{"title": "Gandahar", "start": "2026-11-20T18:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation"], "description": "An animated science-fiction cult classic in which a merciless army of automata attacks the peaceful world of Gandahar, turning its people to stone. Directed by alternative-animation pioneer René Laloux, the film follows the young warrior Sylvain, who teams up with a cast-out race of mutants to uncover the source of the Men of Metal and travels through time with Airelle to defeat the giant brain Metamorphis. Its surreal creatures and bizarre environments were designed by comic-book artist Caza. Laloux's final feature is a visionary head-trip that pushes animation to the furthest reaches of the imagination.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gandahar-64099/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617482/gandahar", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b38e8564fde973a63aa1552a11f3bb5f95a0a21537f114ec8b9b948032751abc-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T18:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-23T12:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-26T15:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Time Masters", "start": "2026-11-13T17:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation"], "description": "The Time Masters is a 1982 animated science-fiction film, a visually fantastic existentialist space adventure. 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Along the way they encounter brain-devouring insects, impish stowaway homunculi, hive-mind angels and the Masters of Time, mysterious beings who can bend reality and perhaps reveal the heroes' secret origins and destinies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-time-masters-64064/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617481/the-time-masters", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af019ae747e1ae2040c5193ed1eb315809382b3d355034cc28c8042f2b9fc59c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Maya, Give Me a Title!", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "£5 or £3 with a Hackney Library Card", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation/stop-motion"], "description": "A screening of the animated film 'MAYA, GIVE ME A TITLE!' for all ages. Made by Michel Gondry using hand-made paper cut-out animation, stop motion and live action, it follows Maya and her dad, who live in two different countries; each night he asks her for a title and turns it into a cartoon with Maya as the heroine, forming a poetic and fun journey for children and grown-ups alike.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/maya-give-me-a-title-38174/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsPerformance_2889316.TcsSection_936", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ecd18a9e4e731ba4dab3e6c274ffb1b011dd7f397d7dfc2b87596d385932e94c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Angel's Egg", "start": "2026-11-12T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation/anime"], "description": "Angel's Egg is a 1985 Japanese anime feature in which a girl in an underwater city cares for a large egg, until a boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird from his dream. It was written and directed by Mamoru Oshii and created with artist Yoshitaka Amano, blending reflections on philosophy and theology with Amano's ink painting style into a hand-drawn allegorical fantasy. It stars Keiichi Noda, Mako Hyodo and Jinpachi Nezu, and runs 71 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/angels-egg-64056/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617401/angels-egg", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ffaa266b893f85f762714efbffbc3512651f3506a2305dd6977812e489cff137-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hard to Be a God", "start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "A screening of the film 'Hard to Be a God', the final work of director Aleksei German, made over 15 years and completed after his death by his son and widow. It adapts the Strugatsky Brothers' 1964 novel, following Don Rumata, a human scientist observing the planet Arkanar, an Earth-like world trapped in a Middle Ages of superstition and brutality. Leonid Yarmolnik stars in this sensory overload of rain, mud and blood, in which German captures the novel's pessimism about the future of enlightenment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hard-to-be-a-god-114197/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/pushkin-house-hard-to-be-a-god", "image": "https://noky.io/images/85b89f05c170a41222be6183b724e5ded45d8bd925537d3039fe1591f78bba2f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Persepolis", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation", "history"], "description": "A screening of Persepolis, an animated film directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud from 2007. It was programmed by artist Autumn Knight to accompany her exhibition I Can't Complain, as one of three films in her selection, which she says explore complaint masked by humour and the dignity of labour and craft. Based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name, the film follows her childhood transformed by the Iranian Revolution, her teenage exile in Europe and her return to Iran. The ticket includes free entry to the exhibition on the same day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/persepolis-74143/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/exhibitions/artists-film-picks-persepolis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/99a89f34ae06ec11c617d98f46787eb33f56d60e0cca14cfa088709cb4af57f4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Akira", "start": "2026-11-10T15:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation/anime"], "description": "A screening of the anime film AKIRA. Directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo and starring Mami Koyama, Mitsuo Iwata and Nozomu Sasaki, it is a landmark cyberpunk classic. In 2019 megalopolis Tokyo, gang leader Kaneda races his motorbike through urban wastes until his friend Tetsuo is taken by the army after an encounter with a strange boy. When experimental procedures awaken a destructive new power in Tetsuo, Kaneda sneaks into the research lab to free him, while his friend is consumed by madness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/akira-64035/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/1808/akira", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88c8bd5d10098d69d1592d879e1026592bf4b89c09f06d82a1840f1c85208e89-1200.webp"}, {"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", "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"}, {"title": "The Adventures of Prince Achmed", "start": "2026-11-11T12:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation", "literature/fairy-tales"], "description": "The Adventures of Prince Achmed is Lotte Reiniger's 1926 animation, an enchanting amalgamation of stories from the Arabian Nights animated in cut paper silhouettes and an exquisite artefact of Weimar Cinema. Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one another in a series of wondrous adventures. The film melds international folk art traditions with the technical possibilities of a new medium.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed-64054/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617529/the-adventures-of-prince-achmed", "image": "https://noky.io/images/22b9c7f1dbd1d1d6b54e4b4a7985622813a2fd14a45c8c004c4f892fe31d5df4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Whisper of the Heart", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation/anime"], "description": "An animated coming-of-age story in which a chance encounter with a mysterious cat sends Shizuku, a dreamy schoolgirl, on a quest for her true talent. Guided by Seiji, a boy chasing his dreams, and by The Baron, an antique cat figurine, she embarks on an adventure beyond the boundaries of her imagination. It was directed by veteran animator Yoshifumi Kondo, with a screenplay and storyboards from Hayao Miyazaki, and stars Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi and Takashi Tachibana.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/whisper-of-the-heart-64041/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/4534975/whisper-of-the-heart", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bb22b808ca14e580a9f467556987808ee9a73ad182ac586ca3f71cd23e0a26a0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sirocco & The Kingdom of the Winds", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation"], "description": "An animated film for families, winner of the Audience Award at the Annecy Animation Festival 2023, about two sisters, 4-year-old Juliette and 8-year-old Carmen, who find a passage from their world into the Kingdom of the Winds, their favourite book. To return to the real world, they must find Sirocco, a terrifying magician who can control the wind. It was directed by Benoit Chieux, with voices by Loïse Charpentier and Maryne Bertieaux.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sirocco-the-kingdom-of-the-winds-74185/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/sirocco-the-kingdom-of-the-winds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e489a3c766be1d331666f40c40fbfe68571cddf32db909030ef2007e42b05ab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Holy Mountain", "start": "2026-11-09T20:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/cult"], "description": "The Holy Mountain is a screening of Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film, in which he also stars alongside Horacio Salinas and Zamira Saunders. In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist assembles a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets of the solar system. After mystical rites divest them of their worldly baggage, the alchemist leads his messianic recruit and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain. There they hope to ascend and achieve enlightenment by displacing the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-holy-mountain-64050/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/15034200/the-holy-mountain", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7aa5b756deac88e049e3dbad8cc6bdd82325d031e70292ef2f945075339e2878-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "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": "Ninja Scroll", "start": "2026-11-13T20:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation/anime"], "description": "An anime action feature about the swordsman Jubei Kibagami, who rescues a ninja woman from a monster and is drawn into a nightmarish journey through an ancient Japan infested with demons. A chain of events puts death in his own veins, and he must piece together blood-soaked clues linking demonic possessions, an annihilated village and a man from his past. The film was made by Yoshiaki Kawajiri and Madhouse, and screenings feature an intro by Dr Jonathan Clements. It is presented as an epic milestone of animation, an orgy of gore and samurai violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ninja-scroll-37907/", "official_url": "http://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/005/HO00018764/sla-2026-ninja-scroll-4k-restoration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/725c7a56c053752148d524f117bc8c1a74340fcd105c5c6abca305d19b5eb441-1200.webp"}]}