Writer-director Carolina Cavalli’s darkly comic feature debut, which received its world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, is a deliciously satirical character study of a twentysomething looking for purpose… and maybe also a friend.
We had the opportunity to chat with Carolina over zoom about the film, her previous work, her time studying in Paris, audience expectations and the particular role of childhood friends in the lives of expat children!
Amanda will be screened from 9 June at the Garden Cinema.
We recently joined forces with the International Booker Prize, global film distributor and streaming service MUBI and the award-winning bookseller Foyles for a very special live event and screening.
The organisers of the International Booker Prize, which celebrates the best in fiction translated into English from another language, want to encourage people who love translated fiction to explore more global cinema, and vice versa, so they have invited the team at MUBI to match six great films from around the world with the books on the shortlist for this year’s prize. The curated films reflect the themes or tone of the relevant book and have been approved by each author.
On May 26, we hosted a special live event: an intimate Q&A featuring the winners of this year’s International Booker Prize 2023: Georgi Gospodinov, author of Time Shelter, and the book’s translator, Angela Rodel. The Q&A, hosted by writer and editor Sarah Shaffi, was followed by a screening of One Fine Morning, directed by Mia Hansen-Løve (France, Germany, 2022), which MUBI has paired with Time Shelter.
Mike Leigh and Gary Yershon’s ongoing discussion of the acclaimed director’s films continued at The Garden Cinema with a screening and Q&A for Another Year (2010).
Over the course of four seasons, Another Year explores the life of a sublimely happy older married couple, Tom and Gerri (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen), and their various friends and family members, who struggle to find the happiness that Tom and Gerri have cultivated.
Mike Leigh in Conversation – Part 1: Episode 6
Mike Leigh and Gary Yershon’s ongoing discussion of the acclaimed director’s films continued at The Garden Cinema with a screening and Q&A for Vera Drake (2004).
Vera Drake lives with her husband Stan and their grown-up children, Sid and Ethel. They are not rich, but they are a happy, close family. But selfless Vera has a secret: without accepting payment, she helps young women to end unwanted pregnancies.
On Wednesday 17 May 2023, a murder was committed in The Garden Cinema. This footage was recovered shortly after…
To celebrate the launch of our major retrospective of the legendary master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, we transformed our cinema into the scene of a dastardly crime. The cunning sleuths amongst our members were recruited to solve the case. After hunting for clues and interviewing our 6 suspects over the course of the launch party, the detectives bustled into the screen for a showing of Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, but not before we revealed whodunnit!
Director Maryam Touzani joined Abla Kandalaft for a live Q&A after a screening of her latest film The Blue Caftan.
Following its FIPRESCI prize–winning premiere at Cannes, Touzani asserts her expertise in capturing the intimacy and tenderness in human relationships. In the film, Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.
The Blue Caftan is now showing as part of Mukhrijat: Arab Women Filmmakers.
We chat to a panel of producers, actors and directors about the current film scene in the Arab world, what is means to be an “Arab film”, what the sources of funding tend to be, the themes and genres that appeal most internationally, the intricacies of subtitling and other topics our audience asked about. The event was held as a launch night for the Arab women filmmakers season at the cinema and involved producer and curator Elhum Shakerifar, actress and programmer Sarah Agha and filmmaker Soudade Kaadan.
Mike Leigh and Gary Yershon’s ongoing discussion of the acclaimed director’s films continued at The Garden Cinema with a screening and Q&A for All or Nothing (2002).
In All or Nothing, Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil’s and Penny’s life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love.