This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
Introverted 16-year-old Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school's all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria (Mina Švajger), a popular and…
This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tenant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
LRB Screen, the London Review Bookshop’s long-running screening series, continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers: films…
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 Oslo Stories Trilogy (Sex, Dreams, Love) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy, and…
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance…
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.
Introverted 16-year-old Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school's all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria (Mina Švajger), a popular and…
Introverted 16-year-old Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school's all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria (Mina Švajger), a popular and…
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 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.
Introverted 16-year-old Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school's all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria (Mina Švajger), a popular and…
Scripted by former railwayman Rob Dawber The Navigators lays bare the unappetising choice faced by railway workers after the still contentious privatization…
Scripted by former railwayman Rob Dawber The Navigators lays bare the unappetising choice faced by railway workers after the still contentious privatization…
The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’avventura and La notte), L’eclisse tells the story of a young…
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
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
Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Angel's Share tells the story of a young father who narrowly avoids a prison sentence. He is determined to turn over a new leaf and when he and his friends from the same community payback group visit a whisky… 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
Doggie devastation and slapstick fun are the key ingredients in this riotous canine comedy. Forget the human actors, it's the titular St Bernard pup who steals the show, slobbering his way into mischief after he flees dognappers and winds up in the… Read More
The Big Flame was writer Jim Allen's second Wednesday Play and his first with director Kenneth Loach. After The Lump, about the exploitation of casual labour in the building trade, Allen used his Marxist credentials to depict striking Liverpool dockers enacting a Communist-style… Read More
For Halloween, the smaller beings in our audience can enjoy a mildly macabre film of their own, with pay-what-you-can screenings of The Book of Life. From producer Guillermo del Toro (Pinocchio, Pan's Labyrinth) comes an animated comedy drawing on Mexican folklore. The… 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
The film will be introduced by Senior Architect Jemma Miller. Jeremy Sandford's drama about a young family's slide into homelessness and poverty was a defining moment in 1960s television, demonstrating how far drama could influence the political agenda. The controversy generated by… Read More
Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favourite team is making an underdog run… Read More
A pioneer of Japanese avant-garde cinema, Michio Okabe’s (1937-2020) films span the late 60s to the mid 70s, capturing the zeitgeist of an era defined by global political upheaval and counter-cultural movements. They collage performance art, historical references, and pop music with… 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
Michio Okabe’s subversive underground film was shot on 16mm in Shinjuku in 1968, and documents the radical spirit of Japan’s creative and artistic scene in those years. Crazy Love is structured as a collage of diverse activities and performers, including a happening by… Read More
Deaf follows a young deaf woman and her hearing partner, who are expecting a baby, unable to know whether their child will be hearing or deaf until birth. A beautiful, nuanced depiction of their journey, the film's clever use of sound and silence… Read More
Digital restoration. 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… 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
Amongst the best-loved family films of all time, Steven Spielberg’s hugely influential tale follows troubled 10-year-old Elliott who stumbles upon a gentle alien stranded on Earth. Elliott smuggles the alien that he names 'E.T.' into his suburban California house, introduces him to… Read More
Our screening on Friday 19 September will be introduced by Victor Fan (KCL). Ang Lee’s generous, touching Eat Drink Man Woman focuses on master chef Chu and his three daughters (all of them living at home) as they confront seismic changes in their… Read More
This 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. Ang Lee’s generous,… 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
On Tuesday 21 October, Mary Wild, Freudian cinephile and creator of the Projections lecture series at the Freud Museum, will join us for a post screening Q&A. Family Life is a remake of David Mercer’s TV play In Two Minds, which had been… 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
Dating back to neolithic times, few culinary traditions have survived as long as the hearty bowl of morning porridge. Despite its simple recipe of oats, salt and water there is a lot that can vary. Each year the sleepy highland village of… Read More
Monica Vitti stars here as Giuliana, the slightly whacky girl with whom bourgeois lawyer Pietro (Giorgio Albertazzi) meets cute at a bohemian bacchanal. Just as quickly, the two get married, setting the stage for a humorous study of then-contemporary romance and the… Read More
The provocative Italian filmmaker Elio Petri’s most internationally acclaimed work is this remarkable, visceral, Oscar-winning thriller. Petri maintains a tricky balance between absurdity and realism in telling the Kafkaesque tale of a Roman police inspector (a commanding Gian Maria Volontè) investigating a… Read More
The screening on Thursday, September 11 will be followed by a Q&A with director Jan-Ole Gerster. Between drinking sessions and one-night stands, washed-up tennis pro Tom (Sam Riley) clings to a job coaching holidaymakers at a hotel in Fuerteventura. When an English… Read More
Jaws, first released in 1975, is a landmark film that redefined the summer blockbuster and left a lasting impact on global cinema. Based on Peter Benchley's novel, it became the highest-grossing film of the year, earning a Best Picture nomination and three… Read More
At a political rally, bricklayer Oreste (Marcello Mastroianni) sees flower girl Adelaide (Monica Vitti) and is so thoroughly smitten that he decides he must leave his wife for her. The pair's happiness doesn't last, however, as a young pizza chef named Nello… Read More
The screening on Thursday October 16 will be followed by a Q&A with David Bradley, Kes lead actor . Named one of the ten best British films of the century by the BFI, Ken Loach’s Kes, is cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern… Read More
The concluding chapter of Michelangelo Antonioni’s informal trilogy on contemporary malaise (following L’avventura and La notte), L’eclisse tells the story of a young woman (Monica Vitti) who leaves one lover (Francisco Rabal) and drifts into a relationship with another (Alain Delon). Using the architecture… Read More
Ladybird Ladybird screenwriter Rona Munro will join us for a post-screening Q&A on Sunday 2 November. Based on a true story, Ladybird, Ladybird tracks the heartbreaking tale of a woman whose tumultuous past and mental illnesses cause her children to be taken away from… Read More
The screening will be followed by a conversation between Professor Paul Preston and historian and author Richard Baxell. David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the… Read More
In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armour of fedora… 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
Urška Djukić, 2025, Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, Serbia
Introverted 16-year-old Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan) joins her Catholic school's all-girls choir, where she befriends Ana-Maria (Mina Švajger), a popular and flirty third-year student. But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in… Read More
Eric Bishop (Steve Evets) is a postman and Man U supporter on the edge of a nervous breakdown. He never got over his divorce from his first wife; his second wife has left him in loco parentis for two wayward stepsons; and… Read More
Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L’avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily,… 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
In this beloved musical, pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) is so sure of his abilities that he takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working-class girl into someone who can pass for a cultured member of high society. His… Read More
The screening on Saturday November 8 will be introduced by Assistant Programmer Joe Miller. His name is Joe, and he’s an alcoholic. He’s only been sober for 10 months, and although AA advises against romance in the first year of recovery, Joe… Read More
Scripted by former railwayman Rob Dawber The Navigators lays bare the unappetising choice faced by railway workers after the still contentious privatization of British Rail in the mid-1990s. Either they can continue existing jobs for lower pay and safety standards, or accept redundancy… 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
Poor Cow is Ken Loach's debut feature film. 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… 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
Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1993. Bob Williams is a survivor: he supplements his dole by becoming embroiled in whatever scam is on offer. From rustling sheep to rodding drains, he does what he can to… Read More
Winner of Best European Film at Berlin, 1991. Fresh out of Barlinnie prison, young Glaswegian Stevie arrives in London and lands a job on a construction site. Life in the capital is unforgiving, but when he meets Susan, a struggling singer chasing… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Alexander Eiss, who wrote: 'It's time we get a Wes Anderson film back at the Garden Cinema.' Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) and his wife, Etheline (Anjelica Huston), had three children – Chas, Margot, and Richie –… Read More
The screening on Saturday 20th will be dubbed in English. The screening on Sunday 21st will be in French with English Subtitles. Claude Barras follows My Life As a Courgette with a stop-motion gem about a girl and an orangutan facing up to… 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
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
Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa find themselves caught up in a typically hilarious yarn as TV's favourite family makes its movie debut. Homer accidentally polutes the local water supply, so Springfield must be encased in a giant protective dome, leaving the Simpsons… Read More
This screening will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Huang Hui-chen. Excutive produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien and featuring music from composer Gong Lim (Millennium Mambo), Small Talk is one of Taiwan’s most widely-acclaimed documentaries, and the first such film to… Read More
Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill battle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to regain some independence appears by becoming a self-employed delivery driver, but when he and his wife are pulled in different directions, everything… 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
Steve traces a pivotal 24 hours in the life of a headteacher of a last-chance reform school who struggles to keep his students in line, while also grappling with his spiraling mental health. … Read More
n this SXSW hit, the cult phenomenon of Rocky Horror is explored in depth like never before with an extraordinary cast of contributors. From humble origins as a London fringe theater play to its meteoric rise as the biggest cult film of… Read More
After the screening on Friday, November 14, Ken Loach's longtime collaborator Rebecca O'Brien will join Gareth Evans for a post-film discussion. To mark the publication of the new edition of Loach on Loach (edited by Graham Fuller, published by Faber and Faber), copies… 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
Nell Dunn's Up the Junction, directed by Ken Loach, is a controversial and mould-breaking TV drama, watched by an audience of nearly 10 million on first transmission. A record 400 viewers complained to the BBC, mostly about the programme's bad language and… Read More
Urchin follows Mike, a rough sleeper in East London, who is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around. Premiering at Cannes to rave reviews and a Best Actor award for Frank Dillane, Urchin is an outstanding directorial… 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
On Wednesday, 19 November, the screening will serve as a fundraiser for a Palestinian cultural charity. Irish musicians will perform before the screening and crafts will be on sale in the Atrium bar. The doors will open from 19:00. It will be… Read More
This Sidney Lumet film gives a makeover to the classic children's book The Wizard of Oz. Adapted from the 1974 Broadway musical of the same name, and set in 1970s Harlem, the film boasted Quincy Jones as the musical supervisor, and an… 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
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…
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…
‘If you make films about people’s lives, politics is essential. It is the essence of drama – the essence of conflict.’ – Ken Loach Ken Loach has been making films for over 60…
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…
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. …
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…
Dear Italy is The Garden Cinema’s love letter to Italian Cinema. We are delighted to showcase films not only widely considered classics but also the most beloved by audiences and critics alike. This…
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…
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…
LRB Screen, the London Review Bookshop’s long-running screening series, continues its exploration of visions of London created by non-British filmmakers: films…
