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Wednesday, 5 February
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
Hard Truths
4:15 PM
Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a career-best performance as Pansy, a woman battling grief, rage, and disconnection in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, three decades after their collaboration on Secrets and Lies. 
Films
The Brutalist
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.
Talks & Engagement
Picturing the Self: A Nice Magazine by Hanna Moon
7:00 PM
Drawing on the importance of making work with and for your friends, this evening celebrates the launch of A Nice Magazine by Hanna Moon. Working at the intersection of photography, art and fashion, the panel discusses self-portraiture, humour and vulnerability in art practice.
Films
In Focus: Amir Naderi
UK PREMIERE
Sound Barrier
8:30 PM
A young deaf and non-speaking boy’s ceaseless search for the audio cassette containing his mother’s final words before her death is rendered as an impossible yet irresistible search for memory, identity and the very materials of cinema. 
Films
Off-Circuit
By the Stream
9:00 PM
The latest film from Hong Sangsoo reunites Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo in an autumnal tale of desire, self-expression and the inescapable nature of the past.