Film
The Childhood of a Leader – 10-year old Hackney actor talks “scary films” and more
Tom Sweet’s gifted performance belies his young age in this fearsome psychodrama about fascism
Read MoreRio Cinema set to host the London Feminist Film Festival in August
The Dalston picturehouse will host feminist films ranging from the hard-hitting to the lighthearted
Read MoreRio Cinema set to host the London Feminist Film Festival in August
The Dalston picturehouse will host feminist films ranging from the hard-hitting to the lighthearted
Read MoreInflux documentary paints poignant portrait of Italians in London
Influx focuses on the anxiety of seeing one’s country fail its young people, and the tribulations of those who venture to a strange new city
Read MoreAlleycats, review: bike courier thriller fails to ignite East End Film Festival
Ian Bonhote’s debut feature got the East End Film Festival off to an underwhelming start last month
Read MoreIain Sinclair walks 'ginger line' in film adaptation of London Overground
Rio Cinema to premiere London Overground, in which Hackney author Iain Sinclair treks across the ‘spin-drier of capitalism’
Read MoreEast End Film Festival gets underway this week
The biggest event in East London’s film calendar is upon us once more
Read MoreEast End Film Festival gets underway this week
The biggest event in East London’s film calendar is upon us once more
Read MoreStutterer: film review – universal themes in modern East London
Short film set in Hackney was an under-the-radar Oscar success, portraying an East London man’s struggle to live with a debilitating speech impediment
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Read MoreRio Cinema workers to strike over living wage and redundancies
Workers at the Dalston cinema are demanding to be paid the London Living Wage
Read MoreGreen Film Festival screens a global selection of eco-cinema at the Barbican
The event is back until 8 May with an array of new independent documentary films that highlight worldwide environmental struggles
Read MoreFeline romantic – Homerton filmmaker releases debut feature Dead Cat
In the romantic comedy, a pair of old flames randomly meet at a time when both of their lives have reached an impasse
Read MoreKinoteka Film Festival set to showcase best of Polish film history
This month East London venues will be showing films by some of the defining figures of Polish cinema
Read MoreDocs around the clock – Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival preview
A new film festival for documentaries aims to make filmmaking and watching accessible to all
Read MoreOriginal Gravity: documenting London's brewing 'revolution'
Brewers raise a glass to London’s craft beer and micro-brewing scene in a new documentary
Read MoreShort film Cosmico takes a swipe at organised religion
Promising animation by Bethnal Green director doesn’t discriminate with its criticism
Read MoreLondon Short Film Festival: what's on out East
Shorts offering a snapshot of modern Britain are on at Hackney Picturehouse, the Ace Hotel and the Round Chapel in Lower Clapton
Read MoreThis is East London: short film Jacked has true grit
Two car thieves make an unusual discovery in short film starring Charley Palmer Rothwell and This is England’s Thomas Turgoose
Read MoreRediscovering a classic: Sparrows Can't Sing
Joan Littlewood’s only foray into film, this knotty East End romance starring Barbara Windsor – with a cameo from The Krays – has been newly restored
Read MoreFringe! festival returns with special emphasis on Brazil
East London’s queer film and arts festival returns with a bumper programme of work from across the globe
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