East End Film Festival 2016

View other East End Film Festival Films by strand: 40 Years Of Punk , Competition , Crime Scene , Day Of Refuge , Rest Of The Programme - A to Z , Roots , Turkish Strand

Generation Revolution (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Cassie Quarless, Usayd Younis)
A look at the London Black Revolutionaries (Black Revs), R Movement and the Black Dissidents, and what it means to be a politically active young person in London today.
The Grind (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Nosa Eke)
A group of young people as they seek to make their way in London’s creative scene.
Sonita (Country: Germany, Iran, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami)
The story of an aspirational young Afghan rapper whose family plan to sell her into marriage.
News

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground

More news and features

Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:

Queer East

San Francisco International Film Festival

Visions du Réel
Swiss documentary showcase

Overlook Film Festival

Fantaspoa

In the Archive


Archive of festival coverage

News, features and reviews from 2005-2026

Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.