{"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. 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Its 2026 edition runs across 11 venues with over 27 screenings, from UK premieres and Oscar-nominated titles to archival footage and retrospective screenings. The programme creates a vital space to showcase the richness of Palestinian life through lived experiences and everyday realities. 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": "SET Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£5 - £9", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/welcome", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "SET Film Festival is an independent, grassroots platform for contemporary, artist and archival film, returning to SET Social in Peckham for its fourth edition across a month of screenings and events. It was founded in 2023 and curated this year by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe with the wider SET FF26 team. The programme brings together four themed short film nights, a feature-length screening, a free evening of archival film and performance, a first online screening and an inaugural awards night, with selected screenings followed by Q&As with filmmakers. 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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. The Garden Cinema screens festival films in partnership with Doc'n Roll, whose mission is discovering, exhibiting and championing compelling music documentaries and the performers, labels, scenes and stories they celebrate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/docn-roll-film-festival-2026-39290/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/festival/docn-roll-film-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7e85366a62cf3f3acb3f2961bde09a1f3d5921b4d28e74103340646b357ddfe-600.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-1-impossible-cinema-6accbcefd1712e4ba1f9f180", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. 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": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #2: Plot Twist", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-2-plot-twist-6accd3e1d381044fbb229904", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "comedy"], "description": "An evening of five short films exploring the surreal, the silly and the unexpected, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Ellie Dobbs. It is Night #2: Plot Twist of SET Film Festival 2026, an independent, grassroots festival for contemporary, artist and archival film run by London-based arts organisation SET. The films play with performance and improvisation, finding humour where the plot unravels and nothing goes to plan: a cigarette-break reverie, best friends on a shoplifting spree, a fishing trip-cum-stag do, a conversation in bed and an extra in a replica of the American Museum of Natural History. The festival was founded in 2023 and is curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist-38497/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aaa63208465b67b4e2d2096ddd2499cbcc0ff1f7fa15c3fcb16a5feecd554a53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Caméra arabe", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "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_7092060.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Caméra arabe is a documentary tracing the emergence of a new Arab cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, when filmmakers began using cinema to confront the political, social and cultural transformations of the Arab world. Directed by Férid Boughedir, it features interviews with leading directors including Youssef Chahine, Jocelyne Saab, Nouri Bouzid, Merzak Allouache and Michel Khleifi, alongside vivid extracts from their films. From the aftermath of the Six-Day War to the Lebanese Civil War, it shows how major historical events shaped filmmakers determined to challenge conventional representations. 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": "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": "Women and the World Festival: British Shorts (Block 1) + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_605.TcsWebTab_606", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/women"], "description": "A festival screening of British short films, followed by an in-person Q&A with cast members David Gyasi and Nathalie Emmanuel of Sycoraxe, moderated by Ksenia Bugrimova. 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