{"title": "Of Times There Were Before", "start": "2026-11-03T17:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/historiography"], "description": "A documentary film screening, followed by a discussion with the director. 'Of Times There Were Before' is a portrait of Romila Thapar, one of the world's most influential historians and public intellectuals, filmed at her home in New Delhi. Directed and produced by Eshan Sharma and edited by Anant Raina, it began with the question of who the person behind the historian's name is. 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It comes from award-winning filmmaker Tom McShane and follows Sally Orange MBE, a former Army physiotherapist and mental health campaigner who, after recovering from cancer, takes her mental health message to the highest marathon in the world. The film also features adventurers and experts including Sir Chris Bonington, Al Carns, Hari Budha Magar and Dr Shaunna Burke, and the discussion joins Sally with Tom McShane, Dr Sophie Redlin and Dr Shaunna Burke.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/everyones-everest-sally-orange-mbe-50101/", "official_url": "https://www.rgs.org/events/upcoming-events/everyones-everest/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7472f3429077e2f79317210245849212a3a0fc6f7bb9fee0b3d40979163d2c54-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + Panel Discussion", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ica.art/films/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction/essay", "film"], "description": "A book launch and panel discussion celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture. The panel brings together Erika Balsom, Lola Lemke, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Jonathan Romney. The book argues that film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art and documentary meets experimentalism. In response, the panelists will discuss key transformations and tendencies in the last quarter-century of vanguard filmmaking.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion-36635/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64099e2d8d7358083cb0e233031a3e0857335b34b6bf1c2f04bf62dc8707fc64-1200.webp"}, {"title": "90th Anniversary Film Screening", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Dorich House Museum", "address": "Kingston Vale 67, SW15 3RN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-dora-gordine-ars-gratia-artis-tickets-2003071405495?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*12zmk2e*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTU5Mzg3Nzk3OC4xNzkxNDYwODI3*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3OTE0NjA4MjckbzEkZzEkdDE3OTE0NjA4MzkkajQ4JGwwJGgw", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of the film Dora Gordine: Ars Gratia Artis, marking 90 years since Dora Gordine and Richard Hare married and settled at Dorich House. Made over eight years by filmmaker Annaleena Piel Linnå, the first-ever feature-length film about Gordine traces her life and career from Latvia and Estonia to Paris, Singapore and her London studio home, and features rare recordings of her. Doors open beforehand with a chance to look around the museum, enjoy refreshments and live 1930s-inspired music, and after the screening the filmmaker discusses her research with the museum's curator, Fiona Fisher.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/90th-anniversary-film-screening-35609/", "official_url": "https://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/2026/10/08/90th-anniversary-film-screening-friday-6-november/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/da8dd3d4be6147dc267367cc68e9333a2cb494a711925785d0e21ac2c332b8fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00Z", "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": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.webp"}, {"title": "Saturday Talks: Chris Bayley on Amar Kanwar", "start": "2026-10-31T12:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Serpentine North Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://serpentinegalleries.ticketing.veevartapp.com/tickets/view/list/saturday-talks-chris-bayley-on-amar-kanwar-exhibition", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "A free Saturday Talk at Serpentine North Gallery in which Chris Bayley, the gallery's Exhibitions Curator, gives an introduction to the artist Amar Kanwar. Kanwar, a New Delhi-based artist and filmmaker, has spent over three decades making lyrical films and multi-video installations that move between documentary, travelogue and visual essay. The talk accompanies a major solo exhibition that unfolds as a site-specific installation, bringing together new and existing films to transform Serpentine North into a meditative visual and sonic environment. 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Eleanor Coppola filmed the landmark production, Milena Canonero's costume work, and what it took for Sofia to direct at 34 under her mother's gaze. The footage went unseen for two decades, until, in fulfillment of her mother's wish, it became a film of its own, released as a tribute from Sofia and Roman Coppola. It works both as a behind-the-scenes look at an ambitious take on 18th-century French history and as a touching mother's observation of her daughter at work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/making-marie-antoinette-39220/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/making-marie-antoinette/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d7921a01335dc041edfa908aed9d16b22ac11c98e49c9e6c001d2d9426adeaa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + little boy", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film", "literature"], "description": "An evening celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's book 'The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture', paired with the London premiere of James Benning's film 'little boy'. Balsom's essay collection argues that film culture thrives on the margins, from visual art and documentary to experimental and repertory cinema. Benning, an artist and filmmaker central to the book, uses popular songs, political speeches and architectural models to traverse decades of U.S. history. The film, winner of the grand prize at Paris's Cinéma du Réel festival, looks at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-little-boy-36634/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/defc09f0ffe6ab0a447c8313f8c817c5aea0017073c0563e1ac5a5ecaab3940e-1200.webp"}]}