Original Gravity: documenting London's brewing 'revolution'
Brewers raise a glass to London’s craft beer and micro-brewing scene in a new documentary
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Short film Cosmico takes a swipe at organised religion
Promising animation by Bethnal Green director doesn’t discriminate with its criticism
London 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
This 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
Rediscovering a classic: Sparrows Can't Sing
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
Fringe! 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
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
East 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
Film 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
London 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
Urban montage: Charlotte Ginsborg’s Melior Street
New documentary by Charlotte Ginsborg explores the soul of a changing street
Asif 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 hav
Hinterland: 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
Dressed 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
Iain 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
Hackney 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