{"title": "Caméra arabe", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7092060.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Caméra arabe is a documentary tracing the emergence of a new Arab cinema in the 1960s and 1970s, when filmmakers began using cinema to confront the political, social and cultural transformations of the Arab world. Directed by Férid Boughedir, it features interviews with leading directors including Youssef Chahine, Jocelyne Saab, Nouri Bouzid, Merzak Allouache and Michel Khleifi, alongside vivid extracts from their films. From the aftermath of the Six-Day War to the Lebanese Civil War, it shows how major historical events shaped filmmakers determined to challenge conventional representations. At once a cinematic history and a passionate defence of politically engaged filmmaking, it remains an essential document of the emergence of modern Arab cinema.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/camera-arabe-36646/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/camera-arabe/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/071aeebb8210ffc28a25100021f119d716b13644b373e4e0ec9e30a3abd4e107-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Caméra d’Afrique", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7092062.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "Caméra d’Afrique is a landmark documentary history of African cinema. 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The film is produced by CNRS and directed by Chowra Makaremi, with Setar Faithi and Shahrzad Mojab, and explores a previously unseen visual archive of photographs, sounds and videos documenting the daily lives of Kurdish Peshmergas after the 1979 Iranian revolution. It traces threads of militant memory, between armed struggle and community organising, within Komala, a Kurdish communist party opposed to the Islamic State, offering an immersion into the counter-archives of violence where documenting becomes a political act.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/guerrilla-archive-43647/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/documentary-film-screening-guerrilla-archive", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/24c09e3e9fc8af1d0e3d06761c412e185d1760612d6c9ed24f1bce7a6703e44e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Palestine Cinema Days Around the World: Blessed Blessed Oblivion & With Hasan in Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "Free, RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tzkrti.com/en/events/4873", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "film/documentary"], "description": "A special screening of two films: Jumana Manna's 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' and Kamal Aljafari's 'With Hasan in Gaza', shown as part of Palestine Cinema Days Around the World. LUX and Mosaic Rooms are collaborating on the event, organised by Filmlab Palestine for its 4th edition. 'Blessed Blessed Oblivion' (2010, 21') sketches a portrait of masculine performativity in East Jerusalem, manifested in gyms, barber shops and body parlours and inspired by Kenneth Anger's 'Scorpio Rising'. 'With Hasan in Gaza' (2025, 106') is a filmic journal of a journey the filmmaker made in 2001 from the north to the south of Gaza, searching for the man with whom he had spent seven months in an Israeli prison, capturing daily life amid moments of vibrancy and darker realities.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-obliv-37113/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/palestine-cinema-days-around-the-world-blessed-blessed-oblivion-with-hasan-in-gaza/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/67c9f6fdfb102dda26d16327e9bb5f77f5a2f4d17578863558e396b6471bf114-600.webp"}, {"title": "Inside Gaza", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_7107873.TcsSection_6930861", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/media/journalism", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary about the Gaza Strip, where since October 7, 2023 independent international press access has been effectively impossible, and the AFP staff reporters who documented the conflict from within. Directed by Hélène Lam Trong, it follows Mai Yaghi, Adel Zaanun, Mohammed Abed, Mahmud Hams and Yahya Hassuna, who reported, photographed and filmed as bombs fell around them. Now forced into exile, they reflect on what they endured and on the near-impossible task of covering the deadliest war ever recorded for journalists.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/inside-gaza-36648/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/cinema/inside-gaza/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/dbb9c54b6af0dd19444c54aa5279e6413f20e724c574d5d5d91aac29a0b13119-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CFF: My Father and Qaddafi", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "", "tags": [], "description": "A documentary in which filmmaker Jihan retraces the disappearance of her father, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former Foreign Minister who vanished during a trip to Cairo in 1993 while living in exile as an opposition leader against Qaddafi's regime. 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The panel brings together Erika Balsom, Lola Lemke, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Jonathan Romney. The book argues that film culture is at its most vital on the margins, where the moving image meets visual art and documentary meets experimentalism. In response, the panelists will discuss key transformations and tendencies in the last quarter-century of vanguard filmmaking.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion-36635/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/64099e2d8d7358083cb0e233031a3e0857335b34b6bf1c2f04bf62dc8707fc64-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NAZA", "start": "2026-10-28T15:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://actonecinema.co.uk/ActOneCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_0.TcsWebTab_0.TcsPerformance_797100.TcsSection_846", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/israel-palestine"], "description": "NAZA is a documentary film screening. In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel's calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them. It is directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, produced with the team behind The Zone of Interest, and includes testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders; the two directors are also among the four behind No Other Land, which won the 2025 Oscar for best documentary. 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Balsom's essay collection argues that film culture thrives on the margins, from visual art and documentary to experimental and repertory cinema. Benning, an artist and filmmaker central to the book, uses popular songs, political speeches and architectural models to traverse decades of U.S. history. The film, winner of the grand prize at Paris's Cinéma du Réel festival, looks at the past to warn about the future, from a little boy's point of view.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-little-boy-36634/", "official_url": "https://ica.art/films/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/defc09f0ffe6ab0a447c8313f8c817c5aea0017073c0563e1ac5a5ecaab3940e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "SET Film Festival 2026 - Night #1: Impossible Cinema", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T22:00:00Z", "place": "Set Social", "address": "Nigel Road 55, SE15 4NP London", "price": "£9 general admission / £7 concessions", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://set-film-festival.eventive.org/schedule/night-1-impossible-cinema-6accbcefd1712e4ba1f9f180", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/experimental"], "description": "An evening of four short films that explore what the organisers call 'impossible cinema', presented as the opening night of SET Film Festival 2026. The festival is an independent, grassroots event for contemporary, artist and archival film, founded in 2023, run by London-based arts organisation SET and curated by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe. The programme gathers works by Jani Peltonen, Maryam Tafakory, Basma Alsharif and Oleksiy Radynski in which borders, bureaucracy and censorship challenge conventions of filmic completion, reclaiming impossibility as a productive condition. The screening is preceded by an introduction by Phoebe Campion.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/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://go-gnocchi.app/images/d0d52d340eb24cdf1daf377adfd3c4c0364e714a0f5dad6304923ea7caea6e28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ghyzlène Boukaïla", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/film"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by artist Ghyzlène Boukaïla. Combining film, immersive installation and sculpture, her practice questions the thresholds of reality and fiction, drawing on historical and archival research to challenge existing narratives. At Gasworks she will focus on material research for her next film, which explores the Mediterranean Sea as a territory and its reappropriation, following a maritime smuggler whose acts of piracy become gestures of refusal. Boukaïla, born 1993 in Algiers, lives and works in Algiers.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/ghyzlene-boukaila-41423/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a90214290a08520574330625887883f0ef34b90fe4b68fd28f7372e4534c5760-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000", "start": "2026-11-02T20:00:00Z", "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", "literature"], "description": "A 50th-anniversary screening of Alain Tanner's 1976 Swiss film, shown as part of centenary celebrations for the writer John Berger. Co-written by Berger with the late Swiss director Tanner, it follows a disparate group of nonconformists and radicals from Geneva who gather at a rural retreat to reflect on the aftermath of May 1968 and what the future might hold. It stars Roger Jendly, Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau and Miou-Miou, and is introduced by Gareth Evans. The screening is part of nationwide celebrations marking what would have been Berger's 100th birthday.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000-39228/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/john-berger-at-100-jonah-who-will-be-25-in-the-year-2000/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9309e77e5f43ad8bde09d589ee37235b3330b0ad3c503402d168b211c5a6710c-1200.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": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/53167/53168", "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://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/a-propos-de-nice-38267/", "official_url": "https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/a-propos-de-nice", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/a3006449cabd31b550b19bf14afa16b30e5a9eef05e4564eacbbca5927618af3-600.webp"}, {"title": "La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés", "start": "2026-11-10T18:10:00Z", "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": ["music/world/flamenco", "film/documentary"], "description": "A documentary screening at The Garden Cinema. Directed by Antón Álvarez, it follows him as he meets Yerai Cortés, a flamenco guitarist respected by both traditional Romani communities and the new wave of avant-garde artists. Together they record an album shaped by profound sorrow, during which Yerai confronts his past and explores a family secret to heal his relationship with his parents. The film immerses audiences in a story of passion, love, and forgiveness, exploring the transformative power of art and redemption through understanding and self-discovery.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/la-guitarra-flamenca-de-yerai-cortes-39246/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/la-guitarra-flamenca-de-yerai-cortes-the-flamenco-guitar-of-yerai-cortes/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/3f7f7ab7692398dd7644fe999f1b62643989fb723ca0b2ce35e542cc210a8300-600.webp"}]}