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The Garden Cinema Film Talk

The Garden Cinema

Celebrating the Art of Film. The Garden Cinema is an independent art-house cinema in Central London. We invite directors, producers, actors, and film commentators to talk about the films we show. Most of our podcast episodes are recorded post-screening, and with a live audience. We welcome recommendations! Our first few episodes feature Garden Cinema founder Michael Chambers.

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51:37

Climate-conscious storytelling - how to create a...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/12/18

Crosspollinating with our Planting Seeds strand, as we are joined by Danusia Samal from Green Rider, a movement of artists and productions shifting the TV & film industry towards a fairer and healthier way of working, and by Josh Cockcroft from Climate Spring, a global organisation dedicated to shifting our cultural response to the climate crisis by championing storytelling that transforms how it is represented in film, TV, and popular culture.

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39:04

Fiume o Morte: Igor Bezinović on his film about...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/12/04

In defiance of the Paris Peace Conference Italian poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio led a rogue, short-lived, and ultranationalist occupation of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) in 1919. Over a century later, filmmaker Igor Bezinović revisits this strange historical episode, blending archive, reenactment and interviews with residents in the present, interrogating how a city remembers and forgets, and the enduring presence of European fascism.A stark and peculiar lesson in the history that

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40:18

Sweet Sixteen Q&A with Rebecca O'Brien

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/11/27

Ken Loach's longtime collaborator Rebecca O'Brien joins Gareth Evans for a discussion following Sweet Sixteen, showing as part of Ken Loach: A Retrospective at the Garden Cinema.This Q&A was also filmed. You can watch it on our YouTube channel.

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16:41

Dragonfly Q&A with Paul Andrew Williams, Andrea...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/11/20

Have we become a nation of strangers? In Dragonfly, neglected pensioner Elsie (Brenda Blethyn) finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour Colleen (Andrea Riseborough). Over time, Elsie gains a friend and the troubled Colleen finds a fresh purpose in life as she shops, cleans and cares for her. It brings brighter days for both of them. Dragonfly is a well-crafted slow burner anchored by outstanding performances from Andrea Riseborough, Brenda Blethyn, and Jason Watkins. Though firmly grounded

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70:10

Ken Loach in Conversation: The Films They Tried to...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/10/24

Join us for an evening of screenings and a live Zoom conversation with Ken Loach as he discusses some of his most controversial and suppressed films - works that TV networks and other institutions have tried to keep from the public. We will discuss The Gamekeeper, The Navigators, The Save The Children Fund Film, Which Side Are You On?, and A Question of Leadership. Films that revealed the complicity of union bosses, the creativity and solidarity of striking miners, the problematic attitude of large

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35:07

Lebanon in the UK: Diaspora - Panel with Lebanese...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/06/30

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

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37:11

Angeliki Papoulia on Matchbox, Lanthimos and...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/02/26

The Greek actress, best known for Yorgos Lanthimos' Alps, Dogtooth, and The Lobster, and currently to be seen in Mahdi Fleifel's To A Land Unknown, discusses Yannis Oukonomides' Matchbox and Greek cinema with Erifili Missiou, the curator of the Garden Cinema's Contemporary Greek Cinema: Beyond the Weird Wave season.

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44:32

Jess Chandler and Gareth Evans on Jarman's life and...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2025/01/17

A special event to mark the re-publication by leading London independent press Prototype of a facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s early, extremely rare and only poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972Joining publisher Jess Chandler and editor Gareth Evans are poet and writer CAConrad and scholar Declan Wiffen. With thanks to James Mackay. More podcast episodes can also be found at: https://thegardencinemafilmtalk.podbean.com/ Recorded 30th November 2024 at The Garden

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33:54

Alexei Sayle and Chris Shepherd on Liverpool and...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/12/12

To celebrate the launch of Chris Shepherd’s debut graphic novel, Anfield Rd for Titan Comics, Chris is programming this Bar Shorts. Breaking with Bar Shorts tradition Chris will screen just the one film: Willy Russell’s classic 1977 TV Play for Today - Our Day Out. It follows a group of teachers as they take a group of Liverpudlian school children on a trip to Wales. But the trip doesn’t go as planned.Afterwards we will be joined by comedy legend and fellow scouser Alexei Sayle who will chat

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35:53

Mark Cousins and Wendy Mitchell on A Sudden Glimpse...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/10/23

A creative biography of the Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham. One of the most important women in British modern art, the painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham was a highly inspirational figure, whose work was deeply impacted by a pivotal event in her life. A Sudden Glimpse into Deeper Things feature documentary is Mark Cousins' love letter to Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a significant yet often overlooked British modernist painter. True to Cousins' unique style, the film takes different angles to

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42:52

Naqqash Khalid and Nabhaan Rizwan on In Camera

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/09/25

Director Khalid and lead actor Rizwan joined us for a post-film Q&A to discuss researching and shooting In Camera with host Fatima Serghini and the Garden Cinema audience.

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28:36

Actress Priya Kansara and Kulraj Phullar discuss...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/07/25

Nida Manzoor, creator of the BAFTA, Peabody, and Rose d’Or award winning sitcom We Are Lady Parts, made her feature directorial debut with Polite Society. This exuberant feminist action comedy, turns genre etiquette on its head whilst examining the complexities of navigating life as a British-Pakistani teenager. Actress Priya Kansara who plays the lead part of Ria joins film theorist and lecturer Kulraj Phullar to discuss her role, martial arts training and her foray into acting, genre-bending

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31:16

Political muralism, Chilean street art, and UK Latino...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/06/12

Young people took to the streets with political muralism all over Chile in the late 60s, at the same time that young people in New York were starting modern graffiti, and May 68 took place in Paris. Chile Estyle is a documentary film which explores the past and present of Chile's unique street art tradition, which comes from a remix of political muralism and graffiti, and has been part of Chilean cultural and political life since the 60s. The result is a visually arresting, informative, and

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28:32

Caméra d'Or winner director César Díaz on Our Mothers...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/05/15

Ernesto (Armando Espitia) is a young Guatemalan anthropologist tasked with identifying the bones of the people killed by the military government in the 1980s. One day, while hearing the account of an old woman, he thinks he has found a lead that might guide him to his father, a 'guerrillero' who went missing during the war. Meanwhile, his mother Cristina (Emma Dib), is about to testify at the trial of former soldiers who took part in the genocide.Our Mothers is one of the rare films looking at

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37:23

Another Reality screening: Genre cinema in the Arab...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/03/27

AWAN partnered with The Arab Film Club to present Another Reality: Genre Shorts by Arab Women Filmmakers, here at the Garden Cinema, a programme curated by Sarah Agha.AWAN is the UK’s only contemporary multi-arts festival dedicated to showcasing inspiring works from Arab female artists. Sarah discusses the shorts with their respective directors, and the growth of genre cinema in the Arab world more generally, with input from our audience. Ladies Coffee (2024) by Amal Al-Agroobi - 10’ On the prowl

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36:00

A film imploring us to look on to the other side of...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/02/14

Journalist and critic Sophie Monks Kaufman discussed the The Zone Of Interest with the Garden Cinema's Joe Miller. Sophie and Joe talk in-depth about all the inception of the film, the cinematography, the many layers and themes the film evokes, history, resonance, resistance and the dehumanisation of others.

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36:38

SCALA!!! chat with directors Jane Giles & Ali Catterall

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2024/01/17

...OR, THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE RISE AND FALL OF THE WORLD'S WILDEST CINEMA AND HOW IT INFLUENCED A MIXED-UP GENERATION OF WEIRDOS AND MISFITSA feature-length big screen documentary telling the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years. Journalist Saskia Baron discusses the history of the iconic venue and the filmmaking process with its two directors here at the Garden Cinema, with input

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28:11

Visionary storytelling in the Black diaspora:...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2023/11/01

We discuss new forms of storytelling, genre, Afrofuturism and conversations around storytelling amongst the Black diaspora with writer Irenosen Okojie who curated the Black To The Future festival. We are very pleased to be showing two of the programme's films here at the Garden Cinema. We strive to expand the reach of the films we show and look forward to introducing new and original work to our members and visitors. You can find the listings, and book here.

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30:50

The Old Oak - Lead actor Dave Turner and Steve Topple...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2023/10/02

Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, tells the story of Syrian refugees relocated in a old mining village in the Northeast of England, amidst poverty, resentfulness and anger. As ever, Loach’s message is one of compassion and hope. Dave Turner who plays the lead character of TJ Ballantyne, the pub landlord, joined us at the Garden Cinema for a chat with journalist Steve Topple (whose voice you might recognise from the Bella Ciao discussion, which can also be found in this podcast

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52:49

Chile50 - Chicago Boys and the neoliberal experiment...

The Garden Cinema Film Talk ·

2023/09/13

Alborada teamed up with the Garden Cinema to show the documentary Chicago Boys, which explores the The film tells the story of the Chicago Boys, a group of Chilean economists who studied at the University of Chicago, under Milton Friedman returned to their country after Augusto Pinochet's coup to become the main architects of the neoliberal economic model in Chile, which also served as a template for other countries around the world. We discuss the film with scientist and ex-political prisoner

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