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The East End Film Festival is back, giving Londoners and visitors the chance to experience a different kind of cinema.
The festival runs from 2 June to 2 July.
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EastEnd Latest Reviews

A classical musician flees to Provence to start a new life with his young lover, only for a mysterious stranger to threaten his new-found happiness.

A man whose father is gradually sliding into dementia and who worries about his junkie son takes a drastic course of action.

A Caribbean take on A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Portrait of the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic work.

A woman tries to hold her family together under a constant barrage of war.

The inside story of an energy drink marketing ploy gone wrong.

Biopic of the late rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur.

A group of British teenagers go on a road trip to an island music festival.

A theatre critic is offered a princely sum to travel to a stately home to investigate a series of unexplained ‘miracles’.

Appalled to discover that he is the ‘chubby funny’ best friend type, a down and out actor is determined to change his fortunes.
East End Film Festival Features

Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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