{"title": "London Palestine Film Festival: Janin, Jenin / Le Monde / Since You Left (Mohammad Bakri tribute)", "start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary", "history/middle-east"], "description": "The London Palestine Film Festival 2026 presents a tribute to Mohammad Bakri (1953–2025), the Palestinian actor and filmmaker who helped shape Palestinian cinema and theatre for over half a century. The evening brings together three of his works spanning two decades: Janin, Jenin (2024), in which he returns with his camera to Jenin refugee camp to document the devastation of the 2023 assault; Le Monde (2026), about a birthday celebration in a café-restaurant where a blind man is the only one who registers the war on television; and Since You Left (2005), a meditation on his mentor Emile Habibi, personal memory and political history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-palestine-film-festival-janin-jenin-le-monde-since-yo-134378/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsProgramme_2927957", "image": "https://noky.io/images/44c106337c68e8508b6df7ad90b1ba9305066dc2783e6b0a5e64cab4d0cdf959-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "London Palestine Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "The London Palestine Film Festival is an annual festival bringing new films about Palestinian life to the big screen. Its 2026 edition runs across 11 venues with over 27 screenings, from UK premieres and Oscar-nominated titles to archival footage and retrospective screenings. The programme creates a vital space to showcase the richness of Palestinian life through lived experiences and everyday realities. Highlights include the UK premiere of Who Killed Alex Odeh? and films revisiting Palestine's past and Gaza's hospitals.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/london-palestine-film-festival-2026-36673/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b0213a935d7b0f773a3783b46c47fc3a619ce3304856bfbbe2b47ea31434ae2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Partition + The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing", "start": "2026-11-15T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A double bill of films from the London Palestine Film Festival 2026, screening at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, followed by a screen talk. The session brings together Partition, directed by Diana Allan, and The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing, directed by Theo Panagopoulos. Partition weaves found footage from the British occupation of Palestine together with audio recorded with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, recentering Palestinian voices and tracing continuities between the colonial past and the unstable present. The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing follows a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland who unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers and decides to reclaim the footage, questioning image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/partition-the-flowers-stand-silently-witnessing-74157/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lpff-2026-partition-the-flowers-stand-silently-witnessing-screentalk", "image": "https://noky.io/images/34c0a22c9dccfa9dcdcf3aea10a8b37cd2cd775db403dcbf44c347d2736d704f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Film London x Womens Museum: T A P E Collective Takeover", "start": "2026-11-19T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["history/middle-east/israel-palestine/palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "An evening film screening at the Women's Museum, part of the Film London x Womens Museum programme, presented by T A P E Collective. In response to the exhibition Materiality of Memory, about the power of objects to carry memory, the collective celebrates intangible modes of history and oral storytelling between generations of women. The film shown is Bye Bye Tiberias, which follows actress Hiam Abbass who left her village, mother, grandmother and seven sisters to pursue her dream, as her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her thirty years later. Set between past and present, the film pieces together images of today, nineties family footage and historical archives to tell the stories of four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their legacy alive despite exile, dispossession and heartbreak.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-london-x-womens-museum-t-a-p-e-collective-takeover-40350/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/film-london-x-womens-museum-t-a-p-e-collective-takeover/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Edward Said: Between Worlds", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "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/documentary", "society/politics"], "description": "Edward Said: Between Worlds is a documentary film about the Palestinian-American scholar, intellectual, musician and activist Edward Said, followed by a Q&A with director Maiken Baird. Made with full access to the Said family and estate, it draws on unseen family archives, home movies, recordings, interviews, lectures and rare television appearances. Spanning seven decades from his childhood in Jerusalem through exile and his final years in New York, it traces his political awakening, personal struggles and lifelong search for home and belonging. Through his own voice and rare archives, it asks who has the right to tell their own story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/edward-said-between-worlds-90539/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/edward-said-between-worlds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b4b3b2d9b344880fbe44322e818f4f53cecb0bd8f48f6aab4b7dc3a3164721-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Edward Said: Between Worlds", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["history/middle-east/israel-palestine/palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary film about Edward Said, followed by a question-and-answer session. Twenty years after his death, it lets the Palestinian-American scholar recount his life and the untold history of Palestine in his own words. Made with full access to the Said family and estate, it draws on unseen family archives, home movies, recordings, interviews, lectures and rare television appearances. Spanning seven decades from his childhood in Jerusalem through exile to his final years in New York, it traces his political awakening, personal struggles and lifelong search for home and belonging, while asking who has the right to tell their own story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/edward-said-between-worlds-36651/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/edward-said-between-worlds/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/82b4b3b2d9b344880fbe44322e818f4f53cecb0bd8f48f6aab4b7dc3a3164721-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Film Screening: South by South", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T20:45:00Z", "place": "South London Gallery", "address": "Peckham Road 65-67, SE5 8UH London", "price": "£10/£5 members & concessions", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image", "film/documentary"], "description": "An evening screening of two films by Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir: the short 'Hairat', about a man in Harar who has bonded with hyenas for over thirty-five years, and 'Faya Dayi', a hypnotic blend of documentary and drama about the rituals and trade of the stimulant leaf Khat in Ethiopia. The films were programmed by A Month of Single Frames, a film collective led by Ufuoma Essi, Sam Williams and Tendai Mutambu dedicated to artists' moving image, with this event curated by South East London artist and filmmaker Ufuoma Essi. The screening contains depictions of drug use and addiction and themes of violence and political repression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-screening-south-by-south-38710/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondongallery.org/events/film-screening-south-by-south-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b6105be0573e1ff52b0093fc32daa13f70574dd0e2d7f0ec170bf29c492c44d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness", "start": "2026-11-20T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T20:30:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness\", a tense drama in which Maryam, a 22-year-old woman who accidentally killed her 65-year-old husband and was sentenced to death, can only be saved if his daughter Mona publicly forgives her live on a hugely popular television show, forcing the two women to relive the past under the studio lights. It was made by Iranian director Massoud Bakhshi, who won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance in 2020. The screening also launches Jacques Bidou's memoir \"Once Upon a Time in Production\", translated into English by Holly Aylett, about producing the film; Bidou, founder of JBA Production, will introduce the film and afterwards discuss the craft and politics of producing world cinema with Holly Aylett.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/yalda-a-night-for-forgiveness-80565/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67393/yalda-a-night-for-forgiveness-massoud-bakhshi-iran-2019", "image": ""}, {"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": "4.99", "price_to": "12.00", "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"}]}