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.

The endlessly blurred and tangled lines of reality and fiction, cinema and theatre, and art and life form the heart of Jacques Rivette’s cinema. Throughout his extensive body of work the French filmmaker continually eschews and reformulates the traditional patterns of narrative cinema and instead embraces mystery, conspiracy, and the inexplicable.

Made on discarded film stock and released in 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s handover, Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan follows alienated youth trapped in cycles of violence.

With its annual celebration of emerging filmmakers and the art of short filmmaking, the London Short Film Festival (LSFF) returns for its 22nd edition, taking place 17th - 26th January 2025 across London’s most iconic screens and venues, alongside arts and community spaces and a community-hopping mobile cinema bus.

Reflecting on the traces that linger in the quiet pursuit to understand what lies ahead.In our most delicate moments of reflection, how are we to reconcile the lingering fragments bridging past and present?

The selection of six non-/fiction diary films, capture the moment everyday life is transformed into a poem - and the mundane is made to become sacred.

Fleeing persecution in the US, Hungarian architect László Tóth is commissioned to construct a monumental building. Driven by a powerful performance from Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist explores trauma, art’s value, and ambition’s price.

East German teacher Philipp questions his sexuality after reconnecting with a childhood friend, in this 1989 film by Heiner Carow.

A special programme of five films celebrating the work of Michael Snow (1929-2023), titan of experimental cinema.

The international productions of Iranian auteur, Amir Naderi, have ranged across various countries and continents over the past four decades. This programme, containing one film from each decade between the 1990s and 2010s, offers a condensed overview of the dynamism, intransigence, transnationalism, and experiential spirit of Naderi’s output in three films made in the US and Japan.

Fleeing persecution in the US, Hungarian architect László Tóth is commissioned to construct a monumental building. Driven by a powerful performance from Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist explores trauma, art’s value, and ambition’s price.

Recipient of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice Film Festival this year, the film is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside.

The latest film from Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward. 

The latest film from Magnus von Horn is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world.

As the 2021 UK national lockdown drags on, increasingly isolated theatre actors Sam and Mark spend their days in the online world of Grand Theft Auto. When they have an idea to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game.

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s stunning sophomore feature – which follows ICA Distribution project A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) – is a profound meditation on urban migration and dislocation.

Johan Grimonprez’s film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a career-best performance as Pansy, a woman battling grief, rage, and disconnection in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, three decades after their collaboration on Secrets and Lies. 

The latest film from Hong Sangsoo reunites Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo in an autumnal tale of desire, self-expression and the inescapable nature of the past.

The UK’s biggest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP), returns to the ICA for its latest installment.

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing drama depicts a man’s growing paranoia around encroaching state repression, whilst his family’s increasingly anti-patriarchal conviction at home threatens his carefully constructed public life.

Awarded Best Film in the BFI London Film Festival’s Official Competition, Adam Elliot’s heartfelt animation about twins navigating loss, blends humour and darkness.

Mahdi Fleifel’s first fiction feature portrays Chantile, a Palestinian refugee in Athens, as he cares for his addicted cousin Reda while seeking an escape to Germany.

A documentary portrait of British photographer Martin Parr’s politically charged, humanist and humorous work.

Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky’s film, follows two women through a series of drifting vignettes. Their quotidian moments blend and overlay reality with performance, describing an aching state, and a meditation on identity.

Sent on a covert mission in Latin America a Vietnam veteran’s allegiance begins to unravel as his awareness of his Latino heritage and role in an imperial conflict grows.

Set against the backdrop of the Nuremberg Trials, The Memory of Justice (1976) raises urgent questions about violence, war, and justice that are still relevant today. This special screening, introduced by international lawyer Professor Philippe Sands Hon FBA.

A disillusioned New York rocker heads to Tokyo, where she navigates love, music, and fleeting fame. Followed by an in person Q&A with director Fran Rubel Kuzui.

James Baldwin left New York behind for Paris in November 1948. In Jimmy, filmmaker Yashaddai Owens paints an impressionistic portrait of these early days on rich 16mm black-and-white, capturing a transformative moment in the life of a young artist.

The dog is apparently man's best friend, but what about its relationship to women? The immaculately groomed purebreds and dry humour of Good Girl... Sit Down! might seem miles apart from the languor of Dog Lady and its pack of mutts, but in both films, dogs figure as an important part of a woman's search for beauty and freedom.

For two years, filmmakers Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau followed a militant activist community of squatters, anarchists, farmers in France. Composed of forty-one long takes, the film quietly assembles an immersive portrait of the movement and those involved alongside their activism.

Assembled from footage shot over a span of more than twenty years, Jia Zhangke crafts a boundless story of enduring but fragile love, anchored by the eternally captivating presence of Zhao Tao.