{"title": "It's Only the End of the World", "start": "2026-11-01T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "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. 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Baye shines not as the central protagonist, but as an actress whose generosity of spirit elevates those around her, enriching every scene she shares.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gods-offices-74186/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/gods-offices/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/71a4d4bd77327407c5513cdb7126a31728e033a91dcae78a0c04a5af1d691650-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Our Story", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "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_6970736.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "A French romantic drama in which Alain Delon plays Robert, a man nearly ruined by his drinking who latches onto a stranger-on-a-train, played by Nathalie Baye, hoping for stability, with each of them unsure who can tell reality from fantasy. Bertrand Blier directed and paired the two beloved French stars in this unconventional tale. Delon won a César for his acting, Blier for the screenplay, and Baye's captivating performance as the mysterious Donatienne was widely praised for its mesmerising versatility.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-story-74176/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/our-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7430dcb3fbf2c7967e210085411bf9cb81a2223bd9311663c20712838fcddc98-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives", "start": "2026-08-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-26T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives is a film series celebrating the French actor Nathalie Baye (1948-2026), running from 30 August to 26 November. It was put on by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni, screening at Ciné Lumière. Over a career of almost 100 films, Baye was recognised for her ability to adapt to any role, playing characters from a continuity girl and an alcoholic police officer to a supermarket cashier and a French aristocrat in the second Downton Abbey film. The selection offers a glimpse of the variety of films she played in, from her break in François Truffaut's Day for Night to work with Godard, Spielberg and many female directors, within a limited choice of titles available with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nathalie-baye-a-hundred-lives-69906/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ed97aee540113d493dba887070025866180822b19c4d30b84b1545fa453b3a1-2000.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": "Dünyada", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Space", "address": "Westferry Road 269, E14 3RS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/solo-show"], "description": "Dünyada, meaning \"on earth\", is a formally adventurous solo theatre performance that tears the fabric of the one-person play through cinematic camera work, visual extension and sound design. Internationally acclaimed actor and director Mehmet Ali Nuroğlu brings it to Voila! Theatre Festival, reimagining Will Eno's celebrated monologue Title and Deed. A man arrives with a suitcase, a camera, and a voice that seems sad somehow, offering an evocative exploration of alienation and belonging and an existential look at love and death in a digital age. Nuroğlu manages lighting and soundscapes in real-time, creating a parallax between his physical body and his digital ghost; the result is intimate, funny, unsettling, and deeply human.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dunyada-39749/", "official_url": "https://space.org.uk/event/dunyada/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b520d680fd8e97572b2c73547e935c6af4b68eb985ef6c03ffff15264603d95a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Comédie Française", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "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": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Comédie Française is a film comedy directed by Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau, a chaotic love letter to the theatre. Producer Nina (Pauline Clément) has three hours before the premiere of her Macbeth retelling when her lead actor is stuck on a train, egos clash and equipment breaks down. With the golden rule that the play is never cancelled, she must hold things together at all costs. The farce, which won four awards at the Alpe d'Huez comedy film festival, features real members of the Comédie-Française company and gleefully pokes fun at the highbrow reputation of French theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/comedie-francaise-36992/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10232139", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ed10bb064dedc66dd0688d80f078198dba78a428a90d650621163c8f9195323-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives", "start": "2026-08-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Nathalie Baye: A Hundred Lives is a film series at Ciné Lumière celebrating the French actress Nathalie Baye (1948-2026), who appeared in almost 100 films. The selection of films, shown with English subtitles, gives a glimpse of the variety of roles she played across a versatile career. Her break came with François Truffaut's Day for Night in 1973, and she went on to work with directors such as Godard, Steven Spielberg and Xavier Dolan, winning four César awards, two of them for best actress.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nathalie-baye-a-hundred-lives-36669/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ed97aee540113d493dba887070025866180822b19c4d30b84b1545fa453b3a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Benedetta", "start": "2026-11-12T12:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Benedetta is a film directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson, Daphne Patakia, Olivier Rabourdin and Clotilde Courau. Set among the mystic reveries of a real-life historical figure, it gives the nunsploitation flick a high-art makeover. Elegant, perverse and teasingly scandalous, it critiques religious hypocrisy with an impish grin. 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It is directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, the director of Ida and Cold War, and stars Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler. The film won a prize at Cannes 2026 and has earned five-star reviews from the Guardian, The Times, the Irish Times and Time Out. It runs 82 minutes and is rated 12A.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fatherland-34646/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=492376", "image": "https://noky.io/images/129e1a92f82d4f204b3ed388b0f3c6d8af005072f3e8b476d54abc807c22c952-2000.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", "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"}]}