The people and places of Provincetown, Massachusetts are captured beautifully in Mischa Richter’s poetic meditation on freedom in America, screening only at the ICA.

Two US-born children of undocumented Mexican immigrants try to shape their own American dreams in Isabel Castro’s masterful cinematic portrait.

The open space for nurturing and championing the art of non-fiction cinema returns for its 12th edition.

Yann Gonzalez directs singer Oliver Sim in a flaming tribute to margins. The queer musical short film gets its theatrical release in the presence of Oliver Sim.

The first UK retrospective of the work of the Japanese documentary maker, in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival.

Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta explore the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of an all-female gang who hijacks a pipeline for the sake of their community.

A book launch and screenings of two rare films to celebrate the release of Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams.

Ibrahim Mursal’s film follows acclaimed artist Ahmed Umar, a gay refugee from Sudan, as he considers making a long and hazardous journey home.

A summer-long showcase of five outstanding recent features from around the world – available to watch in the UK exclusively at the ICA Cinema.

Join us for this summer-long season dedicated to the best in contemporary Portuguese cinema – programmed by the ICA with pioneering production house TERRATREME.  

Martyn Robertson’s debut feature is an intimate portrait of 14-year-old Scottish surfer Ben Larg and his quest to break into the big league of international surfing.

As microplastics have become part of human evolution, a performance artist embraces the mutations of his body in David Cronenberg’s latest cyber-thriller.

Alex Pritz’s urgent and riveting documentary follows a young indigenous activist’s fight against his oppressors in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.

A comic-book character goes to war with his creator in Cesar Cabral’s gloriously crazy stop-motion feature – the latest Summer Exclusive.

Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have a world of fun in Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s vivid satire on the film industry.

A comic-book character goes to war with his creator in Cesar Cabral’s gloriously crazy stop-motion feature – the latest Summer Exclusive.

In the latest Summer Exclusives screening, filmmaker and educator Todd Chandler explores the everyday nature of gun violence in American schools.

A charming but untameable free spirit ricochets from lover to lover in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sparkling romantic comedy.

A group of renegade female athletes fight to change the chauvinistic world of surfing in Christopher Neilus’s buoyant feature.

Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s gripping social history retells the story of a Korean-American journalist’s fight to free an innocent man in 1970s San Francisco.

lva Radivojević’s second feature pays mesmerising tribute to Jorge Luis Borges across 10 countries on five continents.

Anne Frank’s imaginary best friend goes on the run in contemporary Amsterdam in the latest feature from Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman.

Four Zimbabwean refugees team up to enter the World Wine Tasting Championship in Warwick Ross and Robert Coe’s inspirational documentary.

Theo Anthony’s feature questions and reimagines the idea of the ‘objective lens’ in reference to 21st-century American policing.

Britain’s oldest drag queen prepares to deliver the performance of a lifetime in Lee Cooper’s glorious cinematic portrait.

A magic trick goes absurdly wrong in Omar El Zohairy’s feature, winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes – and a Summer Exclusive.

A close-knit Iranian family takes a momentous road trip in Panah Panahi’s wonderful debut – winner of the Best Film award at last year’s BFI London Film Festival.