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.…
Housewife Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is not happy. She is agoraphobic, a hypochondriac, and paranoid about animals, birds, insects, plants, and flowers.…
An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop…
Gareth Evans, series co-curator for Kinoteka writes: ‘Surely the world’s greatest practising stop-motion artist animators, the Brothers Quay have been painstakingly…
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…
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
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
This precisely wrought, emotionally penetrating romantic drama from Jacques Demy, set largely in the casinos of Nice, is a visually lovely but darkly realistic investigation into love and obsession. A bottle-blonde Jeanne Moreau is at her blithe best as a gorgeous gambling… Read More
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something… Read More
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including… Read More
The screening on 8 March will be introduced by director Luka Yuanyuan Yang.The screening on 16 March will be followed by in-person Q&A with the director and the launch of her new book about the making of the film and the Chinese… 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
In this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric adaptation of a classic French fairy tale, Jacques Demy casts Catherine Deneuve as a princess who must go into hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend off an unwanted marriage proposal—from her own father,… 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
Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) makes a triumphant return with an emotionally layered, visually rich account of family life under an oppressive regime. It's 1971, Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a mother… Read More
Agnès Varda’s tender evocation of the childhood of her husband, Jacques Demy - a dream project that she realised for him when he became too ill to direct it himself - is a wonder-filled portrait of the artist as a young man… Read More
Chantal Akerman’s landmark second feature follows the meticulous daily routine of its titular lead over the course of three days. Voted Sight and Sound’s Greatest Film of All Time in 2022, marking the first time a female filmmaker has taken the number… Read More
Our screening on 20 February is introduced by playwright, singer, and former tightrope artist, Hermine Demoriane, who plays Chaos in the film. When Queen Elizabeth I asks her court alchemist to show her England in the future, she’s transported 400 years to… Read More
The screening on Monday February 24 will be introduced by film programmer Nathasha Orlando Kappler. This film was proposed by our member Evelyn Griffiths, who writes: 'Miranda July has many talents- director, screenwriter, actress and author. Following on from the success of… Read More
The film was proposed by our member Seraphina Bewick, who writes: 'I would love the opportunity to see the animated film The Last Unicorn on the big screen.' In this animated musical, the villainous King Haggard (Christopher Lee) plots to destroy all… Read More
Le Mépris is screening to celebrate the centenary of the great Georges Delerue, and will be introduced by Oscar nominated composer Gary Yershon. Jean-Luc Godard’s subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic. Le Mépris stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter… Read More
Jacques Demy’s crystalline debut gave birth to the fictional universe in which so many of his characters would live, play, and love. It’s among his most profoundly felt films, a tale of crisscrossing lives in Nantes (Demy’s hometown) that floats on waves… 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. It 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
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst.… Read More
David G. Derrick Jr.Jason HandDana Ledoux Miller, 2024, United States, Canada
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
Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka - the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group… 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
On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish soldier, is degraded for spying for Germany and is sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted to run the military… Read More
Set against a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy, in a world designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection. It tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse… Read More
One day French filmmaker Armel Hostiou discovers he has a second Facebook account: a fake Armel who has photos of the real one and many, many female friends, all of whom live in Kinshasa. Fake Armel invites them to audition for his… 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
When a bomb endangers the Pha Tang temple, 'Satu' an orphan child laborer decides to head north through the rich and feral landscape of Laos in search of his long lost mother with his new photojournalist friend 'Bo'. The film was self-funded… Read More
This celebrated film won multiple awards, having started out as a movie-workshop for a group of students in Havana. With echoes of Ken Loach’s Kes, 11-year-old Chala keeps pigeons and illegally trains fighting dogs in order to support himself and his alcoholic… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Lily Paisner, who writes: 'I can’t find it available to watch anywhere online, and it has been on my watchlist for ages! Would love the chance to watch it at The Garden Cinema.' An expert… 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
Ariane Labed, 2024, France, UK, Ireland, Greece, Germany
Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different - September is protective and distrustful of others, while July is open to and curious about the world. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela, who is unsure… Read More
The film was proposed by our member Maggie Crowe who writes: 'This highly stylised 2009 film directed by Tom Ford is a classic movie about love, loss and grieving. Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood it’s easy to forget how… Read More
The screening on Sunday 2 March will be followed by a Q&A with director Panos Koutras. It will be introduced by Prof. Dimitris Papanikolaou. Synopsis: Yorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed. He… Read More
The screening on Thursday 23 March will be followed by a live Zoom Q&A with director Argyris Papadimitropoulos. 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… Read More
An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped… 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
Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Actress. 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… Read More
Our screening on 4 April will be introduced by Oscar nominated composer Gary Yershon. Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance… 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…
Geographically unique and with a history of political turbulence, Greece is anything but predictable. It’s both beautiful and ugly, capricious and chaotic, and thus brimming with surprises. Amongst these is the cinema created…
We’re ushering in the springtime with a selection of masterpieces from the most musical, romantic, and colourful Nouvelle Vague filmmaker, Jacques Demy. Frequently setting his films amongst industrial ports on France’s Atlantic coast,…
Throughout February The Garden Cinema is celebrating LGBT+ History Month. Join us for a selection of contemporary and classic queer titles (some of which have been proposed by members), alongside exciting partnership events.…
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…
