{"title": "The Mutation", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "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/drama"], "description": "The Mutation follows Se-oh, who works as a white-tiger mascot at an amusement park until overwork makes him collapse; he buys a luxury suitcase and sets off travelling, where So-ra appears at his side. Se-oh, of Black, mixed-race descent and knowing little about the circumstances of his birth, feels safer living in society wearing a mask, while So-ra has lived under shadows since the death of her same-sex lover. The film traces their journey and the facets of their pasts, shining light on the simple but powerful gesture of reaching a hand out to someone who has fallen. It was directed by Shin Su-won and stars Han Hyun-min and Lee Zoo-young.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-mutation-74142/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-26-the-mutation", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "London Korean Film Festival", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=journey-to-gyeong-ju-lkff", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Ok-sil (Lee Jung-eun) and her three adult daughters (Kong Hyo-jin, Park So-dam, Lee Yeon) may seem merely to be out on a family pilgrimage to commemorate the birthday of Ok-sil's long-deceased youngest daughter Gyeong-ju, but in fact this is a journey of revenge. 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Directed by Pil Gam-sung and based on Lee Yoon-chang's hugely popular webtoon, it stars Cho Jung-seok, Lee Jung-eun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Yoon Kyung-ho and Choi Yu-ri.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-daughter-is-a-zombie-36649/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/my-daughter-is-a-zombie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cbef575f83b453b7613ca995514244c5229757c076c34aa07171bf87cbe5832e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "En Route To", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "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/drama", "society"], "description": "En Route To is a screening of a film by Yoo Jaein, made in Korea in 2025 and running 105 minutes, shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts as part of the London Korean Film Festival 2026. It follows Yun-ji, a student whose secret is revealed at the start: after her homeroom teacher, with whom she had been having an affair, disappears when she tells him of her pregnancy, she steals savings from her dorm roommate Kyung-sun to buy illegal abortion pills. Kyung-sun sets out to find Yun-ji and recover her money, but her chase ends with her uncovering Yun-ji's secret.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/en-route-to-74136/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/en-route-to", "image": ""}, {"title": "My Daughter Is a Zombie", "start": "2026-11-04T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122201.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "A screening of the film My Daughter Is a Zombie, followed by a Q&A with actor Lee Jung-eun. 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Pil Gam-sung brings a fresh approach to the zombie genre through his distinctive visual style and clever use of colour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/my-daughter-is-a-zombie-74179/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/my-daughter-is-a-zombie/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Mad Dance Office", "start": "2026-11-11T20:40:00Z", "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/comedy"], "description": "Mad Dance Office is a lively South Korean comedy that mixes the dramatic gestures of flamenco with the wobbly steps of a woman in mid-life crisis. Guk-hee, a district office director played by Yeom Hye-ran, has worked all her life without a break, but is passed over for promotion through a colleague's interference, sees her workload cut, and watches her daughter move out. When she visits a flamenco studio for work, she finds an unexpected refuge. Director Cho Hyn-jin shows that loosening a stiffened body and following the rhythm might open a window to a new possibility of life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mad-dance-office-74144/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-26-mad-dance-office", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Seat of Me (VOILA! Festival)", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "place": "Etcetera Theatre", "address": "265 Camden High Street, London, England, NW1 7BU, United Kingdom", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.voilafestival.co.uk/events/the-seat-of-me/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/solo-show"], "description": "The Seat of Me is an intimate autobiographical solo performance staged at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden as part of the VOILA! Festival. It is written and performed by Giulia A.Cryan and produced by Iter Pictures. Through storytelling, music and minimalist staging, it follows one woman's journey across Rome, New York, Los Angeles and London, exploring identity, migration and the search for belonging, with fragments of Edith Piaf's music woven through. Recommended for ages 14 and up, it lasts 50 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-seat-of-me-voila-festival-60525/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/86aa3f85a863dfe9c2b5ec0840a61e69c0e2f4cdd9e5826757fb5bbffbd76910-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Accordion Door", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00Z", "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/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "The Accordion Door is a South Korean film directed by Son Kyeong-su, starring Moon Woo-jin and Lee Jae-in. As a child, Ji-soo had a strange encounter behind an accordion door that took his memory but gave him a prodigious talent for writing. Now in middle school, his essay-writing success hides his social shortcomings, until football-loving transfer pupil Hyeon-joo turns his head and shakes his confidence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-accordion-door-74135/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/lkff-26-the-accordion-door", "image": ""}, {"title": "Bedford Park", "start": "2026-11-05T18:10:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122203.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "Bedford Park is a romantic drama about 36-year-old Korean-American Audrey Park, bound by her traditionalist mother and alcoholic father, who after an accident meets Eli, a gruff adopted Korean ex-wrestler, the two lost souls finding they can finally breathe in each other's company. It is Stephanie Ahn's feature-length expansion of her short film Accident (2023), using romance to explore cultural clash and intergenerational trauma in the Korean diaspora, and it won the US Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature at Sundance Film Festival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bedford-park-74182/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/bedford-park/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6f7ea8fe5319704db63191cf09b951d0a738f572bd3f7cc463576d5806710f10-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Home A Loan", "start": "2026-11-06T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7122205.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "Home A Loan is a Korean horror film screening as part of a festival programme. Believing that an abandoned, semi-derelict building in Seoul will soon be redeveloped, Eun-jin (Yoo Seon) buys a third-floor apartment there for herself, her teen daughter Sung-hye (Lee Seo-yeon) and younger son Sung-ho (Lee Cheon-mu). When Eun-jin starts seeing and hearing things, her paranoia makes her a danger to all around her. Kim Tae-Kyeong's film keeps its plotting indeterminate: is Eun-jin crumbling under the pressures of work and solo-parenting, feeling the stresses of the property ladder, reliving past trauma, or is the building haunted?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/home-a-loan-74184/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/home-a-loan/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea7d3cee2f95fad28ca2ae945fccc02bddf0182cd2204cdf5364b5e6cd5c8c77-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Possible Love", "start": "2026-10-29T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Possible Love is a South Korean drama about two married couples whose lives become entangled after a funeral brings them together. Mi-ok, living quietly with her laid-off husband, agrees to be filmed by documentary maker Ye-ji and finds herself drawn to Ye-ji's unreadable husband Sang-woo, as fractures appear in their daily existence. It marks director Lee Chang-dong's first release in eight years, with Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong and Zo In-sung starring. The film is presented in Korean with English subtitles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/possible-love-34775/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/possible-love/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6617a938fb605474e2ebf6f733330626bac1ef3d12d3edc6ccaa0d7062fc460d-1200.webp"}]}