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Saturday, 23 August
Daily Programme
Films
Love
11:45 AM
After a blind date, Marianne meets Tor on a ferry, provoking a curiosity about his approach to casual, spontaneous intimacy.
Films
Motherboard
12:00 PM
At 38, BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant, and broke. Shot over 20 years, Motherboard is a celebration of messy lives, capturing the pain, joy and comedy of raising her son Jim alone.
Exhibitions
Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025
This major exhibition curated by Lubaina Himid celebrates 40 years since The Thin Black Line, the groundbreaking group show of young Black and Asian women artists at the ICA in 1985.
Films
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
1:55 PM
6:45 PM
A haunting testament to the resilience of daily life under siege in Gaza. Captured through a filmmaker's video calls with Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, these calls act as a powerful digital lifeline to the realities of war, resistance and survival.
Films
Sorry, Baby
2:00 PM
6:50 PM
Blending heartache, humour and healing, Sorry, Baby is a bitingly-funny debut by director and actor Eva Victor.
Films
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE
Measures for a Funeral
4:00 PM
Histories and fictions intertwine as Sofia Bohdanowicz concludes her Audrey Benac cycle with a captivating exploration of the life and work of Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.
Films
Eddington
4:00 PM
8:50 PM
Set in May of 2020, Ari Aster's latest film centres upon a stand-off between a small town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) which sparks a powder keg in the town of Eddington, New Mexico as neighbour is pitted against neighbour.
Live
Humanities: Laxlan Petras, Yasmin Saleh, and Amber Fasquelle
5:00 PM
8:00 PM
Humanities is a collaborative performance by Laxlan Petras, Yasmin Saleh, and Amber Fasquelle, unfolding as a live experiment in proximity, perception, and communal vulnerability. Originally commissioned for Berlin Atonal (2023), this opera performed in-the-round has been extended and made site-specific for ICA.
Films
Sex
9:00 PM
Two married men confront unexpected experiences that challenge their views on sexuality, identity, and gender — one through a same-sex encounter, the other through transformative dreams.