{"title": "Laya", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "LAYA follows a young woman who drifts into a haunting coastal town in the Philippines to escape her troubled past and forms a dangerous alliance with a reclusive ex-criminal. Bound by their unspoken sins, they must decide whether to destroy each other or finally confront the shadows they are both running from. The screening is followed by an in-person Q&A with actress Andrea Brillantes and producer Arleen Cuevas. It is shown in Tagalog with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/laya-103986/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsProgramme_3033731", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2f6e61091a128112a2e1194d379700e6584515419a8ddd4101e83527db8ac64e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Forgotten Island", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/animation"], "description": "Forgotten Island is an animated film screening at a cinema in London. It was made by DreamWorks Animation and directed by Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado, with H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Dave Franco, Jenny Slate and Manny Jacinto among the voices. The story follows Jo and Raissa, high school graduates and lifelong best friends about to take separate paths in life, who during their last night together stumble upon a mysterious portal. It transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali, full of magical and mythological creatures from the stories they grew up hearing from their Filipino families.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/forgotten-island-36983/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10229641", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c0232119d7e34d9015b2e018e5e406692cae2b7b8b4b894505047c8b5e144e3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Raging Sun, Raging Sky", "start": "2026-11-15T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "This is a screening of Julián Hernández's film Raging Sun, Raging Sky, with an introduction by season curator Nico Hughes. The film follows Kieri, Ryo and Tari through the hidden spaces of cruising in a city where water becomes a portal between the everyday and the mythic, watched over by a mysterious female spirit known as the 'Heart of the Sky'. Alternating between black and white and colour, it moves from sensuality and violence towards increasingly dreamlike and spiritual realms. The Mexican film is presented in Spanish with English subtitles and runs 191 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raging-sun-raging-sky-74156/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/nfts-collective-visions-of-pleasure-raging-sun-raging-sky", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca94974aad6650260182fb725bac89b689b37cd8eecb8b933452facda1ed86c3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Night is Fading Away", "start": "2026-11-11T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The Night is Fading Away is a film from Argentina directed by Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas. It follows Pelu, a thirty-something projectionist at a cinema belonging to Cordoba's city hall who loses his job to budget cuts and ends up secretly living inside the building as its night watchman. There he forms a small after-hours community with three informal homeless parking attendants he lets sleep there and Vale, a former friend who records videos for her OnlyFans channel in the screening room. Their fragile community is threatened by the precarious economic conditions and a broader crisis that could shut the cinema down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-night-is-fading-away-74118/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/off-circuit-the-night-is-fading-away", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e9af81971330eca93221993b09932832da282025333a1e555537e86dbc6af523-1200.webp"}, {"title": "This Is Not a Burial, Its a Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-18T18:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Genesis Cinema", "address": "Mile End Road 93-95, E1 4UJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (2019), preceded by an introduction. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's film explores grief, resistance, and the fight to preserve ancestral land in Lesotho: Mantoa, an 80-year-old widow preparing for her own funeral, sees her village face forced resettlement for a dam, and becomes a symbol of resistance, mobilising her community to fight for their land and heritage. The film will be introduced by Misa Mlambo, a South African creative producer and filmmaker based in London. The screening is curated by Meliza George as part of 'Whose Land? Whose Lens?', a season of works from the global south presented with the National Film and Television's Film Studies, Curation and Programming MA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/this-is-not-a-burial-its-a-resurrection-69840/", "official_url": "https://genesis.admit-one.co.uk/details/?eventCode=114461", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75fe60d09f77bc664f4fc7ea5ce0106576785fc994035639d0f23d20c83abcce-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Together", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Together is a film screening about a young couple in Mexico City whose cramped apartment is disturbed when the man's cousin moves in, and whose household starts falling apart after their dog disappears and the tap begins to run only boiling water. It is directed by Nicolás Pereda and stars his repertory collaborators from the theatre troupe Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol. The film follows the disaffected drift of the trio and the power dynamics that emerge between them, before opening out onto the pastoral toward a sharp but tender vision of the disorientation of youth and the impulse to search for something new together.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/together-80690/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/pereda-together", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Café (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-17T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-17T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "The Café is a new piece of theatre set in a small café beneath London's ever-changing skies. Written by Roccia Zhang and directed by Siyao Wu, it follows four people living under different circumstances as they gather over coffee, uncertainty and the quiet pressure of London life. As money, visas and confidence begin to run out, they become one another's temporary shelter, sharing food, laughter and fear while searching for a place to belong. The play explores the human need for connection, asking what home can mean when it is no longer nearby, and who gets to feel safe in a city that is always moving.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cafe-voila-festival-60540/", "official_url": "https://www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/the-cafe-pgxt6-bwlam", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e7f63fd79c915fa469317a682a5e11e40feb36f09d78653038b9a9c1dbced938-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Café (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-16T17:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T18:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/new-writing"], "description": "The Café is a piece of new writing performed as part of the VOILA! Festival at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. Written by Roccia Zhang and directed by Siyao Wu, it follows four people in a small London café who, as money, visas and confidence run out, become one another's temporary shelter. The play explores the human need for connection, asking what home can mean when it is no longer nearby and who gets to feel safe in a city that is always moving. It lasts 60 minutes, is suitable for all ages and is performed in Chinese, English, Farsi and Portuguese.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-cafe-voila-festival-60537/", "official_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-cafe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e7f63fd79c915fa469317a682a5e11e40feb36f09d78653038b9a9c1dbced938-1200.webp"}, {"title": "London Korean Film Festival", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "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": "Ok-sil (Lee Jung-eun) and her three adult daughters (Kong Hyo-jin, Park So-dam, Lee Yeon) may seem merely to be out on a family pilgrimage to commemorate the birthday of Ok-sil's long-deceased youngest daughter Gyeong-ju, but in fact this is a journey of revenge. The yellow combi van in which these characters are travelling points to both the similar vehicle (and similar dysfunctional family co...", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-korean-film-festival-36672/", "official_url": "https://www.koreanfilm.co.uk/events/opening-gala-the-journey-to-gyeong-ju-qa-with-director-kim-mi-jo-and-actor-lee-jung-eun/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c998369385ede6ce8ced520a34115ce84689f09cf030ce8b497a9df42603184f-2000.webp"}]}