In anticipation of Bi Gan’s third feature Resurrection (following his Long Day's Journey Into Night), the Chinese Cinema Project revisits his aesthetically…
An angelically beautiful Catherine Deneuve was launched to stardom by this dazzling musical heart-tugger from Jacques Demy. She plays an umbrella-shop…
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who…
The screening on Sunday 30 March will be introduced by ethnomusicologist Ed Emery. Synopsis: The story of songwriter Eftyhia Papagiannopoulou (1893-1972), who…
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…
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
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries Vanya, the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened when Vanya's parents send their henchmen to annul… 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
Emir Kusturica/ 1998/ FR Yugoslavia, France, Germany
This film was proposed by various members including Daniel Teruel Izquierdo, Karin Lock and Georgia Platt who writes: 'Emir Kusturica’s Black Cat, White Cat is a cult classic in my eyes, it is relentless in its humour and warmth. A spaghetti western of… 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
When visionary architect László Toth and his wife Erzsébet flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern America, their lives are changed forever by a mysterious and wealthy client. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards including… 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
The screening on 8 March will be introduced by director Luka Yuanyuan Yang.The screening on 16 March will be followed by in-person Q&A with the director and the launch of her new book about the making of the film and the Chinese… 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
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
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
Walter Salles (Central Station, The Motorcycle Diaries) makes a triumphant return with an emotionally layered, visually rich account of family life under an oppressive regime. It's 1971, Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a mother… 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.' In this animated musical, the villainous King Haggard (Christopher Lee) plots to destroy all… 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
Jacques Demy’s crystalline debut gave birth to the fictional universe in which so many of his characters would live, play, and love. It’s among his most profoundly felt films, a tale of crisscrossing lives in Nantes (Demy’s hometown) that floats on waves… 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
Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst.… 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
David G. Derrick Jr.Jason HandDana Ledoux Miller, 2024, United States, Canada
Moana 2 is the thrilling sequel to Disney's beloved 2016 animated musical. This time, Moana, now a seasoned wayfinder, receives an unexpected call from her ancestors that leads her on a daring new adventure beyond the familiar shores of Motunui. Accompanied by the… 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
Set against a landscape dominated by an algorithm-driven gig economy, in a world designed to keep us apart, On Falling explores the silent, vital struggle to find meaning and connection. It tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese migrant working as a warehouse… 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
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 Garden Cinema… 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
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
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
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…
