{"title": "London Korean Film Festival", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "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/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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "My Daughter Is a Zombie", "start": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122201.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "A screening of the film My Daughter Is a Zombie, followed by a Q&A with actor Lee Jung-eun. 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Pil Gam-sung brings a fresh approach to the zombie genre through his distinctive visual style and clever use of colour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-daughter-is-a-zombie-74179/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/my-daughter-is-a-zombie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbef575f83b453b7613ca995514244c5229757c076c34aa07171bf87cbe5832e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "En Route To", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society"], "description": "En Route To is a screening of a film by Yoo Jaein, made in Korea in 2025 and running 105 minutes, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts as part of the London Korean Film Festival 2026. It follows Yun-ji, a student whose secret is revealed at the start: after her homeroom teacher, with whom she had been having an affair, disappears when she tells him of her pregnancy, she steals savings from her dorm roommate Kyung-sun to buy illegal abortion pills. Kyung-sun sets out to find Yun-ji and recover her money, but her chase ends with her uncovering Yun-ji's secret.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/en-route-to-74136/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/en-route-to", "image": "https://noky.io/images/162b1c3363c38dc393be0be6d6ef3adcb5b7689b24ee000c2ef9c5010104fa3d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Home A Loan", "start": "2026-11-06T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122205.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "Home A Loan is a Korean horror film screening as part of a festival programme. Believing that an abandoned, semi-derelict building in Seoul will soon be redeveloped, Eun-jin (Yoo Seon) buys a third-floor apartment there for herself, her teen daughter Sung-hye (Lee Seo-yeon) and younger son Sung-ho (Lee Cheon-mu). When Eun-jin starts seeing and hearing things, her paranoia makes her a danger to all around her. Kim Tae-Kyeong's film keeps its plotting indeterminate: is Eun-jin crumbling under the pressures of work and solo-parenting, feeling the stresses of the property ladder, reliving past trauma, or is the building haunted?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/home-a-loan-74184/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/home-a-loan/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea7d3cee2f95fad28ca2ae945fccc02bddf0182cd2204cdf5364b5e6cd5c8c77-2000.webp"}, {"title": "My Daughter Is a Zombie", "start": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Ciné Lumière", "address": "Queensbury Place 17, SW7 2DT London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122201.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "My Daughter Is a Zombie is a film that mixes adventurous comedy with heartfelt drama in an ode to parental love. When a zombie virus strikes, animal trainer Jung-hwan tries to flee the city with his daughter Soo-ah, who becomes infected in an attack. Convinced she still has her human heart, he takes her to a seaside village where her grandmother Bam-soon lives and starts a life-or-death mission to retrain her using his animal skills. Directed by Pil Gam-sung and based on Lee Yoon-chang's hugely popular webtoon, it stars Cho Jung-seok, Lee Jung-eun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Yoon Kyung-ho and Choi Yu-ri.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-daughter-is-a-zombie-36649/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/my-daughter-is-a-zombie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbef575f83b453b7613ca995514244c5229757c076c34aa07171bf87cbe5832e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Possible Love", "start": "2026-10-30T19:55:00Z", "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/drama"], "description": "Possible Love is a South Korean drama about two married couples whose lives become entangled after a funeral brings them together. Mi-ok, living quietly with her laid-off husband, agrees to be filmed by documentary maker Ye-ji and finds herself drawn to Ye-ji's unreadable husband Sang-woo, as fractures appear in their daily existence. It marks director Lee Chang-dong's first release in eight years, with Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong and Zo In-sung starring. The film is presented in Korean with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/possible-love-34775/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/possible-love/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6617a938fb605474e2ebf6f733330626bac1ef3d12d3edc6ccaa0d7062fc460d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Mutation", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The Mutation follows Se-oh, who works as a white-tiger mascot at an amusement park until overwork makes him collapse; he buys a luxury suitcase and sets off travelling, where So-ra appears at his side. Se-oh, of Black, mixed-race descent and knowing little about the circumstances of his birth, feels safer living in society wearing a mask, while So-ra has lived under shadows since the death of her same-sex lover. The film traces their journey and the facets of their pasts, shining light on the simple but powerful gesture of reaching a hand out to someone who has fallen. It was directed by Shin Su-won and stars Han Hyun-min and Lee Zoo-young.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-mutation-74142/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-26-the-mutation", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a37d5930be321d52a68e54f777923c0abb470e4484c0a99c93e050307cefdeb5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Bedford Park", "start": "2026-11-05T18:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122203.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "Bedford Park is a romantic drama about 36-year-old Korean-American Audrey Park, bound by her traditionalist mother and alcoholic father, who after an accident meets Eli, a gruff adopted Korean ex-wrestler, the two lost souls finding they can finally breathe in each other's company. It is Stephanie Ahn's feature-length expansion of her short film Accident (2023), using romance to explore cultural clash and intergenerational trauma in the Korean diaspora, and it won the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature at Sundance Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bedford-park-74182/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/bedford-park/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f7ea8fe5319704db63191cf09b951d0a738f572bd3f7cc463576d5806710f10-2000.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, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "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": "The Accordion Door", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "The Accordion Door is a South Korean film directed by Son Kyeong-su, starring Moon Woo-jin and Lee Jae-in. As a child, Ji-soo had a strange encounter behind an accordion door that took his memory but gave him a prodigious talent for writing. Now in middle school, his essay-writing success hides his social shortcomings, until football-loving transfer pupil Hyeon-joo turns his head and shakes his confidence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-accordion-door-74135/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-26-the-accordion-door", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f99c636fecd92d64d938ed3e894cc0c024310d301517a2cfda97f12d03d2bf6a-1200.webp"}]}