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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West Side Story
West Side Story
Musical transposes the story of Romeo and Juliet to the gang-ridden streets of New York.
Provenance
Provenance
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.
Sink
Sink
A man whose father is gradually sliding into dementia and who worries about his junkie son takes a drastic course of action.
A Caribbean Dream
A Caribbean Dream
A Caribbean take on A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Tom Of Finland
Tom Of Finland
Portrait of the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic work.
Insyriated
Insyriated
A woman tries to hold her family together under a constant barrage of war.
DRIB
DRIB
The inside story of an energy drink marketing ploy gone wrong.
All Eyez On Me
All Eyez On Me
Biopic of the late rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur.
Access All Areas
Access All Areas
A group of British teenagers go on a road trip to an island music festival.
The Hippopotamus
The Hippopotamus
A theatre critic is offered a princely sum to travel to a stately home to investigate a series of unexplained ‘miracles’.
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East End Film Festival Features

World of difference
Writer/producer Alex Lipschultz on the challenges of making Menashe
Portrait of an artist
Dome Karukoski on his biography of influential gay icon Tom Of Finland
With the workers
Adam Sobel on his portrait of the Qatar migrant labour force The Workers Cup.
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