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Current and Upcoming
London Short Film Festival 2020
10 – 19 January 2020
The premiere UK showcase for cutting-edge homegrown and international short film.
Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2020
31 January – 16 February 2020
The UK’s largest festival of Japanese cinema returns for its 17th edition.
In Focus: Kazuo Hara
31 January – 4 February 2020
A season of four films from one of Japan’s most renowned documentarians.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2020
17 – 25 April 2020
The ICA’s annual film festival returns with a programme of screenings, discussions and workshops which revolve around the theme of spectatorship.
PREVIEW Portrait of a Lady on Fire
14 – 21 February 2020
A resonant love story set in set in 18th-century France from writer-director Céline Sciamma.
PREVIEW Parasite
Thu, 6 February
Bong Joon-ho returns with a black comedy about wealth, greed and class discrimination.
Akira in 35mm
29 – 31 January 2020
Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s cyberpunk ride through an imagined post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo.
The Machine That Kills Bad People: Girlfriends + Photo Session
Wed, 29 January
Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends (1978) and Friedl vom Gröller’s Photo Session (2010) capture the lives of two photographers.
Members’ Screening: Akira in 35mm
Sun, 26 January
Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s cyberpunk ride through an imagined post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo.
Coincoin and The Extra-Humans: The Apocalypse
Sun, 26 January
Bruno Dumont’s acclaimed series P’tit Quinquin is back for a second season following the discovery of a mysterious extra-terrestrial magma.
Present.Perfect.
24 – 29 January 2020
Featuring personal broadcasts from twelve Chinese online streamers, Present.Perfect. allows us to consider the ways in which our identities have become entangled with network technologies.
I Was Here + Q&A
Wed, 22 January
A Q&A with directors Nathalie Biancheri and Ola Jankowksa follows this screening of their documentary journey through post-Brexit vote England.
Coincoin and The Extra-Humans: Gunk, Gunk, Gunk!!!
Sun, 19 January
Bruno Dumont’s acclaimed series P’tit Quinquin is back for a second season following the discovery of a mysterious extra-terrestrial magma.
A Hidden Life
17 – 23 January 2020
The tenth feature film by writer-director Terrence Malick tells the story of an unsung World War II hero.
Weathering with You
17 – 23 January 2020
From award-winning anime director Makoto Shinkai, a teenage love story with a supernatural twist.
Midnight Traveler
17 – 23 January 2020
Shot entirely on smartphones, a gripping documentary made by a migrant family on the run.
Marshawn Lynch: A History
10 – 22 January 2020
A kaleidoscopic look at newly retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch and his defiant use of silence as a form of protest.
Uncut Gems
10 – 23 January 2020
A Manhattan jewellery dealer and compulsive gambler runs for his life in the Safdie brothers’ newest film.
El Topo
10 – 23 January 2020
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s allegorical cult Western screens in a new 4K restoration.
La Dolce Vita
4 – 23 January 2020
Federico Fellini’s exquisite tale of celebrity casts an adoring yet critical eye towards '60s Rome.
PREVIEW The Lighthouse
4 – 25 January 2020
A hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
27 December 2019 – 23 January 2020
A surreal film noir depicting a lovelorn drifter’s return to his hometown in Southwest China.