Olivier Award-winner Matthew Xia directs this stage adaptation of the film The Harder They Come at Stratford East
A former programmer at the Rio and now Head of Cinema at the Barbican looks back at the surprisingly rich history of Hackney’s cinemas
East London cinemas, galleries, pop-up venues and basement clubs to host film screenings as well as experimental art, workshops, interactive walks and parties
Documentary-maker George Amponsah talks Mark Duggan, Met policing and the best way to protest police violence
Inspired by the tragic story of war reporter Dorothy Lawrence, Blue Pen looks at the lives of women journalists whose voices have been silenced
Tom Sweet’s gifted performance belies his young age in this fearsome psychodrama about fascism
The Dalston picturehouse will host feminist films ranging from the hard-hitting to the lighthearted
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
Ian Bonhote’s debut feature got the East End Film Festival off to an underwhelming start last month
Rio Cinema to premiere London Overground, in which Hackney author Iain Sinclair treks across the ‘spin-drier of capitalism’
The biggest event in East London’s film calendar is upon us once more
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
