Summer · 21 Jun 2026 – 22 Sept 2026
Summer Nights in Independent Cinema
As the evenings lengthen, these small cinemas offer an alternative to the multiplex — uncrowded, thoughtfully programmed, and genuinely surprising.
There is a particular pleasure in watching a film in a small cinema during summer. The audience is smaller, the programming is stranger, and the conversation afterwards tends to last. These are the rooms worth seeking out — not the ones that book whatever is being advertised on the tube.
3 venues
Bertha DocHouse
The home of documentary film in London — small, fiercely independent, and essential.
Explore venue →ActOne Cinema
A community cinema that still programmes as if film matters.
Independent cinema in Ilford showing Bollywood, world and independent film.
Explore venue →Hundred Years Gallery
Occasional screening nights that feel more like events than showings.
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