{"title": "Caméra d’Afrique", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7092062.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Caméra d’Afrique is a landmark documentary history of African cinema. Made by Férid Boughedir, it traces the rise of African filmmaking after independence, following a generation of directors who challenged colonial images of the continent and told their own stories. Through archival footage, film excerpts and interviews with pioneering directors, it charts the movement's political and social struggles and its search for new cinematic voices and forms. 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At once a cinematic history and a passionate defence of politically engaged filmmaking, it remains an essential document of the emergence of modern Arab cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/camera-arabe-36646/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/camera-arabe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/071aeebb8210ffc28a25100021f119d716b13644b373e4e0ec9e30a3abd4e107-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Film Africa 2026", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/africa", "film"], "description": "Film Africa 2026 is a festival of African cinema taking place across London, opening and closing at BFI Southbank. It is run by the Royal African Society and returns from 23 October to 1 November 2026. The programme brings together new voices, established filmmakers and essential works from across Africa and its diasporas, spanning features, documentaries, shorts, retrospectives and conversations. Highlights include a special screening and conversation honouring Tunisian filmmaker Férid Boughedir, whose documentaries Caméra d'Afrique and Caméra Arabe are landmark works on African and Arab cinemas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-africa-2026-74233/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e08461265938bcfe1b85ae17682528e1ec42c84bdc12594b74e6547e8cebeaa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Film Africa 2026", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film/festival"], "description": "Film Africa 2026 is the Royal African Society's annual celebration of African cinema, running in London from 23 October to 1 November 2026. The festival brings together new voices, established filmmakers and essential works from across Africa and its diasporas. 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The film goes into the daily life of the Brigade Sarbati Orchestra, one of the great orchestras of the current generation in Kinshasa, with nearly thirty artists. Through studio work, rehearsals and concerts, it offers portraits of Congolese rumba as an essay on the meaning of self and rootedness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rumba-rules-new-genealogies-60635/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/event/screening-rumba-rules-new-genealogies-2020/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/476aebbf9550c0061b29d48b3e955f9ea92987106b28623ab50cdec024a32d85-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + Panel Discussion", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ica.art/films/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction/essay", "film"], "description": "A book launch and panel discussion celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture. The panel brings together Erika Balsom, Lola Lemke, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Jonathan Romney. The book argues that film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art and documentary meets experimentalism. In response, the panelists will discuss key transformations and tendencies in the last quarter-century of vanguard filmmaking.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion-36635/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64099e2d8d7358083cb0e233031a3e0857335b34b6bf1c2f04bf62dc8707fc64-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + little boy", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film", "literature"], "description": "An evening celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's book 'The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture', paired with the London premiere of James Benning's film 'little boy'. Balsom's essay collection argues that film culture thrives on the margins, from visual art and documentary to experimental and repertory cinema. Benning, an artist and filmmaker central to the book, uses popular songs, political speeches and architectural models to traverse decades of U.S. history. The film, winner of the grand prize at Paris's Cinéma du Réel festival, looks at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-little-boy-36634/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/defc09f0ffe6ab0a447c8313f8c817c5aea0017073c0563e1ac5a5ecaab3940e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tracing Posterity: Screening and Scanning Social", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211966891?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history"], "description": "An evening of short films and archival footage followed by a communal scanning and sharing workshop. Curated by Abel Holsborough, it reflects on the representation of Black British histories in film archives and how selective memories are preserved. Led by and centring Black residents of Barking and Dagenham, it marks Black History Month and invites visitors to bring family photos, DVDs and tapes to be digitised for a borough-wide community archive. The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.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": "Making Marie Antoinette", "start": "2026-10-31T15:45:00Z", "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/documentary"], "description": "Making Marie Antoinette is a documentary built from eighty hours of footage shot in 2005 by Eleanor Coppola while she watched her daughter Sofia direct Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles, the first production ever granted access there. Eleanor Coppola filmed the landmark production, Milena Canonero's costume work, and what it took for Sofia to direct at 34 under her mother's gaze. The footage went unseen for two decades, until, in fulfillment of her mother's wish, it became a film of its own, released as a tribute from Sofia and Roman Coppola. It works both as a behind-the-scenes look at an ambitious take on 18th-century French history and as a touching mother's observation of her daughter at work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/making-marie-antoinette-39220/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/making-marie-antoinette/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d7921a01335dc041edfa908aed9d16b22ac11c98e49c9e6c001d2d9426adeaa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "CFF Shorts: Love That Remains", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "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/short-film"], "description": "A shorts programme in which love rarely disappears entirely - it simply changes shape, from sisters to fractured marriages. It is presented by the Cambridge Film Trust, a registered charity widening access to cinema and supporting emerging talent. The programme comprises Dado directed by Milena Mendonça Décourt, One Last Night directed by Michael Guillod, To Catch A Siren directed by Raphaela Wagner, Grappling Grace directed by Alexander Kiehl and Misha Novak, CURA SANA directed by Lucía G. Romero, and The Harvest directed by Alice D'Hauwe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cff-shorts-love-that-remains-37775/", "official_url": "https://console.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018701/cff-shorts-love-that-remains/0000000029?filter=", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ceabe29c32402fd65d200126fb0c53548e4deab835c48762a89c5070749eaae0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sanlé Sory: Colour Years", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "In-person + £2 donation: £14 (Concs: £11 / Art Pass: £8). Online + £2 donation: £12 (Concs: £9.50 / ", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173692530/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society/africa"], "description": "Sanlé Sory: Colour Years is an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery showing the rarely seen colour photographs of Burkinabé photographer Sanlé Sory for the first time in the UK. Sory, one of West Africa's most prolific photographers, began making colour portraits in his Volta Photo studio in the mid-1980s after becoming known for his black-and-white studio and nightlife pictures. The meticulously restored colour prints capture daily life, youth culture, music and fashion in Burkina Faso across decades of political shifts, alongside Volta Jazz record covers featuring his portraits. Curated by Taous Dahmani and produced by The Photographers' Gallery, the show is drawn from the Sanlé Sory Archive.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sanle-sory-colour-years-39556/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ee4edb06bfaef7afc39933e7ea5f6651986207ce20889ff8675e5eb20f65a5a1-1200.webp"}]}