{"title": "Edward Said: Between Worlds", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["history/middle-east/israel-palestine/palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary film about Edward Said, followed by a question-and-answer session. Twenty years after his death, it lets the Palestinian-American scholar recount his life and the untold history of Palestine in his own words. Made with full access to the Said family and estate, it draws on unseen family archives, home movies, recordings, interviews, lectures and rare television appearances. Spanning seven decades from his childhood in Jerusalem through exile to his final years in New York, it traces his political awakening, personal struggles and lifelong search for home and belonging, while asking who has the right to tell their own story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/edward-said-between-worlds-36651/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/edward-said-between-worlds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b4b3b2d9b344880fbe44322e818f4f53cecb0bd8f48f6aab4b7dc3a3164721-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Edward Said: Between Worlds", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "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", "society/politics"], "description": "Edward Said: Between Worlds is a documentary film about the Palestinian-American scholar, intellectual, musician and activist Edward Said, followed by a Q&A with director Maiken Baird. Made with full access to the Said family and estate, it draws on unseen family archives, home movies, recordings, interviews, lectures and rare television appearances. Spanning seven decades from his childhood in Jerusalem through exile and his final years in New York, it traces his political awakening, personal struggles and lifelong search for home and belonging. Through his own voice and rare archives, it asks who has the right to tell their own story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/edward-said-between-worlds-90539/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/edward-said-between-worlds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b4b3b2d9b344880fbe44322e818f4f53cecb0bd8f48f6aab4b7dc3a3164721-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Partition + The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A double bill of films from the London Palestine Film Festival 2026, screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, followed by a screen talk. The session brings together Partition, directed by Diana Allan, and The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, directed by Theo Panagopoulos. Partition weaves found footage from the British occupation of Palestine together with audio recorded with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, recentering Palestinian voices and tracing continuities between the colonial past and the unstable present. The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing follows a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland who unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers and decides to reclaim the footage, questioning image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/partition-the-flowers-stand-silently-witnessing-74157/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lpff-2026-partition-the-flowers-stand-silently-witnessing-screentalk", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34c0a22c9dccfa9dcdcf3aea10a8b37cd2cd775db403dcbf44c347d2736d704f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "One In A Million", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "One In A Million is a documentary following Israa from her childhood in Syria to her new life in Germany, filmed over ten years. Co-directed by Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes, it chronicles her family's flight across the Aegean Sea and her coming of age in exile. The film explores war, identity and belonging, asking what it truly means to call a place home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/one-in-a-million-49603/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/one-in-a-million/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/38b42f87949c331d7717e97e9a2fa4bdf189eadc3225602796061e4a030503e3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Who Killed Alex Odeh?", "start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/politics"], "description": "The screening of \"Who Killed Alex Odeh?\" is part of the London Palestine Film Festival 2026. The documentary, directed by Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans, follows the unsolved 1985 killing of Palestinian American teacher and community leader Alex Odeh by a bomb in his California office. It tracks a renewed investigation in real time, weaving archival footage, firsthand testimony and new reporting to expose the networks behind the attack. The film is both a cold-case pursuit and an examination of political violence and unresolved justice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/who-killed-alex-odeh-74152/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lpff-2026-who-killed-alex-odeh", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f6efa64a2d662eb706d7dd0dc4beb96ea8eeca10745195b3449c04d4a0273ad0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": ""}]}