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
Films about sex work and related issues such as migration, race, gender and violence to be screened this weekend at the Rio Cinema
Bee Rowlatt embarked on a full-blown love affair by tracing Mary Wollstonecraft’s journey across Scandinavia
East London’s queer film and arts festival returns with a bumper programme of work from across the globe
Short films about dating culture and a boy’s religious struggles provide diverse portraits of the East for this year’s BFI extravaganza
The London Fields Free Film Festival and Let’s All Be Free return this month
For Organic September, Growing Communities is showing documentary The Moo Man, about a ‘maverick farmer and his unruly cows’ navigating the dairy crisis
New short story and illustration publication gets to grips with grotesque human forms for its maiden issue
A packed programme of films about subjects ranging from a Cuban drummer to Judaism starts tonight at the Rio cinema
New documentary by Charlotte Ginsborg explores the soul of a changing street
Split between contemporary London and 19th-century West Africa, Butterfly Fish is a debut novel with an epic scope
A Hackney historian challenges conventional thinking about the ‘eureka’ moment
