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.

Johan Grimonprez’s film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.

Locating identity within Iranian diaries, confronting the Arabian media archive, and using the writing of Marguerite Duras to interrogate hysterical, silenced ghosts, these short documentaries all deploy radical intervention. They blur the fictional and recompose the chronological. ‘My body has always been your first cinema’ becomes a sentence unwound; the regained self finally taking centre-stage.

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.

Exploring the impact of erasure and the truths that endure despite it. There exists a sisyphean struggle to erase certain truths from our lives in an effort to control the wild nature of existence. Amidst this erasure, what truths endure?

Recipient of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice Film Festival this year, the film is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside.

Whit Stillman’s dryly comic drama about a group of young professionals experiencing life and love while frequenting a Studio 54-esque disco in Manhattan in the early 80s. 

The latest film from Magnus von Horn is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world.

Made on discarded film stock and released in 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s handover, Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan follows alienated youth trapped in cycles of violence.