{"title": "All of a Sudden", "start": "2026-11-21T10:20:00Z", "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"], "description": "A drama about Marie-Lou, director of an elderly care facility, who champions a care philosophy built on listening and residents' dignity despite resistance from part of her staff. Her meeting with Mari, a Japanese theatre director battling cancer, deeply reshapes her path. The two women form a deep bond of attention and support, joining forces to 'make the impossible possible.' Ryusuke Hamaguchi directs, with Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, jointly awarded Best Actress at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-of-a-sudden-74218/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/all-of-a-sudden/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b84607947817248ea128faa04dea8fb0b143e9ee34ac6d940e1277c976a1ee60-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T10:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "A Place for Her", "start": "2026-11-19T17:40:00Z", "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", "society/women"], "description": "A Place for Her is a French film about a team at a women's shelter, the Maison des femmes, where care, listening and solidarity help women who have suffered violence rebuild their lives. Workers such as Diane, Manon, Inès and Awa welcome and support the women together, pooling their strengths, vulnerabilities and convictions. Directed by Mélisa Godet, the film celebrates solidarity and resilience, and stars Karin Viard, Laetitia Dosch, Oulaya Amamra and Eye Haidara.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-place-for-her-36653/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-place-for-her/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4dd7d02547048cfeda429df760afcffaf2d632eb12d4ea46424a793f5505a295-2000.webp"}, {"title": "To Have (or Not)", "start": "2026-11-21T20:35:00Z", "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/romance"], "description": "A 1995 French film in which Alice, after losing her job, leaves her native North for Lyon and meets Bruno, a construction worker. Laetitia Masson directed it and crafts a superb portrait of a woman, blending lightness and gravity with infectious energy embodied by Sandrine Kiberlain, who stars alongside Arnaud Giovaninetti and Roschdy Zem. Made through spontaneous long takes, the film marries charm, delicacy, and romance with profound authenticity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/to-have-or-not-74222/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/to-have-or-not/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0cea3372b3c985a2478a4a99e3681a7baf93ea644bcc957e3b2302f39361cf90-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Womans Life", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "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"], "description": "A Woman's Life is a French-language drama about Gabrielle, a surgeon and hospital department head who juggles her demanding profession with a loving husband and a mother needing her care, until a novelist researching a book in her department shakes her equilibrium. It was directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet and stars Léa Drucker, Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto and Marie-Christine Barrault. Drucker, a two-time César winner, delivers a superb performance in this finely textured character study of high-powered, middle-aged femininity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-womans-life-36652/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-womans-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/38e963f8faeffbf9d1d38b5bf2b0cc3ffa6fee7222ab959751ea59c96cc6dbee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness", "start": "2026-11-20T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T20:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness\", a tense drama in which Maryam, a 22-year-old woman who accidentally killed her 65-year-old husband and was sentenced to death, can only be saved if his daughter Mona publicly forgives her live on a hugely popular television show, forcing the two women to relive the past under the studio lights. It was made by Iranian director Massoud Bakhshi, who won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance in 2020. The screening also launches Jacques Bidou's memoir \"Once Upon a Time in Production\", translated into English by Holly Aylett, about producing the film; Bidou, founder of JBA Production, will introduce the film and afterwards discuss the craft and politics of producing world cinema with Holly Aylett.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/yalda-a-night-for-forgiveness-80565/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67393/yalda-a-night-for-forgiveness-massoud-bakhshi-iran-2019", "image": ""}, {"title": "Flesh and Fuel", "start": "2026-11-20T18:30:00Z", "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"], "description": "A film screening of \"Flesh and Fuel\". It is directed by Pierre Le Gall and awarded the Queer Palm Revelation Award at Cannes, telling of Étienne, a lorry driver whose life on the road leaves him only fleeting encounters, until meeting Polish driver Bartosz turns his loneliness upside down. Alexis Manenti and Julian Świeżewski star in this original, moving and often funny film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flesh-and-fuel-74213/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/flesh-and-fuel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aecc162cf273d5a2f20b2840c2ca3677e44a0d55783dfddf9dbe050588866bdf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Possible Love", "start": "2026-11-10T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Possible Love is a South Korean drama about two married couples whose lives become entangled after a funeral brings them together. Mi-ok, living quietly with her laid-off husband, agrees to be filmed by documentary maker Ye-ji and finds herself drawn to Ye-ji's unreadable husband Sang-woo, as fractures appear in their daily existence. It marks director Lee Chang-dong's first release in eight years, with Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong and Zo In-sung starring. The film is presented in Korean with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/possible-love-34775/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/possible-love/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6617a938fb605474e2ebf6f733330626bac1ef3d12d3edc6ccaa0d7062fc460d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thanks for Coming", "start": "2026-11-21T16:00:00Z", "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/documentary"], "description": "A documentary film by Alain Cavalier, premiered at the 2026 Directors Fortnight in Cannes, which invites audiences into the filmmaker's private world, where everyday encounters and filmic reflections become occasions for celebration. Moving between personal diary, documentary and philosophical reflection, it explores time, creativity and the inevitability of death, affirming the camera as both a witness to life and a means of preserving its most ephemeral moments. It celebrates the 95-year-young director as someone whose sense of curiosity and delight remains wonderfully intact. Cavalier appears in the film alongside Françoise Widhoff.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thanks-for-coming-74221/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/thanks-for-coming/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/897af3c41f123170cdc45841844fef33b8b7698b6b17a2fd387d62527c52feeb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ulysse", "start": "2026-11-21T18:00:00Z", "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/family-drama"], "description": "\"Ulysse\" is a French drama film about Alice, a sociologist who learns she is pregnant, and her son Ulysse, who is diagnosed with a genetic condition that leaves him smaller than other children. It follows the boy's singular odyssey to walk, speak, learn, understand and grow, with Alice determined he will find his place in the world. The film is directed by Laetitia Masson and stars Elodie Bouchez, Stanislas Merhar, Romane Bohringer and Gringe. The screening on 21 November is its UK premiere, followed by a Q&A with the director moderated by Linda Marric.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ulysse-36659/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/ulysse/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/279873119df6c5d81f4c2b5b50811add1d24de94449d591149e7aaccfa385b63-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Our Story", "start": "2026-11-11T18:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "A French romantic drama in which Alain Delon plays Robert, a man nearly ruined by his drinking who latches onto a stranger-on-a-train, played by Nathalie Baye, hoping for stability, with each of them unsure who can tell reality from fantasy. Bertrand Blier directed and paired the two beloved French stars in this unconventional tale. Delon won a César for his acting, Blier for the screenplay, and Baye's captivating performance as the mysterious Donatienne was widely praised for its mesmerising versatility.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-story-74176/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/our-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7430dcb3fbf2c7967e210085411bf9cb81a2223bd9311663c20712838fcddc98-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mad Dance Office", "start": "2026-11-11T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Mad Dance Office is a lively South Korean comedy that mixes the dramatic gestures of flamenco with the wobbly steps of a woman in mid-life crisis. Guk-hee, a district office director played by Yeom Hye-ran, has worked all her life without a break, but is passed over for promotion through a colleague's interference, sees her workload cut, and watches her daughter move out. When she visits a flamenco studio for work, she finds an unexpected refuge. Director Cho Hyn-jin shows that loosening a stiffened body and following the rhythm might open a window to a new possibility of life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mad-dance-office-74144/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-26-mad-dance-office", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bfdaed5cd2a699674de1f2d287cca2d83ee146cf1d075552e0a69bd6186db22-1200.webp"}, {"title": "French Film Festival London 2026", "start": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "The French Film Festival London 2026 is a fortnight of cinema with over 40 films and almost 100 screenings at Ciné Lumière. It is organised by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and explores the breadth of voices in French cinema, from emerging and established directors, through fiction, documentaries, animation and restored classics. The programme includes many UK premieres, films such as Minotaur, a new partnership with the Cinéma du réel festival, and guests including Sophie Marceau, Sandrine Kiberlain and Laetitia Masson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/french-film-festival-london-2026-74199/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-and-series/french-film-festival-london/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2839698898d8c15c543995a257435e5bdd74812cf1c6c2317fdd9f12553db86c-2000.webp"}]}