{"title": "Rays and Shadows", "start": "2026-11-21T10:30:00Z", "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/historical-drama", "history/wwii"], "description": "\"Rays and Shadows\" is a screening of a French film at the Institut français du Royaume-Uni's Language Centre venue at 13 Cromwell Place in London. Directed by Xavier Giannoli and starring Jean Dujardin, it is based on the real story of Jean and Corinne Luchaire, a father and daughter caught up in the machinery of collaboration. It follows Jean, a French newspaperman, and Otto, a young German Francophile, committed to preserving peace in Europe; when war breaks out and France falls under German occupation, Jean becomes a powerful press baron advocating collaboration while Otto is appointed the Reich's Ambassador to Paris, and Jean's daughter Corinne sees her promising acting career transformed by the times.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rays-and-shadows-74220/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/the-rays-and-shadows/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a2040b38b907a0bda14b85ae5e1e660749c53e4eefc02a9b1f7d585c5baa0634-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "A Man of His Time", "start": "2026-11-19T14:40:00Z", "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/historical-drama"], "description": "A Man of His Time (original title: Notre Salut) is a film about Henri Marre, a 49-year-old engineer who arrives alone in Vichy in September 1940 as the Pétain regime settles in. Carrying copies of his self-published manifesto Notre Salut, he seeks his rightful place in the new administration through active collaboration, driven by patriotic convictions and a methodology of efficiency above all. Zealously serving the machinery of the new order in the name of saving France after defeat, he tries at the same time to salvage his family relations. Directed by Emmanuel Marre and based on the life of the director's great-grandfather, the film stars Swann Arlaud, Sandrine Blancke and Mathieu Perotto and won Best Screenplay at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-man-of-his-time-99322/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/a-man-of-his-time/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc9da672523c2d1e115724a44d38e819a0a31cc57e5a1981d3ea81dd1322dd69-2000.webp"}, {"title": "De Gaulle: Résistance", "start": "2026-11-09T13:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Phoenix Cinema", "address": "52 High Rd, London N2 9PJ, UK", "price": "", "price_from": "15.50", "price_to": "15.50", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "De Gaulle: Résistance is a film about June 1940, when France collapses and signs the armistice, and an unknown general flees to London to keep fighting for freedom. Alone, without an army or backing, he tries to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over nor lost. Little by little, resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers in England, France and Africa rise up to join his cause. Directed by Antonin Baudry, it stars Simon Abkarian, Simon Russell Beale, Florian Lesieur, Benoît Magimel and Loïc Corbery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/de-gaulle-resistance-37004/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10075090", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67a378f8f18fe5a31817aa0499651eb40bce662717e874cdd1f6912a73845701-2000.webp"}, {"title": "De Gaulle: Liberté", "start": "2026-11-15T16:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "A screening of the film De Gaulle: Liberté, the follow-up to De Gaulle: Résistance. Directed by Antonin Baudry and starring Simon Abkarian, Benoit Magimel and Anamaria Vartolomei, it follows an unknown general who flees to London in June 1940 as France collapses and signs the armistice. Without an army or backing, he tries to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over nor lost, as resistance fighters, rebellious students and determined soldiers gradually rise up to join his cause.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/de-gaulle-liberte-37006/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10145432", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a93b77c4b6f3315804d64020ad32600b40f0571f7251658e2784d25bb2b9b32-2000.webp"}, {"title": "À propos de Nice", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£20/£12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century"], "description": "This is a film screening of À propos de Nice, followed by a talk about 20th-century life in the French Riviera. The film was directed by Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman, and is a 1930 documentary offering a provocative portrait of Nice, capturing both the luxury of the carnival on the promenade and the poverty of the working-class neighbourhoods. After the screening, historian Richard Vinen, who has taught at King's College London since 1991 and specialises in modern France and Europe, will discuss the Riviera's two competing realities: the sun-soaked playground of artists and aristocrats and the poverty of everyday life in the shadow of war and the Great Depression.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-propos-de-nice-38267/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/a-propos-de-nice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a3006449cabd31b550b19bf14afa16b30e5a9eef05e4564eacbbca5927618af3-600.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": "All of a Sudden", "start": "2026-11-21T10:20:00Z", "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"], "description": "A drama about Marie-Lou, director of an elderly care facility, who champions a care philosophy built on listening and residents' dignity despite resistance from part of her staff. Her meeting with Mari, a Japanese theatre director battling cancer, deeply reshapes her path. The two women form a deep bond of attention and support, joining forces to 'make the impossible possible.' Ryusuke Hamaguchi directs, with Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto, jointly awarded Best Actress at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/all-of-a-sudden-74218/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/all-of-a-sudden/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b84607947817248ea128faa04dea8fb0b143e9ee34ac6d940e1277c976a1ee60-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Story Time: Shadow Theatre", "start": "2026-11-14T11:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "member £5, non-member £7 (only kids need a ticket)", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word/storytelling"], "description": "Story Time: Shadow Theatre is a storytelling session for children aged 3 to 8, held in the Bibliothèque Quentin Blake of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni. Children enter a shadow theatre and listen to famous French tales such as Little Red Riding Hood. Storytellers also read picture books in black and white and cut-out style. The session lasts 45 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/story-time-shadow-theatre-74194/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/story-time-shadow-theatre/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Reading Group on Quand tu écouteras cette chanson by Lola Lafon", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-17T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£7 standard, £5 members", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction/contemporary-fiction", "history/holocaust"], "description": "A reading group held in French, dedicated to Lola Lafon's Quand tu écouteras cette chanson, with the author not present in person. In the book, Lola Lafon recounts the night she spent in the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. She recalls her feelings while wandering in the empty apartment as though a threat were ever-present, reconnecting with the past of her own family, victims of the Holocaust.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/reading-group-on-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson-by-lola-la-74190/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/reading-group-on-quand-tu-ecouteras-cette-chanson-by-lola-lafon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6ebd0d770ac3fca0edd9cefc227dcd5b5fc7af19818a33c44d4b2d7a234a265e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Our Story", "start": "2026-11-11T18:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "A French romantic drama in which Alain Delon plays Robert, a man nearly ruined by his drinking who latches onto a stranger-on-a-train, played by Nathalie Baye, hoping for stability, with each of them unsure who can tell reality from fantasy. Bertrand Blier directed and paired the two beloved French stars in this unconventional tale. Delon won a César for his acting, Blier for the screenplay, and Baye's captivating performance as the mysterious Donatienne was widely praised for its mesmerising versatility.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/our-story-74176/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/our-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7430dcb3fbf2c7967e210085411bf9cb81a2223bd9311663c20712838fcddc98-2000.webp"}]}