FILM
East End directors get their shorts on for the London Film Festival
Short films about dating culture and a boy’s religious struggles provide diverse portraits of the East for this year’s BFI extravaganza
Read MoreEast London to host two alternatives to the London Film Festival
The London Fields Free Film Festival and Let’s All Be Free return this month
Read MoreFilm night to screen moo-ving tale of dairy farmer
For Organic September, Growing Communities is showing documentary The Moo Man, about a ‘maverick farmer and his unruly cows’ navigating the dairy crisis
Read MoreLondon Feminist Film Festival gets underway
A packed programme of films about subjects ranging from a Cuban drummer to Judaism starts tonight at the Rio cinema
Read MoreUrban montage: Charlotte Ginsborg’s Melior Street
New documentary by Charlotte Ginsborg explores the soul of a changing street
Read MoreAsif Kapadia – ‘Something happened with Amy’
Camden, not Hackney, is the place with which the singer Amy Winehouse, who died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning, will always be associated. But for Hackney-born director Asif Kapadia, whose acclaimed documentary Amy tells the story of the singer’s precarious life and untimely death, Winehouse could have been “a girl from down the road”. Unlike…
Read MoreHinterland: ode to a lost generation
First time filmmaker Harry Macqueen scooped a Raindance nomination with Hinterland, a romantic road movie about navigating through your late twenties
Read MoreDressed as a Girl: the inside story of East London’s alternative drag scene
East End Film Festival to screen this moving tale of lipstick and counterculture starring the likes of Jonny Woo and Holestar
Read MoreIain Sinclair helps retrace poet’s journey for new documentary
19th-century Romantic writer John Clare once walked from an Epping Forest asylum to Northamptonshire without food or money. Andrew Kötting and author Iain Sinclair have made a documentary about it, starring Toby Jones and a straw bear
Read MoreHackney playwright’s murder musical to be made into film
Adaptation of Alecky Blythe’s London Road boasts a stellar British cast, and could prove to be one of the most unusually made films of the year
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