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Sunday, 15 December
Daily Programme
Exhibitions
Geumhyung Jeong: Under Construction
A solo exhibition by Geumhyung Jeong featuring a newly commissioned installation of sculpture and video, and series of live performances. Jeong uses her body and animatronic figures built from DIY parts to parse the uncanny relationships between people and machines. 
Films
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
12:10 PM
The new film from acclaimed, BAFTA-winning director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a compelling drama about community and sisterhood.
Films
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Favoriten
12:15 PM
Favoriten is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Vienna and the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s latest documentary, in which she accompanies a class of pupils from the age of seven to ten.
Films
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
Une femme est une femme
2:00 PM
Godard's 'neorealist musical' is a delightfully playful comedy centred upon a burlesque dancer (Anna Karina) who wants to have a baby but finds herself rebuffed by her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy). 
Films
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE
True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
2:30 PM
Set in 1953 at a psychiatric clinic in Blida, Algeria, and shot on location, the film follows Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, as he is appointed head doctor.
Films
Remembering Every Night
4:10 PM
Yui Kiyohara guides us through the Tokyo suburb of Tama New Town as she follows the lives of three women of different ages whose paths converge and intersect. 
Films
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
Le gai savoir
4:15 PM
In an abandoned television studio, two people embark on a series of late night dialogues in an attempt to develop an analysis of the relation between images and sounds, politics and film. Starring Juliet Berto and Jean-Pierre Leaud, Le gai savoir is in the words of the films characters and Godard himself an attempt to 'return to zero'.
Films
The Bibi Files
6:10 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
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
6:20 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
In Focus: Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light
8:20 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
The Universal Theory
9:00 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.
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.