The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
Select Japan presents, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, two screenings celebrating the brilliantly eccentric career of Nobuhiko Obayashi. Following this rare…
Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates…
In celebration of South Asian Heritage Month 2025, our brilliant neighbours from Cinnamon Bazaar are generously donating some of their wonderful summer…
Amit Madheshiya, Shirley Abraham, 2016, India, 96m.
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father…
Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates…
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father…
Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates…
Select Japan presents, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, two screenings celebrating the brilliantly eccentric career of Nobuhiko Obayashi. Obayashi's dazzling anti-war…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father…
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father…
Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father…
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
Hanamichi Productions and Select Japan present An Actor’s Revenge: A Kabuki Salon, a multi-disciplinary performance event that celebrates the magnificent artistry and history…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
This programme brings together four remarkable Iranian short films, each created by talented female filmmakers working inside Iran. Together, they capture…
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
Exploring themes of toxic masculinity, tremendous physical feats to help transcend the mind, loss, grief, perception… this selection of shorts explores…
Various Directors, Various Countries, Various Years, 87m.
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
The Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama Young Mothers follows five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium. From drug addiction…
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, France, 2025, 105m.
The Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama Young Mothers follows five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium. From drug addiction…
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, France, 2025, 105m.
The Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama Young Mothers follows five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium. From drug addiction…
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, France, 2025, 105m.
The Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama Young Mothers follows five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium. From drug addiction…
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, France, 2025, 105m.
The Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama Young Mothers follows five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium. From drug addiction…
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, France, 2025, 105m.
The Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama Young Mothers follows five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium. From drug addiction…
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Belgium, France, 2025, 105m.
This screening will be introduced by season co-curator Millie Zhou. Inititated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, twenty outstanding Taiwanese directors were each asked to create one five-minute short film inspired by the same topic: the uniqueness of Taiwan. The resulting… Read More
From the Oscar-winning team behind 20 Days in Mariupol, 2000 Meters to Andriivka documents the toll of the Russia-Ukraine war from a personal and devastating vantage point. Following his historic account of the civilian toll in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov turns his lens towards… Read More
Wong Kar-wai, 2004, Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
A joint presentation by EAST2046 Festival and Chinese Cinema Project - Wong Kar-wai's all star visionary follow-up to In the Mood for Love. The screening explores how futuristic aesthetics and themes of displacement resonate with contemporary Asian diasporic experiences. Set in a near-future world,… Read More
Hanamichi Productions and Select Japan present An Actor’s Revenge: A Kabuki Salon, a multi-disciplinary performance event that celebrates the magnificent artistry and history of Kabuki. This 400-year-old Japanese theatrical tradition is known for its stylised movement, elaborate costumes, and vivid visual storytelling. The evening… Read More
Select Japan is excited to bring Shunji Iwai's masterpiece of contemporary Japanese cinema, All About Lily Chou-Chou back to London. Join us on Saturday 30 August where Shunji Iwai himself will be beaming in from Tokyo for an online Q&A following the screening. For… Read More
The screening on Sunday 3 August will be preceded by a live harp performance of some Mozart pieces by the wonderful Harriet Adie. Tickets for the performance and screening are £15.50 for members, and £16.50 for non-members. The first theatrical re-release of… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Simran Patel who writes: 'I'd love to see India's first queer film on the big screen. It was originally believed lost and only recently rediscovered in an archive.' This daring and progressive account of… Read More
Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates and former lovers agree to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries… Read More
Stanley Kubrick bent the conventions of the historical drama to his own will in this dazzling vision of a pitiless aristocracy, adapted from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray. In picaresque detail, Barry Lyndon chronicles the adventures of an incorrigible trickster (Ryan O’Neal)… Read More
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet Shop Boys and Dresdner Sinfoniker. A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval… Read More
Northern China, 1999. The grisly discovery of several corpses is made in a small town. A bloody incident during the attempt to capture the alleged murderer leaves two police officers dead and another badly injured. The surviving officer Zhang Zili is suspended… Read More
UK Premiere of the director’s cut version, the screening will be preceded by a recorded video from the director Wu Wenguang. EAST2046 Festival and Chinese Cinema Project jointly present Wu Wenguang's ground-breaking documentary, Bumming in Beijing, widely regarded as one of the founding… Read More
Hotshot race car Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) is living life in the fast lane...until he hits a detour and gets stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town on Route 66. There he meets Sally, Mater, Doc Hudson (Paul Newman) and a heap… Read More
Our screening of Cecil B. Demented on the 14th of August will feature an introduction by season co-curator Ronja Blight. An insane action-comedy about a young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists who kidnap a movie goddess and force… Read More
Both screenings of this new restoration of A City of Sadness will feature pre-recorded introductions from Tony Rayns. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, A City of Sadness announced Hou’s arrival as a world-class filmmaker and foremost recorder of his… Read More
Each screening of A Confucian Confusion will be preceded by a video introduction from Tony Rayns. Edward Yang’s first cinematic foray into comedy may have been a surprising stylistic departure, but in its richly novelistic vision of urban discontent, it is quintessential… Read More
Our screening of Desperate Living on the 29th of August will feature an introduction from Token Homo, programmer of the legendary Bar Trash and Queer Horror Nights. John Waters first feature without Divine in the lead takes some cues from mid-century womens… Read More
The father, the mother and their three kids live at the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The kids have never been outside that fence. They are being educated, entertained, bored and exercised in the manner… Read More
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and desire in contemporary Norway. A Berlin Golden Bear Winner (2025), Dreams is a coming-of-age story about Johane, who falls in love for… Read More
Our screening on 8 September will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL). Having completed junior high education, Wan leaves his hometown for Taipei City. With him is Huen, the girl he grew up with. In Taipei, they lead a very hard, but… Read More
An epic and darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction, Dying follows the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives. Son Tom (Lars Eidinger), a well-regarded conductor, is too preoccupied to give his ailing parents the attention they… Read More
The Taiwanese Cinema: Now & Then opening night screening of Eat Drink Man Woman will be followed by a drinks reception in The Atrium Bar, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, open to members' tickets holders and their +1s. Our screening on… Read More
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. The Garden Cinema View: Writing about Eddington without destroying its quirks and surprises… Read More
Eureka plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by Ben Webb, who writes: 'It would be great to see Nic Roeg’s masterpiece on a big screen. It features a towering central performance from Gene Hackman, who sadly… Read More
Our screening of Female Trouble on the 16th of August will feature an introduction by Jaye Hudson from TGirlsOnFilm Glamour has never been more grotesque than in Female Trouble, which injects the Hollywood melodrama with anarchic decadence. Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life… Read More
This refreshingly anarchic, darkly strange, and absurdist look at male bonding and the breakdown of a relationship is also the funniest American comedy in years. When an errant delivery pulls suburban dad Craig Waterman into the orbit of his mysterious and charismatic… Read More
Afflicted with a rare and fatal condition that affects her ability to perceive time and causes sudden blackouts, single mother Frankie Rhodes relies on self-recorded cassette tapes to help her navigate the world. Desperate to make ends meet while she fights for… Read More
Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) is a contract killer, a master of his trade who can whirl a gun at warp speed and moves through this world like a phantom - stealthy and evanescent. In the spirit of the samurai, he has pledged… Read More
Girl plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by our member Joseph Miller, who writes: 'Before his masterpiece Close (2022), Lukas Dhont created a controversial yet deeply humane look at transitioning through the eyes of Lara (based on… Read More
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by our member Mo, who writes, 'I would love to see such an epic Western on the big screen.' With the two preceding… Read More
The Gospel According to St. Matthew plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by members Barbara Armstrong, Penny Averill, and John Forde, who writes: 'This year is the 50th anniversary of the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini.… Read More
Select Japan presents, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, two screenings celebrating the brilliantly eccentric career of Nobuhiko Obayashi. Obayashi's dazzling anti-war masterpiece, Hanagatami, is screening to mark the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and will be introduced by… Read More
Select Japan presents, in collaboration with the Japan Foundation, two screenings celebrating the brilliantly eccentric career of Nobuhiko Obayashi. Following this rare screening of His Motorbike, Her Island, we're delighted to be joined for a Q&A by the director's daughter, Chigumi Obayashi, and… Read More
Anthony Chen, 2013, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, France
This is part of 'Anthony Chen Double Feature' jointly presented by Bun Bites Screening and Chinese Cinema Project. Ilo Ilo is the debut feature film of Anthony Chen, which won the prestigious Caméra d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film presents… Read More
Our screening on Tuesday 5 August will be introduced by Lucy Bolton (QMUL). A critical and commerical flop upon release in 2003, Jane Campion's giallo-infleced, erotic thriller is now considered a masterpiece of female desire and subjectivity. Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a… Read More
An entirely ordinary day on the beds ward of a surgical department. The nursing team is understaffed due to a shortage of personnel. Despite the hectic environment, Floria cares for her patients with expertise and full dedication. Although she gives her all,… Read More
Our screening on 21 September will be introduced by Victor Fan (KCL). Although most commonly associated with the wuxia genre, in 1979 King Hu directed the epic fantasy-horror, Legend of the Mountain. Heavily influenced by traditional Chinese aesthetics and Zen Buddhist philosophy, it has… Read More
One of Disney's most beloved films, The Little Mermaid tells the story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid who longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea. She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which… Read More
Various Directors, Various Years, Various Countries
Like childhood, animation is full of wonder and simple pleasures. This carefully chosen programme for our littlest and most special audience contains 10 of the best, wonderful short animated films, full of joy, from all around the world. There’ll be talking animals,… Read More
Bi Gan followed the mesmerising Kaili Blues with this noir-tinged stunner about a lost soul (Jue Huang) on a quest to find a missing woman from his past (Wei Tang, Lust, Caution). Following leads across Guizhou province, he crosses paths with a series… Read More
The Lost Weekend plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by Ben Whitehead, who writes, 'Reasons: 1. I’m continually discovering the genius of Billy Wilder, 2. I haven’t seen this one, 3. In 2011, The Lost Weekend was… Read More
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and desire in contemporary Norway. In Love, (Venice, 2024), Haugerud explores the sexual freedom experienced by Tor, a gay nurse, and the… Read More
A group of spoiled animals who have spent all their life in the New York Central Zoo escape with the help of four fugitive penguins. When they find themselves in the jungles of Madagascar, they must adjust to living in the wild.… Read More
From Celine Song, the Academy Award-nominated writer and director of Past Lives, comes Materialists: the story of a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex. Lucy (Dakota Johnson) is the star matchmaker at a boutique… Read More
Millennium Actress plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season. The film was proposed by Harry Robertson, who writes: 'My favourite Satoshi Kon movie that I can never find anywhere to stream and would love to see on the big screen. It’s… Read More
Summer holidays at The Garden Cinema would not be complete without Monsieur Hulot. Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly… Read More
Our screening on Friday 15 August will be followed by a Q&A with director Victoria Mapplebeck hosted by Rebecca del Tufo. At the age of 38, Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant and broke. Unable to combine motherhood with freelance directing, she… Read More
Our screening of Multiple Maniacs on the 17th of August will feature an introduction by Sarah Cleary from Funeral Parade Presents John Waters’ gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s… Read More
Stephen Frears was at the forefront of the British cinematic revival of the mid-1980s, and the delightfully transgressive My Beautiful Laundrette is his greatest triumph of the period. Working from a richly layered script by Hanif Kureishi, who was soon to be an… Read More
Directed by Dr. Lester James Peries, widely regarded as the father of Sri Lankan cinema, and based on a short story by the prominent Sinhalese author G.B Senanayake, Nidhanaya is a chilling portrait of a crumbling aristocracy in colonial Sri Lanka through the microcosm… Read More
Old Fox will be introduced by Chris Berry (KCL). In 1989, Taiwan saw rapid economic development following political reforms. Eleven-year-old Liao Jie’s dream is for his nice-guy father to own a home. When he befriends his landlord, a Machiavellian businessman nicknamed Old… Read More
Identical twins Annie and Hallie (Lindsay Lohan) are separated at birth after their parents' divorce. Unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other… Read More
Our screening on Friday 4 September will be followed by a Q&A with director Jethro Massey. An unconventional romantic comedy about a young American photographer and a French girl with a taste for the macabre. Paul & Paulette’s chance encounter on a… Read More
Our screening of Pink Flamingos on the 22nd of August will feature an introduction from former Scala programmer, Jane Giles. The second screening on the 31st of August will feature an introduction from Category H Film Club programmer, Molly Miles. John Waters made… Read More
For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of… Read More
Following his Wednesday Plays Up the Junction (1965) and Cathy Comes Home (1966), Ken Loach directed his first feature film with the powerful Poor Cow. Reuniting him with his Cathy Comes Home star Carol White, the film follows Joy (White) as she copes with working-class… Read More
Our screening on Sunday 7 September will be introduced by Chris Berry (KCL). Having just moved from Beijing, elderly tai chi master Mr. Chu (Sihung Lung) struggles to adjust to life in New York, living with his Americanised son Alex (Ye-tong Wang).… Read More
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk offers an intimate, first-hand perspective of life in Gaza, told through a series of video calls between filmmaker Sepideh Farsi and young Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona. Their digital dialogue became a vital record, bearing witness… Read More
One of the most important and influential film makers in cinematic history, Akira Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years. His final masterpiece, Ran, is a reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear set in feudal Japan. Ran tells the story of Lord… Read More
Made in 1973, two years after Bangladesh’s independence, A River Called Titas remains a deeply relevant cinematic gem from Ritwik Ghatak, a master filmmaker who was described by Satyajit Ray as, “one of the few truly original talents in Indian cinema.” Based on… Read More
All matinee screenings starting before 17:00 will be dubbed in English, and all evening screenings will be in French and subtitled in English. At the edge of Borneo’s lush rainforest, Kéria rescues a baby orangutan from the palm oil plantation where her… Read More
In the remote Irish woods, Cellach (Brendan Gleeson) prepares a fortress for an impending attack by a Viking war party. Unbeknown to Cellach, his young nephew Brendan (Evan McGuire) -- who has no taste for battle -- works secretly as an apprentice… Read More
Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father Henry Dashwood dies, by law his estate must pass to his eldest son from his first marriage. Suddenly homeless and impoverished,… Read More
The screening of Serial Mom on the 5th of August will feature an intro by season co-curator Ronja Blight John Waters brings his twisted cinematic vision to the seemingly mundane world of suburbia in Serial Mom, an outrageous dark comedy starring Kathleen… Read More
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and desire in contemporary Norway. Sex (Berlin, 2024) sees two men, both in heterosexual marriages, who have an unexpected experience that challenges them… Read More
The screening on 22 July will be introduced by Aagya Pradhan. The second feature from writer-director Min Bahadur Bham, following 2015’s The Black Hen – Nepal’s official Oscars entry and a Venice Critics Week winner. In the heart of the Nepalese Himalayas, the… Read More
This screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Huang Hui-chen. One of Taiwan’s most widely-acclaimed documentaries, and the first such film to be selected as Taiwan’s submission to the Academy Awards, Small Talk is an intimate portrait of the director… Read More
Smiles of a Summer Night plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season, and was proposed by Jonathan Wakeham, who writes: 'I would love to celebrate the 70th anniversary of one of Ingmar Bergman’s best-loved films. It’s one of his few… Read More
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least. Blending heartache, humour and healing, Sorry, Baby is the stunning and star-making debut from director, writer and actor Eva Victor, also starring Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges. As… Read More
Our screening on 27 September will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with co-director Shih-Ching Tsou. The American dream has rarely seemed so far away as in Shih-Ching Tsou and Sean Baker’s raw, vérité Take Out, an immersion in the life of… Read More
UK restoration premiere. All screenings will be preceded by a video introduction from Tony Rayns. Edward Yang’s first theatrical feature film (which also marked the debut of the cinematographer Christopher Doyle) is a visually and emotionally arresting melodrama of fractured romance, disaffection,… Read More
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould plays as part of our Members' Summer Selection season. It was proposed by Ryan Gilbey, who writes: 'I don’t know if it’s a rights issue but it’s surprising that this film is so rarely screened. It’s… Read More
UK resotration premiere. Our screening on Saturday 4 October will be followed by an online Q&A with Tsai Ming-liang. The Wayward Cloud is arguably Tsai Ming-liang’s least understood and most neglected work. The film has, moreover, gathered a notorious reputation for its unusual… Read More
Our screening on Saturday 6 September will be introduced by Chris Berry (KCL). The breakthrough film in the West for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, The Wedding Banquet is the moving and, for its time, groundbreaking, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant,… Read More
The screening will be followed by an online Q&A with director Anthony Chen, moderated by Dr. How Wee Ng (University of Westminster). This is part of 'Anthony Chen Double Feature' jointly presented by Bun Bites Screening and Chinese Cinema Project. Wet Season is… Read More
Donghwa, a poet in his thirties, drops off Junhee, his girlfriend of three years, at her house and marvels at how large it is. He intends to look around the front yard and then leave, but by chance he runs into Junhee’s… Read More
The screening on 9 August will be followed by a Q&A with the director. When Alexander reveals that he was in love with a boy and asks Elias if he has experienced true love, that question lingers on his mind. For the… Read More
Luc Dardenne - Jean-Pierre Dardenne/ 2025/ Belgium, France
The Dardenne brothers' social-realist drama Young Mothers follows five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium. From drug addiction to precarious living situations, these women must face the challenges of their situation individually, but living together in this communal home… Read More
Throughout July and August, join us for an array of screenings and partnership events around South Asian Heritage Month 2025, which is themed ‘Roots to Routes.’ Including restored classics, contemporary cinema, short films,…
This August, the Garden Cinema welcomes you to revel in Divine Trash: The Films of John Waters. With a filmography spanning from the late 1960s to early 2000s, the films of John Waters are…
Following our in-depth season focusing on iconic American, British, and French crime thrillers in 2022, Noir International explores how the visual style, thematic concerns, and atmosphere of Film Noir spread throughout a variety of global cinemas, and how…
Inspired by your many suggestions on the Members’ Area and passionate campaigning for your favourite films, our Members’ Summer Selection returns once again. We’ve taken into account support and upvotes from the community, as…
The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and desire in contemporary Norway. …
We are delighted to once again bring masterpieces from Taiwan to The Garden Cinema with the return of Taiwanese Cinema: Now and Then, supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. As with our…
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.…
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…
Select Japan is an initiative from The Garden Cinema to showcase the best of Japanese cinema, classic and contemporary, with a focus on titles and filmmakers which have been rarely screened in the…
The Garden Cinema’s new strand of nature and environment-focused screenings. We have curated a selection of international films that span many genres, themes and countries to tell stories of resilience and resistance…
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…
In celebration of South Asian Heritage Month 2025, our brilliant neighbours from Cinnamon Bazaar are generously donating some of their wonderful summer…
This programme brings together four remarkable Iranian short films, each created by talented female filmmakers working inside Iran. Together, they capture…
