{"title": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "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/science-fiction"], "description": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film is a film programme inspired by the pioneering science fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers, who reigned over Soviet science fiction for more than three decades. Pushkin House and Klassiki present the series, running from 6 to 13 November with four screenings and a live discussion at Pushkin House. It explores how renowned Soviet and Russian filmmakers, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Sokurov, and Aleksei German, drew on the Strugatskys as they explored the slow collapse of twentieth-century utopia. The programme presents acclaimed screen adaptations including Stalker, Days of Eclipse, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, and Hard to Be a God, with screenings split between the Garden Cinema and the ICA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/after-utopia-the-strugatsky-brothers-on-film-39292/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/festival/after-utopia-the-strugatsky-brothers-on-film/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f7ca7fa4594a5eeb48e4d6790f4a2f1f96336e51e10b475fb4cd898380357f3-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Rediscovering the Strugatsky Brothers: A talk with Mark Bould and Adam Roberts", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "film/science-fiction"], "description": "A talk, held both in person and online, about the Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who dominated the genre for over three decades. It is co-presented by Pushkin House and Klassiki as a companion to the film season After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film, which screens four adaptations of their work. Science fiction experts Adam Roberts and Mark Bould will discuss what the brothers meant for readers and cinema audiences in their time and what their work tells us today, including its political, environmental and artistic implications. Samuel Goff, editorial director of Klassiki, chairs the conversation, which also features presentations and questions from the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rediscovering-the-strugatsky-brothers-a-talk-with-mark-bould-38091/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6559", "image": "https://noky.io/images/510ae9da50b1ad77b5e6f30ac43eb3834b8d6050dacb012dbb90551bdc9bd55a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Days of Eclipse", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00Z", "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 screening of the film Days of Eclipse. Aleksandr Sokurov adapts the Strugatsky Brothers' 1977 novel One Billion Years to the Ends of the Earth: a young doctor posted to a remote Turkmen town in the dying days of the Soviet experiment finds his research into religious faith and medicine confounded by mysterious encounters and ill omens. Switching between sepia and colour, documentary footage and invention, the film paints an oblique portrait of the end of Soviet empire, with a remarkable lead performance from Aleksei Ananishnov.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/days-of-eclipse-39241/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/days-of-eclipse/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/842a82f64d97bc57a21d1d42d462a735c40f2fc051e2dd35e4d40dac898cf7c4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Stalker", "start": "2026-11-07T19:45:00Z", "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/science-fiction"], "description": "A screening of the film Stalker, made by Andrei Tarkovsky, presented in person. No further story details are given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stalker-38089/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/stalker/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/206c83a45d15b1d29c1e389562db2fb6989969dcd8cfe17f05c80d8acb3d31f0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mirror", "start": "2026-10-30T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T22:00:00Z", "place": "Flicks Film Posters", "address": "Church Street 41, Twickenham", "price": "£12.00", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A screening of Mirror, a 1975 film by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is presented as a masterpiece of Russian cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mirror-36118/", "official_url": "https://www.flicksfilmposters.com/event-details/flicks-film-club-mirror-1975", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2b8a604269d504ccd2b37105572a4aeb477fcd43a2f743c02a155c292d940e1f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "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/science-fiction/dystopian"], "description": "Chester Film Society presents a screening of the feature film Resurrection, made up with Picturehouse as part of a diverse programme of world cinema. In a future where humanity has traded its ability to dream for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), it conjures vast, ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. The cast also includes Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue and Chen Yongzhong.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/resurrection-37898/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018203/cfs-resurrection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f0c814ca4adf71d9c1bbb8a00795a309d4e1b0530e9ddfd45c2bbb9d95baee6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dead Souls", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "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/western"], "description": "A screening of the film Dead Souls, followed by a live question-and-answer session with its director Alex Cox. Cox, director of Repo Man and Straight to Hell, stars as the drifter Strindler, who wanders the West offering to pay for the names of dead Mexican labourers, in a loose adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's novel. A meditative Western mixing picaresque humour and dark satire, with cowherds, outlaws and pistol duels, made with co-writer and Spaghetti Western legend Gianni Garko.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dead-souls-64045/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617548/dead-souls-alex-cox-qa", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cbc2cee6e86b67f5fcad20ce5c75642ae4888fbf7313e0ba9b0bc3ba2d351cc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Gagarine", "start": "2026-11-12T10:35:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£13/pupil & free for teachers", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society"], "description": "The film follows Yuri, a boy who lives in Cité Gagarine, a vast housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris opened in the 1960s by the Russian cosmonaut after whom both the building and the boy are named. Now in disrepair, the building is to be torn down, but it still hosts residents unhappy at having to leave. Yuri figures out a way to stay beyond the council-mandated evacuation order and creates his own orbital spacecraft within it. It is the mesmerising debut of directors Fanny Liatard and Jeremy Trouilh, a poetic rather than angry view of estates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gagarine-74189/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/banlieue-multiculturelle-francaise-life-in-banlieues-interactive-workshop-screening-of-gagarine/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97754ca9c5f7a645c99e4a3f43331481023d245c262515f5972c7a089e5f0dc0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rab-Rab, Three Men in a Tub (of Publishing Avant-Garde Literature)", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry"], "description": "An evening book talk, held both in person and online, devoted to the avant-garde literature published by Rab-Rab Press. It brings together Sezgin Boynik, founder of the Helsinki-based press, poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky, and artist and curator Nikolay Karabinovych, moderated by Isabel Jacobs. They will discuss the eight-volume bie-bao series on the Futurist poet and typographic artist Iliazd, and the new publication of Shop-Signs in Kharkiv by the 1920s Ukrainian modernist Maik Yohansen. Topics range from Futurism to language politics, poetry to typography, alongside other titles such as a new translation of Varlam Shalamov's The Twenties.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rab-rab-three-men-in-a-tub-of-publishing-avant-garde-literat-64276/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6658", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5b0786d8cb77c96da1cbca758175a460df1a309a4b557d97cc6b463c84a5a47-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-1-impossible-cinema-6accbcefd1712e4ba1f9f180", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. The screening is preceded by an introduction by Phoebe Campion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema-38494/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0d52d340eb24cdf1daf377adfd3c4c0364e714a0f5dad6304923ea7caea6e28-2000.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"}]}