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Posts Tagged ‘Film’

Obituary: Peter Howden, luminary of independent cinema, dies aged 80

By Hackney Citizen | Sunday 25 January 2026 at 15:26

Howden was a fixture of the London film scene, spending the latter half of his six-decade career at the Rio in Dalston

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Short film celebrates tree lovers on mission to ‘green Hackney’

By Gabriel Stewart | Tuesday 9 December 2025 at 16:02
Tree Musketeers in park

Everyone’s Garden explores the work of the Tree Musketeers, a volunteer-run charity bringing together local communities to transform Hackney’s parks into diverse tree-filled spaces

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‘How To Get On With Everybody’ – Inspiring documentary about beloved Hackney rabbi to show at the Rio Cinema

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 6 November 2025 at 14:07
Rabbi Gluck

‘It’s a very nice film’ says Rabbi Herschel Gluck, ‘a very beautiful film’

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Power Station review – ‘If we’re going to save this life-giving world we’re squatting on, we need radical, grassroots change’

By Gabriel Wilding | Monday 20 October 2025 at 21:04
POWER STATION Roofto

‘A combining of Powell’s artistic audio-visual epics with Edelstyn’s narrative vision and director-producer drive’

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‘One of life’s true optimists’: Film about popular local rabbi to be screened at Abney Park

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 August 2025 at 12:34
Rabbi Gluck

How to Get On with Everybody, a portrait of Rabbi Herschel Gluck, will be shown on 9 September – followed by a Q&A with the man himself

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‘Once a young person feels seen, they start to dream differently’

By Sarah Birch | Thursday 24 July 2025 at 17:50
On location in Hackney: Stolen Dreams 2

Hackney-based director Emeka Egbuono and actor Michael Adurson tell the Citizen about their new film, Stolen Dreams 2: Redemption

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New documentary presents ‘intimate portrait’ of beloved Hackney rabbi

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 6 May 2025 at 13:28

‘How to Get On With Everybody’ follows Rabbi Herschel Gluck in his efforts to build bridges between communities

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Mickey 17 actor Jamila Wingett: ‘There’s a special vibe in Hackney’

By Liam Brady | Tuesday 15 April 2025 at 18:30

The local-born star on her East London roots, working with Bong Joon-Ho, and her dual role as an intimacy coordinator

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New short film explores the joys and challenges of life inside an East London brain injury charity

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 November 2024 at 11:07

Award-winning filmmaker Kit Vincent documents the work of Headway East London through the stories of four survivors

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Francis Alÿs: Ricochets, Barbican, exhibition review: ‘Youthful inventiveness’

By Sarah Birch | Friday 28 June 2024 at 09:34

The artist’s exploration of children’s play ‘yields rich documentation of their resilience’

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Rio Cinema celebrates Hackney’s politically-charged film history

By Josef Steen | Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 10:51

A recent screening of four short films charts the ‘cultural significance of both the Rio and the borough at large’

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East End filmmaker awarded ‘Art Icon’ status by Whitechapel Gallery

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 31 January 2024 at 15:45

Isaac Julien, whose early works feature Hackney, follows in the footsteps of luminaries such as Tracey Emin

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Cette Maison, film review: ‘Tragic tale full of heart and beauty’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 15 November 2022 at 14:48

Miryam Charles’s feature-length debut is a ‘wistful and experimental creature’

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Triangle of Sadness, film review: ‘Searing dissection of wealth’

By Gabriel Wilding | Tuesday 25 October 2022 at 11:42

Ruben Östlund’s black comedy is a ‘gargantuan success with a knock-out cast’

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‘I’ve seen a hell a lot of change’: Legendary Hackney film director launches 50-year retrospective in Shoreditch

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 3 October 2022 at 11:40

John Smith, who Jarvis Cocker calls his ‘favourite British filmmaker’, will show 50 of his works over 10 weeks

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‘My stories begin in Hackney’: Author Iain Sinclair to release film about retracing his ancestor’s journey to Peru

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 August 2022 at 08:04

The writer says the adventure documented in The Gold Machine is like ‘any of those funny, strange expeditions I’ve done for my own books’

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Mónica de Miranda explores African diasporic experiences and Europe’s colonial past in new Shoreditch exhibition

By Lizzie McAllister | Wednesday 22 June 2022 at 15:32

The Angolan-Portuguese artist’s latest work will be on display at Autograph from 24 June

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‘Euphoria and trauma’: Filmmaker Sutapa Biswas explores colonial histories in new solo show in Shoreditch

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 4 March 2022 at 11:53

The multidisciplinary artist’s critically acclaimed film ‘Lumen’ is being shown at Autograph gallery until 4 June

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Blacks Can’t Swim filmmaker wants to ‘spark conversation’ with follow-up to acclaimed documentary series

By Lizzie McAllister | Friday 21 January 2022 at 10:30

Ed Accura is hoping to ‘change the narrative’ with third film exploring the lack of Black representation in swimming

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Hackney-born filmmaker tackles gentrification in Whitechapel Gallery show

By Lizzie McAllister | Thursday 3 June 2021 at 11:35

Ayo Akingbade looks at housing in her home borough for her new solo exhibition

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