{"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. Made by Férid Boughedir, it traces the rise of African filmmaking after independence, following a generation of directors who challenged colonial images of the continent and told their own stories. Through archival footage, film excerpts and interviews with pioneering directors, it charts the movement's political and social struggles and its search for new cinematic voices and forms. 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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"}, {"title": "Film Africa 2026", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni", "address": "Queensberry Place 17;13-15", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["film"], "description": "Film Africa 2026 is the Royal African Society's annual celebration of African cinema, running in London from 23 October to 1 November 2026. 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Drawing on previously unseen archive footage and intimate first-hand accounts, the film reveals the man behind the global icon. It shows a leader whose message of hope, humanity and forgiveness remains relevant today.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/tutu-38173/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437.TcsProgramme_2949805", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5af210bd1f51cd6eab72ea68bd3dd2cfb0250bed5fb9c9d05f2b3039721aa3c0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Crocodile", "start": "2026-10-28T20:20:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_605.TcsWebTab_606", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/africa"], "description": "CROCODILE is a coming-of-age story about nine young Nigerians who, in a country shaped by Christianity and marked by political difficulties, discover their voice through sci-fi filmmaking. The film is directed by The Critics and Pietra Brettkelly. Shot by the protagonists themselves over twelve years, it reveals a widening worldview as they grow beyond the boundaries of their Nigerian homeland. It develops its own unique cinematic language, blending self-shot observational documentary, science fiction, and Nollywood influences.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/crocodile-36989/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10190257", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/4d107f19355587e47b26d58b5e0733af02567966bb6e8a0774faaebba7ac2cf5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + Panel Discussion", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ica.art/films/edges-of-cinema-little-boy", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/non-fiction/essay", "film"], "description": "A book launch and panel discussion celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture. 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": "Guerrilla Archive", "start": "2026-10-29T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-state-matters-theorising-state-fragmentation-and-consolidation-iraq", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/iran"], "description": "A documentary film screening of 'Guerrilla Archive', followed by a Q&A session with one of the filmmakers, Shahrzad Mojab, and a drinks reception. 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": "The Edges of Cinema: Book Launch + little boy", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institute of Contemporary Arts", "address": "The Mall, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ica.art/films/the-edges-of-cinema-book-launch-panel-discussion", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film", "literature"], "description": "An evening celebrating the publication of Erika Balsom's book 'The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture', paired with the London premiere of James Benning's film 'little boy'. 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": "Building bridges between archival work and curatorial practice: Annabelle Aventurin", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "LUX", "address": "Dartmouth Park Hill, N19 5JF London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nbsmeJbjQAmsW8gc52bY7Q", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "film/documentary"], "description": "An online lecture in the 'Sharing Strategies: Caring for moving image in the margins' programme, held on Zoom and YouTube and free to attend. Film archivist, curator and researcher Annabelle Aventurin explores how archival work and curatorial practice can care for moving images whose histories are scattered across fragile film reels, personal collections and unfinished projects. Drawing on her research into Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo and the Griots Theatre Company, and her ongoing restoration and distribution work on films by Haitian filmmaker Elsie Haas, she reflects on preservation as a collective practice of care. The one-hour lecture includes time for audience questions, with live captions and a recording available afterwards.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/building-bridges-between-archival-work-and-curatorial-practi-41667/", "official_url": "https://lux.org.uk/event/online-building-bridges-between-archival-work-and-curatorial-practice-annabelle-aventurin/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/2445adf615182eee8265a760f1e0419d0ac2387465318435bac39a09d5fc26c4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tracing Posterity: Screening and Scanning Social", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Women’s Museum", "address": "Barking Wharf Square 4-5, IG11 7DQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2002211966891?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/black-history"], "description": "An evening of short films and archival footage followed by a communal scanning and sharing workshop. Curated by Abel Holsborough, it reflects on the representation of Black British histories in film archives and how selective memories are preserved. Led by and centring Black residents of Barking and Dagenham, it marks Black History Month and invites visitors to bring family photos, DVDs and tapes to be digitised for a borough-wide community archive. The programme includes Early Years by Morgan Quaintance, Super Sam by Sandi Hudson Francis, and Eileen's Party, a home movie by local resident Eileen.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social-40351/", "official_url": "https://womensmuseum.org.uk/events/tracing-posterity-screening-and-scanning-social/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/b76e5b14dc4792c68dfe22d592716439c2265ed022594685261aea3707f3fcd5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Making Marie Antoinette", "start": "2026-10-31T15:45:00Z", "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/documentary"], "description": "Making Marie Antoinette is a documentary built from eighty hours of footage shot in 2005 by Eleanor Coppola while she watched her daughter Sofia direct Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles, the first production ever granted access there. Eleanor Coppola filmed the landmark production, Milena Canonero's costume work, and what it took for Sofia to direct at 34 under her mother's gaze. The footage went unseen for two decades, until, in fulfillment of her mother's wish, it became a film of its own, released as a tribute from Sofia and Roman Coppola. It works both as a behind-the-scenes look at an ambitious take on 18th-century French history and as a touching mother's observation of her daughter at work.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/making-marie-antoinette-39220/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/making-marie-antoinette/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9d7921a01335dc041edfa908aed9d16b22ac11c98e49c9e6c001d2d9426adeaa-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sanlé Sory: Colour Years", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "In-person + £2 donation: £14 (Concs: £11 / Art Pass: £8). Online + £2 donation: £12 (Concs: £9.50 / ", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://thephotographersgallery.ticketsolve.com/shows/1173692530/events", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "society/africa"], "description": "Sanlé Sory: Colour Years is an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery showing the rarely seen colour photographs of Burkinabé photographer Sanlé Sory for the first time in the UK. Sory, one of West Africa's most prolific photographers, began making colour portraits in his Volta Photo studio in the mid-1980s after becoming known for his black-and-white studio and nightlife pictures. The meticulously restored colour prints capture daily life, youth culture, music and fashion in Burkina Faso across decades of political shifts, alongside Volta Jazz record covers featuring his portraits. Curated by Taous Dahmani and produced by The Photographers' Gallery, the show is drawn from the Sanlé Sory Archive.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/sanle-sory-colour-years-39556/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ee4edb06bfaef7afc39933e7ea5f6651986207ce20889ff8675e5eb20f65a5a1-1200.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": "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"}]}