Mark Cousins talks about his latest film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, hosted by journalist Wendy Mitchell, and featuring some surprise guests in the audience.

This Q&A is also available to listen to as a podcast:

Recorded on 13th October 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

Naqqash Khalid’s debut feature In Camera is an audacious hybrid of satire, mystery, and science fiction that defies easy categorisation. Our Q&A with Naqqash Khalid and the film’s lead actor Nabhaan Rizwan is hosted by screenwriter Fatima Serghini.

This Q&A is also available to listen to as a podcast:

Recorded on 19th September 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

Q&A with lead actor Priya Kansara, hosted by Dr Kulraj Phullar.

See more films and events happening as part of South Asian Heritage Month at The Garden Cinema.

Dr Kulraj Phullar is a London-based Film Studies teacher and researcher. His interests include classic Hollywood cinema, British colonial and diasporic cinemas, and popular Indian cinemas. He currently teaches at MetFilm School and the National Film and Television School.

This Q&A is also available to listen to as a podcast:

Recorded on 21st July 2024 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ

Young people took to the streets with political muralism all over Chile in the late 60s, at the same time that young people in New York were starting modern graffiti, and May 68 took place in Paris. Chile Estyle is a documentary film which explores the past and present of Chile’s unique street art tradition, which comes from a remix of political muralism and graffiti, and has been part of Chilean cultural and political life since the 60s. The result is a visually arresting, informative, and entertaining film.

Director Pablo Aravena discusses his work and interest in street art, DJing, Hip Hop, and graffiti, and how the scene ties in with regional politics, with Alborada’s Pablo Navarrete.

The film is showing again, with a Q&A, on 13 July.

AWAN partnered with The Arab Film Club to present Another Reality: Genre Shorts by Arab Women Filmmakers, here at the Garden Cinema, a programme curated by Sarah Agha. AWAN is the UK’s only contemporary multi-arts festival dedicated to showcasing inspiring works from Arab female artists.

Sarah discusses the shorts with their respective directors, and the growth of genre cinema in the Arab world more generally, with input from our audience.
The films screened were:
Ladies Coffee (2024) by Amal Al-Agroobi, The Call (2023) by Riffy Ahmed, and In Vitro (2019) by Larissa Sansour.

SCALA!!! is a historical document as unselfconscious and feral as its subject. A ragged collage of testimonials and artifacts of the legendary Scala Cinema, which operated from 1973 – 1993 as a mecca for cinephiles, misfits and outsiders – from queer Londoners to punks and new romantics.

It is also not infrequent for The Garden Cinema to be compared to the Scala of, though we are admittedly more demure, and compliant with rules and closing times. Still, we proudly embrace this comparison as a badge of honor. As their more puritanical heirs, we are thrilled to screen this amazing documentary and pay tribute to the Scala’s legacy of celebrating independent film and embracing outsider culture.

Directors Jane Giles and Ali Catterall joined us at the Garden Cinema to discuss the film and the venue with journalist Saskia Baron and our audience members who chipped in with comments and anecdotes! Tune in to this journey through time.

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We discuss new forms of storytelling, genre, Afrofuturism and conversations around storytelling amongst the Black diaspora with writer Irenosen Okojie who curated the Black To The Future festival. We are very pleased to be showing two of the programme’s films here at the Garden Cinema. We strive to expand the reach of the films we show and look forward to introducing new and original work to our members and visitors.

Every winter Mikma and her family travel by foot from their village deep in the Himalayas of Nepal to sell local medicinal plants in urban markets. This year, construction of a new highway to China has begun in their roadless valley, and things are never going to be the same.

The documentary film Baato, distributed by Tull Stories, is at once a sensitive portrait of a family that has thus far existed largely apart from the trappings of modernity, a fascinating chronicle of the epic journey they embark on each year, and a penetrating depiction of the culture and politics of Nepal.

The Garden Cinema’s Joe Bond talks to co-director Lucas Millard during a satellite Q&A following a screening of the film.