{"title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tzkrti.com/en/events/4873", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of two films: Jumana Manna's 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' and Kamal Aljafari's 'With Hasan in Gaza', shown as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World. LUX and Mosaic Rooms are collaborating on the event, organised by Filmlab Palestine for its 4th edition. 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' (2010, 21') sketches a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, manifested in gyms, barber shops and body parlours and inspired by Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising'. 'With Hasan in Gaza' (2025, 106') is a filmic journal of a journey the filmmaker made in 2001 from the north to the south of Gaza, searching for the man with whom he had spent seven months in an Israeli prison, capturing daily life amid moments of vibrancy and darker realities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-obliv-37113/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-oblivion-with-hasan-in-gaza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67c9f6fdfb102dda26d16327e9bb5f77f5a2f4d17578863558e396b6471bf114-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Mosaic Rooms", "address": "Cromwell Road 226, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A film screening at The Mosaic Rooms showing two films, Blessed Blessed Oblivion and With Hasan in Gaza, as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World. 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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. Now forced into exile, they reflect on what they endured and on the near-impossible task of covering the deadliest war ever recorded for journalists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/inside-gaza-36648/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/inside-gaza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dbb9c54b6af0dd19444c54aa5279e6413f20e724c574d5d5d91aac29a0b13119-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NAZA", "start": "2026-10-24T15:20:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T18:50:00Z", "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_797100.TcsSection_846", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/israel-palestine"], "description": "NAZA is a documentary film screening. 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": "London Palestine Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "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": "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": "Fault Lines + Into the Light Double Bill + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-05T18:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A cinema double bill of two surf documentaries, each followed by a Q&A with its makers, plus a set of shortlisted short films. 'Fault Lines', directed by Nathan Hugh James Whitmarsh and Justin Hunt, is an intimate portrait of surfer Noah Lane, who after a near-fatal accident at the Irish big wave spot Mullaghmore must rethink the life he has built around the ocean. 'Into The Light' by Emmy Award winning filmmaker Mikey Corker follows two young South African surfers, Indiphile Indi Osinachi and Ntando Biggie Msibi, whose dreams carry them across an ocean they were never meant to touch, showing education as resistance and the search for belonging. The Q&As feature Noah Lane, Whitmarsh, Hunt and Corker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa-74668/", "official_url": "https://riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/u40-fault-lines-into-the-light-double-bill-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/631ed189dba7c0da7bf8ba36437c5a11e82bad16cf87c5c08c523186f251c0f6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Caméra arabe", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7092060.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Caméra arabe is a documentary tracing the emergence of a new Arab cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, when filmmakers began using cinema to confront the political, social and cultural transformations of the Arab world. Directed by Férid Boughedir, it features interviews with leading directors including Youssef Chahine, Jocelyne Saab, Nouri Bouzid, Merzak Allouache and Michel Khleifi, alongside vivid extracts from their films. From the aftermath of the Six-Day War to the Lebanese Civil War, it shows how major historical events shaped filmmakers determined to challenge conventional representations. At once a cinematic history and a passionate defence of politically engaged filmmaking, it remains an essential document of the emergence of modern Arab cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/camera-arabe-36646/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/camera-arabe/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/071aeebb8210ffc28a25100021f119d716b13644b373e4e0ec9e30a3abd4e107-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lift + Calais The Last Border", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00Z", "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-dklaqqm", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "An evening of two documentaries by Marc Isaacs, Lift and Calais: The Last Border, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Gareth Evans. In Lift, made in 2001, Isaacs sets himself up with his camera in the lift of a London tower block, waiting for the right moment to ask residents questions, capturing the whole of British society in a humorous and moving microcosm. Calais: The Last Border, from 2003, weaves together character-driven stories of refugees, migrants and English expatriates in the French port town that is, for hundreds of migrants, the final barrier in the search for a new life in England. Together the films build a picture of transient places and inhabitants who dream of somewhere better.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lift-calais-the-last-border-35342/", "official_url": "https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2026/planned-spontaneity-the-films-of-marc-isaacs/lift-calais-the-last-border", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f670b40d71c7c8fc3cfad2a4973659abe56ccb3931620e8c724520b57adeb8af-1200.webp"}]}