{"title": "My Father and Qaddafi", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A documentary in which filmmaker Jihan retraces the disappearance of her father, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former Foreign Minister who vanished during a trip to Cairo in 1993 while living in exile as an opposition leader against Qaddafi's regime. Mixing personal and state archives with her own experiences and those of her family, she takes the audience on a raw, thought-provoking journey showing that the personal and the political cannot be separated. 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As Imamura, actor Tsuyuguchi Shigeru, and Ôshima's fiancé continue the search, their investigation is outpaced by the complexity of their subject, their own characters, and the film's restless invention. Through overlapping interviews sketching Ôshima's character and last days, Imamura builds a serpentine collage of facts, opinions and hearsay about how we present ourselves and how reality is constructed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-man-vanishes-74134/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-a-man-vanishes", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96dcbd99ac377043db0a88cd9d79117c840dfb0bbce777313ec8efe35b8fa8d3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Kim Ghattas in conversation with Clarissa Ward", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lala Books", "address": "Grove Lane 4a, SE5 8SY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/111081447981", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/true-crime"], "description": "An evening conversation at the bookshop Lala Books celebrating the launch of Kim Ghattas' new book 'The Best Kind of American'. Ghattas, a journalist and author who has covered the Middle East for more than twenty years, will be in conversation with Clarissa Ward, CNN's Chief International Correspondent. The book is a work of true crime following one American family's search for answers after the 1984 murder of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University, in war-torn Beirut. 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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. 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It is directed by Paweł Pawlikowski, the director of Ida and Cold War, and stars Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler. The film won a prize at Cannes 2026 and has earned five-star reviews from the Guardian, The Times, the Irish Times and Time Out. 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In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them. It is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, produced with the team behind The Zone of Interest, and includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders; the two directors are also among the four behind No Other Land, which won the 2025 Oscar for best documentary. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/naza-34653/", "official_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=667515", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7e0e704f8ae75651c832bc0e809bb53b55f5d1df9ba211911220f49a603eafe8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "We, The Hated", "start": "2026-11-04T18:10:00Z", "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": ["society/activism/climate", "film/documentary"], "description": "A screening of the documentary 'We, The Hated', followed by a question-and-answer session with its director Rich Felgate, moderated by Mary Mitchell, a PhD in Media Arts who leads the Green Party Councillors in Brent and represents Willesden Green as a ward councillor. The film follows a filmmaker whose girlfriend helps start Just Stop Oil, one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory, and four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—as they weigh the personal cost of action against the stakes of inaction while facing mounting repression. It asks how far ordinary people will go to stop oil drilling and how far the authorities will go to stop them. Felgate is a documentary filmmaker whose debut feature, 'Finite', won awards including the FIPADOC Impact Grand Prix; 'We, The Hated' premiered as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/we-the-hated-36996/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10232129", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d2f868e0388b40e9f56a2bcb09f485ea105e0d53ac4b8c730acd028eb5dca6ac-2000.webp"}, {"title": "John Simpson – The Leaders and Lunatics Tour", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "£16.50 - £68.50 plus fees", "price_from": "16.50", "price_to": "68.50", "tickets_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/strangers-an-exclusive-evening-with-belle-burden/book/1382834", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/media/journalism", "history/politics"], "description": "An evening with the journalist and broadcaster John Simpson CBE, part of his show 'The Leaders and Lunatics Tour'. Drawing on nearly 60 years of access to world leaders, he examines what makes tyrants and how sane societies slip into despotism, from Putin, Assad, Saddam, Gaddafi and Trump to Gorbachev, Mandela, Havel and Zelensky. The second half is an audience question-and-answer session about the events he has covered, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Tiananmen Square and the Gulf Wars. The event runs 1hr 50 min including a 20-minute interval, presented and promoted by Fane.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-simpson-the-leaders-and-lunatics-tour-35204/", "official_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/john-simpson/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3462d6b4ffd690999dd662788d30f5db41dcc95eff27f33893c01df792322ad8-1200.webp"}]}