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Friday, 24 January
Daily Programme
Exhibitions
New Contemporaries
The annual exhibition returns to the ICA, featuring 35 emerging and early career artists selected through an open call by artists Liz Johnson Artur, Permindar Kaur and Amalia Pica. 
Films
The Brutalist
12:15 PM
5:00 PM
Fleeing persecution in the US, Hungarian architect László Tóth is commissioned to construct a monumental building. Driven by a powerful performance from Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist explores trauma, art’s value, and ambition’s price.
Films
London Short Film Festival 2025
International Competition: The Melody Haunts My Reverie
1:00 PM
In a world of relentless routines and quiet absurdities, this film series illuminates the radical potential of the ordinary. 
Films
London Short Film Festival 2025
International Competition: Echoes of the Unseen 
3:00 PM
Through poignant storytelling and vivid visuals, moments of stillness weave a tapestry rich with unexpected discoveries. Each narrative dances with anticipation, unveiling how time unfolds into revelation.
Films
In Focus: Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light
4:10 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
London Short Film Festival 2025
The Presence of an Absence
6:30 PM
A programme of new short films for lovers of the hauntological, or those interested in the psychogeography of forgotten spaces.
Live
Underscore 001: Bird with Carlos O'Connell and Space Afrika
7:30 PM
Crack Magazine and MUBI present Underscore: Music events inspired by film. Underscore’s inaugural edition is an immersive event exploring the world of Andrea Arnold’s Bird – a tender and surprising coming-of-age fable. Carlos O’Connell of Fontaines D.C. will join us for an exclusive DJ set. Carlos will be joined by Space Afrika, the Manchester duo whose touches of industrial field recordings and inner-city texture echo the character of the film.

Films
Vermiglio
9:00 PM
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.
Films
London Short Film Festival 2025
Intimacy is much more (and much less)
9:00 PM
“Intimacy is much more (and much less) than sex,” Sophie K. Rosa writes in Radical Intimacy. This selection of new short films explores the connections we desire, or fear.
Digital
Cinema 3
Tricksters: ICA x Monangambee
3:00 PM
A series of screenings, talks and workshops organized in collaboration between Lagos-based Monangambee and London-based Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)