{"title": "A Man of His Time", "start": "2026-11-19T14:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "A Man of His Time (original title: Notre Salut) is a film about Henri Marre, a 49-year-old engineer who arrives alone in Vichy in September 1940 as the Pétain regime settles in. Carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut, he seeks his rightful place in the new administration through active collaboration, driven by patriotic convictions and a methodology of efficiency above all. Zealously serving the machinery of the new order in the name of saving France after defeat, he tries at the same time to salvage his family relations. Directed by Emmanuel Marre and based on the life of the director's great-grandfather, the film stars Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke and Mathieu Perotto and won Best Screenplay at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-man-of-his-time-99322/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-man-of-his-time/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc9da672523c2d1e115724a44d38e819a0a31cc57e5a1981d3ea81dd1322dd69-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T14:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "De Gaulle: Liberté", "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Phoenix Cinema", "address": "52 High Rd, London N2 9PJ, UK", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "A screening of the film De Gaulle: Liberté, the follow-up to De Gaulle: Résistance. Directed by Antonin Baudry and starring Simon Abkarian, Benoit Magimel and Anamaria Vartolomei, it follows an unknown general who flees to London in June 1940 as France collapses and signs the armistice. Without an army or backing, he tries to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over nor lost, as resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers gradually rise up to join his cause.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/de-gaulle-liberte-37006/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10145432", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a93b77c4b6f3315804d64020ad32600b40f0571f7251658e2784d25bb2b9b32-2000.webp"}, {"title": "De Gaulle", "start": "2026-11-07T11:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/wwii"], "description": "A film about June 1940, when France collapses and signs the armistice and an unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom, seeking to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over nor lost. It was directed by Antonin Baudry and stars Simon Abkarian, Simon Russell Beale, Florian Lesieur, Anthony Calf, Stephen Campbell Moore and Tom Mison. Its original title is La Bataille de Gaulle: L’âge de fer. It carries a 15 certificate from the British Board of Film Classification.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/de-gaulle-41543/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/de-gaulle-resistance/", "image": ""}, {"title": "De Gaulle: Résistance", "start": "2026-11-09T13:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Phoenix Cinema", "address": "52 High Rd, London N2 9PJ, UK", "price": "", "price_from": "15.50", "price_to": "15.50", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "De Gaulle: Résistance is a film about June 1940, when France collapses and signs the armistice, and an unknown general flees to London to keep fighting for freedom. Alone, without an army or backing, he tries to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over nor lost. Little by little, resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers in England, France and Africa rise up to join his cause. Directed by Antonin Baudry, it stars Simon Abkarian, Simon Russell Beale, Florian Lesieur, Benoît Magimel and Loïc Corbery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/de-gaulle-resistance-37004/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10075090", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67a378f8f18fe5a31817aa0499651eb40bce662717e874cdd1f6912a73845701-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Coward", "start": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/war-film"], "description": "Coward (Les Braves) is a feature film screening preceded by a recorded introduction from its director. Lukas Dhont, the maker of Girl and Close, directs a story set as the First World War drags on. Pierre, a newly arrived soldier eager to prove himself, meets Francis behind the lines, who puts together a theatre show to lift his comrades' spirits; both men seek ways to escape the brutality of war. Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne were jointly awarded the Best Actor Palme at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/coward-36654/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/coward/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5add04e80e2eee34421eb078e5c6f6585df3f68a96ced30699b6d6728a3c3aa6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "À propos de Nice", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£20/£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century"], "description": "This is a film screening of À propos de Nice, followed by a talk about 20th-century life in the French Riviera. The film was directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman, and is a 1930 documentary offering a provocative portrait of Nice, capturing both the luxury of the carnival on the promenade and the poverty of the working-class neighbourhoods. After the screening, historian Richard Vinen, who has taught at King's College London since 1991 and specialises in modern France and Europe, will discuss the Riviera's two competing realities: the sun-soaked playground of artists and aristocrats and the poverty of everyday life in the shadow of war and the Great Depression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-propos-de-nice-38267/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/a-propos-de-nice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a3006449cabd31b550b19bf14afa16b30e5a9eef05e4564eacbbca5927618af3-600.webp"}, {"title": "Fatherland", "start": "2026-11-06T20:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "9.95", "price_to": "17.95", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Fatherland is a feature film about German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, who in 1949 embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. It is directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, the director of Ida and Cold War, and stars Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler. The film won a prize at Cannes 2026 and has earned five-star reviews from the Guardian, The Times, the Irish Times and Time Out. It runs 82 minutes and is rated 12A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fatherland-34646/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=492376", "image": "https://noky.io/images/129e1a92f82d4f204b3ed388b0f3c6d8af005072f3e8b476d54abc807c22c952-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Black Ball", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "ArtHouse Crouch End", "address": "Tottenham Lane 159A, N8 9BT London", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "13.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/europe"], "description": "A cinema screening of the film FATHERLAND. Pawlikowski's drama follows Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller), an actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter take an emotional road trip in a black Buick across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Returning after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann faces a divided fatherland and a deep fracture within his own family.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-black-ball-103753/", "official_url": "https://genesis.admit-one.co.uk/details/?eventCode=116637", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt, France 1940", "start": "2026-10-08T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "place": "Arcola Theatre", "address": "Ashwin Street 24, E8 3DL London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/historical-drama", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A world premiere play, 'THE BANALITY OF EVIL: HANNAH ARENDT, FRANCE, 1940', written and directed by Julia Pascal, presented by Arcola Theatre and Pascal Theatre Company. It follows Hannah Arendt, artist Charlotte Salomon and teenage Communist Eva Daube, three Jewish women interned in 1940 at Camp Gurs, the largest French internment camp near the Spanish border, from their arrest to their escape. Drawing on testimony, archival research and Arendt's own interviews, and weaving cabaret, physical theatre, satire and Brechtian theatricality, it uncovers the little-known story of thousands of refugees fleeing Hitler who were interned by the French state. The cast is led by Mai Weisz as Hannah Arendt, alongside Anna Eckhard as Charlotte Salomon and Ariella Barnett as Eva Daube, with Pat Dynowska as Trude, Helen Goldwyn as Agathe and Anja Fahlenkamp as musical composition & arrangement/ensemble.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-france-1940-59988/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30d6dd73c0956cb0fa15d0477009377c0385baa1242fc1548d8154af16be02a4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-15T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.webp"}]}