{"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": "9.00", "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. 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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": "NFF 2026: Women In Film - Shorts + Q&A", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "£8 / £6", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "A screening of a selection of short films directed by women, spanning a diverse range of genres, styles and themes. It is presented as part of Norwich Film Festival 2026. After the films, selected filmmakers join a panel and Q&A. 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The programme brings together new voices, established filmmakers and essential works from across Africa and its diasporas, spanning features, documentaries, shorts, retrospectives and conversations. Highlights include a special screening and conversation honouring Tunisian filmmaker Férid Boughedir, whose documentaries Caméra d'Afrique and Caméra Arabe are landmark works on African and Arab cinemas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/film-africa-2026-74233/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e08461265938bcfe1b85ae17682528e1ec42c84bdc12594b74e6547e8cebeaa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026: East Anglian Student Showcase", "start": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "NFF 2026: East Anglian Student Showcase + Q&A is a 90-minute showcase of student work with a question-and-answer session, rated 18. It is part of the Norwich Film Festival 2026 programme at Picturehouse, celebrating films made by students from the East of England. Attendees can hear from the filmmakers themselves during the discussion after the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-east-anglian-student-showcase-37884/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6c8a81c5bf225858a9efe5b91c126d0b931ea1e0186019fef057563b171b7194-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026: Comedy Shorts", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "A programme of comedy short films, running for 90 minutes. It is part of NFF 2026, shown through Picturehouse, and brings together several short funny films in one sitting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-comedy-shorts-37867/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74728dee9e7ed911bf7f82dcbf7ca58fd3edf28bcc5b49b591f470d734f88010-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NFF 2026 Shorts: The Mix Tape Vol. 1", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film"], "description": "NFF 2026 Shorts: The Mix Tape Vol. 1 is a shorts screening presented as part of Norwich Film Festival 2026, shown at Picturehouse Central. The collection asks whether memory has a name or is a place, featuring recollections of lands left behind, relationships lost, languages displaced and dances that used to be. It remembers what was left behind, retracing the imprints of the past and revealing how they shape who we've become. The screening carries an 18 certificate and runs 90 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nff-2026-shorts-the-mix-tape-vol-1-41875/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/001/HO00018797/nff-2026-shorts-the-recollection-collection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8aefdda7b65bb534c42b9dceff9155f27f590af23d80dbf2dd81e69d376410a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "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": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film/documentary", "music"], "description": "Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2026 returns to London this autumn for its 13th edition, bringing an exciting selection of music and arts documentaries to cinemas across the city. The festival is fiercely independent and rooted in a DIY spirit, celebrating the artists, outsiders, scenes and stories that shape music culture across genres, generations and musical movements from around the world. It began life in 2013 as the UK's Music & Arts Documentary Film Festival, an arts discovery fest championing outlier music, arts and subculture documentaries often ignored by risk-averse film programmers. The Garden Cinema screens festival films in partnership with Doc'n Roll, whose mission is discovering, exhibiting and championing compelling music documentaries and the performers, labels, scenes and stories they celebrate.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/docn-roll-film-festival-2026-39290/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/festival/docn-roll-film-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d7e85366a62cf3f3acb3f2961bde09a1f3d5921b4d28e74103340646b357ddfe-600.webp"}, {"title": "GIGGLE FILM FESTIVAL", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Big Penny Social", "address": "Priestley Way 1, E17 6AL London", "price": "from £10 per person", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comedy-short-film-festival-tickets-1998757075217?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Giggle Film Festival is a one-night evening of comedy short films at Big Penny Social. London's biggest comedy short-film festival, it returns for its third year with original and award-winningly funny shorts from UK and international filmmakers. 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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": "Oscillations: live scored film night", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T22:00:00Z", "place": "ANNEX, 1 Tiverton Street SE1 6NT", "address": "", "price": "From £11", "price_from": "11.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/events/knotsnoise/2392847/r/website", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "music/experimental"], "description": "Oscillations: live scored film night is an evening of short films shown with live musical scores at ANNEX. Curators a nightingale, withgauze and Noelle Radzewicz will perform to short films submitted to Knots' ongoing open call, which invites works of up to 15 minutes on collaboration and resistance in shared history, local communities, familial lives and the every day. Knots' noise nights invite artists to encounter one another through an exchange of ideas and collaboration, an ethos from which the Oscillations exhibition stems. One ticket covers three days of launch events, panels, workshops and performances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/oscillations-live-scored-film-night-70584/", "official_url": "https://thekoppelproject.com/events/oscillations-live-scored-film-night-annex-the-koppel-project-7-november", "image": "https://noky.io/images/76b1e8a1ff2f1110433245f0b1a82a1178efa620ff8d89a7f68686058485b30e-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": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_605.TcsWebTab_606", "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": "EGGBOX", "start": "2026-11-10T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "£9.50", "price_from": "9.50", "price_to": "9.50", "tickets_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/via/tickets/33%3A315366", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy", "film"], "description": "EGGBOX is a night of short comedy films and live script readings performed by a cast of comedy performers. It returns to champion the next wave of the UK's finest comedy writers and filmmakers. It is curated by Joz Norris (Comedians' Choice Award Winner) and Miranda Holms (BBC Comedy Collective), the team behind the BBC Radio 4 sitcom The Dream Factory. Its mission is to provide a platform for writers and filmmakers to showcase their work, connect with others, and spark new collaborations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/eggbox-63919/", "official_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/eggbox", "image": ""}]}