Derry, 1972; As the civil rights movement across the North of Ireland begins to secure unprecedented wins, the British state responds with lethal force, murdering 14 people and sparking a 60 year fight for justice and accountability by a community for whom everything had changed.
In partnership with The Canary UK, the Rainbow Collective screened their latest feature doc at the Garden Cinema. The filmmaking duo, also behind To Kill a War Machine, joined us to discuss the film, their documentary and filmmaking background covering international stories, the aftermath of Bloody Sunday and the long fight for justice, and the legacy of the Irish independence movement today.
Sophy Romvari joins our head curator George Crosthwait to discuss her feature debut Blue Heron.
Recorded on 27th June 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ
Mae West’s liberated view of female sexuality gave impetus to the new guidelines for industry censorship known as the Hays Production Code – which, for many film historians, is the very reason Screwball Comedy exists. The genre was born as a reaction to the Code, finding ever more inventive ways to subvert it. Featuring a very young Cary Grant – a Screwball Comedy regular – it is the film that propelled both him and West to fame.
Caroline Cassin is an Assistant Programmer at the British Film Institute and hosts the monthly pre-Code cinema series, Women & Cocaine, at the Cinema Museum in London.
Joining our panel are screenwriter and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz, whose film Hot Milk was based on Deborah Levy’s novel of the same name, and screenwriter and director Julia Jackman, who adapted Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel 100 Nights of Hero, based on the Middle Eastern folktale One Thousand and One Nights. They discuss their experiences adapting material as well as directing the resulting films.
Recorded on 18th June 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Part of Lebanon Cinema Days in the UK. Mounia Akl is a Lebanese screenwriter, director and actress, and A Sad And Beautiful World was Lebanon’s official entry for the Oscars. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it won the Audience Award, and was selected in festivals around the world, including the London Film Festival, Palm Springs, Cinemed, the Mostra in Brazil and many others.
Recorded on 12th June 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ
Across summer 2026 The Garden Cinema explores the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema, a remarkable era spanning the late 1970s through to the 1990s when the territory emerged as one of the world’s most prolific, dynamic and influential filmmaking centres.
Tony Rayns explores the themes and backgrounds of key people involved in Yoshimitsu Morita’s ‘The Family Game’, for its UK premiere held in collaboration with The Japan Foundation at The Garden Cinema, part of Select Japan.
Recorded on 9th June 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ
Victor Fan is Professor of Film and Media Philosophy at King’s College London. Here he introduces Jia Zhangke’s bold and most genre-inflected work. (Contains spoilers!)
A Touch of Sin was part of a curated season of films at The Garden Cinema.
Recorded on 19th March 2026 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street, London WC2B 5PQ