A Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one…
Video Bazaar presents a special anniversary screening of Threads, the harrowing 1984 made-for-TV drama that left audiences across the nation stunned into…
Film Africa presents Mambar Pierrette, the narrative feature debut by established Cameroonian documentarian Rosine Mbakam (Delphine's Prayers). Previously screened at TIFF, this moving portrait…
Rosine Mbakam, Cameroon, France, Belgium, 2023, 93m.
Film Africa presents Everybody Loves Touda, directed by Nabil Ayouch (Casablanca Beats, Mektoub) from a screenplay co-written with Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan).The…
Nabil Ayouch, Morocco, France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, 2024, 102m.
A Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one…
A Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one…
The Taste of Mango, Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and…
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
London Palestine Film Festival 2024 presents Real Visions (shorts session). This selection of non-fiction shorts play cross images, dreams, realities and memories.…
Various Directors, Various Countries, Various Years, 85m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about…
Andrea Arnold, UK, USA, France, Germany, 2024, 118m.
Idealistic young lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) is determined to bypass the topsy-turvy madness of the US legal system and do his best for his clients. However, Arthur's idealism takes a battering when he is pressured to defend a judge (John Forsythe)… Read More
Chloe Aicha Boro, Burkina Faso, Benin, France, Germany, 2023
Film Africa presents Al Djanat- The Original Paradise. After the death of her uncle, a dignitary Mandingo Islam, director Chloé Aïcha Boro films her family's courtyard in Dédougou, Burkina Faso. A dispute over the estate has burst out between advocates of traditional law… Read More
Payal Kapadia’s hugely acclaimed fiction debut was the first Indian film to be selected in Official Competition at Cannes in three decades, where it received an 8 minute standing ovation and was awarded the Grand Prix. All We Imagine as Light is a… Read More
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened when Vanya's parents send their henchmen to annul… Read More
Four years ago, Tony D'Amato's (Al Pacino) Miami Sharks were at the top. Now, his team is struggling with three consecutive losses, sliding attendance, and aging heroes, particularly 39-year-old quarterback Jack 'Cap' Rooney (Dennis Quaid). Off the field, D'Amato is struggling with… Read More
The origins of Donald Trump are brought to life in a provocative, electrifying portrait of the man and his mentor, Roy Cohn - a notorious lawyer who will never let the truth get in the way of winning a fight. Sebastian Stan… Read More
The screening on Sunday the 17th of November will be introduced by writer and lecturer Dr Julia Wagner. “All the news behind the news… and some hippie smut.” In Between the Lines Joan Micklin Silver (herself a former reporter for the Village Voice)… Read More
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold, Bird is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalised life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single… Read More
Steve McQueen's Blitz follows the epic journey of George (Elliott Heffernan), a 9-year-old boy in World War II London whose mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) sends him to safety in the English countryside. George, defiant and determined to return home to his mom and… Read More
Al Pacino reunites with his Scarface director Brian De Palma for this tough-minded thriller about a gangster looking for salvation down the mean streets of 1970s New York City. Carlito Brigante (Pacino) gets released early from prison thanks to the work of his… Read More
This film was suggested by our member James Jalloh, who says: 'A precursor to the likes of Eraserhead and Night Of The Living Dead, Carnival of Souls arrived shortly after the mainstream controversy of Peeping Tom and Psycho and took that feeling to another darker… Read More
Based on the first of the classic series of novels by CS Lewis, this fantasy adventure film follows four siblings: Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. Evacuated to the countryside during World War Two, the children find a way into another world -… Read More
Jessica Hausner, 2024, Austria, UK, Germany, France, Denmark
On Tuesday 26 November, we will hold a preview screening featuring a Q&A with director Jessica Hausner. At an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) joins the teaching staff to instruct a new class on 'conscious eating.'… Read More
From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), Dahomey is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution. Set in November 2021, the documentary charts 26 royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey… Read More
Proudly screening as part of our Trailblazers season. About the film: A landmark of queer and independent filmmaking, Desert Hearts blazed a trail for lesbian representation on screen. Arriving in the Reno desert to finalise her divorce, uptight New York academic Vivian’s… Read More
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) accepts a high-powered position at a New York law firm headed by legal shark John Milton (Al Pacino). As Kevin moves up in the firm's ranks, his wife, Mary Ann (Charlize Theron), has several… Read More
Our screening on Saturday 9 November will be introduced by Mark Searby, the author of Al Pacino: The Movies Behind The Man. On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank.… Read More
Nabil Ayouch, Morocco, France, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, 2024
Film Africa presents Everybody Loves Touda, directed by Nabil Ayouch (Casablanca Beats, Mektoub) from a screenplay co-written with Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan).The film had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival and it was selected as the Moroccan submission for the… Read More
If you're interested in attending the collage making workshop for members as well as the screening, please book your ticket here instead. In The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, Karel Zeman conjures the adventures of the legendary, boastful baron, whose whirlwind exploits take him from… Read More
Adapted for the screen by David Mamet from his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, the compelling, witty, and endlessly quotable script is delivered with razor-sharp precision by an ensemble cast at the height of their powers. A group of Chicago real-estate salesmen-cum-con artists live… Read More
A special event to mark the re-publication by leading London independent press Prototype of a facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s early, extremely rare and only poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972. Joining publisher Jess Chandler and editor… Read More
The screening on 14 December will be introduced by film historian and Coppola expert Jon Lewis, author of the BFI Film Classics on The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II. Sequels had not yet become the Hollywood norm when Francis Ford Coppola signed… Read More
John Carpenter's genre defining classic returns... home, in a new digital restoration. On a black and unholy Halloween night years ago, little Michael Myers brutally slaughtered his sister in cold bold. But for the last fifteen years, town residents have rested easy,… Read More
Michael Mann's classic crime thriller Heat was released in 1995 and stars Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro as two men on opposite sides of the law whose live become tangled and destabilised in an intense game of cat-and-mouse. When one heist led by… Read More
After seeking the expertise of former Big Tobacco executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), seasoned TV producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) suspects a story lies behind Wigand's reluctance to speak. As Bergman persuades Wigand to share his knowledge of industry secrets, the two… Read More
From acclaimed director Chris Nolan comes the story of a veteran police detective (Al Pacino) who is sent to a small Alaskan town to investigate the murder of a teenage girl. Forced into a psychological game of cat-and-mouse by the primary suspect… Read More
A joyous adventure that celebrates science and nature, Journey to the Beginning of Time sends four schoolboys on an awe-inspiring expedition back through time, where they behold landscapes and creatures that have long since vanished from the earth. Combining live action with stop… Read More
In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The Lego Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble—Lego Batman—stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to save the city… Read More
Gillian Armstrong's heartfelt adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about love, family and the female spirit, stars Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, and Susan Sarandon. With her husband off at war, Marmee (Sarandon) is left alone to raise… Read More
The screening on Saturday the 2nd of November will include a welcome by season programmer Alice Pember and an introduction to the film by film journalist Christina Newland. A darkly subversive gangster film and an unsung masterpiece of American cinema, in Mikey and Nicky Elaine… Read More
For Halloween, the smaller beings in our audience can enjoy a gently monstrous classic of their own, with pay-what-you-can screenings of Monsters, Inc. James Sullivan 'Sulley' and Mike Wazowski are monsters. They earn their living scaring children and are the best in… Read More
Hailed as 'one of the most intelligent and terrifying horror films of the 1980s' (The Movie Guide), celebrate 40 years of Wes Craven's nightmarish masterpiece with a brand new digital restoration. From modern horror master Craven comes a timeless shocker that remains… Read More
The Taste of Mango, Chloe Abrahams’ debut feature, is an enveloping, hypnotic, urgently personal meditation on family, memory, identity, violence, and love. At its centre are three extraordinary women: the director’s mother, Rozana; her grandmother, Jean; and the director herself. Their stories,… Read More
It has been years since long-time friends Ingrid, a best-selling novelist, and Martha, a war journalist, have seen each other. Upon learning of Martha’s cancer diagnosis, Ingrid rushes to her side and they rekindle their bond. With each shared memory, including Martha’s… Read More
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state,… Read More
Our screening on Thursday 21 November will be introduced by Mark Searby, the author of Al Pacino: The Movies Behind The Man. Frank (Al Pacino in an Oscar winning performance) is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the US army. He's blind and… Read More
The screening on Sunday 8 December will be introduced by writer, editor and founder of Girlhood Studies Claire Marie Healy, who will also join us for an informal post-film discussion in The Garden Cinema Bar. This digital restoration of Joyce Chopra’s Sundance Grand… Read More
Narrated by Tilda Swinton, the film recently won the top award at Karlovy Vary (the first British title to do so since Kes). A creative biography of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. One of the most important women in British modern art,… Read More
A Palestinian school teacher (Saleh Bakri) struggles to reconcile his life-threatening commitment to political resistance with his emotional support for one of his students (Muhammad Abed El Rahman) and the chance of a new romantic relationship with a volunteer worker (Imogen Poots).… Read More
Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Julia Reichert, 1976, USA
As part of Trailblazers, we're thrilled to present a landmark double bill featuring two films from 1976 that document women’s contributions to the labour movement. There will be a comfort break between the two screenings. The screening on Saturday 9 November will be… Read More
The screening on Sunday 1 December will be followed by a panel discussion with writer and programmer Rōgan Graham, Yaya Azariah Clarke and film scholar Giulia Rho, which will be chaired by writer and editor Laura Staab. A revolutionary film movement that… Read More
Following the success of its first incarnation, Trailblazers returns to celebrate the work of women filmmakers in the US in the 1970s and 80s. Trailblazers (Part 1) shone a light on the female directors that…
Throughout the Autumn, our spotlight shines on an icon of New Hollywood and beyond, the living legend that is Al Pacino. Guided by suggestions from Garden Cinema members, we’ve selected 18 titles that…
Girls and boys, ghouls and goblins, it’s time to venture back into the vaults at The Garden Cinema for another round of hauntingly horrifying Halloween screenings. Get in the mood with newly restored…
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…
Let down your hair and tap your toes to the rhythm of our regular Friday evening revue of musical extravaganzas from around the world, classic concert films, and the best of the West…
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…
Video Bazaar presents a special anniversary screening of Threads, the harrowing 1984 made-for-TV drama that left audiences across the nation stunned into…
