Mark Jenkin talks about writing, sound design, casting and directing for his movie Rose of Nevada, his 16mm feature set in a Cornish fishing village, starring George MacKay, Callum Turner, Francis Magee: where he gets his ideas, why he loves close-ups and how he used sound to create the perfect storm on screen.

Recorded on 25th April 2026 at The Garden Cinema

Max Walker-Silverman discusses his new film, starring Academy Award winner Amy Madigan, Josh O’Connor, and Meghann Fahy.

Recorded on 17th April 2026 at The Garden Cinema

This May to August, The Garden Cinema dedicates itself to the finest chaos cinema has to offer: Screwball Comedy – 17 films, introductions, special events, and plenty of discussion. From She Done Him Wrong to What’s Up Doc? – the season brings together the genre’s defining titles.

For more information, see the Screwball Summer season page.

The London Review of Books presents a special screening of one of Frederick Wiseman’s most influential films, Law and Order (1969), to mark his death, its (ever-)present relevance and the arrival of ‘Frederick Wiseman: American Lives’ on MUBI: a curation of documentaries shot over a period of more than 50 years, cataloguing great American institutions such as the police, the public school system, Ivy League colleges, City Hall, the five boroughs of New York City and more.

Matthew Barrington, curator of cinema at the Barbican and an authority on Wiseman’s work and slow cinema, introduces the film:

After the screening, he was joined via video link by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor at Princeton, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America – and star of another Wiseman film, 2017’s Ex Libris: New York Public Library:

The Garden Cinema presents a selection of films from the last five decades that explore how Argentine society has grappled with the aftermath of the military coup of 1976.

The season will be screening from Friday 8th May – Friday 19th June 2026.

For more information, see the 50 Years of Argentina on Film season page.

Prof. Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford) is joined by Greek Salad strand curator Erifili Missiou, to discuss The Shepherds of Calamity as well as director Nico Papatakis’ further life and work.

For tickets and more information about the strand of Greek films at The Garden Cinema, see our Greek Salad strand.

Director Philippe Bustos Sierra dicusses the making of his documentary Everybody to Kenmure Street, which covers a spontaneous and successful act of civil disobedience. Tabassum Niamat who features in the film talks about the protest, and the political climate surrounding immigration.

Hosted by Abla Kandalaft.
Filmed and edited by Joe Bond
Recorded on 12th March 2026 at The Garden Cinema

Akinola Davies Jr. stopped by The Garden Cinema a couple of days after winning a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer/Director for the film My Father’s Shadow. Here he talks about the importance of supporting independent cinemas and how he got his early breaks in filmmaking.