newham community cinema
Newham Community Cinema is part of our Curated Community Cinema programming, running free film nights, often with performances, panel discussions and refreshments for the people of Newham. Supported by Newham Council and Film London’s Spotlight programme.
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variety of screenings
Newham Community Cinema programming we run free film nights, often with performances, panel discussions and refreshments. We offer something everyone from children’s screenings to horror film screenings. Check out our venues below:
UCL East Cinema
To find out more or to bring a Curated Community Cinema to your borough/town, get in touch with us.
Upcoming newham Community Cinema Events
Curated Community Reviews
If you are someone who honestly loves cinema for its existence, we want you to join us in our sacred mission of spreading cinematic enlightenment. We want you to write for us.
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A horror bestseller-writer, Ohm Bauman, visits his late parents’ honeymoon hotel, secluded in a forest in Ireland, as he aims to finish his latest novel.
For every creative who ever fought for a dream to come true, Power Ballad (2026) is about the fight for ownership and protecting your voice.
Hen (2026) is the story of a hen escaping slaughter on a Greek island, who is later captured and imprisoned in the hen house of a restaurant.
California Schemin' (2026) follows a Scottish rap duo who fake being American for a record deal, and risk losing themselves in the bargain.
Enzo (2025) is the character study of its titular teen, who defies his wealthy parents by apprenticing as a bricklayer.
I Built a Rocket Imagining Your Arrival (2026) is an abstract journey of reconciliation.
“Is that the one about the blue people?” is a question that the famous Avatar science fiction franchise still provokes.
Newham and Barking & Dagenham have been part of film and television history for far longer than many people realise.
Amanda Seyfried dedication to embodying Ann Lee has a spellbinding charm that carries the film.
Tragedy strikes when Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw, a woman from a wealthy family in 18th-century England.
From Manchester to New York, this musical film follows founder of the Shaker movement, Ann Lee on her quest for spiritual perfection.
Charlotte flees her controlling husband and returns to her childhood home on Park Avenue, but how will she navigate the fraught relationship with her mother, and the family secrets that come to light?
A grief stricken father tries to raise his sons whilst dealing with an unwanted and unpredictable house guest.
This sci-fi spectacle follows DEK as he goes on a dangerous, and ill-prepared mission to prove himself to his clan.
A grief stricken father tries to raise his sons whilst dealing with an unwanted and unpredictable house guest.
A poignant and powerful film demonstrating the reach of the British Empire, and tracing the legacies of devastating colonialism and Zionism that can still be felt today.
In 1990s Iraq, 9-year-old Lamia must bake the President's birthday cake. She scrambles to find ingredients for this compulsory task while facing potential punishment if she fails.
A group of women recollect the steps into leadership and activism they had to take, to fight against low pay, pit closures and Margaret Thatcher’s assault on the mines.
Follow Kaujak and Sapa in this Arctic fairytale set in an Inuit community.
Ed and Lorraine take on terrifying paranormal entities in the latest offering from The Conjuring Universe.
In war-torn Baghdad, a diabetic 9-year-old seeks his dead parents through a mythical gate to Irkalla
How will Angela connect with her daughter and navigate motherhood in a society that fails to adequately cater for the hearing impaired?
As IGPN officer Stéphanie investigates Case 137, we find out that policing the police often drags up secrets they would prefer to keep buried.
From mercury poisoning in the luscious, picturesque Amazon rainforest to gun violence in the city centre of Brasília, Yanuni tells the harrowing yet inspiring story of Juma Xipaia, an Indigenous chief, as she fights for the right to live on ancestral lands, raise children in safety, and resist the violence and demolition of the Amazon rainforest.
An older Superman returns from years in hiding to guide and fight alongside a new, younger hero rising in his shadow…
In electric, personal, and historical ways, this riveting documentary explores whether there is, or ever was, a home for Queer in the hyper-masculine…
If you love Mortal Kombat this film is for you.