{"title": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "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": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026 returns to London this autumn for its 13th edition, bringing an exciting selection of music and arts documentaries to cinemas across the city. The festival is fiercely independent and rooted in a DIY spirit, celebrating the artists, outsiders, scenes and stories that shape music culture across genres, generations and musical movements from around the world. It began life in 2013 as the UK's Music & Arts Documentary Film Festival, an arts discovery fest championing outlier music, arts and subculture documentaries often ignored by risk-averse film programmers. 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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": "Muguruza FM 40 Tour", "start": "2026-11-07T20:40:00Z", "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", "music"], "description": "Four decades after first stepping onto a stage, Fermin Muguruza embarks on a large-scale tour, a collective journey celebrating 40 years of music, commitment, and cultural resistance. 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Highlights include the UK premiere of Who Killed Alex Odeh? and films revisiting Palestine's past and Gaza's hospitals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-palestine-film-festival-2026-36673/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b0213a935d7b0f773a3783b46c47fc3a619ce3304856bfbbe2b47ea31434ae2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In-Edit Cine-Documental", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "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/documentary", "society/disability", "music"], "description": "In her directorial debut, María Valverde follows Jennifer, Gabriel and José, three deaf musicians from Venezuela, as they take on a new challenge. The documentary film comes from Spain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-edit-cine-documental-39289/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/el-canto-de-las-manos-song-of-the-hands/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47fe66297a7979173f254a97f3e11759c69938ebd7fd0d457149c266407dda6b-600.webp"}, {"title": "Barbican Cinema Family Film Week 2026", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Barbican Cinemas", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://onecitylondon.com/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation", "occasion/half-term"], "description": "Barbican Cinema Family Film Week 2026 is a week of family-friendly film screenings, with various timings and days. It is the Barbican's annual celebration of cinematic discovery for young people, welcoming family audiences for a big screen experience during the October half term. The programme features new releases you may have missed, animations from around the world, much-loved classics, previews and shorts, with activities such as crafting, bookmark-making and collaging, plus quizzes and introductions from curators.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/barbican-cinema-family-film-week-2026-37593/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7592ee1ad7494e206a396c7fb1c7ef60f0c749bce32eeff25f62c81e9c9e2b5e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Before It Was Cool: The Brooklyn Beat From Lauterbach’s", "start": "2026-11-01T18:45:00Z", "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": ["music/rock/punk", "film/documentary"], "description": "Before It Was Cool is a documentary film followed by a Q&A. Filmmakers Michael West and Lia Komakhidze tell the story of Lauterbach's, an unassuming Brooklyn dive bar of the early 1980s that became the birthplace of a musical movement known as \"The Brooklyn Beat.\" Through intimate interviews, archival footage and animation, the film uncovers this overlooked chapter of New York music history and a community of punk, indie and alternative musicians who turned competition into collaboration. When the bar suddenly closed its community scattered, but the film celebrates this pre-gentrification Brooklyn and its enduring influence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-39226/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/before-it-was-cool-the-brooklyn-beat-from-lauterbachs-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/18cb4ceff5d8aaea143fe2b02f87854c90c61b8b4a4c230267993efb14338a8a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Oscillations: live scored film night", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "From £11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/knotsnoise/2392847/r/website", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "music/experimental"], "description": "Oscillations: live scored film night is an evening of short films shown with live musical scores at ANNEX. Curators a nightingale, withgauze and Noelle Radzewicz will perform to short films submitted to Knots' ongoing open call, which invites works of up to 15 minutes on collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots' noise nights invite artists to encounter one another through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, an ethos from which the Oscillations exhibition stems. One ticket covers three days of launch events, panels, workshops and performances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oscillations-live-scored-film-night-70584/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/oscillations-live-scored-film-night-annex-the-koppel-project-7-november", "image": "https://noky.io/images/76b1e8a1ff2f1110433245f0b1a82a1178efa620ff8d89a7f68686058485b30e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Pitchfork London 2026", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "MOTH Club", "address": "Valette Street 83, E9 6NU London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["music/rock/indie"], "description": "Pitchfork London 2026 is a seven-day music festival running across London venues from 2 to 8 November 2026. It is put on by the Pitchfork music festival, whose programme brings a varied line-up of independent, experimental and electronic artists to stages around the city. Among the acts announced for this edition are Tortoise, Bill Orcutt, The Radio Dept., Aja Monet and Keiyaa, playing alongside many more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pitchfork-london-2026-61391/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f4683987d0a5a137b9202d156aa7ed2d760e148bab9737208f25b8f6a785b8a-600.webp"}]}