Over the last twenty years, since our inaugural season in 2005, the Wimbledon Film Club has partnered with a number of local and national organisations on special screenings. Here are some of the highlights.

Wimbledon Bookfest

The Wimbledon Bookfest was founded in 2006 by Fiona Razvi and Tony Kane, and has grown to become one of the UK’s leading literary festivals. Our first partnership screening was in 2007 with the film adaptation of A. S. Byatt’s Possession, which we were lucky enough to have the author herself introduce (she also introduced Angels and Insects in 2006, another adaptation of one of her novels).

Other highlights included a Q&A with Monica Ali on the film adaptation of her book Brick Lane, and a Q&A with broadcaster Francine Stock talking about Martin Scorcese’s adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence.

Recent partnerships with the Bookfest have included our screening of That They May Face the Rising Sun, an adaptation of John McGahern’s novel, which included a Q&A with Irish cinema expert Professor Lance Pettitt, and this season’s screening of Bright Star, Jane Campion’s film of John Keats’s romance with Fanny Brawne, which was inspired by Andrew Motion’s biography of the poet.

Professor Lance Pettitt and Fiona Razvi

Ukrainian Film Festival London

We have now partnered twice in recent years with the Ukrainian Institute London. In 2021 we showed Agnieszka Holland’s Mr. Jones, based on the true story of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones and his time in Ukraine in the 1930s, which featured a Q&A with Dr. Daria Mattingley of Cambridge University. And in 2023 we screened Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Pamfir, a taut thriller about smuggling that ironically had to be smuggled out of the country after the Russian invasion. Both films produced large audiences with many from the London Ukrainian community attending.

Dr. Daria Mattingley

Other Partners

Other organisations that we have partnered with on special one-off screenings have included: South London youth charity Free2B, with whom we screened Tomboy in 2022; the Merton Centre for Independent Living, with whom we screened Name Me Lawand in 2024; the Anglo-Swedish Society, with whom we screened the Ingmar Bergman classic Summer With Monika in 2025; and the Virginia Woolf Society, with whom we screened Sally Potter’s 1992 film of Orlando, also in 2025.

Ginas Vetesse and Charlet Wilson of the Merton Centre for Independent Living