In anticipation of Bi Gan’s third feature Resurrection (following his Long Day's Journey Into Night), the Chinese Cinema Project revisits his aesthetically…
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor,…
Alain Guiraudie, France, Spain, Portugal, 2024, 104m.
An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop…
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor,…
Alain Guiraudie, France, Spain, Portugal, 2024, 104m.
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor,…
Alain Guiraudie, France, Spain, Portugal, 2024, 104m.
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who…
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor,…
Alain Guiraudie, France, Spain, Portugal, 2024, 104m.
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor,…
Alain Guiraudie, France, Spain, Portugal, 2024, 104m.
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor,…
Alain Guiraudie, France, Spain, Portugal, 2024, 104m.
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who…
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor,…
Alain Guiraudie, France, Spain, Portugal, 2024, 104m.
The screening will be introduced by Oscar-nominated editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis, editor of Dogtooth and Lanthimos' longtime collaborator. After months of anticipation due…
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who…
Francis Hodgson Burnett's classic novel is beautifully brought to life by director Agnieszka Holland, cinematographer Roger Deakins and excuitve producer Francis…
Francis Hodgson Burnett's classic novel is beautifully brought to life by director Agnieszka Holland, cinematographer Roger Deakins and excuitve producer Francis…
UK Premiere of 4K Restoration. The screening on 6 May will be introduced by the season curator Millie Zhou. One of the most acclaimed, though underseen films of the Hong Kong New Wave, Allen Fong’s Ah Ying is an almost documentary-like work which… Read More
Synopsis: The Alps is a secret society including a nurse, a gym coach, a gymnast and a paramedic. They offer a unique service: the recently bereaved can hire them to act as surrogates for the deceased loved ones - wearing their clothes,… Read More
The screening on 3 May will be introduced by Tony Rayns. Feature debut from Eddie Fong with fiercely feminist and erotic New Wave take on the classical Chinese historical drama. Produced by the Shaw Brothers, the film is a provocative exploration of… Read More
The screening on Sunday 13 April will be followed by an in-person or Zoom Q&A with director Sophia Exarhou. It will be introduced by film critic Savina Petkova. Synopsis: Under the hot Greek sun, the animators at an all-inclusive island resort prepare for… Read More
The screening on Sunday 9 March the screening will be introduced by Savina Petkova. Synopsis: Marina, an emotionally stunted 23-year-old, lives with her dying architect father in a seaside factory town. Finding humans strange and repellent, she keeps her distance, watching David… Read More
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs on a rural English farm, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett. Babe is no ordinary pig - having been brought up alongside collies on the Hoggett Farm, he's mastered all the… Read More
This precisely wrought, emotionally penetrating romantic drama from Jacques Demy, set largely in the casinos of Nice, is a visually lovely but darkly realistic investigation into love and obsession. A bottle-blonde Jeanne Moreau is at her blithe best as a gorgeous gambling… Read More
Best in Show was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Elli. At the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show, a documentary film crew captures the excitement and tension displayed by the eccentric participants in the hilarious satire Best In Show.This biting… Read More
The screening on 21 April will be introduced by Chris Berry (KCL). Among the most important films to come out of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui’s devastating Boat People focuses on the experiences of refugees forced to flee their country in… Read More
The screening on 11 April will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL). Digitally restored and presented in 2K, shown in the UK for the first time. Tsui Hark made an immediate impact and established himself as a cinematic visionary with his directorial… Read More
One of the most endearing children's films of all time, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was also one of the most lavish movies of its era. Based on Ian Fleming’s novel, adapted to the screen by Roald Dahl and produced by the team behind… Read More
Cinema Paradiso was suggested for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Noelle Pogue. Giuseppe Tornatore's loving homage to the cinema tells the story of Salvatore, a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who… Read More
Various Directors, Various Countries, Various Years
Let your little ones discover cinema through short films. The Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival is one of the largest short film festivals in the world. This is a special chance to see some of their favourite animated short films for children, in… Read More
Conclave follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events - selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have… Read More
UK Premiere of 2K Restoration [International Version]. The screening on 14 April will be introduced by Victor Fan (KCL) and followed by a post-film discussion in the den of The Garden Bar. Banned by the colonial government censors on its original release, Tsui… Read More
Synopsis: A father and a son long lost. Love and hate. Digging deep into mud to find their roots. Revenge and Redemption. A Western, revisited. Curator's note: Digger (2020), produced by Rachel Athina Tsangari, is another brilliant tragicomedy, set in the stunningly… Read More
The screening will be introduced by Oscar-nominated editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis, editor of Dogtooth and Lanthimos' longtime collaborator. After months of anticipation due to its digital restoration, we are excited to inform you that Dogtooth will screen at The Garden Cinema as a one-off screening… Read More
In this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric adaptation of a classic French fairy tale, Jacques Demy casts Catherine Deneuve as a princess who must go into hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend off an unwanted marriage proposal—from her own father,… Read More
When a flood of biblical proportions washes its home away, a solitary cat must seek refuge with a motley crew of animals (including a dog, a capybara, a lemur and a secretarybird), who gradually learn to get along in this endearing, Oscar-winning… Read More
Winner of Best Animated Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards. When a flood washes its home away, a solitary cat must seek refuge with a motley crew of animals (including a dog, a capybara, a lemur and a secretarybird), who gradually learn… Read More
Screening in memory of the great Gene Hackman. Hackman stars in this 1971 crime classic about a maverick narcotics detective who stops a huge heroin shipment into New York. Winner of five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director (William… Read More
Following the lives of four young people trying to survive the Israel-Hamas war as they hope for a ceasefire - a vivid and unflinching view of life in a war zone. Israel does not allow foreign journalists to report independently in Gaza.… Read More
Chantal Akerman, 1986, Belgium, France, Switzerland
Golden Eighties was suggested for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Kit. You can almost smell the hairspray in Akerman’s exuberant but subversive musical about the many romantic entanglements of salon workers in a shopping mall basement. Its natty 1980s… Read More
The screening on 27 April will be introduced by Dr Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton). One of the most acclaimed works by Yim Ho, a leading figure of the Hong Kong New Wave, Homecoming is a thoughtful and moving reflection of an increasingly anxious… Read More
Join star Ryland Brickson Cole Tews and the beavers for Hundreds of Beavers... Live!In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.… Read More
This shorts programme features a collection of films that explore the complexities of life during the pandemic in China, reflecting on both personal and collective experiences of isolation, adaptation, and memory. From everyday life in quarantine to critical examinations of the system,… Read More
Our screening on Sunday 23 March will be introduced by film programmer Nathasha Orlando Kappler. Agnès Varda’s tender evocation of the childhood of her husband, Jacques Demy - a dream project that she realised for him when he became too ill to… Read More
In anticipation of Bi Gan’s third feature Resurrection (following his Long Day's Journey Into Night), the Chinese Cinema Project revisits his aesthetically remarkable and poetry-filled debut Kaili Blues, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival 10 years ago. The film follows a small-town doctor… Read More
The film was proposed by our member Seraphina Bewick, who writes: 'I would love the opportunity to see the animated film The Last Unicorn on the big screen.' The film tells the story of an immortal unicorn on her journey to find… Read More
Lawrence of Arabia was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Paul Testar. One of cinema's grandest epics, this monumental story recounts the true life experiences of T.E. Lawrence, better known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia. A young,… Read More
The screening on 19 April will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the director Ann Hui, moderated by Tony Rayns. Following her 'Vietnamese Trilogy', one of the cornerstones of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui took her career in a… Read More
The screening on Sunday 23 February will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with director Yannis Economides. It will be introduced by season curator and Garden Cinema head programmer, Erifili Missiou. Synopsis: Dimitris, a grumpy middle-aged man, is having a hard time… Read More
Bong Joon-ho's long awaited follow-up to the history making Parasite. An unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer whodemands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living. The… Read More
Returning to Saint-Martial for his late boss's funeral, Jérémie's stay with widow Martine becomes entangled in a disappearance, a threatening neighbor, and an abbot's shady intentions. The Garden Cinema View: Alain Guiraudie’s films blend mischievous queer narratives with an almost Hitchcockian attraction… Read More
Told in flashbacks, the story introduces Mufasa as an orphaned cub, lost and alone until he meets a sympathetic lion named Taka - the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive journey of an extraordinary group… Read More
The screening on 29 April will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL). This is the first time the 2K restoration will be shown in a cinema in the UK.Hong Kong New Wave pioneer Patrick Tam’s final film in the movement, and his last… Read More
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who escaped the burning of Smyrna and journeyed to Athens, Greece, where she became a major figure in Greek popular music and… Read More
Screening in memory of the great Gene Hackman. Arthur Penn’s haunting neo noir reimagines the hard-boiled detective film for the disillusioned, paranoid 1970s. In one of his greatest performances, Gene Hackman oozes world-weary cynicism as a private investigator whose search for an… Read More
The screening on 1 April is in tribute of Leslie Cheung and will be introduced by Victor Fan (KCL). Radiance Films, who released the film on Blu-ray, will have a pop-up shop at the screening. Hailed as one of the very best… Read More
Nuts in May was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Sakie. A couple’s quest to get away from it all comes with some unforeseen hazards in Mike Leigh’s classic tale of a camping holiday gone wrong. Their car packed… Read More
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be followed by a Q&A with the director Armel Hostiou and the producer Jasmina Sijerčić. One day French filmmaker Armel Hostiou discovers he has a second Facebook account: a fake Armel who has photos of… Read More
The Palm Beach Story was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Jocelyn Carr. This wild tale of wacky wedlock from Preston Sturges takes off like a rocket and never lets up. Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert play Tom and… Read More
Ki-taek's family of four is close, but fully unemployed, with a bleak future ahead of them. The son Ki-woo is recommended by his friend, a student at a prestigious university, for a well-paid tutoring job, spawning hopes of a regular income. Carrying… Read More
The screening on Sunday 16 March will be followed by an in-person or Zoom Q&A with director Filipos Tsitos. It will be introduced by Dr. Tonia Kazakopoulou. Synopsis: The title of Plato’s Academy is a little misleading because no Greek sages are in… Read More
Puss in Boots gets his own animated adventure film in this Shrek spin-off. Long before meeting Shrek, Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) is run out of town on suspicion of bank robbery, even though the real villain is Puss' friend, Humpty Dumpty (Zach… Read More
A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a lowcaste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by charismatic feminist inspector Sharma. The screening on… Read More
This celebrated film won multiple awards, having started out as a movie-workshop for a group of students in Havana. With echoes of Ken Loach’s Kes, 11-year-old Chala keeps pigeons and illegally trains fighting dogs in order to support himself and his alcoholic… Read More
Seconds was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Elli. Rock Hudson is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. Seconds, directed by John Frankenheimer, concerns a middle-aged banker who, dissatisfied with his suburban existence,… Read More
Francis Hodgson Burnett's classic novel is beautifully brought to life by director Agnieszka Holland, cinematographer Roger Deakins and excuitve producer Francis Ford Coppola. Mary Lennox is an orphan sent to live with her uncle at his Yorkshire mansion that is full of… Read More
A newly arranged marriage. An oddball couple shoved together in a small Mumbai shack with paper-thin walls. They are awkward and alone-together. Unpredictable Uma does her best to cope with the heat, her total lack of domestic skills, nosy neighbours and her… Read More
Stalker was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema member Demetrios Matheou. Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide - the Stalker… Read More
The screening on 18 April will be preceded by a reception at the cinema's Atrium Bar and followed by an in-person Q&A with the director Ann Hui, moderated by Chris Berry (KCL).Timings:15:45 - 17:00 Reception with complimentary drinks17:00 - 18:35 Screening of The… Read More
The screening on Sunday 2 March will be followed by an in-person Q&A with director Panos Koutras. It will be introduced by Prof. Dimitris Papanikolaou. Synopsis: Yiorgos is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed… Read More
The screening on Thursday 23 March will be followed by a live Zoom Q&A with director Argyris Papadimitropoulos. Synopsis: Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His… Read More
Tampopo was proposed for our 3rd birthday celebrations by Garden Cinema members Tom H. and Jackie Yap. The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this… Read More
Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet, 2024, UK, Denmark, USA
The screening on Friday 28 March in Screen 3 will be followed by a Q&A with directors Jacob Perlmutter, Manon Ouimet, as well as Maggie and Joel. When artist Maggie Barrett (75) breaks her femur, her husband Joel Meyerowitz (84), a world-famous… Read More
An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop owner’s delicate daughter, glowing with first love for a handsome garage mechanic, played by Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped… Read More
It's time for the annual Giant Vegetable Fete, and it's vitally important that the extra large carrots are protected - so Wallace and Gromit are on duty keeping hungry bunnies out of the way without harming them. Everything seems under control until… Read More
Shining a light on the trailblazing role of women war artists, on the front lines round the world, championing the female perspective on conflict through art and asking: when it's life or death, what do women see that men don't? … Read More
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic… Read More
This film was proposed by our member Lyn Breakwell, who writes: 'A fantastic caustic comedy film starring amongst others Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell. 130 speaking parts were all women. Even the pets were female! But it’s all about the men they… Read More
Our screening on 4 April will be introduced by Oscar nominated composer Gary Yershon. Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance… Read More
Geographically unique and with a history of political turbulence, Greece is anything but predictable. It’s both beautiful and ugly, capricious and chaotic, and thus brimming with surprises. Amongst these is the cinema created…
Following our season Celebrating Ann Hui in June 2024, we present the first ever comprehensive UK season dedicated to the Hong Kong New Wave, supported by the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office London. Often mentioned,…
We’re ushering in the springtime with a selection of masterpieces from the most musical, romantic, and colourful Nouvelle Vague filmmaker, Jacques Demy. Frequently setting his films amongst industrial ports on France’s Atlantic coast,…
To mark the occasion of our upcoming third anniversary, on Saturday 22 March the full day will be filled with films proposed by members, across all three screens. The day will commence with…
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 through…
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…
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…
