{"title": "Film Screening: South by South", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:45:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "film/documentary"], "description": "An evening screening of two films by Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir: the short 'Hairat', about a man in Harar who has bonded with hyenas for over thirty-five years, and 'Faya Dayi', a hypnotic blend of documentary and drama about the rituals and trade of the stimulant leaf Khat in Ethiopia. The films were programmed by A Month of Single Frames, a film collective led by Ufuoma Essi, Sam Williams and Tendai Mutambu dedicated to artists' moving image, with this event curated by South East London artist and filmmaker Ufuoma Essi. The screening contains depictions of drug use and addiction and themes of violence and political repression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-screening-south-by-south-38710/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/film-screening-south-by-south-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b6105be0573e1ff52b0093fc32daa13f70574dd0e2d7f0ec170bf29c492c44d-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:45:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Second Daughter: She Was Never One Body pt II", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Eastway Baths", "address": "80 Eastway, E9 5JH London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film-video", "film/short-film"], "description": "An art exhibition with a short film screening, presented by Second Daughter at Eastway Baths. The works and films explore the body as a collective swarm, with pieces by Karolina Ursala Urbaniak, Keyannah Isaacs, Lottie Stephens, Holly Lou Jones, Eleanor Cox, Georgia Scholes and Kai Thaís, and films including Cailleach, Uproot, Dancing with Broken Feet, Choir of Catharsis and Know That As I Hex You, I Hug You. Film curation is by Lucy Chappell and artwork curation by Holly Lou Jones and Noda Lichen. Second Daughter celebrates dark cinema, art and performance exploring women's stories, made by anyone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/second-daughter-she-was-never-one-body-pt-ii-60442/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b729ec8bc12fc075cd3fe063f334b03ee0f2cdcd811785077d4da46481f84c6c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "“Estate. A Reverie” Film Screenings & Talkaoke – part of Estate Talks", "start": "2026-11-14T15:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T18:30:00Z", "place": "Outside Haggerston Community Centre", "address": "8 Lovelace Street, London, E8 4FF", "price": "Free - Booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/housing"], "description": "The final event of the Estate Talks series brings film screenings and Talkaoke, a pop-up talk show by The People Speak, together at Haggerston Community Centre. It features the award-winning film 'Estate. A Reverie' (2015, 83 mins) by resident filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman, made with residents over seven years, interweaving intimate portraits, residents' historical re-enactments, landscape and architectural studies and dramatised scenes to ask how we might resist being framed exclusively through class, gender, ability or disability, and even through geography. Also screened is 'Taking over King's Land' (2014, 23 mins) by Gillian McIver, following Nazir Tanbouli as he battles weather, vandalism and lack of funds to create a massive mural installation across a condemned housing estate in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics. The evening includes a free-flowing conversation around the Talkaoke table, with refreshments provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/estate-a-reverie-film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-tal-39535/", "official_url": "https://thepeoplespeak.org.uk/event/film-screenings-talkaoke-part-of-estate-talks/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ed5d15bcca3ae42ca1b5995bfc0f6e8dfd00147cc3502068b60943d1b51d117-2000.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", "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": "'RAFT' & The Parlour Collective & 'The Moon Over The Alley'", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10 standard, £15 solidarity", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/musical"], "description": "An evening triple bill of films celebrating the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on London and its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries. It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Native Spirit Film Festival: Gods & Devils: Postindian Survivance", "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A shorts programme of films celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers, with a director Q&A. Kalaallisut artist Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller presents his Super 8 visual poetry, followed by nine Turtle Island films including a Louis Riel historical drama, animated spray-painted murals, Naskapi vampirism, and Cree astronomer 'Wilfred Buck's Star Stories'. Native Spirit is the UK's first and longest-running independent film festival promoting Native filmmakers, artists, narrative and visual sovereignty, and languages worldwide, founded by Mapuche leader Freddy Trequil. Some films contain themes of colonial violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/native-spirit-film-festival-gods-devils-postindian-survivanc-80664/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d5f670e6751ecfe98f0767dd4701f6639d05735fc78719482fabcece9275379-2000.webp"}, {"title": "This Is Not a Burial, Its a Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-18T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019), preceded by an introduction. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's film explores grief, resistance, and the fight to preserve ancestral land in Lesotho: Mantoa, an 80-year-old widow preparing for her own funeral, sees her village face forced resettlement for a dam, and becomes a symbol of resistance, mobilising her community to fight for their land and heritage. The film will be introduced by Misa Mlambo, a South African creative producer and filmmaker based in London. The screening is curated by Meliza George as part of 'Whose Land? Whose Lens?', a season of works from the global south presented with the National Film and Television's Film Studies, Curation and Programming MA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/this-is-not-a-burial-its-a-resurrection-69840/", "official_url": "https://genesis.admit-one.co.uk/details/?eventCode=114461", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75fe60d09f77bc664f4fc7ea5ce0106576785fc994035639d0f23d20c83abcce-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mundurukuyu – The Forest of the Fish Women", "start": "2026-11-15T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "society/indigenous"], "description": "An afternoon event from the Native Spirit Film Festival, guest-curated by Zain Gibson, combining short experimental films with a writing activation and a feature screening. It gathers up to 40 minutes of experimental shorts by Indigenous filmmakers exploring ancestry and identity, introduced before the audience takes part in a writing response. These shorts come from Brazil, Colombia, Canada and Greenland, and look at how their makers maintain traditions, practices and belief systems looking to the future. They are followed by the feature film MUNDURUKUYÜ – The Forest Of The Fish Women, in which three women of the Daje Kapap Eypi audiovisual collective take up the camera as a weapon in defence of their ancestry, preserving and transmitting their Munduruku mythology of the world's origins, when humans transformed into forests, plants and animals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mundurukuyu-the-forest-of-the-fish-women-80665/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/nsff2026-mundurukuy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16eec771595025ed40693679b7d31dae8fe0c700ef7498fe2fdae88b97d9bb26-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Vampire, The Ghost, and the Zombie", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/short-film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A screening night presenting short horror films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation. It features works by Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer and Oba, Riar Rizaldi, and the Karrabing Film Collective, including 'Nosferasta: First Bite', 'Notes from Gog Magog', and 'The Family (A Zombie Movie)'. The films are warned to contain horror images and jump scare moments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie-60636/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/event/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88a0597e67e50a995d91e95bf54829bd2e07b27269baed7e1259abd9084f65e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Women and the World Festival: British Shorts (Block 2) + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-09T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/women"], "description": "A festival screening of a block of British short films in competition, followed by a Q&A. It is part of the Women and the World International Film Festival, a London-based annual festival presenting independent films that explore the role of women in contemporary society, with a focus on conflict, security, and leadership. The programme includes FEBRUARY, MAYBE MARCH, Dir. David Kreibich; THE COLOUR OF COMPENSATION, Dir. Aisha Suleiman; LADY, Dir. Jordon Stevens; ME TO YOU, Dir. Frøydis Fossli Moe; LASTING FLAMES, Dir. Federica Alice Carlino; and SHARDS OF US, Dir. Lela Meburishvili, with a total runtime of 115 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-and-the-world-festival-british-shorts-block-2-qa-78833/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d86aa5f0e8bc00e5ab6e9a37c2c246abe5bb092d0b387b37e37a5cb66875d4eb-2000.webp"}]}