Read, Watch & Listen

A powerful film about defining your identity, we learn more about director Roxy Rezvany’s ‘Like a Fish Out of Water’.

Exploring our digital self vs our real-world self through dance and animation, we speak to filmmaker Laura Nasir Tamara about ‘True Sound Façade’. 

Director Lexi Kiddo discusses his new film, ‘Every Dark Wave’, a meditation on mindfulness and balance. 

We speak to director Natasha Mwansa about her film, ‘Damian’ – a love story. 

We decided to go a little left-field of the traditional favourite Christmas movies list and instead our cinema team have selected their favourite films about family and friends coming together. It’s certainly an eclectic mix, with something for everyone!

This week we revisit a series of interviews with musicians James McVinnie, Eliza McCarthy and Timo Andres, about the rare performance of composer Philip Glass's ‘Music In Twelve Parts’ in May 2017. A milestone in minimalist music, slowly revealing itself through hypnotic patterns of change over four hours. 

What does it mean to live a small, finite life in a possibly infinite, eternal universe? With the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their Principal Guest Conductor Dalia Stasevska, Professor Brian Cox sets out to explore what he considers ‘the only interesting existential question’

Encounter a story as old as conflict itself told in a totally new way.

We’re not just an arts centre, we’re also a community

New East Cinema curator Olya Sova talks to writers and directors Natasha Merkulova & Aleksey Chupov about their film The Man Who Surprised Everyone, available to watch on Cinema On Demand until Thu 31 Dec.

We caught up with Boy Blue co-founder Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy to find out what they have been working on.

This week, we step into the issues and drama of Ken Loach’s Palme D’or winning masterpiece 'I, Daniel Blake'.