{"title": "Flesh and Fuel", "start": "2026-11-20T18:30:00Z", "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/drama"], "description": "A film screening of \"Flesh and Fuel\". It is directed by Pierre Le Gall and awarded the Queer Palm Revelation Award at Cannes, telling of Étienne, a lorry driver whose life on the road leaves him only fleeting encounters, until meeting Polish driver Bartosz turns his loneliness upside down. Alexis Manenti and Julian Świeżewski star in this original, moving and often funny film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flesh-and-fuel-74213/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/flesh-and-fuel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aecc162cf273d5a2f20b2840c2ca3677e44a0d55783dfddf9dbe050588866bdf-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Coward", "start": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/war-film"], "description": "Coward (Les Braves) is a feature film screening preceded by a recorded introduction from its director. Lukas Dhont, the maker of Girl and Close, directs a story set as the First World War drags on. Pierre, a newly arrived soldier eager to prove himself, meets Francis behind the lines, who puts together a theatre show to lift his comrades' spirits; both men seek ways to escape the brutality of war. Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne were jointly awarded the Best Actor Palme at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/coward-36654/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/coward/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5add04e80e2eee34421eb078e5c6f6585df3f68a96ced30699b6d6728a3c3aa6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Place for Her", "start": "2026-11-19T17:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society/women"], "description": "A Place for Her is a French film about a team at a women's shelter, the Maison des femmes, where care, listening and solidarity help women who have suffered violence rebuild their lives. Workers such as Diane, Manon, Inès and Awa welcome and support the women together, pooling their strengths, vulnerabilities and convictions. Directed by Mélisa Godet, the film celebrates solidarity and resilience, and stars Karin Viard, Laetitia Dosch, Oulaya Amamra and Eye Haidara.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-place-for-her-36653/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-place-for-her/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4dd7d02547048cfeda429df760afcffaf2d632eb12d4ea46424a793f5505a295-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La Gradiva", "start": "2026-11-18T20:20:00Z", "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/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "La Gradiva is a feature film screening on a cinema screen. Director Marine Atlan follows a pack of rowdy French teenagers on a school field trip to Pompeii, where sunshine, desire, passion, angst and class tensions unfold against the ruins and beauty of the ancient past. As the journey progresses, pressures build between the students as they confront the hidden economic realities structuring their social lives. The film captures the fleeting nature of adolescence and summer, and was nominated for the Golden Camera and the Queer Palm at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-gradiva-74200/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/la-gradiva/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c3acad915477f3220f2a109b4dd7da5860fa7ab4ed31106ac94482b1c7fe8b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Our Story", "start": "2026-11-11T18:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "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"}, {"title": "Pinned (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-15T21:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T22:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Pinned, part of the VOILA! Festival, is a bilingual theatre piece set in contemporary Paris about love, purpose and belonging. It follows Claire, a New Zealand academic finishing her master's in social anthropology, who meets Léo, a disillusioned Parisian cellist, as the two women form a bond that challenges them to face who they are and what they want. Written in English and French by Anthea Freya Hill and directed by Mia Leahy, it features Hill and Marie Gouault on stage with live music by Angèle Decreux. The show runs 60 minutes and is recommended for ages 14 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pinned-voila-festival-60535/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/pinned/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8369383894a0978695942aa0e8cd20ba1ebbb28ad4d29350741e90f259fdfe80-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Orange Flavoured-Wedding", "start": "2026-11-19T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Orange Flavoured-Wedding is a French ensemble film directed by Christophe Honoré, whose cast includes Adèle Exarchopoulos, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Vincent Lacoste and Paul Kircher. It tells of the Puig family, seven siblings reunited in March 1978 in the suburbs of Nantes for the wedding of the youngest, Jacques, to Martine. Their banished father is absent, and the film asks whether love can heal the wounds of childhood. Honoré's story confronts the very heart of human relationships and the wounds of the past we carry with us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/orange-flavoured-wedding-36655/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/orange-flavoured-wedding/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4df853d8b3d3232b130af224824f0a249d02616770cf5ba3b2a2fe79a033aa5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Womans Life", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A Woman's Life is a French-language drama about Gabrielle, a surgeon and hospital department head who juggles her demanding profession with a loving husband and a mother needing her care, until a novelist researching a book in her department shakes her equilibrium. It was directed by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet and stars Léa Drucker, Mélanie Thierry, Charles Berling, Laurent Capelluto and Marie-Christine Barrault. Drucker, a two-time César winner, delivers a superb performance in this finely textured character study of high-powered, middle-aged femininity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-womans-life-36652/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-womans-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/38e963f8faeffbf9d1d38b5bf2b0cc3ffa6fee7222ab959751ea59c96cc6dbee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Man of His Time", "start": "2026-11-19T14:40:00Z", "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/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "A Man of His Time (original title: Notre Salut) is a film about Henri Marre, a 49-year-old engineer who arrives alone in Vichy in September 1940 as the Pétain regime settles in. Carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut, he seeks his rightful place in the new administration through active collaboration, driven by patriotic convictions and a methodology of efficiency above all. Zealously serving the machinery of the new order in the name of saving France after defeat, he tries at the same time to salvage his family relations. Directed by Emmanuel Marre and based on the life of the director's great-grandfather, the film stars Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke and Mathieu Perotto and won Best Screenplay at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-man-of-his-time-99322/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-man-of-his-time/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc9da672523c2d1e115724a44d38e819a0a31cc57e5a1981d3ea81dd1322dd69-2000.webp"}, {"title": "French Film Festival London 2026", "start": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "The French Film Festival London 2026 is a fortnight of cinema with over 40 films and almost 100 screenings at Ciné Lumière. It is organised by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and explores the breadth of voices in French cinema, from emerging and established directors, through fiction, documentaries, animation and restored classics. The programme includes many UK premieres, films such as Minotaur, a new partnership with the Cinéma du réel festival, and guests including Sophie Marceau, Sandrine Kiberlain and Laetitia Masson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/french-film-festival-london-2026-74199/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-and-series/french-film-festival-london/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2839698898d8c15c543995a257435e5bdd74812cf1c6c2317fdd9f12553db86c-2000.webp"}]}