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.

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.

Nickel Boys tells the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime. There he meets Turner, and the two form a close friendship trying to survive the horrors of the school.

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.

A film of two halves, Hong Sangsoo's first collaboration with Kim Minhee is both a radical culmination of his explorations with repetition and a profoundly beautiful portrait of the roles imagination and truth play in both art and love.

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. 

A man quits work to care for dying grandmother, motivated by her wealth, scheming to win her favour before she dies.