Posts Tagged ‘film’
Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest: this year’s programme announced
East London cinemas, galleries, pop-up venues and basement clubs to host film screenings as well as experimental art, workshops, interactive walks and parties
Read MoreThe Hard Stop, an interview with filmmaker George Amponsah: Language of the unheard
Documentary-maker George Amponsah talks Mark Duggan, Met policing and the best way to protest police violence
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 MoreSlave’s Lament – an art film with "raw immediacy" from Mile End auteur
A Robert Burns song is given a reggae makeover in a film by Matt’s Gallery artist Graham Fagen
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 MoreOscar win for Hackney director Asif Kapadia
Amy Winehouse documentary completes clean sweep of major awards with Academy Award win
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 MoreLondon Sex Worker Film Festival seeks to challenge ‘whorephobic’ society
Films about sex work and related issues such as migration, race, gender and violence to be screened this weekend at the Rio Cinema
Read MoreLondon Sex Worker Film Festival seeks to challenge 'whorephobic' society
Films about sex work and related issues such as migration, race, gender and violence to be screened this weekend at the Rio Cinema
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
Read MoreUrban montage: Charlotte Ginsborg’s Melior Street
New documentary by Charlotte Ginsborg explores the soul of a changing street
Read MoreSecret Cinema defends price hike for The Empire Strikes Back
Ambitious scale of the production means tickets have to cost more, says Secret Cinema founder
Read MoreHackney's Finest – film review: an endearingly silly crime caper
Cartoon gangsters and dodgy accents produce underwhelming results in this film about Hackney’s grittier side
Read MoreCeleb-studded new film is set in a parallel East London world
Set The Thames on Fire is a dark, fantastical vision of East London starring the likes of Noel Fielding and Sally Phillips
Read MoreStoke Newington animator's new film is an analogy for modern Britain
A new arrival to an isolated island community causes a stir in animated short film Dead Air
Read MoreLondon Short Film Festival gets underway this weekend
Billed as a snapshot of 21st century Britain, this year’s festival received a record number of submissions
Read MoreSecret Cinema to hold charity screening to protest against The Interview hackers
Filmgoers asked to wear dark suits and bring a gift to secret charity screening held simultaneously in East London, Rome and San Francisco
Read MoreCrime is of the essence: Where now for the East End gangster flick?
From The Krays to Snatch, East London has provided inspiration for countless films about organised crime, but as local identity shifts is it time to consign the genre to history?
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