{"title": "Made in Taiwan", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Made in Taiwan is a season of screenings dedicated to Taiwanese cinema, running from 24 October to 6 December 2026. It is presented by The Garden Cinema and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, and is the fourth edition of the cinema's annual Taiwanese film season. At its heart is a focus on cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, who joins in London for seven films from his five-decade career, including his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien. The programme also brings classic and contemporary Taiwanese works by filmmakers such as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, King Hu, Wang Toon, Huang Ya-li, Chen Kuo-fu and Hsin Chi, alongside Q&As and introductions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/made-in-taiwan-39287/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0514bb360a48417c6b3862d09a30e4add3aab83384fb4f6cc19302d1a6bbec9-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Millennium Mambo", "start": "2026-10-30T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2001 film about an aimless bar hostess in Taipei, drifting from her blowhard boyfriend towards a suave, sensitive gangster. Structured as a flashback to the then-present from the then-future of 2011, it is a trance-like dive into the techno-scored neon nightlife of the city, drenched in club lights with a nagging undercurrent of ennui. Shu Qi stars alongside Jack Kao and Tuan Chun-hao. The film is presented in a new digital restoration as part of the cinema's focus on filmmaker Mark Lee Ping-bing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/millennium-mambo-39218/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/millennium-mambo/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc4c82166411d2c14cd9a9003b4f167b7cd0ad05908733cd28a284fc772e0f67-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Taipei Story", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Taipei Story is Edward Yang's 1985 film about Lung, who runs a traditional textile business, and Chin, an assistant at a construction company, a couple whose dreams of marriage and emigration in a developing Taipei begin to unravel as they desperately try to maintain their relationship. The film depicts the alienation of urban life and was made in collaboration with Taiwan New Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who takes the male lead and serves as screenwriter and producer. It stars Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Chin and Ko I-Chen. Yang's exceptional directorial skills are a testament to the camaraderie among New Cinema filmmakers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/taipei-story-39247/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/taipei-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df78385e0e62858f02e2617d20e19f19468d04a76d57bd296ef2249f21eda796-600.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.webp"}, {"title": "30th Made in Prague Festival", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-24T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/festival"], "description": "The 30th Made in Prague Festival is a multigenre festival bringing a rich selection of Czech cinema to London this autumn. Organised by the Czech Centre London, it spans generations of Czech filmmaking, from Czechoslovak New Wave classics to contemporary works. The programme includes the UK premiere of the newly restored Valerie and Her Week of Wonders at BFI Southbank, screenings at Regent Street Cinema, and showings at The Garden Cinema with Q&As featuring directors and leading actors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/30th-made-in-prague-festival-39291/", "official_url": "https://london.czechcentres.gov.cz/en/about-us/projects/30th-made-in-prague-festival", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41d83f85aa60a5c44bfa7acd5a5b0a9f489d4487c56bb73a2bf28986cb40849f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Strawman", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Strawman is a 1987 Taiwanese film screening at The Garden Cinema. Directed by Wang Toon, it opens his 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy' and is shot by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, winning six Golden Horse Awards including Best Feature Film. Set in 1940s Taiwan, it follows two impoverished tenant farmers who, finding an unexploded American bomb in their field, carry it to the Japanese authorities hoping for a reward, as their plan spirals into absurdity. The film stars Cho Sheng Li, Chang Po-Chou and Yang Kuei-Mei.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/strawman-39239/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/strawman/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9388f1a7dd5ad17413873b4ed59e125974ccd9fb1b3f6b28a8690bb1a5e6fdda-600.webp"}, {"title": "Double Vision", "start": "2026-10-31T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "A screening of Double Vision, a 2002 film by Chen Kuo-fu made in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with Tony Leung Ka-fai, René Liu, Leon Dai and David Morse. In Taipei, disgraced detective Huang Huo-tu joins forces with FBI agent Kevin Richter to investigate a series of inexplicable deaths. As clues lead from a murder in a Christian church to hallucinogenic fungus and a mysterious Taoist cult, forensic reason collides with ancient beliefs and the boundary between serial murder and the supernatural dissolves. A landmark of Taiwanese horror and a major box-office success, it was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/double-vision-39223/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/double-vision/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0eb112cd23cb1eb0f6b72a7a924470ba60ee0ec049f89a277ec32283a91742eb-600.webp"}, {"title": "Banana Paradise", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Banana Paradise is a screening of Wang Toon's 1989 Taiwanese film, part of The Garden Cinema's Made in Taiwan season. It follows a naive young man who follows the Kuomintang forces from China to Taiwan in 1949, adopting false names as he adjusts to life amid turbulent socio-economic changes. The film, the second chapter in Wang's 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy', addresses the cruelties of martial law as a tragicomic melodrama, alongside rural-urban migration and the demands of modernisation. The screening on 8 November will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL) and shows a new restoration, with Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Chang Shih and Wen Ying in the cast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/banana-paradise-39242/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/banana-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/02c5ee45227451c88fddecaad75485afdf9a927d15832ff668d82692aa9fe4dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween at The Garden Cinema", "start": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween at The Garden Cinema is a season of Halloween screenings at The Garden Cinema, running into early November. The programme includes restored anniversary reissues of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and The Others, a screening of Donnie Darko introduced by film historian Ellisha Izumi, and Pay What You Can screenings of Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom for younger audiences. It also features a live score for F. W. Murnau's Faust by mutterichbindoom, Fruits on Film's inaugural vampire ball with live violin and cocktails, member-suggested films such as Ravenous and Theatre of Blood, a free members' screening of The Exorcist III, and Franken-BINGO on Halloween night.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-at-the-garden-cinema-39286/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75aec25b71f00730f9eadc790faf668bc467e2c948d6b0d57ad39ffc6856f2e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Bar Shorts with Darren Walsh & Russell McLean", "start": "2026-11-03T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation/stop-motion"], "description": "Bar Shorts with Darren Walsh & Russell McLean is a 90-minute screening event at The Garden Cinema, presented in partnership with Bar Shorts. British animator and director Darren Walsh and Emmy-winning producer Russell McLean have long collaborated in animation and advertising, on work including Angry Kid, stopframe scenes for Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Black Mirror's The Waldo Moment and the Compare The Meerkat campaigns, and recently developed the Gerry Anderson puppet project Hit Squad for Warner Bros Animation and Hanna-Barbera Europe. Walsh brings stop-motion and character direction expertise, McLean extensive live action and VFX production experience. The programme is to be announced soon, and the cinema does not show adverts, so arrive promptly.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bar-shorts-with-darren-walsh-russell-mclean-39229/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/bar-shorts-with-darren-walsh-russell-mclean/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6677f2f86509da60560d729ecc04c3daece64de37d699ca5cfaa3df5b08c86e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A film screening at The Mosaic Rooms showing two films, Blessed Blessed Oblivion and With Hasan in Gaza, as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World. The listing gives no further details about the films or their makers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-obliv-39453/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£5 - £9", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/welcome", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "SET Film Festival is an independent, grassroots platform for contemporary, artist and archival film, returning to SET Social in Peckham for its fourth edition across a month of screenings and events. It was founded in 2023 and curated this year by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe with the wider SET FF26 team. The programme brings together four themed short film nights, a feature-length screening, a free evening of archival film and performance, a first online screening and an inaugural awards night, with selected screenings followed by Q&As with filmmakers. The festival also supports UK-based filmmakers through its 2026 Accelerator Programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-38495/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/804615857f21e4b55712a912e9f4af348a1f68ec72a3388e26e3a7cd06d6c1a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Raise the Red Lantern", "start": "2026-11-06T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Raise the Red Lantern is a film by Zhang Yimou from 1991, shown in a new digital restoration. It follows Songlian (Gong Li), an educated young woman sold into marriage with the rich tyrant Master Chen, who must navigate the maze of political and sexual challenges within the fortress-like Qiao Family Compound among his four competing wives. Winner of the Silver Lion at Venice in 1991, it is considered perhaps Zhang's most accomplished film and the culmination of his 'Red Trilogy'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raise-the-red-lantern-39238/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/raise-the-red-lantern", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3974183ed0475c1eb1127e625652682f475e9408410ee23345ae168df356658-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["dance/butoh", "film/experimental"], "description": "A special screening of the film Mr. O's Book of the Dead, followed by a Q&A with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who is visiting from Japan and will share her experience of working on the film 50 years ago. The event is presented by Rebellious Bodies Festival and NPO Dance Archive Network. The film is the final instalment in an experimental trilogy by documentary filmmaker Chiaki Nagano and pioneering butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and features 'Mr. O' (Kazuo Ohno) and a troupe of his students, including Mitsuyo Uesugi. Shot in numerous places across Japan from Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido to Yokodai Pig Farm in Kanagawa, it is, in Nagano's words, 'about one of our deaths, and a starting point towards somewhere new'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-39248/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-qa-with-mitsuyo-uesugi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7d4343022e6a7c65b24e5cecd64cd689434c103473e06343b846d33c102757-600.webp"}, {"title": "Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction/dystopian"], "description": "Chester Film Society presents a screening of the feature film Resurrection, made up with Picturehouse as part of a diverse programme of world cinema. In a future where humanity has traded its ability to dream for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), it conjures vast, ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. The cast also includes Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue and Chen Yongzhong.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/resurrection-37898/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018203/cfs-resurrection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f0c814ca4adf71d9c1bbb8a00795a309d4e1b0530e9ddfd45c2bbb9d95baee6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-1-impossible-cinema-6accbcefd1712e4ba1f9f180", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. The screening is preceded by an introduction by Phoebe Campion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema-38494/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0d52d340eb24cdf1daf377adfd3c4c0364e714a0f5dad6304923ea7caea6e28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Film Africa 2026", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/africa", "film"], "description": "Film Africa 2026 is a festival of African cinema taking place across London, opening and closing at BFI Southbank. It is run by the Royal African Society and returns from 23 October to 1 November 2026. The programme brings together new voices, established filmmakers and essential works from across Africa and its diasporas, spanning features, documentaries, shorts, retrospectives and conversations. Highlights include a special screening and conversation honouring Tunisian filmmaker Férid Boughedir, whose documentaries Caméra d'Afrique and Caméra Arabe are landmark works on African and Arab cinemas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-africa-2026-74233/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e08461265938bcfe1b85ae17682528e1ec42c84bdc12594b74e6547e8cebeaa-2000.webp"}]}