A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.

A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.

A nine-day festival of archival gems to celebrate the conclusion of our Celluloid Sunday series including rare prints of films by Hou-Hsiao Hsien, Edward Yang, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg and many more.

This major group exhibition and event programme 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.

This urgent documentary examines evidence of widespread destruction across Gaza’s medical infrastructure. Screenings are followed by Q&As with filmmakers and doctors.

An essayistic exploration into the lasting ecological consequences of Belgium’s colonial rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Sent on a covert mission in Latin America in 1983, Vietnam veteran Eddie Guerrero's allegiance to the U.S. military begins to unravel as his growing awareness of his Latino heritage and his role in an imperial conflict leads him to identify with the people he is meant to oppose.

A young boy and his sister spend a summer at their grandparents’ house in the country while their mother recovers from an illness in Hou Hsiao-hsien's contemplative and profoundly moving coming-of-age tale.

A beloved favourite among Hou Hsiao-hsien’s early films, Dust in the Wind is an affecting and poignantly fatalistic story of first love.

Considered one of the best Chinese films about the cultural revolution, Hibiscus Town is a moving account of survival in the face of widespread social and political turmoil, told with clarity, compassion and insight. 

Drawing from a great tradition of romantic comedies, in particular Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, Jonás Trueba's latest film is a playfully reflexive and sparkling exploration of love, conversation and cinema.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with a moody adaptation of Deborah Levy’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, featuring performances by Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps.

In this intensely personal work, David Cronenberg crafts a genre-bending tale that slips between mystery and romance, all the while echoing his signature themes: the body as mutable flesh, technology as both saviour and parasite, and the uncanny union of sex and death.

Spanning the years from the Sudanese revolution of 2019, to the outbreak of the grievous civil war in 2023, this immensely moving documentary captures a collective portrait of Sudanese youth, dreaming of a new, democratic Sudan.

Inspired by an incredible true story set against the backdrop of a country torn by conflict, From Hilde, with Love is a powerful tale of love and resistance.

Genesis P-Orridge lived their art to the extreme. A pioneering musician, avant-garde artist, spiritual explorer and gender revolutionary, Genesis has been featured in films and videos, but never the full story… never this intimate... until now.

Six women return to the now abandoned Holloway Prison to take part in a women’s circle. Sharing some of the most intimate experiences of their lives, they each unravel what led them to prison, building an eye-opening portrait of failing systems and trauma, while discovering their extraordinary capacity to heal through sisterhood.

A resplendent centrepiece in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s loose trilogy about ethnic minorities, The Horse Thief portrays a young man being cast out from his clan and left to fend for himself in the mountains with his wife and child.

Probably the director’s most famous film, this impassioned drama follows the fate of a Beijing family and their acquaintances through the political and social upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s.

Orson Welles gives his final onscreen performance in independent filmmaker Henry Jaglom's tale of a puzzled film directors attempts to discover why life hasn't turned out like anyone expected.

Inspired by Thomas’ Heart (Toma no shinzo), a legendary manga by Moto Hagio, Shusuke Kaneko’s beguiling film explores teenage yearning, mystery and passion.

Atom Egoyan writes, directs and stars in this witty and devastating investigation of identity, memory and displacement – which here receives a rare 16mm screening.

The second part of Zhang Yimou's loose 'Red Trilogy' is a visually arresting drama of secret love starring Gong Li.

In Athina Rachel Tsangari's hallucinatory new film, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.

Filled with the warm tropical light and lush greens of Martinique, shot on 16mm, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s intoxicating feature debut imagines the life of Martinican writer and activist Suzanne Césaire.

Domingos and Neusia are a young couple from a small city in Mozambique. She goes to school, he has an underpaid job at a car wash. Yearning for a better life, Domingos sets on a journey through Mozambique, heading to the gold mines in the north of the country.

Believing that the end of the world is imminent, Coco, Tsumuji and Satoru, three patients of a mental asylum, escape their institution to seek the perfect picnic spot and watch the apocalypse.

McMullen’s painterly treatment of the Paris Commune recounts the events of those heady days – from the assassination of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico in 1867, through the Franco-Prussian War, to the crushing of the communards.

Screening on a rare 16mm print, Mark Rappaport’s film is at once a tribute and deconstruction of Jean Seberg’s life and the various studio systems that employed her. 

The sophomore feature by Chen Kaige, regarded as one of China’s most important directors and a leading filmmaker of the Fifth Generation of Chinese cinema, follows a group of military cadets on a gruelling training programme to prepare for a parade celebrating the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic.

A landmark work from one of the leading figures of China’s fifth generation of filmmakers, Chen Kaige, King of the Children is set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution and centres upon a young man who is sent from the city to the country for his scheduled tour of farm labour.

The debut feature from filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee, Suture (1993) is a neo-noir thriller about two long-lost brothers whose identities become entangled.

This programme brings together three shorts by Hal Hartley, Kenneth Branagh and Neil Bartlett.

Directed by gay activist and figure of the Toronto New Wave John Greyson, Zero Patience delivers a bold critique of the stigma surrounding the origins of HIV and of the myth of the patient zero.

A special 35mm double bill of Jim Jarmusch's existential tale of a mysterious loner journeying across Spain, preceded by perhaps his most beloved Coffee and Cigarettes short starring Iggy Pop and Tom Waits.

Released in 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s handover, Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan soon garnered critical praise for its raw and unflinching portrayal of urban disillusionment and youthful hopelessness.

As a closing event of the festival, we present a surprise film of a cult film on 35mm.

This double-bill brings together works by two Ukrainian-born filmmakers with a keen interest in dreams and temporality.

Hong Sangsoo's latest film follows a young poet who, after dropping off his girlfriend at her parents' home, finds himself staying longer than expected.

Youths brings together a selection of 15 films that observe and explore ways of navigating, questioning, or disrupting reality as a young adult through the formation of groups and communities. 

A darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction following the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives.

A programme of three short form works from the filmmaker rarely shown in the UK, ahead of the UK premiere presentation of Cent mille milliards (2024).

A special programme of six films celebrating the renowned work of the singular Argentine film collective.

Shot on 16mm, Trương Minh Quý's quietly expressive and sensual drama centred upon two young coal miners is a hypnotic excavation of the memories and legacies of a nation.

Wang Bing’s Youth unfolds as an epic observational trilogy, offering a profound, intimate portrait of young textile workers in Zhili, a factory town 150 km from Shanghai.

In this deeply personal and poetic non-fiction work, Portuguese filmmaker Catarina Ruivo embarks on a journey to resurrect the memory of her beloved grandmother, Júlia.

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.

Serge Daney (1944–1992), one of the most influential critics of the 20th century, was described by Jean-Luc Godard as the end of criticism as he understood it. In conjunction with a new issue on Daney from the international film journal Sabzian, we present twelve films reflecting his philosophically rich, wide-ranging criticism, fueled by a passionate belief in a cinephilic internationalism.

The pageantry and brutality of bullfighting are drawn in stark relief in Albert Serra’s sublime portrait of the charismatic Peruvian-born torero, Andrés Roca Rey. 

Four films from the film unit of the Division of Community Education in Puerto Rico.  Formed in 1947, the unit made scores of short films, poetic documentaries and neorealist fictions, from the late 1940s through the 1960s.

Enigmatic and endlessly intriguing, the cinema of German filmmaker Angela Schanelec defies easy classification. For more than thirty years Schanelec has crafted a singular body of work that is both elliptical and philosophical. Drawing and departing from classical dramaturgy in almost equal measure, Schanelec's cinema, at its heart, is a cinema of being and becoming, a profound exploration of the very act of existing.

A fascinating archival documentary exploring a utopian moment in the history of Puerto Rico, through the film unit of the Division of Community Education and the scores of short films it made in rural communities from the late 1940s through the 1960s.

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device in this striking collaboration between filmmaker Courtney Stephens and actress Callie Hernandez.

Spanning nearly five decades, Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos' body of work is, in a truly homeric tradition, an epic journey through myth and history. From the astonishing tracking shots that seem to collapse any distinction between time and space, to the travelling players, exiles and artists, whose stage keeps shifting beneath their feet. At its heart, the cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is one of movement, an endless voyage, an eternal search for home, and a reckoning with our pasts, both personal and collective.