A showcase of contemporary Portuguese cinema from independent film production unit TERRATREME.

The first UK retrospective dedicated to the work of Mexican documentary filmmaker Eugenio Polgovsky.

An open space to nurture and champion the art of creative documentary and non-fiction filmmakers.

A season dedicated to the work of avant-garde Ukrainian documentarian Sergei Loznitsa.

Europe’s largest military base on the outskirts of Lisbon is the focus of this reflective documentary by director Tiago Hespanha.

A cinematic reverie on the beauty of the night sky as experienced in the Atacama Desert, Chile.

Over 800 minutes long and a decade in the making, Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Llinás’ La Flor defies cinematic convention.

Accompanying the UK & Ireland release of Mariano Llinás’ La Flor, the Argentinian director leads a masterclass, offering an in-depth exploration a filmmaking journey which took ten years to complete.

Over 800 minutes long and a decade in the making, Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Llinás’ La Flor defies cinematic convention.

Over 800 minutes long and a decade in the making, Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Llinás’ La Flor defies cinematic convention.

An observational record of the annual Victory Day celebrations held at the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park.

Inspired by W.G. Sebald’s 2001 novel of the same name, this disquieting documentary explores the tourist industry established around Germany’s former concentration camps.

A documentary which revisits the failed Soviet coup of August 1991.

Sergei Loznitsa’s found footage documentary is comprised of researched and restored archival material from one of Joseph Stalin's first show-trials.

A double bill screening from French director Amélie Ravalec.

Chinese filmmaker Zhao Liang’s magnum opus follows those who, having suffered abuses at the hands of local governments, travel to Beijing to petition the court of complaints.

An afternoon of attentive guided listening presented in partnership with Analogue Foundation.

The first non-fiction feature from Chinese filmmaker Lei Lei revolves around an audio interview conducted with the director’s mother, who recounts her recollections of growing up in Maoist China.

A series of video essays on German filmmaker Harun Farocki produced by Kevin B. Lee for the Goethe Institut.

Sebastian Brameshuber’s third feature is a multi-layered portrait of a self-taught mechanic working at the foot of the Austrian Alps.

Undocumented filmmaker Miko Revereza documents a train journey he took across America last year.

In this masterful observational work, Chinese documentarian Zhao Liang records life inside a remote military police station in Northeastern China.

A family battle the devastating effects of industrial pollution on their local river in this documentary essay about Mexico’s once-paradisiacal Juanacatlán Falls.

Past and future collide in Mexico City’s central square in Eugenio Polgovsky’s ‘Mexican Ritual’.

Filmed in black-and-white on a 16mm Bolex, Bait is a unique, genre-defying new feature from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.

A vibrant film set against the backdrop of the lush green mountains of Jamaica, where a superstar group of reggae legends gather to record a new album.

Eugenio Polgovsky’s acclaimed 2008 documentary depicts the daily lives of children living in rural Mexico who, with their families, survive only by virtue of their unrelenting labour.

The late director’s debut film, Tropic of Cancer, depicts the lives of impoverished families in the arid central Mexican state of San Luis Potosí.

To tie in with the release of Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, the ICA presents a screening of the director’s 2006 film Volver. 

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature is a metafictional reflection on art, memory, love and family, seen through the perspective of an ageing film director.

Hail Satan? chronicles one of the most colourful and controversial religious movements in American history.

Curatorial duo Languid Hands present a screening of filmmaker and multimedia artist Cauleen Smith’s The Fullness of Time and H-E-L-L-O.

A deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant.

Born in Portugal to Cape Verdean parents, 25-year-old Djon África embarks on a journey to discover his roots.

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov charts the rise to fame of Soviet rock pioneer Viktor Tsoi in this freewheeling snapshot of youthful rebellion in 1980s Leningrad.

German auteur Christian Petzold’s conceptually ambitious Transit depicts the moral failings of Europe past and present.

An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname.

Fifty years after its first release, this digital restoration of Robert Bresson’s first colour film is a testament to the director’s cinematic poise.

Lila Avilés’ debut feature follows the routines of a young hotel worker in a Mexico City luxury high-rise.

The tangled love affair between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen is explored in Nick Broomfield’s poignant documentary.

An Academy Award-nominated drama from renowned German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.