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Sunday, 22 December
Daily Programme
Films
In Focus: Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light
12:10 PM
5:30 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
Layla
12:20 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
The Taste of Mango
2:25 PM
In this hypnotic cinematic love letter that flows through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes into what her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.
Films
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
Histoire(s) du cinéma
Chapters 3 + 4
2:30 PM
In many ways both the beginning and the apotheosis of Godard's collage films, this sprawling essayistic voyage through the twentieth century serves as both a testament and indictment of the medium that defined it.
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
4:00 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
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
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
7:50 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
The Bibi Files
8:30 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. 
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.