
There are armed guards unsmiling at the security entrance on the Finchley Road, NW3.
I show my ID, submit to a body search, and then head down to the event: a screening of a documentary called We Will Dance Again, about the before, during, and after of the Nova psychedelic trance open-air music festival that took place close to Gaza in southern Israel on 7.10.2023, almost exactly a year ago.