{"title": "Native Spirit Film Festival: Gods & Devils: Postindian Survivance", "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "price": "£10-15", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/nativespiritfestival/2502706", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A shorts programme of films celebrating Greenlandic and Turtle Island storytellers, with a director Q&A. Kalaallisut artist Dennis Inuk Aningaaq Møller presents his Super 8 visual poetry, followed by nine Turtle Island films including a Louis Riel historical drama, animated spray-painted murals, Naskapi vampirism, and Cree astronomer 'Wilfred Buck's Star Stories'. Native Spirit is the UK's first and longest-running independent film festival promoting Native filmmakers, artists, narrative and visual sovereignty, and languages worldwide, founded by Mapuche leader Freddy Trequil. Some films contain themes of colonial violence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/native-spirit-film-festival-gods-devils-postindian-survivanc-80664/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e129c857890c93ea05426a7273eed1ef901fedc04014ec000d85aa7e3ae2e117-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Horse Hospital", "address": "30 Colonnade, WC1N 1JD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Vampire, The Ghost, and the Zombie", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/short-film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A screening night presenting short horror films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation. 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The films are warned to contain horror images and jump scare moments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie-60636/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/event/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88a0597e67e50a995d91e95bf54829bd2e07b27269baed7e1259abd9084f65e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Smoke Signals", "start": "2026-11-12T18:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "13.00", "price_to": "13.00", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_2902985.TcsSection_936", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A cinema screening of Smoke Signals, introduced with a video by Indigenous Caribbean filmmaker Akley Olten. The film is presented by NEVER WATCHING MOVIES and is the first feature written, directed and produced by an all Native American filmmaking crew, winning the audience award and filmmaker trophy at Sundance 1998. It follows childhood friends Victor and Thomas as they travel off their reservation for the first time after news of Victor's father's passing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/smoke-signals-38192/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=2795918", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7de8740d9aa9aab6e8a957198b317c7488f9ba3ad72484f1c030b57e1f2627e8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-1-impossible-cinema-6accbcefd1712e4ba1f9f180", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. The screening is preceded by an introduction by Phoebe Campion.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema-38494/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-1-impossible-cinema/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0d52d340eb24cdf1daf377adfd3c4c0364e714a0f5dad6304923ea7caea6e28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Women and the World Festival: British Shorts (Block 2) + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-09T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/911-wwiff-british-shorts-block-2-qa-session-tickets-2003769931806?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/women"], "description": "A festival screening of a block of British short films in competition, followed by a Q&A. 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Lela Meburishvili, with a total runtime of 115 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-and-the-world-festival-british-shorts-block-2-qa-78833/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d86aa5f0e8bc00e5ab6e9a37c2c246abe5bb092d0b387b37e37a5cb66875d4eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Women and the World Festival: British Shorts (Block 1) + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/911-wwiff-british-shorts-block-1-qa-session-tickets-2003769359093?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/women"], "description": "A festival screening of British short films, followed by an in-person Q&A with cast members David Gyasi and Nathalie Emmanuel of Sycoraxe, moderated by Ksenia Bugrimova. The programme gathers shorts in competition at the Women and the World International Film Festival, a London-based annual festival presenting independent films that explore the role of women in contemporary society, with a focus on conflict, security, and leadership. The block includes Kaleidoscope, Spray Me, Tum Tum, The Launch and Sycoraxe, with a total runtime of 71 minutes. It runs as part of the Women and the World Film Festival 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/women-and-the-world-festival-british-shorts-block-1-qa-78832/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10324237", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b472ddd7d149f628a017edaae548d57486f39fa8ccbd81811085491b4a8d5b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #2: Plot Twist", "start": "2026-11-12T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-2-plot-twist-6accd3e1d381044fbb229904", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "comedy"], "description": "An evening of five short films exploring the surreal, the silly and the unexpected, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Ellie Dobbs. It is Night #2: Plot Twist of SET Film Festival 2026, an independent, grassroots festival for contemporary, artist and archival film run by London-based arts organisation SET. The films play with performance and improvisation, finding humour where the plot unravels and nothing goes to plan: a cigarette-break reverie, best friends on a shoplifting spree, a fishing trip-cum-stag do, a conversation in bed and an extra in a replica of the American Museum of Natural History. The festival was founded in 2023 and is curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist-38497/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026-night-2-plot-twist/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aaa63208465b67b4e2d2096ddd2499cbcc0ff1f7fa15c3fcb16a5feecd554a53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Films of Annette Kennerley", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening screening of moving image works by East London artist Annette Kennerley, followed by a Q&A with the artist and filmmaker Sweatmother. Organised by UCL's Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, Cinenova, LUX and Spectra, it shows works recently digitised by students, exploring queer relationships, transgender lives and motherhood from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. The programme includes 'Bet Lynch's Earrings', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Red Sails', 'Boys in the Backyard' and 'Kelby'. The event is free with booking, runs about two hours and is 18+.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-films-of-annette-kennerley-37112/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/the-films-of-annette-kennerley/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6422ce9d7dd00f3d32ca198d84350501ba6272616e63facdcb5570137e0cdd95-2000.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£5 - £9", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/welcome", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "SET Film Festival is an independent, grassroots platform for contemporary, artist and archival film, returning to SET Social in Peckham for its fourth edition across a month of screenings and events. It was founded in 2023 and curated this year by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe with the wider SET FF26 team. The programme brings together four themed short film nights, a feature-length screening, a free evening of archival film and performance, a first online screening and an inaugural awards night, with selected screenings followed by Q&As with filmmakers. The festival also supports UK-based filmmakers through its 2026 Accelerator Programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/set-film-festival-2026-38495/", "official_url": "https://setspace.uk/event/set-film-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/804615857f21e4b55712a912e9f4af348a1f68ec72a3388e26e3a7cd06d6c1a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Framing Colonial Film Archives: Histories and Afterlives of Indian collections", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00Z", "place": "Birkbeck College", "address": "WC1E 7HX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/event/67633", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/archive", "history/colonialism"], "description": "An evening of film screenings, discussion and debate focused on the audiovisual heritage of the Indian sub-continent. It is presented by the Colonial Reels project team, who report back from their symposium on South Asian archive footage held in the British and Indian national film archives. Films from the British Film Institute, the British Empire and Commonwealth Collection and Wellcome Collection will be introduced by project members including Imruh Bakari, Haroon Forde, Jacqueline Maingard, Rosa Méthol, Emma Sandon and Angela Saward. Themes include colonial film historiography, indigenous erasure, plantations and refineries, the ecologies of the colonial short film, and the afterlives of colonial reels in British archives, followed by drinks and nibbles in the cinema foyer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/framing-colonial-film-archives-histories-and-afterlives-of-i-80524/", "official_url": "https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/67633/framing-colonial-film-archives-histories-and-afterlives-of-indian-collections", "image": ""}, {"title": "NFF 2026 Shorts: Right Here, Right Now", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/001/HO00018794/nff-2026-shorts-right-here-right-now", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "A shorts programme titled 'NFF 2026 Shorts: Right Here, Right Now', running about 90 minutes and certificate 18. It is a brand new strand presented as part of Norwich Film Festival 2026. The fragile modern world and our lives within it are under focus, with humorous explorations of the gig economy, our relationship with technology, and political satire. The screening takes a look at what is going on in the world, right here and right now.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-right-here-right-now-41895/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/001/HO00018794/nff-2026-shorts-right-here-right-now", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed68c242c8c555c7bb913795c4884a2b42c379e4f29d4acb66e67ce9850117b2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Gathering Ground", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Modern", "address": "Bankside, SE1 9TG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "nature/environment"], "description": "Gathering Ground is an exhibition at Tate Modern exploring art's power to inspire change in today's ecological crisis. It brings together works from Tate's Collection highlighting the connection between environmental and social justice, inviting us to reimagine our relationships with the natural world and each other. Artists including Outi Pieski, Abbas Akhavan, Bruce Conner, Zheng Bo, Joydeb Roaja, Abel Rodriguez, Munem Wasif, Minerva Cuevas and Carolina Caycedo feature, alongside a new commission by Abbas Zahedi, honouring Indigenous knowledge, nurturing queer multispecies relations and documenting issues such as displacement and destruction of land and waterways. Set in a former oil and coal power station, the exhibition offers a shared space to reflect on our role in creating a more equal world, asking how we can be good Ancestors for future generations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gathering-ground-38892/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca2f874a9082c1e73d112ff92bb7729f7c6e35916197269c3aa77468aa1a6fb8-1200.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": "Scream Station Festival: Experimental Film Section", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00Z", "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-kdzrylk", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "The Experimental Film Section is a screening of ten short films ranging from one to 22 minutes, part of Screamstation Fest at the Close-Up Film Centre. The festival is curated and organised by Zhel Vukicevic and Kerry Baldry, and this programme gathers works that approach cinema as a space for experimentation with image, sound, duration, movement and perception. It presents radical experiments in perception, structure and audiovisual language by filmmakers and artists pushing at the boundaries of the moving image, with films by AWAI and Eriko Muraki, Paulo Coqueiro, Anne Colvin, Simon Payne, Yuri Kuzin, Susan Kouguell, Marty St James, Rastko Novakovic, Rutger Wolfson and Glitschen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/scream-station-festival-experimental-film-section-35344/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}