{"title": "A Man Vanishes", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A Man Vanishes is a film by Japanese director Shōhei Imamura, made in 1967. It begins as an investigative documentary into the mysterious disappearance of a Tokyo salesman named Ôshima. As Imamura, actor Tsuyuguchi Shigeru, and Ôshima's fiancé continue the search, their investigation is outpaced by the complexity of their subject, their own characters, and the film's restless invention. Through overlapping interviews sketching Ôshima's character and last days, Imamura builds a serpentine collage of facts, opinions and hearsay about how we present ourselves and how reality is constructed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-man-vanishes-74134/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-a-man-vanishes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96dcbd99ac377043db0a88cd9d79117c840dfb0bbce777313ec8efe35b8fa8d3-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Pornographers", "start": "2026-11-03T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of The Pornographers, Shohei Imamura's 1966 film about a small-time pornographer, occasional pimp and bootleg viagra salesman whose work revolves entirely around sex, until his own desires stray from his common-law wife to her teenage daughter. Almost every scene is viewed through a screen of some kind — a door frame, a window, even the water of a fish tank — as Imamura turns to the 'other Japan' of the lower classes and the lower half of the human body, subverting the family drama of his once boss Yasujirō Ozu in almost every way possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-pornographers-74124/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-the-pornographers", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a724b8de526cd697dbe780e37496bc84a7e67f423a18dc9fe78264aff716ac8-1200.webp"}, {"title": "History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/japan"], "description": "A screening of History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess, a documentary in which Madame Onboro recounts her life in bar lounge conversations with filmmaker Shōhei Imamura, who acts as an inquisitive interviewer. Her story is told mostly orally, juxtaposed and paralleled with the grand events and movements of Japanese society in the postwar years, accompanied at times by newsreel reportage. She guides viewers through raising children, running a business and searching for a suitable partner. As compelling as Imamura's best fictional portraits, the film shows his love for honest, unconventional and often unruly characters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/history-of-postwar-japan-as-told-by-a-bar-hostess-74145/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-bar-hostess", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Insect Woman", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film The Insect Woman, with an introduction by Irene González-López, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck College. Shōhei Imamura's film follows Tomé, a woman with an irrepressible will to survive whose life is defined by privation, lust and tragedy, sweeping through the underbelly of twentieth-century Japan from rural fields in 1918 to the factories and brothels of 1950s Tokyo. An unsparing, elliptical epic of generational poverty and abuse, anchored by an astonishing performance from Sachiko Hidari and praised for its immaculate deep focus staging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-insect-woman-74122/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-the-insect-woman", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a34f5c925efd12e03a09b2041ed17ff78dab073cde9db3e05003e4d342895f37-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Profound Desires of the Gods", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Profound Desires of the Gods (神々の深き欲望) is Shōhei Imamura's final fiction film for almost a decade, shown in a screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Set on the fictional island of Kurage, said to have been forged by discarded objects thrown by incestuous brother and sister gods, it follows the outcast Futori family and Kariya, a Tokyo engineer sent to oversee the opening of a sugar manufacturing facility. Beneath the island's paradisiacal surface of lush forests and turquoise seas, Kariya discovers deep-rooted superstitions, privation and duplicities, and over the months he is slowly drawn into the Futori family's way of life. Tracing Japan's evolution from the agrarian to the industrial, the primitive to the modern, the film examines the entire strata of a society while insisting that our foundations remain as desirous and ritualistic as ever.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/profound-desires-of-the-gods-74140/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-profound-desires-of-the-gods", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc5f2e82a69b5bebd3f0b42681d78f574662e3665b7eaefa0a396d93bfea69a6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["dance/butoh", "film/experimental"], "description": "A special screening of the film Mr. O's Book of the Dead, followed by a Q&A with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who is visiting from Japan and will share her experience of working on the film 50 years ago. The event is presented by Rebellious Bodies Festival and NPO Dance Archive Network. The film is the final instalment in an experimental trilogy by documentary filmmaker Chiaki Nagano and pioneering butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and features 'Mr. O' (Kazuo Ohno) and a troupe of his students, including Mitsuyo Uesugi. Shot in numerous places across Japan from Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido to Yokodai Pig Farm in Kanagawa, it is, in Nagano's words, 'about one of our deaths, and a starting point towards somewhere new'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-39248/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-qa-with-mitsuyo-uesugi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7d4343022e6a7c65b24e5cecd64cd689434c103473e06343b846d33c102757-600.webp"}, {"title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tzkrti.com/en/events/4873", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of two films: Jumana Manna's 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' and Kamal Aljafari's 'With Hasan in Gaza', shown as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World. LUX and Mosaic Rooms are collaborating on the event, organised by Filmlab Palestine for its 4th edition. 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' (2010, 21') sketches a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, manifested in gyms, barber shops and body parlours and inspired by Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising'. 'With Hasan in Gaza' (2025, 106') is a filmic journal of a journey the filmmaker made in 2001 from the north to the south of Gaza, searching for the man with whom he had spent seven months in an Israeli prison, capturing daily life amid moments of vibrancy and darker realities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-obliv-37113/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-oblivion-with-hasan-in-gaza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67c9f6fdfb102dda26d16327e9bb5f77f5a2f4d17578863558e396b6471bf114-600.webp"}, {"title": "In the Realm of the Senses", "start": "2026-11-02T15:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/psychological-drama"], "description": "A screening of the controversial 1976 Japanese psychological drama 'In the Realm of the Senses'. It is directed by Nagisa Oshima and stars Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima and Taiji Tonoyama. Set in 1936 and based on a true incident, it depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love amid escalating imperialism and governmental control. Still censored in its own country, it is described as less a work of pornography than of politics, a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-the-realm-of-the-senses-64014/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/25079278/in-the-realm-of-the-senses", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db6031f5b00f3e199a2e979c15c0fbef37cf73960dc89d1e46dda1a72f68566c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Watch Party: Vol. 1 Cinema Realité", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T21:00:00Z", "place": "Love Affair Basement", "address": "324 - 326 Hackney Road, E2 7AX, London, United Kingdom", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/watch-party/watch-party-episode-1-debra-in4k/2026-11-08/18:00/t-ejqorka", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Watch Party: Vol. 1 Cinema Realité is an evening of screenings with film-themed talks, set design, free popcorn and a raffle for a Criterion Collection DVD. The series is hosted by Debrain4k and celebrates cinema at the level of experience. It presents two short documentaries by Les Blank, Gap-Toothed Women (1980) and Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980), described as 'cinema realité', a style combining improvisation, close observation and almost no voice-over. The screenings are followed by three short talks from guest speakers and a social.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/watch-party-vol-1-cinema-realite-63579/", "official_url": "https://www.loveaffairbasement.co.uk/events/watch-party-vol-1-cinema-realit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b86e967200f6b2ed2e47b20561df9740cdc0a819c4a8dd25878c053476d8dbc1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "My Father and Qaddafi", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A documentary in which filmmaker Jihan retraces the disappearance of her father, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former Foreign Minister who vanished during a trip to Cairo in 1993 while living in exile as an opposition leader against Qaddafi's regime. Mixing personal and state archives with her own experiences and those of her family, she takes the audience on a raw, thought-provoking journey showing that the personal and the political cannot be separated. The film is directed by Jihan and lasts 88 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-father-and-qaddafi-37781/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/002/HO00018665/cff-my-father-and-qaddafi", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c18abc4fc8b82995d1e7f233e45ebccf5d606d54b64ff3bfa5a9e91167fe4186-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Night is Fading Away", "start": "2026-10-30T14:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The Night is Fading Away is a film from Argentina directed by Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas. It follows Pelu, a thirty-something projectionist at a cinema belonging to Cordoba's city hall who loses his job to budget cuts and ends up secretly living inside the building as its night watchman. There he forms a small after-hours community with three informal homeless parking attendants he lets sleep there and Vale, a former friend who records videos for her OnlyFans channel in the screening room. Their fragile community is threatened by the precarious economic conditions and a broader crisis that could shut the cinema down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-night-is-fading-away-74118/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/off-circuit-the-night-is-fading-away", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9af81971330eca93221993b09932832da282025333a1e555537e86dbc6af523-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "literature"], "description": "A 50th-anniversary screening of Alain Tanner's 1976 Swiss film, shown as part of centenary celebrations for the writer John Berger. Co-written by Berger with the late Swiss director Tanner, it follows a disparate group of nonconformists and radicals from Geneva who gather at a rural retreat to reflect on the aftermath of May 1968 and what the future might hold. It stars Roger Jendly, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau and Miou-Miou, and is introduced by Gareth Evans. The screening is part of nationwide celebrations marking what would have been Berger's 100th birthday.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000-39228/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/john-berger-at-100-jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9309e77e5f43ad8bde09d589ee37235b3330b0ad3c503402d168b211c5a6710c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "You Fuckers Figure It Out: A Jason Molina Story", "start": "2026-11-08T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/rock/indie/indie-rock", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening followed by an in-person Q&A with the director. 'You Fuckers Figure It Out: A Jason Molina Story', directed by Tommy Nickoloff, conjures the spirit of indie-rock icon Jason Molina (1973-2013) through Ohio insiders who illuminate his coming of age on Lake Erie and the creation of his legendary band Songs: Ohia. The film celebrates the contradictions of his raunchy humour, propensity to lie and refusal to interpret lyrics, weaving them into a haunting legacy unconfined by the record vault. The Ohio insiders trace how he escaped the indifference of an artless steel town, a story told through those who knew him best.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/you-fuckers-figure-it-out-a-jason-molina-story-74141/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-you-fuckers-figure-it-out-a-jason-molina-story-q-a", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0e5b26d6438001c5bf2635e7dab574fff7b9091f814db5392b8bad1eb7252b19-1200.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "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"}]}