{"title": "For Sale", "start": "2026-11-22T20:10:00Z", "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/crime-drama"], "description": "FOR SALE (À vendre) is a 1997 French crime drama directed by Laetitia Masson, screening with an extended introduction by the director and actor Sandrine Kiberlain. A private detective sets out to find a young woman who left her fiancé just days before their wedding. The film follows an uncompromising, elusive heroine attempting to escape societal pressures and male dominance, in a gritty, raw story that is also an unconventional road movie. It showcases a brilliant performance by Sandrine Kiberlain, alongside Sergio Castellitto, Jean-François Stévenin and Aurore Clément.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/for-sale-74228/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-vendre/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/68361aca09b310c21c639c061059bcbf9d5d8fea37fcbe868a1fb565a9f8208b-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-22T20:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "To Have (or Not)", "start": "2026-11-21T20:35:00Z", "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/romance"], "description": "A 1995 French film in which Alice, after losing her job, leaves her native North for Lyon and meets Bruno, a construction worker. Laetitia Masson directed it and crafts a superb portrait of a woman, blending lightness and gravity with infectious energy embodied by Sandrine Kiberlain, who stars alongside Arnaud Giovaninetti and Roschdy Zem. Made through spontaneous long takes, the film marries charm, delicacy, and romance with profound authenticity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/to-have-or-not-74222/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/to-have-or-not/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0cea3372b3c985a2478a4a99e3681a7baf93ea644bcc957e3b2302f39361cf90-2000.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": "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": "Ulysse", "start": "2026-11-21T18:00:00Z", "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/family-drama"], "description": "\"Ulysse\" is a French drama film about Alice, a sociologist who learns she is pregnant, and her son Ulysse, who is diagnosed with a genetic condition that leaves him smaller than other children. It follows the boy's singular odyssey to walk, speak, learn, understand and grow, with Alice determined he will find his place in the world. The film is directed by Laetitia Masson and stars Elodie Bouchez, Stanislas Merhar, Romane Bohringer and Gringe. The screening on 21 November is its UK premiere, followed by a Q&A with the director moderated by Linda Marric.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ulysse-36659/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/ulysse/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/279873119df6c5d81f4c2b5b50811add1d24de94449d591149e7aaccfa385b63-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness", "start": "2026-11-20T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T20:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness\", a tense drama in which Maryam, a 22-year-old woman who accidentally killed her 65-year-old husband and was sentenced to death, can only be saved if his daughter Mona publicly forgives her live on a hugely popular television show, forcing the two women to relive the past under the studio lights. It was made by Iranian director Massoud Bakhshi, who won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance in 2020. The screening also launches Jacques Bidou's memoir \"Once Upon a Time in Production\", translated into English by Holly Aylett, about producing the film; Bidou, founder of JBA Production, will introduce the film and afterwards discuss the craft and politics of producing world cinema with Holly Aylett.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/yalda-a-night-for-forgiveness-80565/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67393/yalda-a-night-for-forgiveness-massoud-bakhshi-iran-2019", "image": ""}, {"title": "Seduction: The Cruel Woman", "start": "2026-11-12T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/queer-cinema"], "description": "A screening of the film Seduction: The Cruel Woman, introduced by season curator Nico Hughes, an MA student in Film Studies at the National Film and Television School. Directed by Elfi Mikesch and Monika Treut, the film follows Wanda, a dominatrix and businesswoman who stages sadomasochistic rituals as spectacles in a Hamburg gallery. Inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, it places a woman's bisexual desire at the centre, starring Mechthild Großmann and Udo Kier. Banned for 18 years by the German Federal Board of Censorship, it is now a seminal work of queer cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/seduction-the-cruel-woman-74147/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/nfts-collective-visions-of-pleasure-the-cruel-woman", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d3c84bba642597223cff327ab9ba86766e52e9abf479488e55b8438c1fd15e37-1200.webp"}, {"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"}]}