In anticipation of Bi Gan’s third feature Resurrection (following his Long Day's Journey Into Night), the Chinese Cinema Project revisits his aesthetically…
Housewife Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac, and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants, and flowers.…
Housewife Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac, and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants, and flowers.…
Housewife Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac, and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants, and flowers.…
Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Jemima Puddle-duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland – indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters…
Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Jemima Puddle-duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland – indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters…
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who…
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who…
Our screening on 16 January will be introduced by writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell, and will be followed by a post-film discussion in the cinema bar. Based on Ronald Blythe’s much-loved oral history book, Akenfield traces three generations of one Suffolk family and… Read More
boiled blue, blue fried present the first UK public screening of All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, directed by raven jackson produced by A24. Transported to somewhere along the Mississippi, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a gentle bending of time,… Read More
Synopsis: The Alps is a secret society including a nurse, a gym coach, a gymnast and a paramedic. They offer a unique service: the recently bereaved can hire them to act as surrogates for the deceased loved ones - wearing their clothes,… Read More
The screening on Sunday 13 April will be followed by an in-person or Zoom Q&A with director Sophia Exarhou. It will be introduced by film critic Savina Petkova. Synopsis: Under the hot Greek sun, the animators at an all-inclusive island resort prepare for… Read More
The screening on Sunday 9 March the screening will be introduced by Savina Petkova. Synopsis: Marina, an emotionally stunted 23-year-old, lives with her dying architect father in a seaside factory town. Finding humans strange and repellent, she keeps her distance, watching David… Read More
A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much-younger intern (Harris Dickinson). This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. The Garden… Read More
Our screening on 20 February will be introduced by novelist and publisher Nicholas Royle, and will be followed by a post-film discussion in the cinema bar. Bad Timing bookended a decade of extraordinary creativity for Nicolas Roeg that includes Performance, Walkabout, Don’t Look… Read More
The Garden Cinema is partnering with Arena to present a series of documentaries about the world’s greatest artists and musicians, as captured by exceptional film-makers. On Sunday, 9 February, we will screen two documentaries shown on BBC’s Arena about Ingmar Bergman, directed… Read More
Stanley Kubrick's controversial film triggered copycat violence on its initial release and as a result the director withdrew the film from circulation in Britain, keeping it suppressed right up to his death in 1999. The film follows sadistic punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell)… Read More
Our screening on 9 January is introduced by BFI artist's moving image Curator William Fowler and followed by a post-film discussion group in the cinema bar. In seventeenth century France, Father Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed), uses his powers to protect the city… Read More
Synopsis: A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited. Curator's note: Digger (2020), produced by Rachel Athina Tsangari, is another brilliant tragicomedy, set in the stunningly… Read More
Don't Look Now screens in our British Cinema, 1970-1980 season as it was originally exhibited in 1973, as part of a double bill with The Wicker Man. With an introduction from Iain Smith (KCL). Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie mesmerise as a British… Read More
Cinema Mentiré present a selection of shorts from the BOMBA Animada Collective in Bolivia. The shorts are in Spanish with English subtitles. A collection of shorts by BOMBA Animada, a Bolivian animation studio showcasing female animators’ work. Created in 2023 to make… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Alan Divito, who writes: 'An overlooked film I think fits to be screened at The Garden Cinema.' Young Moonee and her mother Halley live in a motel close to Disney World, but they can only… Read More
Both eerie and exquisite, writer-director Magnus von Horn's latest film tracks young factory worker Karoline as she struggles to survive in post-WWI Copenhagen. When she ends up unemployed, abandoned and pregnant, the charismatic Dagmar takes her in to help run an underground… Read More
A gang of kids try to stop ruthless property developers from building a golf course on their beloved den - and somehow get mixed up in an adventure involving treasure maps, human skulls, crazy gadgets, snogging, murderous crooks and a pirate king… Read More
Housewife Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac, and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants, and flowers. She is confrontational with everyone, especially her plumber husband Curtley and her unemployed son Moses, whom she thinks is wasting his… Read More
Join star Ryland Brickson Cole Tews and the beavers for Hundreds of Beavers... Live!In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.… Read More
Our screening on 13 February is introduced by BFI artist's moving image Curator William Fowler, and will be followed by a post-film discussion group in the cinema bar. When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the… Read More
A new digital restoration, presented by Cheng Cheng Films and Focus Hong Kong. Widely regarded as one of the best works of modern Hong Kong cinema, the multiple award-winning July Rhapsody stars Anita Mui in her final role before her tragic death in 2003.… Read More
In anticipation of Bi Gan’s third feature Resurrection (following his Long Day's Journey Into Night), the Chinese Cinema Project revisits his aesthetically remarkable and poetry-filled debut Kaili Blues. The film follows a small-town doctor who finds himself interacting with people from his past… Read More
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, The Land Before Time, follows an orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot. After a devastating earthquake Littlefoot teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in The Great Valley. The screening… Read More
Various Directors, Various Countries, Various Years
We’ve dug deep into the LIAF archives and have selected 7 of the best short animated films full of visually dazzling joy from all around the world, for kids of all ages and the whole family. Here you will meet charismatic characters… Read More
The screening on Sunday 23 February will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Yannis Economides and will be introduced by season curator and Garden Cinema head programmer, Erifili Missiou. Synopsis: Dimitris, a grumpy middle-aged man, is having a hard time… Read More
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Moana 2 is the thrilling sequel to Disney's beloved 2016 animated musical. This time, Moana, now a seasoned wayfinder, receives an unexpected call from her ancestors that leads her on a daring new adventure beyond the familiar shores of Motunui. Accompanied by the… Read More
Pablo Navarrete's parents were forced to leave Chile after a military coup on 11 September 1973. They arrived in the UK as political refugees after spending time in the Pinochet dictatorship’s torture centres. They didn’t know it then, but Britain would be… Read More
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who escaped the burning of Smyrna and journeyed to Athens, Greece, where she became a major figure in Greek popular music and… Read More
Nickel Boys is based on the historic reform school in 1960s Florida called the Dozier School for Boys, which was notorious for abusive treatment of students. It explores the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy who is sent to the Nickel… Read More
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake. The Garden Cinema View: The steady production of film and TV adaptations of Dracula have turned… Read More
This screening will be introduced by John Wischmeyer (City Lit). Nothing and nobody is spared from Lindsay Anderson and writer David Sherwin’s caustic gaze in their inexhaustibly inventive and sometimes horrifying satire, the second in their ‘state of the nation’ trilogy. Sparked… Read More
This screening will be introduced by interdisciplinary artist, writer, and academic Evie Salmon, and is followed by a post-film discussion group in the cinema bar. Screening 50 years after its pioneering first broadcast as part of BBC TV's hugely influential stand-alone drama… Read More
The screening on Sunday 16 March will be followed by an in-person or Zoom Q&A with director Filipos Tsitos. It will be introduced by Dr. Tonia Kazakopoulou. Synopsis: The title of Plato’s Academy is a little misleading because no Greek sages are in… Read More
A Real Pain follows mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) as they reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Mandy Russell. Albert Lamorisse’s exquisite The Red Balloon remains one of the most beloved children's films of all time. In this deceptively simple, nearly wordless tale, a young boy discovers a stray balloon, which seems to… Read More
Our screening on Thursday 30 January will be introduced by writer and filmmaker Adam Scovell, and will be followed by a post-film discussion in the cinema bar. Directed by John Mackenzie (The Long Good Friday), this acclaimed and long-unseen BBC TV Play… Read More
Italian maestro Luchino Visconti’s epic drama follows a mother and her five sons who move from a small town to Milan, changing their lives forever. This hypnotically beautiful tale of relocation, loss and sacrifice became a huge influence on the work of… Read More
Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof's award-winning thriller, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, centers on a family thrust into the public eye when Iman is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts in the streets, Iman realizes… Read More
The screening on Sunday 2 March will be introduced by Prof. Dimitris Papanikolaou. Synopsis: Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He meets Strella, a young trans sex worker. They spend the night together… Read More
Synopsis: Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful… Read More
Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Jemima Puddle-duck, Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland – indeed all the delightful and famous Beatrix Potter characters – come to life in this colourful and imaginative musical interpretation of her tales, choreographed by Sir Frederick Ashton, composted and… Read More
1944. In Vermiglio, a high mountain village of the Italian Alps where war looms as a distant but constant threat. The arrival of Pietro, a refugee soldier, disrupts the dynamics of the local teacher’s family, changing them forever. During the four seasons… Read More
As part of the landmark season at the Garden Cinema, Visions in Ruins: British Cinema 1970-1980, Video Bazaar is proud to present Jerzy Skolimowski’s legendary and mystifying piece of Folkloric esoterica, The Shout, starring John Hurt and Alan Bates. This screening will… Read More
After two decades, the beloved and enduring stage musical makes its journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event. The untold story of the witches of Oz stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her… Read More
The Wicker Man screens in our British Cinema, 1970-1980 season as it was originally exhibited in 1973, as part of a double bill with Don't Look Now. With an introduction from filmmaker and actor Tim Plester. They do things differently on Summerisle.… Read More
Wild Robot is nominated for Best Animated Film and Best Children's and Family Film at the BAFTAs 2024. From the co-director of How to Train Your Dragon comes an incredible journey of survival, love and selflessness, featuring gorgeous animation and stunning voice performances Sentient… Read More
This season examines bold, often strange, and deeply personal filmmaking from 1970 onwards, set against a backdrop of a collapsing British film industry. These stylistically innovative, and sometimes challenging and transgressive films reflect…
‘Is it just coincidence that the world’s most messed-up country is making the world’s most messed-up cinema?’ – Steve Rose, The Guardian Geographically unique and with a history of political turbulence, Greece is anything but predictable.…
Events for members only, including free bi-weekly screenings for Garden Cinema Members with films chosen for members, by members. Selected films are added regularly, so keep an eye on this page for updates.…
Join us every Saturday & Sunday morning and on weekdays during the school holidays for some of our favourite family classics. For cinema lovers of all ages. On Sundays the films are followed…
The Chinese Cinema Project is an exhibition initiative presented by The Garden Cinema. It showcases works from emerging and under-represented Chinese filmmakers via regular screenings, exploring auteurship and cinematic beauty in its various…
