Fifth Birthday Party: They Never Slept + Panel

Name: Fifth Birthday Party: They Never Slept + Panel
Genre: Drama
Released: 2026-07-14
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Cast: Edward Fox, Emily Morgan, James Fleet, Patricia Lawrence, François Chaumette

<div>Margy Kinmonth will host a Q&A prior to the film with theatre director Richard Eyre, actor James Fleet and the film's director Udayan Prasad. Guests are TBC due to filming commitments.</div><div><br></div><div><div>We're throwing a party to celebrate the cinema's fifth anniversary since opening and we'd love you to join us. We've handpicked four films to highlight what it is we do best. Tickets include a complimentary prosecco or juice, and there will be complimentary jazz from our house musicians; stalls from our sponsors and partners; and exciting announcements where you can be the first to find out what's coming up at the cinema later in the year.</div><div><br></div><div>The first 100 people to arrive will even get their hands on a treat-laden Chiswick Cinema tote bag.</div></div><div><br></div><div>About Margy Kinmonth:</div><div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">An award winning film director, writer and producer, her theatrical documentaries include “War Paint - Women at War” following female war artists in contemporary conflict zones. “Eric Ravilious - Drawn to War” tells the tragic story of official war artist killed on active service in WW2 (Foxtrot Films). Kinmonth </span>won the BAFTA Best Documentary Series for series “Naked Hollywood” (BBC). My authored film “ The Strange World of Barry Who?” (BBC) won Royal Television Society Best Arts Film Award. </div></div><div><br></div><div>About the film:</div>When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors, she is catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance. <div><br></div><div>About the season:</div><div>GRAY MATTERS: The Films of Simon Gray "It is a curious thing, being alive... It's like living in a room with a clock that ticks the wrong time, but there's no one around to tell you. The Chiswick Cinema are delighted to host this exclusive season celebrating the career of Simon Gray. </div><div><br></div><div> About SIMON GRAY: Simon Gray (1936 - 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, and novelist, best known for his deep and witty explorations of the human condition. His darkly comedic work often featured academic, middle-class characters caught in emotional or intellectual crisis, told with razor sharp dialogue. His ability to balance humour with existential despair has earned him a lasting place in theatre. His contemporary Harold Pinter, directed several of his plays. Gray wrote novels, screenplays and candid memoirs that reflected on his work, health, smoking and depression. His style has a dryly intelligent rigor, with brilliant wit, self-deprecation and philosophic honesty often going hand in hand. Disillusionment, achievement, and the despair in everyday entrapments are a throughline to the psychologically complex texts.</div>DramaPT1H15M182026-07-14

Edward Fox

Emily Morgan

James Fleet

Patricia Lawrence

François Chaumette

Elaine Ford

Maria Laborit

Alison Fielding

Maurice Risch

Harriet Walter

Pete Postlethwaite

Imelda Staunton