Laurent Garnier, Carl Craig, Bjørn Torsk, Tony De Vit, Jon Sa Trinxa, John Morales and many more.

Ph. Cxema, Kyiv rave series

13/08/2026

DOC’N ROLL PRESENTS DOUBLE BILL: MORE PUNK THAN PUNK and AFTER EIGHT: SATPAL RAM + Q&A

Music has always been a powerful form of protest.

Doc’n Roll presents a special double bill exploring the intersections of music, activism and resistance through two extraordinary true stories: from Aki Nawaz’s uncompromising response to post-9/11 Britain () to Satpal Ram’s decades-long fight for justice ().

𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐤 (25 min)
Aki Nawaz founded Southern Death Cult and Fun-Da-Mental, spending decades navigating his identity as a Pakistani punk artist. His music has always fused the personal with the political, but in 2006, he channels this into his most controversial album yet: All Is War (The Benefits of G-Had), a raw, furious response to post-9/11 Islamophobia in Britain.

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐚𝐦 (30min)
The story of a landmark British miscarriage of justice and the global campaign that secured Satpal Ram’s release, as well as the struggles that followed freedom, as he confronts the enduring demons of his past.

▷ Q&A with directors .raj + .hannan, joined by special guests +
▷ 12 September, 6 PM
▷ London,

🔗Tickets via Doc’n Roll’s website (link in bio)

11/08/2026

Doc’n Roll is proud to be part of The Music is Black Festival, a programme brimming with events celebrating sound, culture and community across London’s .

What Doc’n Roll does best is bringing unconventional documentaries to the screen. And is a very unconventional musician.

Directed by filmmaking duo (ohhheavens and ), HAKEEM follows the East London musician and poet over seven years, balancing profundity and profanity as Baker confronts the traumas of class and masculinity in the wake of sudden stardom. Its anarchic yet sincere portrait of British lad culture is full of arresting aesthetics and savage honesty. More than a chronicle of a musician’s life, this is an intimate portrait of existential angst, brotherhood and hope in the face of the taboos surrounding male mental health.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗤&𝗔 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗮𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝗼𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝘁, 𝘀𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀.

▷ 19 September, 6:30 PM
▷ London,

🔗Tickets via Doc’n Roll’s website (link in bio)

The Music is Black Festival from East Bank unfolds across an eight-month series of events, including four live festival weekends across the summer. Led by the artists, creators and collectives who built the legacy of Black British music and shape what’s next: soundsystem culture, q***r collectives, Black women changing music, Afrofuturist artists driving it forward.

28/07/2026

Sheffield and Totnes rave peeps: last few screenings of in the UK!

Mendoza Records was part of the early 1990s UK hardcore and breakbeat scene. Labels like this helped circulate tracks quickly through vinyl, record shops and DJs. In that period, the bassline became one of the most important parts of rave music. It gave the track its physical force and made the sound work on large systems. Much of this culture moved through 12-inch records and white labels. Tracks could become known in clubs and raves before they had a wider public profile.

RAVE CULTURE: A NEW ERA looks at the labels, producers and record networks that helped shape the underground sound of rave 🌀

▷ 30 July, 8 PM , Sheffield
▷ 31 July, 8 PM , Totnes

🔗Tickets via Doc’n Roll’s website (link in bio)

23/07/2026

Do you know who produced Kraftwerk’s earliest records? Who wrote Friends’ theme? Who co-composed Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother, or turned junk into orchestras of fire and sound? Meet the producers, songwriters and outsiders who shaped music history even if you’ve never heard their names.

Many are streaming now on Doc’n Roll TV, while others have lit up the screen at past editions of the festival.

🔗Browse the collection on Doc’n Roll TV (link in bio)

Featuring Conny Plank, Ron Geesin, Allee Willis, Nash the Slash, Swamp Dogg, Paul Burwell, Pauline Oliveros, Miúcha and many more!

Image credits: Under The Radar vinyl distribution

16/07/2026

✊Time to turn up the volume on stories of resistance! These are the artists who kept making music when the odds, and often the state, were stacked against them: punks who broke apartheid law just by playing together, DJs who traded jail time for one more rave, a band that fused samba and rock into open rebellion.

Many are streaming now on Doc’n Roll TV, while others have lit up the screen at past editions of the festival 🎬

🔗 Browse the collection on Doc’n Roll TV (link in bio)

Featuring: Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Anoosh Rakizade and Arash Shadram, Kyaw Kyaw RebelRiot, Jagari Chanda, WITCH-We Intend To Cause Havoc, Ivan Kadey, Gary Khoza, Punka Khoza, I Don’t Konform, Fermin Muguruza, Death Pill and many more.

10/07/2026

Time to dig into the stories history tried to bury 🪏

These are the artists who built the sound but never got the byline: the originators sampled a thousand times over, the songwriters whose names got swapped for someone else’s, the bands who filled dance floors and never saw a royalty check.

Many are streaming now on Doc’n Roll TV, while others have lit up the screen at past editions of the festival.
🔗 Browse the collection on Doc’n Roll TV (link in bio)

Featuring: Syl Johnson, Big Mama Thornton, Bert Berns, Cymande, Weldon Irvine, Vince Lawrence, Frankie Knuckles, Marshall Jefferson, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Suzanne Ciani and many more!

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