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Saturday, 21 December
Daily Programme
Films
The Universal Theory
12:10 PM
1962. Against the towering landscape of the post-war Swiss Alps, a gifted young physicist meets an elusive pianist – one who knows things about him that he’s never told another living soul. Before long his curiosity traps him inside a mind-bending web of murder and mystery.
Films
Grand Theft Hamlet
12:20 PM
As the 2021 UK national lockdown drags on, increasingly isolated theatre actors Sam and Mark spend their days in the online world of Grand Theft Auto. When they have an idea to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game.
Films
Layla
2:00 PM
A daring queer love story between a young Arab drag queen and a white cis corporate gay man, exploring the relationship and conflicts between identity and desire, revealing how far we will all change who we are to be with the people we so desperately desire.
Films
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Chapters 1 + 2
2:30 PM
An eight-part video project, whose genesis can be traced both to the great Henri Langlois and a series of lectures Godard gave at Concordia University in 1978, Histoires(s) du cinéma, is both a monumental treatise on cinema as a medium, industry and art form and a profoundly moving examination of the century it defined.
Films
In Focus: Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s stunning sophomore feature – which follows ICA Distribution project A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) – is a profound meditation on urban migration and dislocation.
Films
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
5:45 PM
Johan Grimonprez’s film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.
Films
The Bibi Files
6:30 PM
Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. 
Films
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
8:40 PM
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point sees four generations of the Balsano family gather for what may be the last Christmas in their family home in small-town Long Island.
Films
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
The Image Book
8:40 PM
Winner of the Cannes Special Palme d’Or, Jean-Luc Godard's final feature film is a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film interrogating our relationship with film, culture and global politics.
Exhibitions
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
A unique exploration of the final creative work of cinema’s great innovator, Jean-Luc Godard. Appearing in exhibition format, Scénario(s) will see Godard’s last two films, including the UK premiere of his final work, Scénarios (2024), installed in the ICA's upper galleries alongside his extensive creative notebooks, offering a rare glimpse into the artist’s reflective process, blurring the lines between film, visual art, and philosophy.