{"title": "The Time to Live and the Time to Die", "start": "2026-11-21T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "The Time to Live and the Time to Die is a drama about a boy named Ah-Ha-Gu who comes of age during a tumultuous time in his family's history. Filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien drew the story from his own childhood. When the Gu family moved from China's mainland to Taiwan, the elder members struggled to adapt while the adolescent Ah-Ha thrived. As he grows to maturity, the generation gap grows fearsomely wide, threatening to alienate the young man from his family and their traditions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-time-to-live-and-the-time-to-die-39209/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/the-time-to-live-and-the-time-to-die/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47a12f505fb61238e04b68bebe5e6143caab70fbd8db71d712fa255ca82e89cc-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "What Time Is It There?", "start": "2026-11-04T15:00:00Z", "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": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A film screening by Tsai Ming-liang, made in Taiwan and France in 2001, reuniting the director with Lee Kang-sheng alongside Chen Shiang-chyi and Lu Yi-ching. Hsiao-kang, a watch vendor in Taipei, sells a dual-time watch to Shiang-chyi before she leaves for Paris. As she wanders the unfamiliar city alone, Hsiao-kang becomes fixated on Paris, watching Truffaut's The 400 Blows and resetting clocks across Taipei to Paris time. Across the two cities, their solitary lives unfold in parallel, mirroring each other through absence, chance encounters and quiet gestures of connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/what-time-is-it-there-39230/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/what-time-is-it-there/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0feca1acfc99153f95b2b17f6fb36c383d8e194b16e07eeb5f71da6db3fb45db-600.webp"}, {"title": "Taipei Story", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00Z", "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": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Taipei Story is Edward Yang's 1985 film about Lung, who runs a traditional textile business, and Chin, an assistant at a construction company, a couple whose dreams of marriage and emigration in a developing Taipei begin to unravel as they desperately try to maintain their relationship. The film depicts the alienation of urban life and was made in collaboration with Taiwan New Cinema master Hou Hsiao-hsien, who takes the male lead and serves as screenwriter and producer. It stars Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Chin and Ko I-Chen. Yang's exceptional directorial skills are a testament to the camaraderie among New Cinema filmmakers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/taipei-story-39247/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/taipei-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df78385e0e62858f02e2617d20e19f19468d04a76d57bd296ef2249f21eda796-600.webp"}, {"title": "Boyhood", "start": "2026-11-09T20:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "£1 MEM", "price_from": "1.00", "price_to": "1.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/coming-of-age-drama"], "description": "A screening of the drama film \"Boyhood\". It was directed by Richard Linklater and stars Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and Ellar Coltrane. The joys and pitfalls of growing up are seen through the eyes of a child named Mason, his parents and his sister, through vignettes filmed with the same cast over 12 years that capture family meals, road trips, birthdays, graduations and other milestones. Songs from Coldplay, Arcade Fire and other artists capture the time period.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/boyhood-64049/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/16659095/boyhood", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bf13ad3c4bb43afba837f0405e2b4348d9e03ead58f0f704517958d0859e8fb9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Banana Paradise", "start": "2026-11-08T19:00:00Z", "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": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/historical-drama"], "description": "Banana Paradise is a screening of Wang Toon's 1989 Taiwanese film, part of The Garden Cinema's Made in Taiwan season. It follows a naive young man who follows the Kuomintang forces from China to Taiwan in 1949, adopting false names as he adjusts to life amid turbulent socio-economic changes. The film, the second chapter in Wang's 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy', addresses the cruelties of martial law as a tragicomic melodrama, alongside rural-urban migration and the demands of modernisation. The screening on 8 November will be introduced by Tom Cunliffe (UCL) and shows a new restoration, with Doze Niu Chen-Zer, Chang Shih and Wen Ying in the cast.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/banana-paradise-39242/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/banana-paradise/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/02c5ee45227451c88fddecaad75485afdf9a927d15832ff668d82692aa9fe4dd-600.webp"}, {"title": "Made in Taiwan", "start": "2026-10-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "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": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Made in Taiwan is a season of screenings dedicated to Taiwanese cinema, running from 24 October to 6 December 2026. It is presented by The Garden Cinema and supported by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, and is the fourth edition of the cinema's annual Taiwanese film season. At its heart is a focus on cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, who joins in London for seven films from his five-decade career, including his collaborations with Hou Hsiao-hsien. The programme also brings classic and contemporary Taiwanese works by filmmakers such as Edward Yang, Tsai Ming-liang, King Hu, Wang Toon, Huang Ya-li, Chen Kuo-fu and Hsin Chi, alongside Q&As and introductions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/made-in-taiwan-39287/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0514bb360a48417c6b3862d09a30e4add3aab83384fb4f6cc19302d1a6bbec9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Mr. O's Book of the Dead", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "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": "film", "tags": ["dance/butoh", "film/experimental"], "description": "A special screening of the film Mr. O's Book of the Dead, followed by a Q&A with Mitsuyo Uesugi, who is visiting from Japan and will share her experience of working on the film 50 years ago. The event is presented by Rebellious Bodies Festival and NPO Dance Archive Network. The film is the final instalment in an experimental trilogy by documentary filmmaker Chiaki Nagano and pioneering butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, and features 'Mr. O' (Kazuo Ohno) and a troupe of his students, including Mitsuyo Uesugi. Shot in numerous places across Japan from Lake Shikotsu in Hokkaido to Yokodai Pig Farm in Kanagawa, it is, in Nagano's words, 'about one of our deaths, and a starting point towards somewhere new'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-39248/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/mr-os-book-of-the-dead-qa-with-mitsuyo-uesugi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7d4343022e6a7c65b24e5cecd64cd689434c103473e06343b846d33c102757-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Assassin", "start": "2026-11-05T14:30:00Z", "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": "film", "tags": ["film/action/martial-arts"], "description": "The Assassin is a wuxia film about Nie Yinniang, a general's daughter trained by a nun as an exceptional assassin who is sent back to her birthplace with orders to kill the cousin she was once betrothed to, now the leader of the largest independent military region in North China. It is the final feature film by Hou Hsiao-hsien, who reunites with leading actress Shu Qi in a sublime, impressionistic take on the genre, also starring Chang Chen, Zhou Yun and Satoshi Tsumabuki.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-assassin-39231/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/the-assassin-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9099b116afa528a869da70904d98fd61806ec8c7283ac7343f3b02b43f373e6c-600.webp"}, {"title": "Resurrection", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00Z", "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/science-fiction/dystopian"], "description": "Chester Film Society presents a screening of the feature film Resurrection, made up with Picturehouse as part of a diverse programme of world cinema. In a future where humanity has traded its ability to dream for immortality, an outcast (Jackson Yee) finds illusion, nightmarish visions and beauty in an intoxicating world of his own making. A work of staggering imagination from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day's Journey Into Night), it conjures vast, ever-shifting worlds on the brink of collapse in an era-spanning journey through our deepest and most human desires. The cast also includes Shu Qi, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue and Chen Yongzhong.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/resurrection-37898/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018203/cfs-resurrection", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f0c814ca4adf71d9c1bbb8a00795a309d4e1b0530e9ddfd45c2bbb9d95baee6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Insect Woman", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "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/drama"], "description": "A screening of the film The Insect Woman, with an introduction by Irene González-López, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Birkbeck College. Shōhei Imamura's film follows Tomé, a woman with an irrepressible will to survive whose life is defined by privation, lust and tragedy, sweeping through the underbelly of twentieth-century Japan from rural fields in 1918 to the factories and brothels of 1950s Tokyo. An unsparing, elliptical epic of generational poverty and abuse, anchored by an astonishing performance from Sachiko Hidari and praised for its immaculate deep focus staging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-insect-woman-74122/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/imamura-the-insect-woman", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a34f5c925efd12e03a09b2041ed17ff78dab073cde9db3e05003e4d342895f37-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Of Times There Were Before", "start": "2026-11-03T17:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/historiography"], "description": "A documentary film screening, followed by a discussion with the director. 'Of Times There Were Before' is a portrait of Romila Thapar, one of the world's most influential historians and public intellectuals, filmed at her home in New Delhi. Directed and produced by Eshan Sharma and edited by Anant Raina, it began with the question of who the person behind the historian's name is. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/of-times-there-were-before-43655/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/times-there-were", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab70484a4756c054d26543610c7f85665046d8a07044512675b0a187c2f3a49a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Strawman", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00Z", "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": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Strawman is a 1987 Taiwanese film screening at The Garden Cinema. Directed by Wang Toon, it opens his 'Modern Taiwan Trilogy' and is shot by cinematographer Mark Lee Ping-bing, winning six Golden Horse Awards including Best Feature Film. Set in 1940s Taiwan, it follows two impoverished tenant farmers who, finding an unexploded American bomb in their field, carry it to the Japanese authorities hoping for a reward, as their plan spirals into absurdity. The film stars Cho Sheng Li, Chang Po-Chou and Yang Kuei-Mei.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/strawman-39239/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/strawman/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9388f1a7dd5ad17413873b4ed59e125974ccd9fb1b3f6b28a8690bb1a5e6fdda-600.webp"}, {"title": "Living Water from the Rock", "start": "2026-11-01T13:45:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Chinese Church in London", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 166A, WC2H 8JB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "religion/christian"], "description": "\"Living Water from the Rock\" is a documentary tracing the journey of the Chinese Church in London through generations of faith, sacrifice, change and God's faithfulness. It was designed by Wholebyte Creative Ltd and is shown at the church's Worship & Ministry Centre. The film tells the story the congregation has inherited and continues together, shaped by the people, moments and faith that formed the church known today. Its narration is in Cantonese, English and Mandarin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/living-water-from-the-rock-47913/", "official_url": "https://ccil.org.uk/en/events/event/living-water-from-the-rock-ccil-documentary-premiere-wmc/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Boyhood", "start": "2026-10-14T14:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pleasance", "address": "Carpenters Mews, N7 9EF London", "price": "From £20.00", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pleasance.co.uk/via/tickets/33%3A315212", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/coming-of-age", "music/hip-hop"], "description": "A new theatre play at the Pleasance London Main House Cabaret, performed by two actors with a live hip-hop score. Written by Conor Hunt with music by Conrad Murray and directed by Tom Bellerby, it is produced by Attic Theatre Company. It follows Jay, a 17-year-old Londoner who, on the edge of adulthood, faces an unplanned pregnancy and navigates mates, masculinity, grief and loyalty in a coming-of-age story developed with local young people. The show is for ages 14+ and runs 70 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/boyhood-63883/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd68da93afddc7a09700450876b969e1d3d5fef2cd509b4cd56fb48858f728bb-1200.webp"}]}