In partnership with AWAN, Mydylarama, MENA Arts UK and the Arab Film Club, our next season celebrates recent key feature films made by Arab women directors that, together, offer a rich and diverse introduction to filmmaking from the region. We picked films that tell everyday, very human stories, away from sensationalist and reductionist portrayals too often offered up by depictions of the Arab world. These films together will form our latest season: Mukhrijat: Arab Women Filmmakers. The films will be complemented by introductions, Q&As and events.
To launch our Francophone West African Cinema season, Estrella Sendra Fernandez of Kings College London introduced Ousmane Sembène’s seminal film Black Girl (1966).
Francophone West African Cinema continues with weekly screenings introduced by experts and followed by post-film discussion groups.
Our Mike Leigh in Conversation season continues with a screening of Life Is Sweet (1990). Following the screening, the acclaimed director was joined on stage by friend and collaborator Gary Yershon to discuss the film with the audience.
Watch Mike Leigh discuss his 1988 film High Hopes with Gary Yershon in the second Q&A from last year’s Mike Leigh in Conversation season at The Garden Cinema.
In partnership with Film Africa, and King’s College London and Screen Worlds, featuring expert introductions and post film discussion groups, this major new season at The Garden Cinema invites audiences to experience nine masterpieces arising from postcolonial and contemporary Francophone West Africa.
Tickets are now available to Garden Cinema members with General sales open on Saturday 11 February at 18:00.
Watch Mike Leigh discuss his debut feature Bleak Moments in the first Q&A session from our Mike Leigh in Conversation season earlier this year
Watch our resident Film Curator Dr. George Crosthwait’s introduction to our final repertory season of 2022: Hollywood on Hollywood.
Our selection of Hollywood’s most bitingly satirical, truly interesting, or blissfully entertaining examples from the industry’s undying focus on itself are now showing until the end of the year.