{"title": "Gagarine", "start": "2026-11-12T10:35:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£13/pupil & free for teachers", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society"], "description": "The film follows Yuri, a boy who lives in Cité Gagarine, a vast housing project in Ivry-sur-Seine on the outskirts of Paris opened in the 1960s by the Russian cosmonaut after whom both the building and the boy are named. Now in disrepair, the building is to be torn down, but it still hosts residents unhappy at having to leave. Yuri figures out a way to stay beyond the council-mandated evacuation order and creates his own orbital spacecraft within it. It is the mesmerising debut of directors Fanny Liatard and Jeremy Trouilh, a poetic rather than angry view of estates.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gagarine-74189/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/banlieue-multiculturelle-francaise-life-in-banlieues-interactive-workshop-screening-of-gagarine/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97754ca9c5f7a645c99e4a3f43331481023d245c262515f5972c7a089e5f0dc0-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T10:35:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction/dystopian"], "description": "Chester Film Society presents a screening of the feature film Resurrection, made up with Picturehouse as part of a diverse programme of world cinema. In a future where humanity has traded its ability to dream for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), it conjures vast, ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. The cast also includes Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue and Chen Yongzhong.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/resurrection-37898/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018203/cfs-resurrection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f0c814ca4adf71d9c1bbb8a00795a309d4e1b0530e9ddfd45c2bbb9d95baee6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "From Book to Screen", "start": "2026-11-05T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£6/pupil or £3 film only & free for teachers", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/from-book-to-screen-french-literary-adaptations-at-the-french-film-festival-london-2025/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama", "history/wwii"], "description": "A full school day at the Institut français immersing pupils in French culture, with a linguistic or cultural activity in the morning and a film screening in the afternoon for school groups from Year 6 to Year 8. It is run by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni's Language Centre, whose School Activities Manager Agathe Morisse can be contacted for details. The morning offers a language activity around the French comic book Les Enfants de la Resistance or a library session on books adapted for the screen. In the afternoon pupils watch Les Enfants de la Resistance, Christophe Barratier's 2025 film with Gérard Jugnot, Artus and Lucas Hector, in which three brave children resist the Nazis in the heart of France during the German occupation in World War II.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/from-book-to-screen-74183/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/from-book-to-screen-3/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/05913a05b0404bdc39f75d9e360886c44f67154f3ab32f5cc3cab4046cf46c9f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Night is Fading Away", "start": "2026-10-30T14:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The Night is Fading Away is a film from Argentina directed by Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas. It follows Pelu, a thirty-something projectionist at a cinema belonging to Cordoba's city hall who loses his job to budget cuts and ends up secretly living inside the building as its night watchman. There he forms a small after-hours community with three informal homeless parking attendants he lets sleep there and Vale, a former friend who records videos for her OnlyFans channel in the screening room. Their fragile community is threatened by the precarious economic conditions and a broader crisis that could shut the cinema down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-night-is-fading-away-74118/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/off-circuit-the-night-is-fading-away", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9af81971330eca93221993b09932832da282025333a1e555537e86dbc6af523-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lift + Calais The Last Border", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-dklaqqm", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "An evening of two documentaries by Marc Isaacs, Lift and Calais: The Last Border, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Gareth Evans. In Lift, made in 2001, Isaacs sets himself up with his camera in the lift of a London tower block, waiting for the right moment to ask residents questions, capturing the whole of British society in a humorous and moving microcosm. Calais: The Last Border, from 2003, weaves together character-driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates in the French port town that is, for hundreds of migrants, the final barrier in the search for a new life in England. Together the films build a picture of transient places and inhabitants who dream of somewhere better.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lift-calais-the-last-border-35342/", "official_url": "https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/planned-spontaneity-the-films-of-marc-isaacs/lift-calais-the-last-border", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f670b40d71c7c8fc3cfad2a4973659abe56ccb3931620e8c724520b57adeb8af-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "literature"], "description": "A 50th-anniversary screening of Alain Tanner's 1976 Swiss film, shown as part of centenary celebrations for the writer John Berger. Co-written by Berger with the late Swiss director Tanner, it follows a disparate group of nonconformists and radicals from Geneva who gather at a rural retreat to reflect on the aftermath of May 1968 and what the future might hold. It stars Roger Jendly, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau and Miou-Miou, and is introduced by Gareth Evans. The screening is part of nationwide celebrations marking what would have been Berger's 100th birthday.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000-39228/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/john-berger-at-100-jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9309e77e5f43ad8bde09d589ee37235b3330b0ad3c503402d168b211c5a6710c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ghyzlène Boukaïla", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by artist Ghyzlène Boukaïla. Combining film, immersive installation and sculpture, her practice questions the thresholds of reality and fiction, drawing on historical and archival research to challenge existing narratives. At Gasworks she will focus on material research for her next film, which explores the Mediterranean Sea as a territory and its reappropriation, following a maritime smuggler whose acts of piracy become gestures of refusal. Boukaïla, born 1993 in Algiers, lives and works in Algiers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ghyzlene-boukaila-41423/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a90214290a08520574330625887883f0ef34b90fe4b68fd28f7372e4534c5760-2000.webp"}, {"title": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film is a film programme inspired by the pioneering science fiction of the Strugatsky Brothers, who reigned over Soviet science fiction for more than three decades. Pushkin House and Klassiki present the series, running from 6 to 13 November with four screenings and a live discussion at Pushkin House. It explores how renowned Soviet and Russian filmmakers, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Sokurov, and Aleksei German, drew on the Strugatskys as they explored the slow collapse of twentieth-century utopia. The programme presents acclaimed screen adaptations including Stalker, Days of Eclipse, Dead Mountaineer's Hotel, and Hard to Be a God, with screenings split between the Garden Cinema and the ICA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/after-utopia-the-strugatsky-brothers-on-film-39292/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/festival/after-utopia-the-strugatsky-brothers-on-film/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f7ca7fa4594a5eeb48e4d6790f4a2f1f96336e51e10b475fb4cd898380357f3-2000.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", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1212", "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": "Home A Loan", "start": "2026-11-06T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122205.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "Home A Loan is a Korean horror film screening as part of a festival programme. Believing that an abandoned, semi-derelict building in Seoul will soon be redeveloped, Eun-jin (Yoo Seon) buys a third-floor apartment there for herself, her teen daughter Sung-hye (Lee Seo-yeon) and younger son Sung-ho (Lee Cheon-mu). When Eun-jin starts seeing and hearing things, her paranoia makes her a danger to all around her. Kim Tae-Kyeong's film keeps its plotting indeterminate: is Eun-jin crumbling under the pressures of work and solo-parenting, feeling the stresses of the property ladder, reliving past trauma, or is the building haunted?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/home-a-loan-74184/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/home-a-loan/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea7d3cee2f95fad28ca2ae945fccc02bddf0182cd2204cdf5364b5e6cd5c8c77-2000.webp"}, {"title": "It's Only the End of the World", "start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": "11.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6979337.TcsSection_3841519", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "It’s Only the End of the World is a French film about a writer who returns to his hometown after twelve years away, as long-simmering grievances erupt into bitter confrontations with his family. It was directed by Xavier Dolan and stars Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard and Léa Seydoux, with Baye giving a deeply affecting performance as a heartbroken mother. The film won the Grand Prix at Festival de Cannes 2016.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/its-only-the-end-of-the-world-74174/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/its-only-the-end-of-the-world/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1c519e52b635dc17a1f84d7c7ed8f299d9f1172ab4ee7ab365ccb4c6ad8839ba-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Case 137", "start": "2026-10-30T12:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/crime-drama"], "description": "Case 137 is a film directed by Dominik Moll, made in France in 2025, starring Léa Drucker, Jonathan Turnbull, Solan Machado Graner, Sandra Colombo, Guslagie Malanda and Mathilde Roehrich. Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, it follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator looking into the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth, her inquiry collides with institutional resistance, and pressure mounts when she discovers the victim is from her hometown. The film is austere, focused and resolutely anti-sensationalist, with Moll's directorial restraint giving it integrity and weight.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/case-137-49601/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/case-137/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/853783bbc5bb26066b96505f1b5eab1913e31726540771b6490df82b522d9d0b-600.webp"}]}