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East End Film Festival · 2016

East End Film Festival 2016

Cutting East

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3 films · 1 review

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Generation Revolution

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.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Cassie Quarless, Usayd Younis)

The Grind

A group of young people as they seek to make their way in London’s creative scene.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Nosa Eke)

Sonita

Review preview for Sonita

There's often a question mark over how involved a documentarian has become with their subject and here Ghaemmaghami confronts the issue head on, showing how she becomes not just a recorder of what happens but a catalyst for change.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
The story of an aspirational young Afghan rapper whose family plan to sell her into marriage.

(Country: Germany, Iran, Switzerland; Year: 2016; Director: Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami)

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