{"title": "Minotaur", "start": "2026-11-20T14:55:00Z", "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/drama"], "description": "Minotaur is a feature film screening at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni's cinema. It is the new film by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Elena), made while living in exile, based on Claude Chabrol's La Femme infidèle and awarded the Grand Jury Prix at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Set in Russia in 2022, it follows Gleb, a successful company director whose carefully ordered life collapses under mounting corporate pressures and an unstable world, accelerating toward violence. It stars Dmitriy Mazurov, Iris Lebedeva and Boris Kudrin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/minotaur-74212/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/minotaur/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ef5619d42b00e8c45b797bab7b617a66582653d822927beb757add43d85d96c-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T14:55:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-03T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "French Film Festival London 2026", "start": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "The French Film Festival London 2026 is a fortnight of cinema with over 40 films and almost 100 screenings at Ciné Lumière. It is organised by the Institut français du Royaume-Uni and explores the breadth of voices in French cinema, from emerging and established directors, through fiction, documentaries, animation and restored classics. The programme includes many UK premieres, films such as Minotaur, a new partnership with the Cinéma du réel festival, and guests including Sophie Marceau, Sandrine Kiberlain and Laetitia Masson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/french-film-festival-london-2026-74199/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/festivals-and-series/french-film-festival-london/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2839698898d8c15c543995a257435e5bdd74812cf1c6c2317fdd9f12553db86c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Minotaur + My Skin, Luminous", "start": "2026-11-14T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of two films by Nicolás Pereda, Minotaur and My Skin, Luminous, co-directed with Gabino Rodríguez, moving from domestic seclusion to the classrooms and countryside of rural Mexico, finding unexpected paths from the mundane towards the dreamlike. Minotaur follows three thirty-somethings in a Mexico City apartment filled with books, passing languid afternoons reading, sleeping and receiving occasional visitors, while outside Mexico is burning and time inside seems barely to pass. My Skin, Luminous begins with footage ostensibly commissioned to document improvements to Mexico's public schools, giving way at a primary school in Michoacán to the story of Matías, an orphaned boy isolated from his classmates after mysteriously losing the pigment in his skin. Together the films reveal Pereda's gift for allowing ordinary spaces to quietly harbour other worlds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/minotaur-my-skin-luminous-74151/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/pereda-minotaur-my-skin-luminous", "image": "https://noky.io/images/868372f5bae8a888deb89d833678033aac20ebbeebccf89595701c453c5f3a59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "MUBI Fest", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hackney Picturehouse", "address": "Mare Street 270, E8 1HE London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "MUBI Fest is a three-day mini film festival taking place at a cinema in Hackney, London. It is hosted by MUBI, an art-house streaming service and film distributor. The programme presents the distributor's buzziest upcoming titles on the big screen ahead of their theatrical release, alongside indie classics worth revisiting. Highlights include new films with director and cast Q&As, plus anniversary screenings of films like 'Donnie Darko', 'Drive' and 'The Handmaiden', the first followed by a live recording of the Evolution of Horror podcast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mubi-fest-83353/", "official_url": "https://mubifest.com/en/london", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9e2043e85e4958c2ff9bdda7cb02a606dc0ea9ab59982f8e07cd622e71f8d0a0-2000.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", "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"}, {"title": "Coward", "start": "2026-11-19T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/war-film"], "description": "Coward (Les Braves) is a feature film screening preceded by a recorded introduction from its director. Lukas Dhont, the maker of Girl and Close, directs a story set as the First World War drags on. Pierre, a newly arrived soldier eager to prove himself, meets Francis behind the lines, who puts together a theatre show to lift his comrades' spirits; both men seek ways to escape the brutality of war. Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne were jointly awarded the Best Actor Palme at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/coward-36654/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/coward/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5add04e80e2eee34421eb078e5c6f6585df3f68a96ced30699b6d6728a3c3aa6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La Gradiva", "start": "2026-11-18T20:20:00Z", "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/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "La Gradiva is a feature film screening on a cinema screen. Director Marine Atlan follows a pack of rowdy French teenagers on a school field trip to Pompeii, where sunshine, desire, passion, angst and class tensions unfold against the ruins and beauty of the ancient past. As the journey progresses, pressures build between the students as they confront the hidden economic realities structuring their social lives. The film captures the fleeting nature of adolescence and summer, and was nominated for the Golden Camera and the Queer Palm at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/la-gradiva-74200/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/la-gradiva/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c3acad915477f3220f2a109b4dd7da5860fa7ab4ed31106ac94482b1c7fe8b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Flesh and Fuel", "start": "2026-11-20T18:30:00Z", "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/drama"], "description": "A film screening of \"Flesh and Fuel\". It is directed by Pierre Le Gall and awarded the Queer Palm Revelation Award at Cannes, telling of Étienne, a lorry driver whose life on the road leaves him only fleeting encounters, until meeting Polish driver Bartosz turns his loneliness upside down. Alexis Manenti and Julian Świeżewski star in this original, moving and often funny film.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/flesh-and-fuel-74213/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/flesh-and-fuel/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aecc162cf273d5a2f20b2840c2ca3677e44a0d55783dfddf9dbe050588866bdf-2000.webp"}]}