{"title": "Lift + Calais The Last Border", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-dklaqqm", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "An evening of two documentaries by Marc Isaacs, Lift and Calais: The Last Border, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Gareth Evans. In Lift, made in 2001, Isaacs sets himself up with his camera in the lift of a London tower block, waiting for the right moment to ask residents questions, capturing the whole of British society in a humorous and moving microcosm. Calais: The Last Border, from 2003, weaves together character-driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates in the French port town that is, for hundreds of migrants, the final barrier in the search for a new life in England. Together the films build a picture of transient places and inhabitants who dream of somewhere better.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lift-calais-the-last-border-35342/", "official_url": "https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/planned-spontaneity-the-films-of-marc-isaacs/lift-calais-the-last-border", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f670b40d71c7c8fc3cfad2a4973659abe56ccb3931620e8c724520b57adeb8af-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "All White in Barking", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Close-Up Film Centre", "address": "Sclater Street 97-99, E1 6HR London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/close-up-cinema/t-qmyvppn", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "All White in Barking is a documentary screening followed by a Q&A with Marc Isaacs, moderated by Gareth Evans. The film probes the attitudes of Barking's white residents toward their new immigrant neighbours. Isaacs is an unseen but prominent presence, questioning prejudices and prying at preconceptions with remarkable results. It produces a vivid picture of the attitudes and perceptions at the heart of an increasingly multicultural Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-white-in-barking-35343/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cb6098823979d8100ab5b2d6647c3ea6ae7170dd3083d35241818c9a7253739-1200.webp"}, {"title": "'RAFT' & The Parlour Collective & 'The Moon Over The Alley'", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Horse Hospital", "address": "Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10 standard, £15 solidarity", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://gel.now/events/1212", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "stage/musical"], "description": "An evening triple bill of films celebrating the entanglement of bodies and place, with a special focus on London and its shelters, rafts and sanctuaries. It brings together Chiara Ambrosio’s ‘Raft - A London Story’, a screening of work by The Parlour Collective, and Joseph Despins’s 1976 feature ‘The Moon Over The Alley’, with an opening performance from Bird Radio and James Hesford. Ambrosio’s film is described as a musical haunting and contemporary fairytale about a specific place poised between appearance and disappearance, seeking new forms of sanctuary and belonging; The Parlour Collective are artists working with site-responsive performance and film, exploring the psychological and somatic experience of landscape. Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Driving Home", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Albany", "address": "Douglas Way, SE8 4AG London", "price": "Pay-what-you-decide", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "Driving Home is a pop-up installation where you sit in the passenger seat of a black cab and watch an intimate documentary film projected across the windows. It is created by the company Dante or Die and follows five taxi drivers navigating towns and cities shaped by shift and divide. Through cinematic footage and interviews, it explores migration and a changing nation, uncovering what 'home' truly means. Seating just three people at a time, it is a free, immersive experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/driving-home-38941/", "official_url": "https://www.thealbany.org.uk/events/driving-home", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b47a78974cf3316a979bfe53e7ed9d2cb00452b32b4f2bb18d35fb8a4a516b4f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fault Lines + Into the Light Double Bill + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A cinema double bill of two surf documentaries, each followed by a Q&A with its makers, plus a set of shortlisted short films. 'Fault Lines', directed by Nathan Hugh James Whitmarsh and Justin Hunt, is an intimate portrait of surfer Noah Lane, who after a near-fatal accident at the Irish big wave spot Mullaghmore must rethink the life he has built around the ocean. 'Into The Light' by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Mikey Corker follows two young South African surfers, Indiphile Indi Osinachi and Ntando Biggie Msibi, whose dreams carry them across an ocean they were never meant to touch, showing education as resistance and the search for belonging. The Q&As feature Noah Lane, Whitmarsh, Hunt and Corker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa-74668/", "official_url": "https://riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/u40-fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/631ed189dba7c0da7bf8ba36437c5a11e82bad16cf87c5c08c523186f251c0f6-2000.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": "Inside Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00Z", "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_7107873.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/media/journalism", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary about the Gaza Strip, where since October 7, 2023 independent international press access has been effectively impossible, and the AFP staff reporters who documented the conflict from within. Directed by Hélène Lam Trong, it follows Mai Yaghi, Adel Zaanun, Mohammed Abed, Mahmud Hams and Yahya Hassuna, who reported, photographed and filmed as bombs fell around them. Now forced into exile, they reflect on what they endured and on the near-impossible task of covering the deadliest war ever recorded for journalists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/inside-gaza-36648/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/inside-gaza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dbb9c54b6af0dd19444c54aa5279e6413f20e724c574d5d5d91aac29a0b13119-2000.webp"}]}