{"title": "Seduction: The Cruel Woman", "start": "2026-11-12T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/queer-cinema"], "description": "A screening of the film Seduction: The Cruel Woman, introduced by season curator Nico Hughes, an MA student in Film Studies at the National Film and Television School. Directed by Elfi Mikesch and Monika Treut, the film follows Wanda, a dominatrix and businesswoman who stages sadomasochistic rituals as spectacles in a Hamburg gallery. Inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, it places a woman's bisexual desire at the centre, starring Mechthild Großmann and Udo Kier. Banned for 18 years by the German Federal Board of Censorship, it is now a seminal work of queer cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/seduction-the-cruel-woman-74147/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/nfts-collective-visions-of-pleasure-the-cruel-woman", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d3c84bba642597223cff327ab9ba86766e52e9abf479488e55b8438c1fd15e37-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T20:40:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "KitKatClub: Kinks of Berlin", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ica.art/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/queer"], "description": "KitKatClub: Kinks of Berlin ventures inside one of the world's most iconic clubs, following a diverse cast through Berlin's nocturnal underground. Aspiring drag artist Raven Van Krueger pursues stardom, Elisa explores her sexuality, BDSM and dog-play couples navigate intimacy, and David battles addiction, while founder Simon reflects on the club's changing culture. Moving between performances, candid conversations and encounters between bodies and souls, the film offers a raw yet poetic portrait of a community built around radical self-expression. Directed by Philipp Fussenegger, it is an immersive exploration of freedom, intimacy, identity, sexuality, consent and the liberating act of unlearning shame.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/kitkatclub-kinks-of-berlin-74127/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/doc-n-roll-ff-kitkatclub-kinks-of-berlin-q-a-zoom", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c6b438b447d012983659f9c4b59d8bb140419ba5d71cc3811bf4dc17b965f0fc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In the Realm of the Senses", "start": "2026-11-02T15:25:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/psychological-drama"], "description": "A screening of the controversial 1976 Japanese psychological drama 'In the Realm of the Senses'. It is directed by Nagisa Oshima and stars Eiko Matsuda, Tatsuya Fuji, Aoi Nakajima and Taiji Tonoyama. Set in 1936 and based on a true incident, it depicts a man and a woman consumed by a transcendent, destructive love amid escalating imperialism and governmental control. Still censored in its own country, it is described as less a work of pornography than of politics, a brave, taboo-breaking milestone.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-the-realm-of-the-senses-64014/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/25079278/in-the-realm-of-the-senses", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db6031f5b00f3e199a2e979c15c0fbef37cf73960dc89d1e46dda1a72f68566c-1200.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": "https://www.outsavvy.com/event/40685/the-films-of-annette-kennerley", "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": "Santa Sangre", "start": "2026-11-09T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/psychological-horror"], "description": "A screening of Santa Sangre, a film unlike anything you have seen before, a surrealist psychological horror tale that is visually extraordinary, inventive, tender and deeply human, with a cult queer following for its exploration of gender roles and androgyny. It follows circus performer Felix, whose traumatic childhood left him mentally disturbed: as a boy he witnessed his father cutting off the arms of his mother Concha, and after years in an asylum he returns to do her bidding, murdering every woman he comes into contact with until he chances upon his first love. Pink Palace is a super low fi, highly relaxed weekly queer film club that takes place in the basement bar as a safe space, where curator Andrew Woodyatt introduces each film and chatting afterwards is encouraged. Critics have called it a macabre, maximalist tale of blood and circuses where Hitchcock meets Fellini in Mexico City's most Freudian back alleys, extraordinary, and a grand work of art full of symbols and imagery that reach beyond language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/santa-sangre-49322/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc0afe9da1a56bdea5307c790e8e0b6e7aef61c8c2f6897c141e7e4c7b6cd128-2000.webp"}]}