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.
4 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.
Explore venue →Sands Films Studio
A working film studio that opens its doors for free screenings on a Rotherhithe side street — one of the most quietly serious film venues in London and among the hardest to stumble upon.
Independent film studio and cinema in Rotherhithe, specialising in period and art house film.
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