Film Screenings 2025
| Time | Cinema | Title & Description |
|---|---|---|
| Tue 6th May - 7:00 PM | Castle Cinema |
Double bill of The Estate by Andrea Luka Zimmerman & A Palace for Us by Tom Hunter, followed by a discussion with the directors about regeneration. Tickets from Castle Cinema here. |
| Wed 14th May - 7:00 PM | Castle Cinema |
'Under the Cranes' - with Director Q&A Screened as part of Hackney History Festival. Stay after the screening for a Q&A with filmmaker Emma-Louise Williams and poet Michael Rosen Shot entirely on location in Hackney, this film-poem offers a lyrical, painterly defence of the everyday and a celebration of this dynamic and culturally diverse East London borough, even as it poses questions about the process of regeneration. Rare archive footage and dreamlike sequences of present-day Hackney are juxtaposed with the East London paintings of Leon Kossoff, Jock McFadyen and James MacKinnon and a heightened soundtrack mixes documentary with poetry, music, song and location recordings. As we slip between past and present, real and imagined, famous and unknown "the world comes to Hackney": From Shakespeare in Shoreditch, to a Jamaican builder, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty to the Jewish 43 Group taking on Oswald Mosley in Dalston, the audience is invited to apprehend the city as fragmentary and multi-layered, past in the present, present in the past. Under the Cranes premiered at the East End Film Festival in 2011. Tickets from Castle Cinema here. |
| Sat 24th May - 1:30 PM | Rio Cinema |
Double bill by Winstan Whitter showing Save our Heritage + Hands Off plus a Q & A with Bill Parry-Davies & Director Winstan Whitter In anticipation of London’s Olympic bid, a new tube line for Hackney and urban regeneration efforts were planned. The site of the old theatre at Dalston (a.k.a The Club Four Aces, a.k.a Labyrinth) lies very close to Dalston rail station and the famous Ridley Road market. An organization called OPEN formed to try to protect the site because of its cultural heritage, with support from an active cross-section of Hackney’s people. Tickets from Rio here |
| Sun 25th May - 1:30 PM | Rio Cinema |
How To Get On With Everyone plus a Q & A with Directors Winstan Whitter, Elin Moe and the star of the film, Rabbi Herschel Gluck An intimate portrait of one of life’s loveable optimists, London Rabbi Herschel Gluck. Following his life and works, building bridges between people from all walks of life. Not an easy feat in a polarised world Tickets from Rio here |