{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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, "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": "Days of Eclipse", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film Days of Eclipse. Aleksandr Sokurov adapts the Strugatsky Brothers' 1977 novel One Billion Years to the Ends of the Earth: a young doctor posted to a remote Turkmen town in the dying days of the Soviet experiment finds his research into religious faith and medicine confounded by mysterious encounters and ill omens. Switching between sepia and colour, documentary footage and invention, the film paints an oblique portrait of the end of Soviet empire, with a remarkable lead performance from Aleksei Ananishnov.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/days-of-eclipse-39241/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/days-of-eclipse/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/842a82f64d97bc57a21d1d42d462a735c40f2fc051e2dd35e4d40dac898cf7c4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rediscovering the Strugatsky Brothers: A Talk with Mark Bould and Adam Roberts", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pushkin House", "address": "Bloomsbury Square 5a, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/science-fiction", "film/science-fiction"], "description": "A talk, held both in person and online, about the Soviet science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, who dominated the genre for over three decades. It is co-presented by Pushkin House and Klassiki as a companion to the film season After Utopia: The Strugatsky Brothers on Film, which screens four adaptations of their work. Science fiction experts Adam Roberts and Mark Bould will discuss what the brothers meant for readers and cinema audiences in their time and what their work tells us today, including its political, environmental and artistic implications. Samuel Goff, editorial director of Klassiki, chairs the conversation, which also features presentations and questions from the audience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rediscovering-the-strugatsky-brothers-a-talk-with-mark-bould-38091/", "official_url": "https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/6559", "image": "https://noky.io/images/510ae9da50b1ad77b5e6f30ac43eb3834b8d6050dacb012dbb90551bdc9bd55a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stalker", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "A screening of the film Stalker, made by Andrei Tarkovsky, presented in person. No further story details are given.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stalker-38089/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/stalker/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/206c83a45d15b1d29c1e389562db2fb6989969dcd8cfe17f05c80d8acb3d31f0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dead Souls", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/western"], "description": "A screening of the film Dead Souls, followed by a live question-and-answer session with its director Alex Cox. Cox, director of Repo Man and Straight to Hell, stars as the drifter Strindler, who wanders the West offering to pay for the names of dead Mexican labourers, in a loose adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's novel. A meditative Western mixing picaresque humour and dark satire, with cowherds, outlaws and pistol duels, made with co-writer and Spaghetti Western legend Gianni Garko.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dead-souls-64045/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617548/dead-souls-alex-cox-qa", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4cbc2cee6e86b67f5fcad20ce5c75642ae4888fbf7313e0ba9b0bc3ba2d351cc-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": "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": "Caligula", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Broadway Theatre", "address": "Catford Road, SE6 4RU London", "price": "£30.95 - £100.95", "price_from": "29.00", "price_to": "99.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A stage production of Albert Camus' Caligula, presented as powerful contemporary theatre about tyranny, dictatorship, power and morality. Ivan Uryvski's acclaimed production, premiered at the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theatre, uses striking visual imagery and Petro Bogomazov's award-winning set design to explore the abuse of power, surveillance, fear and human responsibility. It is performed in Ukranian with English Surtitles and is appropriate for audiences 16+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/caligula-60134/", "official_url": "https://www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk/events/caligula", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30abe80180d5c7066b2b37996138333af231e30aa65ecd1004dd5149663b236d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["dance/butoh", "film/experimental"], "description": "A special screening of the film Mr. O's Book of the Dead, followed by a Q&A with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who is visiting from Japan and will share her experience of working on the film 50 years ago. The event is presented by Rebellious Bodies Festival and NPO Dance Archive Network. The film is the final instalment in an experimental trilogy by documentary filmmaker Chiaki Nagano and pioneering butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and features 'Mr. O' (Kazuo Ohno) and a troupe of his students, including Mitsuyo Uesugi. Shot in numerous places across Japan from Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido to Yokodai Pig Farm in Kanagawa, it is, in Nagano's words, 'about one of our deaths, and a starting point towards somewhere new'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-39248/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-qa-with-mitsuyo-uesugi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7d4343022e6a7c65b24e5cecd64cd689434c103473e06343b846d33c102757-600.webp"}, {"title": "Profound Desires of the Gods", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Profound Desires of the Gods (神々の深き欲望) is Shōhei Imamura's final fiction film for almost a decade, shown in a screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Set on the fictional island of Kurage, said to have been forged by discarded objects thrown by incestuous brother and sister gods, it follows the outcast Futori family and Kariya, a Tokyo engineer sent to oversee the opening of a sugar manufacturing facility. Beneath the island's paradisiacal surface of lush forests and turquoise seas, Kariya discovers deep-rooted superstitions, privation and duplicities, and over the months he is slowly drawn into the Futori family's way of life. Tracing Japan's evolution from the agrarian to the industrial, the primitive to the modern, the film examines the entire strata of a society while insisting that our foundations remain as desirous and ritualistic as ever.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/profound-desires-of-the-gods-74140/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-profound-desires-of-the-gods", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc5f2e82a69b5bebd3f0b42681d78f574662e3665b7eaefa0a396d93bfea69a6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Minotaur", "start": "2026-11-20T14:55:00Z", "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": "Minotaur is a feature film screening at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni's cinema. It is the new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Elena), made while living in exile, based on Claude Chabrol's La Femme infidèle and awarded the Grand Jury Prix at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Russia in 2022, it follows Gleb, a successful company director whose carefully ordered life collapses under mounting corporate pressures and an unstable world, accelerating toward violence. It stars Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva and Boris Kudrin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/minotaur-74212/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/minotaur/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ef5619d42b00e8c45b797bab7b617a66582653d822927beb757add43d85d96c-2000.webp"}, {"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"}]}