Shuffle Festival: Line-up, tickets and everything you need to know

Shuffle Festival returns for a fourth time this weekend, on Saturday August 26 and Sunday 27, in and around Tower Hamlets Cemetery park.

Founded and supported by film director Danny Boyle, Shuffle offers up two days of films, talks, live performances and music, all in tune to this year’s festival theme of Public / Private, as well as plenty of food and drink. It is open to everyone, though under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

This year, Boyle himself will be there. On Saturday, he will do a Q&A session with audiences following a screening of Trainspotting, while on Sunday he’ll do the same following Trainspotting 2. Both films will be shown at the Compost Heap Cinema.

Other highlights include a screening of Patrick Keiller’s unsettling 1994 not-quite-a-documentary work London, music from KK Sound Archive and a two-and-a-half Bat Walk. A full list of what’s on can be found on this page (Saturday) and here (Sunday).

The festival is also hosting a short film competition, with prizes for Best Short, Best Documentary and Best Young Filmmaker. There is also a Schools Prize for young people who best address the problem of air pollution.

Tickets, which cost £22.50 per day or £37 for the weekend – though concessions are available – are still available and can be bought here.

Besides the entertainment, the festival also boasts its own restaurant, Eat With Your Hands, which is an outdoor, treehouse-like venue serving Indian bites cooked up by chef Anjli Vyas, who flew over from Mumbai for the occasion.

Tower Hamlets Cemetery park is a four minute walk from Mile End tube station, which is served by the Central, Hammersmith and City and District Line. Buses 25, 204, 425 and N205 all stop close by.

For more information, visit shufflefestival.com.