The ICA partners again with the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, unfolding this year in a digital format.

This programme of two short films by Krzysztof Kieślowski continues the Polish director’s fascinating and distinct exploration of Polish society.

Swiss duo Kasa and Da Costa’s sophomore feature captures the quirky ambiance that reigns over the Ornithological Rehabilitation Center where birds in pain struggle to rediscover the desire to live. 

A documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of Jews in Romania.

A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.

Feminist artist and activist Oksana Shachko is the subject of Alain Margot’s fascinating 2014 portrait.

Peter Parlow’s micro-budget feature is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a probing inquiry into race, relationships, and the social uncanny.

A scornful teacher schools a class of newly arrived refugees in Guido Hendrikx’s unflinching film essay.

Two displaced lovers struggle to stay together in Carlos Lenin’s spellbinding debut.

An attempt via an innovative combine of aesthetics, sound design and ethnography to tell the story of migration across the Sonoran desert into the US.

Mundane life meets magical daydreams in a West Bengal village where discarded film footage is turned into toys.

In his debut feature, Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul bridges documentary realism and the avant-garde in the backdrop of rural Thailand.