Grain CIty: The Sheffield Wheat Experiement

Grain City is a lyrical, locally-rooted documentary that follows an ambitious community experiment in Sheffield - one that asks how a city might grow its own wheat. Blending poetic observation with grounded voices, the film chronicles a grassroots movement that invites residents, bakers, artists and growers to reconnect with the land beneath their feet and the bread on their plates. At the heart of the film is the “Sheffield Wheat Experiment,” a decentralised project where people sow, tend, and harvest diverse varieties of wheat across unexpected urban spaces. Through intimate conversations and quiet revelations, Grain City explores how food can become a tool for social connection, environmental awareness and cultural reimagining. Set against the backdrop of shifting seasons and Sheffield’s post-industrial terrain, the film captures a collective yearning to rethink how we eat, how we live and what it means to belong. The result is a hopeful and nourishing portrait of a city rediscovering itself - grain by grain.