{"title": "Guerrilla Archive", "start": "2026-10-29T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-state-matters-theorising-state-fragmentation-and-consolidation-iraq", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/iran"], "description": "A documentary film screening of 'Guerrilla Archive', followed by a Q&A session with one of the filmmakers, Shahrzad Mojab, and a drinks reception. The film is produced by CNRS and directed by Chowra Makaremi, with Setar Faithi and Shahrzad Mojab, and explores a previously unseen visual archive of photographs, sounds and videos documenting the daily lives of Kurdish Peshmergas after the 1979 Iranian revolution. It traces threads of militant memory, between armed struggle and community organising, within Komala, a Kurdish communist party opposed to the Islamic State, offering an immersion into the counter-archives of violence where documenting becomes a political act.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/guerrilla-archive-43647/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/documentary-film-screening-guerrilla-archive", "image": "https://noky.io/images/24c09e3e9fc8af1d0e3d06761c412e185d1760612d6c9ed24f1bce7a6703e44e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Caméra arabe", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7092060.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Caméra arabe is a documentary tracing the emergence of a new Arab cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, when filmmakers began using cinema to confront the political, social and cultural transformations of the Arab world. 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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. 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Led by and centring Black residents of Barking and Dagenham, it marks Black History Month and invites visitors to bring family photos, DVDs and tapes to be digitised for a borough-wide community archive. The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tzkrti.com/en/events/4873", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of two films: Jumana Manna's 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' and Kamal Aljafari's 'With Hasan in Gaza', shown as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World. LUX and Mosaic Rooms are collaborating on the event, organised by Filmlab Palestine for its 4th edition. 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' (2010, 21') sketches a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, manifested in gyms, barber shops and body parlours and inspired by Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising'. 'With Hasan in Gaza' (2025, 106') is a filmic journal of a journey the filmmaker made in 2001 from the north to the south of Gaza, searching for the man with whom he had spent seven months in an Israeli prison, capturing daily life amid moments of vibrancy and darker realities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-obliv-37113/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-oblivion-with-hasan-in-gaza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67c9f6fdfb102dda26d16327e9bb5f77f5a2f4d17578863558e396b6471bf114-600.webp"}, {"title": "Digging & hungering: creative approaches to moving through archives'", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "The Feminist Library", "address": "Sojourner Truth Community Centre, 161 Sumner Road, SE15 6JL", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/zines"], "description": "A zine-making workshop titled 'Digging & hungering: creative approaches to moving through archives', part of a series at The Feminist Library. It is run by Anamot Press and invites participants to create their own zines using scraps and fragments of archival material as a starting point. Through collective discussion and readings, the session explores the opportunities offered by community and independent media in an age of rising techno-fascism and AI. In particular, it brings to light material from and connected to the archive of Elizabeth Peters Robinson, an educator, social worker and long-time co-host of No Alibis, a radical news outlet based in California since the 1990s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/digging-hungering-creative-approaches-to-moving-through-arch-39183/", "official_url": "https://feministlibrary.co.uk/2026/10/07/digging-hungering-creative-approaches-to-moving-through-archives/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec1d309bd0165ce1ef92eec3f74ae69f89c275f4e8e9dd1f20b13888fdca09cf-1200.webp"}, {"title": "We, The Hated", "start": "2026-11-04T18:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_605.TcsWebTab_606", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/activism/climate", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary 'We, The Hated', followed by a question-and-answer session with its director Rich Felgate, moderated by Mary Mitchell, a PhD in Media Arts who leads the Green Party Councillors in Brent and represents Willesden Green as a ward councillor. The film follows a filmmaker whose girlfriend helps start Just Stop Oil, one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory, and four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—as they weigh the personal cost of action against the stakes of inaction while facing mounting repression. It asks how far ordinary people will go to stop oil drilling and how far the authorities will go to stop them. Felgate is a documentary filmmaker whose debut feature, 'Finite', won awards including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix; 'We, The Hated' premiered as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/we-the-hated-36996/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10232129", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d2f868e0388b40e9f56a2bcb09f485ea105e0d53ac4b8c730acd028eb5dca6ac-2000.webp"}]}