Film Festival – Hackney Citizen

Spring loaded: East End Film Festival announces line-up for next month’s cinematic harvest – our preview

By Andrew Barnes | Thursday 15 March 2018 at 17:30

The 17th annual festival of features, documentary and all sorts in between comes to venues around Hackney and beyond from 11-29 April

Fringe! Queer Film Fest: pushing boundaries and celebrating queer history

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 17 November 2017 at 17:06

It started with a kiss: a still from The Misandrists. d. Bruce LaBruce

We check out a screening of The Misandrists at the film festival, which is on across East London until Sunday

Forty films in a day at Short Sighted Cinema on 18 June

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 5 June 2017 at 10:29

Shorts weather: a captive audience at last summer's event. Photograph: Luke Blackett

The all day event at The Yard in Hackney Wick will feature hour-long blocks of shorts – from heartwarming to horrifying – on six different themes

Summer loving: the East End Film Festival returns on 2 June – read our full preview

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 25 May 2017 at 17:45

Screen burn - we look forward to the 16th East End Film Festival. All images courtesy East End Film Festival

Read on for details of a nuclear double-bill, Brexit and Tupac profiled, a Caribbean take on Shakespeare, an Eastenders alumnus’ directorial debut and much more…

Kinoteka Film Festival set to showcase best of Polish film history

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 7 April 2016 at 10:56

This month East London venues will be showing films by some of the defining figures of Polish cinema

Docs around the clock – Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival preview

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 30 March 2016 at 10:15

A new film festival for documentaries aims to make filmmaking and watching accessible to all