East End Film Festival announces line-up

Event back in spring for first time since 2011

by Amber Wilkinson

In The Fade
In The Fade
The East End Film Festival has announced the full line-up of its 17th edition, which will run from April 11 to 29. It sees the event move back to spring dates from the summertime slot it has been occupying since 2011.

The festival will open with the UK premiere of documentary Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat, which charts the artist's youth before he found fame.

Nine films by first and second-time filmmakers will screen in the competition section, plus there will also be a strand celebrating strong female characters in horror. She's Right Behind You has been curated by feminist horror film collective The Final Girls and features classics The Uninvited and Kuroneko as well as more recent films The Woman In Black and Whispering Corridors.

Fatih Akin will be among the filmmakers attending - he will discuss the controversy surround his Golden Globe winning In The Fade. Other films screening include Nancy Buirski's documentary The Rape Of Recy Taylor and Mouly Surya's award-winning Marlina the Murderer In Four Acts. There will also be a full shorts programme

For full details visit the official site.

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