{"title": "De Gaulle", "start": "2026-10-30T17:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7159229.TcsSection_3841519", "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. 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Directed by Antonin Baudry, it follows his struggle to convince the world that the battle for France is not lost, as resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers gradually rise up to join his cause. 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In the afternoon pupils watch Les Enfants de la Resistance, Christophe Barratier's 2025 film with Gérard Jugnot, Artus and Lucas Hector, in which three brave children resist the Nazis in the heart of France during the German occupation in World War II.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-book-to-screen-74183/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/from-book-to-screen-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/05913a05b0404bdc39f75d9e360886c44f67154f3ab32f5cc3cab4046cf46c9f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Pressure", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "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/drama/historical-drama", "history/wwii"], "description": "Pressure is a film about the tense 72 hours before D-Day, when General Dwight D. 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It was directed by Xavier Dolan and stars Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard and Léa Seydoux, with Baye giving a deeply affecting performance as a heartbroken mother. 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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/2026-the-banality-of-evil-hannah-arendt-france-1940-59988/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30d6dd73c0956cb0fa15d0477009377c0385baa1242fc1548d8154af16be02a4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Fatherland", "start": "2026-10-23T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T17:00:00Z", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": "9.95", "price_to": "17.95", "tickets_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_797099.TcsSection_846", "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. 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Their conversation centres on O'Sullivan's 2009 film Into the Storm, with Brendan Gleeson's Emmy Award-winning portrayal of Churchill as wartime leader, politician and devoted amateur painter. The talk examines the public and private character of Britain's most famous wartime prime minister and the challenges of portraying such an iconic figure on screen. 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It was put on by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, screening at Ciné Lumière. Over a career of almost 100 films, Baye was recognised for her ability to adapt to any role, playing characters from a continuity girl and an alcoholic police officer to a supermarket cashier and a French aristocrat in the second Downton Abbey film. The selection offers a glimpse of the variety of films she played in, from her break in François Truffaut's Day for Night to work with Godard, Spielberg and many female directors, within a limited choice of titles available with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nathalie-baye-a-hundred-lives-69906/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ed97aee540113d493dba887070025866180822b19c4d30b84b1545fa453b3a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Our Story", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6970736.TcsSection_6930861", "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"}]}