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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‘It’s not desire, it’s fear.’ In Queen at Sea (2026), Juliette Binoche stars as Amanda, a woman watching her mother Leslie’s partner Martin struggle to let go as Leslie enters dementia.
East London has always been a place of stories — not just the ones we tell, but the ones we share and experience together…
Lupita Nyong’o terrifically anchors The Wild Robot in which she plays an empathetic robot tasked with raising an orphaned duckling while also navigating her new life…
Finding Emily (2026) is a hilarious, chaotic debacle of misunderstandings, mistaken identity and terrible decision making as Owen (Spike Fearn) searches for the girl that wrong numbered him.
An antique shop-keeper, Jesus Gris, discovers an intriguing gadget hidden inside a statue that suddenly bites him and sucks his blood.
The New Black Film Collective recently spoke with filmmaker Seth Worley, the writer and director of the children’s fantasy film, Sketch.
The New Black Film Collective recently sat down with acclaimed actor Ali Fazal to discuss his latest project, Rule Breakers (2025), a film inspired by the extraordinary true story of Roya Mahboob and the all-girl Afghan robotics team she helped bring to the world stage.
Katie Aselton’s Their Town (2026) is a tender coming-of-age drama that finds surprising depth in a simple premise.
Hasna and Meriem are amongst many women who have left Morocco to work in a strawberry picking farm in Spain.
A group of teenagers use honesty to fight against its dictator. No weapons, no resistance – just courage.
After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.
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?
The off-world setting and rock-ready soundtrack give Supergirl (2026) an edge, while the untethered, mostly hungover Kara (Millie Alcock) is a refreshing contrast to her cameo-heavy boy scout cousin, Clark (David Corenswet).