Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, The Ballad of Narayama is a visceral portrait of a nineteenth-century rural Japanese village governed by distinctive rituals that garter daily life. Imamura takes the legend of Narayama as a way to explore, almost in anthropological detail, primordial values – shaped both by brutal primal instincts and profoundly human-made hierarchies – to make us question the bounds against which societies are defined. 

An absurdist chamber comedy, Nicolás Pereda’s latest feature centres on the behind-the-scenes staging of an interview with a middle-aged female noise musician, which unfurls into a wider exploration of gender, performance and the costs of artistic independence.

Fashion in Film Festival returns to the ICA for its 20th anniversary, celebrating the collaborators and guests who have brought it to life over the past two decades.