Posy Sterling joins us for a Q&A about the process of character development and working on the set of Lollipop, hosted by Joe Miller. Sterling gives an intense and very believable lead performance as a woman in the most desperate of circumstances. May-Hudson is careful to keep her sights fixed on the Kafkaesque care system itself, rather than the people working in it.
Recorded on 20 June at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
This August to September, 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 unapologetically queer, subversive and outrageous.
Friday 1st of August — Sunday 7th of September 2025.
London Review of Books returns to the Garden Cinema with a new series exploring visions of London created by non-British filmmakers. Acclaimed fashion photographer and artist Miles Aldridge discusses Blow-Up, Antonioni’s classic countercultural take on (mis)perception and (un)reality in the swinging 1960s, with regular host Gareth Evans. Born two years before the film’s release, Aldridge grew up in the heart of the cultural scene it portrays and has since created his own highly distinctive photographic signature.
Recorded on 19 May at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
Lebanon in the UK: Diaspora Shorts was a programme of short films by 5 (women) Lebanese filmmakers based in the UK, part of our season: New Lebanese Cinema: Reclaiming Storytelling. The season is focused on contemporary filmmaking in Lebanon which sees a new generation of directors telling authentic stories of life on the ground, eschewing as much as possible some of the constraints of European financing bodies and co-productions.
The five filmmakers discuss filmmaking in Lebanon today and what it means to be part of the diaspora.
https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/lebanon-in-the-uk-diaspora-shorts/
Info and tickets: https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/south-asian-heritage-month-2025/
Throughout July and August, join us for an array of screenings and partnership events around South Asian Heritage Month 2025, which is themed ‘Roots to Routes.’ From Nepal to Sri Lanka, these films celebrate identity, connection, and community, as well as the power of cinema as a medium for self expression, protest, and joy.
Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London, where he teaches and researches cinemas of the Sinosphere. He introduces Ann Hui’s devastating Boat People, which focuses on the experiences of refugees forced to flee their country in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Recorded on 21 April at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
With director Ann Hui and Tony Rayns. Following her ‘Vietnamese Trilogy’, one of the cornerstones of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui took her career in a different direction, and began adapting literary works. The first of these was Love in a Fallen City, based on the novella by Eileen Chang, whose writing Hui had long admired and wished to bring to the screen, followed by Eighteen Springs (1997) and Love After Love (2017).
This screening was part of the Hong Kong New Wave season and was in partnership with the Chinese Cinema Project and Focus Hong Kong. Supported by the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office London.
Recorded on 19 April 2025 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ
With Ann Hui and Chris Berry. The Story of Woo Viet combines action, romance and character drama, and through its tale of refugees also meditates on the experiences of the Hong Kong diaspora overseas.
This screening was part of the Hong Kong New Wave season and was in partnership with the Chinese Cinema Project and Focus Hong Kong. Supported by the Hong Kong Economic Trade Office London.
Recorded on 18 April 2025 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ