{"title": "Rooted Out", "start": "2026-10-27T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "ArtHouse Crouch End", "address": "Tottenham Lane 159A, N8 9BT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Rooted Out is a darkly comic two-part drama set over one increasingly volatile day during the 2024 UK riots. Written and directed by Freddie Hutton-Mills, it follows two middle-class couples whose seemingly ordinary neighbourly dispute over a tree spirals into a devastating confrontation about race, class, identity and belonging in modern Britain. Unfolding almost in real time across two adjoining suburban homes, the film combines the intimacy of a chamber piece with escalating psychological tension and uncomfortable humour, exploring the fault lines beneath contemporary liberal Britain. 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The film follows a filmmaker whose girlfriend helps start Just Stop Oil, one of the most polarising protest movements in recent memory, and four activists—Indigo, Mark, Phoebe, and Jane—as they weigh the personal cost of action against the stakes of inaction while facing mounting repression. It asks how far ordinary people will go to stop oil drilling and how far the authorities will go to stop them. 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Despins’s dark yet tender 1976 British experimental musical, scored by Galt MacDermont, explores the problems facing the multicultural residents of a Notting Hill boarding house destined for demolition.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/raft-the-parlour-collective-the-moon-over-the-alley-39366/", "official_url": "https://www.thehorsehospital.com/events/raftparlourmoon", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/9083b82df6e14dd0f8bdaaa6996611a9b4d27dd5850e925237bea3a84bb36982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Down Terrace", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Nickel Cinema", "address": "Clerkenwell Road 117-119, EC1R 5BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/crime-drama"], "description": "A launch screening of DOWN TERRACE followed by a Q&A, with a free signed fanzine for every ticket holder. Ben Wheatley's 2009 debut follows father and son Bill and Karl, who return from prison to their Brighton home convinced someone in their small criminal operation betrayed them, as suspicion, old resentments and sudden violence fill the family kitchen. The film turns the British gangster story into cramped black comedy about a family destroying itself, made for less than £10K. The evening celebrates the launch of Wheatley's fanzine film & television Thoughts & notes 5, the Low Budget issue, which unpacks the thoughts, processes and mistakes behind the film and includes an interview with Charlotte Regan about making her debut feature Scrapper.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/down-terrace-39474/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/f3beb82c08fda1b316347222fa50e23f8f0ea4c777b248b0e6555783fa4e817b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018837/cinecity-2026-i-see-buildings-fall-like-lightning?filter=", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning is a bittersweet drama about five friends in Birmingham who have known each other since childhood and, now in their 30s, must deal with economic pressures, unfulfilled dreams and unravelling secrets. Directed by Clio Barnard, whose previous work includes Ali & Ava, Dark River and The Selfish Giant, with a screenplay by Enda Walsh. The film stars Anthony Boyle, Daryl McCormack, Jay Lycurgo, Lola Petticrew and Joe Cole, an ensemble of up-and-coming British and Irish actors whose lives are portrayed with great on-screen chemistry. 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It was founded in 2023 and curated this year by Amina Ali, Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe with the wider SET FF26 team. The programme brings together four themed short film nights, a feature-length screening, a free evening of archival film and performance, a first online screening and an inaugural awards night, with selected screenings followed by Q&As with filmmakers. 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Written by Paul Bradshaw and staged by SH Productions and telling tales, the evening pairs two critically acclaimed queer shows about modern queer life in London. tell me straight is a fast-paced, semi-autobiographical coming-of-adulthood play about a man whose hookups are all straight, and whose friends think a 30-day detox may help him find love. aggy is a bold one-act play about privilege, gender, race and creativity, following a couple whose fabricated alter ego brings uncomfortable truths to the surface.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/double-bill-tell-me-straight-aggy-60841/", "official_url": "https://kingsheadtheatre.com/whats-on/double-bill-tell-me-straight-and-aggy-t8hc", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/df60d02154c0e6e08ff3b5f600857785bafad1dd1036d4c4c8a1c87ea2d6c545-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Vampire, The Ghost, and the Zombie", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/short-film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A screening night presenting short horror films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation. It features works by Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer and Oba, Riar Rizaldi, and the Karrabing Film Collective, including 'Nosferasta: First Bite', 'Notes from Gog Magog', and 'The Family (A Zombie Movie)'. 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Thirty years after Laith's parents fled Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and claimed asylum in the UK, his family is falling apart as he struggles to hide his darkest secret. It was written by award-winning British-Iraqi playwright Laith Elzubaidi and directed by Olivier Award-nominee Emily Ling Williams, starring Tommy Sim'aan as Laith. 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The film presents the national implications of climate and nature breakdown, along with credible positive responses, in a single accessible account. It features Chris Packham, leading scientists, a former general and Jennifer Saunders being frank about where things are heading and what can be done. 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It is written and directed by Andy Sandberg, who stages its world premiere with a company including Noah Schnapp, Janette Manrara, Juliet Cowan, Wallis Currie-Wood, Rupert Young and Donald Sage Mackay. Set within the extreme wealth of the Hamptons, it begins after a teenager's drunken car ride ends in devastation and asks whether a person who has grown up with so much privilege can truly tell right from wrong. Inspired by true events around a controversial legal defence, it examines what happens when money and entitlement are passed from one generation to the next.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/affluenza-46112/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5908cd32ae100dd6f2a44323d90c08139a0e28b77df0cf78e68e6c1dc936ef17-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Gall Of The House Of Sud: The Perils of Youth Play", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Playground Theatre, Cafe and Bar", "address": "Latimer Industrial Estate 8, W10 6RQ London", "price": "£16 (General Admission); £14 (Concession, Senior over 60, Access for All, Unemployed, Student)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://buytickets.at/theplaygroundtheatre/2278748", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/dark-comedy"], "description": "A play in which, in an ancient rotting house, an unseen visitor knocks and a poisonous crone and her pompous, disgraced son argue over who should answer the door. Voila! Theatre Festival and The Playground Theatre present the show. Built on a single deliberately bad joke, it becomes a dream-riff on families, intergenerational trauma, envy, hate, mothers and sons, and the theatre itself. 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It is the latest work by Tony Craze award-winning writer Chris Fung, directed by Rupert Hands and part of the first season from the venue's artistic director Taio Lawson. The story follows Brian Tran, interviewed for the role of the world's most powerful leader, as the questions turn into brutal psychological warfare. It is a twisted tale of family loyalty, cabalistic elites, and what we're prepared to sacrifice for proximity to power.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/global-majority-63507/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/8d254932b767b232489a644b3ea201d51b9e233113415972887c77048611723d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Boys Who Dance", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "£5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Boys Who Dance is a work-in-progress scratch performance of a new play, running for one hour and recommended for ages 14 and up. 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