{"title": "Gavagai", "start": "2026-11-20T20:30:00Z", "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": "Gavagai is a drama set during a turbulent shoot of a Medea adaptation in Senegal, where Maja seeks solace in a love affair with her co-star Nourou. Months later they meet again at the film's premiere in Berlin, which turns into a disaster when the press questions the film projecting a European narrative onto a former colony, and a racist incident further unsettles their reunion. While the ancient tragedy plays out on screen, a contemporary drama unfolds, in an unflinchingly complex look at racial tensions, filmmaking and power dynamics. The film is directed by Ulrich Köhler and stars Jean-Christophe Folly, Maren Eggert and Nathalie Richard.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gavagai-74214/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/gavagai/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c13a80afb151d5fabc8d9576d2acadc1c530a1ac36ce12112e69312d74175d1d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-24T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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"}, {"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": "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"}]}