Rio Cinema

Rio Cinema 📽️ Your Local Not-For-Profit Community Cinema Independent cinema and community centre in Dalston, East London

This October half term Rio is excited to launch the very first Hackney Children’s Film Festival from Sat 24th - Sat 31st...
06/10/2026

This October half term Rio is excited to launch the very first Hackney Children’s Film Festival from Sat 24th - Sat 31st October!

The kids have waited long enough! This October half term, the Rio brings Hackney its first ever Children’s Film Festival, with a lively and enchanting film programme curated especially for young audiences!

With screenings in collaboration with Japanese Film Club (Japanese Film Club 日本映画倶楽部), Film Africa (Film Africa), Neurospicy Shorts (NEUROSPICY) and the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (Trinidad+Tobago Film Festival), who have each cooked up something wonderful for young minds!

Hosting each screening with lots of love are Sophie Walmsley and Claire Harrison, from our Saturday Morning Kids Club, PLUS we’ll be joined by some very special guests along the way!

Screenings are now on sale! with tickets at £5 or £3 with a Hackney Library Card 

This selection of event screenings will ranges for ages 5 to 8, with a handful for those 8 to 12

EXTRA GEOGRAPHYfrom Sunday 11th OctoberSet in an English boarding school, EXTRA GEOGRAPHY follows two teenage girls as t...
06/10/2026

EXTRA GEOGRAPHY
from Sunday 11th October

Set in an English boarding school, EXTRA GEOGRAPHY follows two teenage girls as they grapple with all the challenges of girlhood: friendship, boys, studies, growing up and their summer project, “to fall in love”.

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Celebrate the launch of new satirical haunted house novel THE CRACKS with author Tom Huddleston () and Titan Books on Oc...
06/10/2026

Celebrate the launch of new satirical haunted house novel THE CRACKS with author Tom Huddleston () and Titan Books on October 15th (20:30) with a screening of CANDYMAN

Join us for drinks in the bar and to buy a copy of The Cracks from 19:30 before the film plays at 20:30 with introduction from author Tom Huddleston

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s DIGGER Now PlayingThe most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove...
05/10/2026

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s DIGGER
Now Playing

The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s saviour from a disaster he’s caused... Tom Cruise stars as oil tycoon DIGGER in this darkly comic satire of power, ego and self-preservation from Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Shot entirely in VistaVision, the film features a starstudded cast of Riz Ahmed, Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg and Jesse Plemons.

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HYENAS (1992)Showing on October 11th 14:00 + IntroductionJoin us for a special afternoon screening of Djibril Diop Mambé...
05/10/2026

HYENAS (1992)
Showing on October 11th 14:00 + Introduction

Join us for a special afternoon screening of Djibril Diop Mambéty’s HYENAS.

In the tiny village of Colobane, Dramaan Drameh is a respected, convivial shopkeeper. When a forgotten act of cruelty committed thirty years in his past comes back to haunt him, the young woman he once impregnated and abandoned returns seeking revenge.

Hyenas is the second feature film by the director, releasing almsost twenty years after his debut TOUKI BOUKI. This comedy explores how a tight knit community respond to the sacrifices needed to achieve prosperity.

Join us for the rare opportunity to watch this beautiful film on the big screen (in 4k restoration) screening as part of Black History Month.

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PINK PALACE (PinkPalaceQueerFilmClub) presents ELEPHANTOn Thursday 15th October 19:30 Pink Palace presents the winner of...
04/10/2026

PINK PALACE (PinkPalaceQueerFilmClub) presents ELEPHANT
On Thursday 15th October 19:30

Pink Palace presents the winner of the Palme D’Or Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. This controversial film by Gus van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) portrays two days in the life of a suburban American high school as it tips from mundane normality into chilling violence. 

Semi-improvised, using unknown teenagers rather than professional actors, the film adopts a fly-on-the-wall approach that surveys the various cliques and social strata of the school in a non dramatic almost dreamlike documentary style. Against this background, two misfit friends, Eric and Alex, who spend their free-time collecting N**i iconography and playing ultra-violent video games, are coolly planning an armed assault on the school, drawing working diagrams of the school refectory during study period and buying weapons over the Internet. A mesmerising study of outsiders and alienated teens. 

Pink Palace is a super low fi highly relaxed weekly q***r film club that takes place in the RIO basement bar, its a safe space so come along and catch some q***r film and pop culture history, each week the film is introduced by curator Andrew Woodyatt, feel free to stay and chat afterwards, participation is encouraged!

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04/10/2026

EMPIRE RECORDS (1995) presented by Never Watching Movies () on October 22nd 20:30PM

Directed by Allan Moyle, starring Liv Tyler, Renée Zellweger, Robin Tunney, Anthony LaPaglia, Empire Records follows the coolest indie music store in town. After one of the shop’s employees blows the all the stores cash at the slots, the team come together to earn back Empire Record’s money and save the indie haven from becoming an evil money-hungry conglomerate.

This screening is part of titled: What’s it like working at the Rio? - going into all things running the UK’s longest running independent cinema!

There will be a raffle and Q&A hosted by Tegan Chinogurei AKA the self-proclaimed MAYOR OF STEVENAGE () +++ RIO CINEMA ZINE by & to feature Rio history, stories interviews with staff past and present!

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Tsai Ming-Liang’s GOODBYE DRAGON INN (2003) is presented by BEN WHISHAW on October 16th 20:15. Remaining tickets on sale...
03/10/2026

Tsai Ming-Liang’s GOODBYE DRAGON INN (2003) is presented by BEN WHISHAW on October 16th 20:15. Remaining tickets on sale via our website 🎟️

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107 Kingsland High Street
London
E82PB

Opening Hours

Monday 11am - 12am
Tuesday 5:30pm - 12am
Wednesday 5:30pm - 12am
Thursday 5:30pm - 12am
Friday 5:15pm - 12am
Saturday 1:30pm - 12am
Sunday 1pm - 12am

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