Cinema in the Square is The Arzner's outdoor queer cinema event. Cinema in the Square takes place across the last three weekends of August, including Bank Holiday Monday on the 31st.. From Madonna to Mary Poppins, we have 28 queer & queer-adjacent films for you to enjoy in the summer heat in Bermondsey Square.
Seating is unallocated. All ticketholders will receive wireless headphones. Membership discounts and free tickets do not apply for Cinema in the Square.
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
In a Spanish villa, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune. When Jack wants to move in with his girlfriend and Ed uncovers the truth about their mother’s death, the fabric of the family begins to unravel.
Two young women form a romantic bond after discovering they have supernatural powers. Their insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their exes and begins feeding on their friends. As the bodies pile up, it becomes up to the women to face their pasts and stop the growing evil.
A sheltered Italian fashion student in London for the first time forms a intense, intimate bond with her brilliant mentor after they survive a violent robbery—forcing them to choose between ambition, boundaries, and the love they’re afraid to name.
Part of our Trans+ Pride Week. 10% of ticket sales will be donated to London Trans+ Pride. After the screening, we will have a live-streamed Q&A with director Kevin Z. Alambra. A group of transgender women belonging to a gang kidnaps foreign men to fund their gender-affirming surgeries, not knowing that their quest to free themselves to be who they are may end with them in prison. We are hostin...
Part of our Trans+ Pride Week. 10% of ticket sales will be donated to London Trans+ Pride. This screening will be followed by a live-streamed Q&A with writer & director Siobhan McCarthy. Before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumours. It's all a joke until Ethan realises: she really is trans. The two must reckon with their changing friendship, c...
UK Premiere: A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint + Intro
Thu 23 Jul
Part of our Trans+ Pride Week. 10% of ticket sales will be donated to London Trans+ Pride. This premiere screening will be introduced by Nyongbella (Drag Race UK, S7). After the screening, there will be a live-streamed Q&A with Oriel Pe'er. Drag Race star Peppermint takes centre stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing he...
Drag Race star Peppermint takes centre stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing her story alongside a close network of trans individuals, one of the world's favourite drag performers takes you inside her rise from humble beginnings to her current reign as outspoken trailblazer for the trans community.
Jack has been married to Maggie for over half his life. He works as a Hand Raker on the mussel beds in North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan's three sons. Jack has always assumed that his own boy, Tom, will join the family business on leaving school but Tom's resistance to follow in his footsteps creates familial tension. Tensions are further inflamed by the arrival of an iti...
Headlining our Trans+ Pride Week. 10% of ticket sales will be donated to London Trans+ Pride. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and d...
London Trans+ Pride: A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
Sat 25 Jul
Trans+ individuals can get half price tickets (£6) for this screening. Drag Race star Peppermint takes centRE stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing her story alongside a close network of trans individuals, one of the world’s favorite drag performers takes you inside her rise from humble beginnings to her current reign a...
Part of our Summer Lovin' season of feel-good musicals. A young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.
Part of our Trans+ Pride Week. 10% of ticket sales will be donated to London Trans+ Pride. Trans+ individuals can get half price tickets (£6) for this screening. In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called 'Kitten' leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Trans+ individuals can get half price tickets (£6) for this screening. A beloved musician transitions and risks everything - including his voice - to live authentically as Dylan Holloway.
London Trans+ Pride Afterglow: A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint
Sun 26 Jul
Trans+ individuals can get half price tickets (£6) for this screening. Drag Race star Peppermint takes centRE stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing her story alongside a close network of trans individuals, one of the world’s favorite drag performers takes you inside her rise from humble beginnings to her current reign a...
Trans+ individuals can get half price tickets (£6) for this screening. Two young women form a romantic bond after discovering they have supernatural powers. Their insecurities unknowingly release a demon, which possesses one of their exes and begins feeding on their friends. As the bodies pile up, it becomes up to the women to face their pasts and stop the growing evil.
London Trans+ Pride Afterglow: Tomorrow's Too Late
Sun 26 Jul
Trans+ individuals can get half price tickets (£6) for this screening. A beloved musician transitions and risks everything - including his voice - to live authentically as Dylan Holloway.
Closing our Trans+ Pride Week. This screening is courtesy of Netflix. This is a 'Choose What You Pay' screening. Pick the price tier that best suits you. When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self. We are hosting Trans+ Pride Week to commemorate London Trans+ Pride on Saturday 25th July...
This screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Dylan Holloway. A beloved musician transitions and risks everything - including his voice - to live authentically as Dylan Holloway.
Part of our Summer Lovin' season of feel-good musicals. Starring Dolly Parton. When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel The Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.