Paweł Pawlikowski’s epic romance is a dreamlike journey through a continent divided by World War II.

A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.

Collaborators Agnès Varda and JR traverse the countryside in a cine-van documenting French working-class life.

A visceral and captivating critique of masculinity revolving around the toxic relationship between a dog groomer and a former boxer.

The first anime ever to premiere at Cannes, director Mamoru Hosoda renders childhood with insight and ingenuity.

The true story of Scottish factory workers' protest against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

A timely study of the contemporary art world, greed and the new global elite.

A would-be writer returns to his rural home in director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s richly melancholic mood piece.

Part one of artist Wang Bing’s eight-hour epic, which unearths the testimony of survivors of the Communist Party of China’s re-education camps.

Part two of artist Wang Bing’s eight-hour epic, which unearths the testimony of survivors of the Communist Party of China’s re-education camps.

Jean-Luc Godard’s visually explosive new work on the human capacity for horror.

In Alexei German’s satire, something monumental is happening in 1950s Moscow but no one knows precisely what.

A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.

Actor and director Dennis Hopper’s seldom-seen follow-up to Easy Rider takes on Hollywood artifice.

A year in the life of a fisherman who drifts between river solitude and the family that anchors him.

Sensuous and immersive, this audiovisual essay is both a philosophical inquiry and an invitation to inhabit our animal bodies.

A self-referential exploration of moviegoing assembled entirely from existing footage.

Queen Anne is the centre of an erotic-political power struggle in this cheerfully obscene twist on period drama.

An affectionate documentary portrait of 84-year-old US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Metahaven’s arresting audio-visual essay on the infiltration of digital technology into our understanding of the self, introduced by the artists.

A hybrid documentary which hauntingly explores the inhumanity of Australia’s largest offshore detention facility.

LSFF returns to the ICA for its 16th year, with another radical and reactive programme of short films from across the globe.

After their father suffers a stroke, three grown siblings return to their family home to take stock of their lives.

Metahaven’s first feature-length film is an expansive and hybrid exploration of the interweaving of geopolitics and digital platforms.

A hybrid documentary which hauntingly explores the inhumanity of Australia's largest offshore detention facility.

An inventive documentary about anthropologist Santiago Genoves' infamous Acali Experiment, dubbed ‘one of the strangest group experiments of all time.’

Director RaMell Ross’ acclaimed study of light, mood, movement and Black life in the US South.

Recent work by MA students from the Experimental Film programme at Kingston School of Art.

Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley's second feature follows a teenager searching for a liminal point of non-existence.

Through the lens of a single year, Jane Magnusson’s documentary explores Ingmar Bergman’s prolific artistic achievements and turbulent personal life.

A restless married woman embarks on a transformative affair in Olga Chajdas’ accomplished debut.

A disquieting examination of faith, repression and madness from the director of Snow in Paradise.

A disquieting examination of faith, repression and madness from the director of Snow in Paradise. 

Ingmar Bergman’s enigmatic psychodrama questions the nature of identity and the nature of cinema itself.

A restless married woman embarks on a transformative affair in Olga Chajdas’ accomplished debut.

This unsettling family portrait set in Thatcher-era Britain is photographer Richard Billingham’s feature-film debut.

Artists Morag Keil and Georgie Nettell explore how people become data through a series of ‘getting to know you’ quizzes.

Intimate portraits exploring ideas around filmic memories, family and community in a programme selected by Ben Rivers.

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story, ‘Barn Burning’, simmers with foreboding tension.

This year’s programme features a selection of Japanese films centred around the theme of love in its many forms.

This year’s programme features a selection of Japanese films centred around the theme of love in its many forms.

A programme of artists’ films exploring the impact and legacy of colonisation.

From the director of Blue Is the Warmest Colour, this exuberant coming-of-age saga casts a nostalgic glow on the pleasures of youth.

A programme of five short films commissioned by filmmaker-driven documentary unit Field of Vision.

Ten shorts from emerging filmmakers unearth the struggles of modern Londoners.

Ten shorts from emerging filmmakers unearth the struggles of modern Londoners.

Three films honouring the remarkable career of Swiss actor Bruno Ganz

A sexually-charged coming-of-age love story which earned the director and the film’s co-stars the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

A brutally intimate portrait of an isolated young sex worker who yearns for affection.

A major UK retrospective of the prolific output of Straub and Huillet, including over forty-seven films and shorts directed between 1962 and 2018.

An award-winning vision of contemporary warfare from Israeli writer and director Samuel Maoz.

From the writer of Let the Right One In comes a mesmerising and genre-defying dark fairytale set in modern-day Sweden.

Jeff Preiss’ feature-length STOP crosses time and geography in a biographical record captured on 16mm.

The incredible story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.

From Argentinian director Joaquín Cambre, a magical realist film about a tormented young teenager who wants to escape his difficult adolescence by travelling to the moon.

The Machine That Kills Bad People selects two films about political rebellion and social change.

From Argentinian director Joaquín Cambre, a film about a tormented young teenager who wants to escape his difficult adolescence by travelling to the moon.

The premiere of Juliet Jacques’ Revivification: Art, Activism and Politics in Ukraine followed by a conversation. 

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

Award-winning director Pedro Costa’s film follows Ventura as he traverses a seemingly endless night populated by the ghosts of the past.

The UK Premiere of Marc Silver’s new short film #pinkhairdatawhistleblower followed by a discussion with Professor Shoshana Zuboff.

South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story, ‘Barn Burning’, simmers with foreboding tension.

Created despite an imposed filmmaking ban, celebrated Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s latest film examines the tensions within Iranian society triggered by patriarchal traditions.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or winning film depicts a family reliant on theft for survival.

Drawing on over 12 years of footage, Bing Liu’s Academy Award-nominated documentary is a celebration of skateboarding and a portrait of young manhood. 

From the writer of Let the Right One In comes a mesmerising and genre-defying dark fairy tale set in modern-day Sweden.

A brutally intimate portrait of an isolated young sex worker who yearns for affection.

In Lukas Dhont’s debut feature, 15-year-old aspiring dancer Lara, born in a boy’s body, pushes her anatomy to its limits to pursue her dreams.

This unsettling family portrait set in Thatcher-era Britain is photographer Richard Billingham’s feature-film debut.

An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late American documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

A portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold and his death-defying scale of Yosemite’s three-thousand-foot El Capitan.

A study of art, the mind, and a deepening friendship between filmmaker and subject.

Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s third film revolves around two young labourers on an isolated tobacco plantation in rural Italy.

A jocular and subversive Western from acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard, based on the novel by Patrick deWitt.

An American filmmaker follows the life of a struggling Polish actress living in London.

Silvia Kolbowski returns to the genre of silent film and Mary Shelley's fictional tale of man-made monstrosity in this recent video work.

A documentary celebrating the work of Walerian Borowczyk, a director of unparalleled sensitivity, revered in the 1970s, who was later labelled as a maker of erotic movies.

This year’s festival is centred around the concept of Deframing, which embraces cultural complexity, resists dominant narratives, and emphasises decategorisation.

Filmmakers John Bruce and Pawel Wojtasik’s intimate meditation on the process of dying.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s epic romance is a dreamlike journey through a continent divided by World War II.

In its first UK-wide re-release since 2000, Stanley Kubrick’s classic remains an unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control.

A brutally intimate portrait of an isolated young sex worker who yearns for affection.

Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, Styx is an astute modern-day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering.

Selected to compete for the Palme d’Or at Cannes, Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke’s latest film delivers a sweeping and personal reflection on modern China.

A romantic relationship unfolds between two teenage women on a Nairobi housing estate.

Constructed from 13 episodes, Ukrainian director Sergey Loznitsa’s engrossing drama provides a unique take on a disturbing contemporary conflict.

A documentary exploring the relationship between art and the unconscious mind.

A documentary exploring the relationship between art and the unconscious mind.

In this documentary by Clément Cogitore, two feuding families live in adjoining compounds deep in Siberia’s boreal forest, their settlement completely unreachable by road.

Four women running for Congress – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin – battle powerful political machines in very different American landscapes.

From Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson, an eccentric film about a choir director turned covert guerrilla eco-activist.

The story of the unlikely friendship between New York City legend Sterling Magee and scholar Adam Gussow, who found unlikely fame busking together on Harlem’s streets.

The genre-melding Diamantino is at once a queer fairy tale, a sci-fi thriller, and an outrageous political satire of modern Europe.

A moving documentary tribute to Scottish climber and adventurer Hamish MacInnes, one of the greatest mountaineers of the 20th century.

Director Josephine Decker’s Sundance-premiering new film refreshes the conventions of a coming-of-age tale through its fragmented, electrifying form.

A crew of young convicts are sent on a doomed mission to outer space in French auteur Claire Denis’ English-language debut.

The genre-melding Diamantino is at once a queer fairy tale, a sci-fi thriller, and an outrageous political satire of modern Europe.

Director Josephine Decker’s Sundance-premiering new film refreshes the conventions of a coming-of-age tale through its fragmented, electrifying form.

A moving documentary tribute to Scottish climber and adventurer Hamish MacInnes, one of the greatest mountaineers of the 20th century.

Sexplotitation and social commentary in this double bill from Doris Wishman and Peggy Ahwesh.

A digital restoration of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 Cold War political satire.

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

In its European premiere, XY Chelsea follows Chelsea Manning as she leaves prison and navigates the far-reaching consequences of her past.

Winner of the Leopard for Best Director at the Locarno Festival, Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s latest film is a beguiling coming-of-age drama set in Chile.

An impressionistic rumination on imperious tennis legend John McEnroe at the height of his career, compiled from reels of unseen 16mm archival footage.

Winner of the Leopard for Best Director at the Locarno Festival, Dominga Sotomayor Castillo’s latest film is a beguiling coming-of-age drama set in Chile.

Superbrat struggles to defeat his demons and conquer the French Open for the first time in Julien Faraut’s impressionistic essay film.

XY Chelsea follows Chelsea Manning as she leaves prison and navigates the far-reaching consequences of her past.

The bond between a father and daughter is subtly expounded in Claire Denis’ masterful 2009 film.

An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team.

A sardonic melodrama about 21st-century celebrity, spectacle and violence. 

Set among Colombia’s Wayúu people, Birds of Passage spans three decades of a family pushed to the brink by the drug trade.

Pop-up film club Bounce Cinema presents a secret screening of new independent short films. 

Wyatt Earp was the inspiration behind decades of Hollywood Westerns and a master of self-mythology.

The life and times of legendary designer Roy Halston Frowick, the man who wanted to ‘dress all of America.’

Wyatt Earp was the inspiration behind decades of Hollywood Westerns and a master of self-mythology.

A young man attempts to resist his spiritual fate in this fictionalised portrait of tribal culture in northern Brazil.

An unflinching portrait of a young woman struggling to re-establish her sense of self after a brutal acid attack.

A young woman works at a New York pornographic theatre in Bette Gordon’s 1983 film co-written by Kathy Acker.

An immersive portrait of working-class family life and brotherhood.

Two brothers from the Central African Republic seek refuge in France in this compassionate family drama.

László Nemes explores pre-First World War Budapest in this haunting portrait of a society on the cusp of change.

An intimate exploration of a single oil painting followed by a Q&A with director Charlie Paul and producer Lucy Paul.

Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari investigates the relationship between her physical traumas and the collective political memories of her birthplace.

An intimate exploration of a single oil painting.

Filmmaker Petra Costa maps far-right politics in Brazil in this expansive documentary.

Leftist Israeli director Iris Zaki temporarily relocates from Tel Aviv to the Tekoa settlement on the West Bank, exploring one of the most divisive issues in Israel today.

Filmmaker Petra Costa maps far-right politics in Brazil in this expansive documentary.

An immersive documentary portrait of monolithic football legend Maradona, constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage.

After the birth of their first child, a young couple adjust to the rhythm of daily life in Portuguese filmmaker Susana Nobre’s debut feature.

Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari investigates the relationship between her physical traumas and the collective political memories of her birthplace.

An immersive documentary portrait of monolithic football legend Maradona, constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage from Maradona’s personal archive.

A middle-aged divorcée energetically navigates the joys and frustrations of contemporary life in this spirited film from Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio.

Archival footage and personal testimonials present a harrowing portrait of Amy Winehouse, tracing her life and career up until her untimely death.

Filmmaker Richard Kovitch explores the untold story of British artist Penny Slinger, whose groundbreaking work mysteriously slipped from popular memory.

Crafted from newly discovered 70mm footage, an exhilarating documentary about NASA's 1969 moon mission.

A cursed red dress causes devastating consequences as it passes from person to person in this horror-inflected satire from British writer-director Peter Strickland.

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

A young illegal immigrant creates a new life for herself in France while becoming the centre of tangled romantic relationships.

A unique exploration of sexuality, obsession, and violence from renowned Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.

Iranian director Samira Makhmalbaf’s award-winning Blackboards screens alongside poet and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad’s acclaimed documentary The House is Black.

A self-aware zombie comedy with an all-star ensemble cast from writer-director Jim Jarmusch.

An unsparing account of a marriage in crisis from Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas.

A documentary exploring the phenomenon of Afrobeats and its influence on music production worldwide.

Four short films from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa explore social media’s unremitting presence in our day to day lives.

An experimental meditation on Acker’s larger-than-life persona, offering a celebration and critique of the writer in equal parts.

Artist Olivia Erlanger and architect Luis Ortega Govela’s documentary explores the evolution of the garage.

An American filmmaker follows the life of a struggling Polish actress living in London.

Agnès Varda’s final film is a reflective self-portrait which offers an imaginative insight into the French auteur’s oeuvre.

This exuberant documentary highlights the innovative Afro-Portuguese music scene thriving on the outskirts of Lisbon.

A controversial documentary which portrays the fraught relationship between traditional fishing practices in Scotland and the concerns of environmentalists.

An American filmmaker follows the life of a struggling Polish actress living in London.

A timely documentary exploring the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A timely documentary exploring the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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

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

A candid and moving investigation into seventy years of progress in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

A probing documentary about the late Brazilian musician João Gilberto, whose bossa nova sound revolutionised popular music worldwide in the 1960s.

Robert Altman’s atmospheric 1971 western is recognised as one of the director’s true masterpieces.

A candid and moving investigation into seventy years of progress in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.

A probing documentary about the late Brazilian musician João Gilberto, whose bossa nova sound revolutionised popular music worldwide in the 1960s.

A discussion event setting out to investigate the evolving role of moving image in contemporary art

Raúl Ruiz’s satirical 1990 film about the fringes of the downtown New York art scene with a cameo by Kathy Acker.

A controversial documentary which portrays the fraught relationship between traditional fishing practices in Scotland and the concerns of environmentalists.

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.

A seemingly idyllic holiday on the Turkish Riviera devolves into a brutal revenge narrative in Isabella Eklöf’s debut feature.

A seemingly idyllic holiday on the Turkish Riviera devolves into a brutal revenge narrative in Isabella Eklöf’s debut feature.

An American composer travels to Mexico to resolve his deceased father’s affairs in this debut feature from Daniel Graham.

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

Celebrated as the first Berlinale Golden Bear awarded to a female director, Márta Mészáros’ Adoption (1975) is a powerful meditation on agency and womanhood.

A screening of London-based artist-filmmaker Ayo Akingbade’s social housing trilogy No News Today, including the premiere of Dear Babylon (2019).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

In Benjamin Naishtat's Rojo an argument with a mysterious stranger escalates with drastic consequences.

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

A coming-of-age drama about a young Jamaican sprinter set to be the island’s next big track and field sensation.

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

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

Forty years after its original release, the ICA screens Apocalypse Now Final Cut, a never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Coppola’s spectacular cinematic masterpiece.

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.

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

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.

A double bill screening from French director Amélie Ravalec.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

From one of Britain’s most unique filmmakers, a deeply personal and beautifully crafted portrait of self-discovery.

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.

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.

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

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.

Spanish director Carmen Bellas’ debut feature is an imagined conversation between the film’s narrator and the neighbourhood of San Cristóbal on the outskirts of Madrid.

A screening of Cheryl Dunye’s recently restored The Watermelon Woman alongside I am Micro by Shumona Goel and Shai Heredia.

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

Forty years after its original release, the ICA screens Apocalypse Now Final Cut, a never-before-seen and newly restored cut of Coppola’s spectacular cinematic masterpiece.

In the leadup to the 2019 London Palestine Film Festival, the ICA presents a programme celebrating acclaimed works from the festival’s previous editions.

A group of Palestinian ex-prisoners recreate the circumstances of their incarceration in this documentary from director Raed Andoni.

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

Adele Tulli’s Normal playfully exposes the spectacle of gender in our everyday lives.

Adele Tulli’s Normal playfully exposes the spectacle of gender in our everyday lives.

A programme of shorts from Palestinian filmmakers ranging from the dramatic to the political to the satirical.

To celebrate the release of Joanna Hogg’s latest film The Souvenir, the ICA screens Archipelago, the director’s darkly comic deconstruction of upper-middle-class sensibilities.

A programme of newly recovered and recently restored films produced by the Institute of Palestinian Cinema during the 1970s and 80s.

Your chance to discover the Oscar winners of the future, the most thrilling new talent from across the globe and beautifully restored treasures from the archives.

Loretta Fahrenholz’s dystopian Two A.M. is a hallucinogenic tale of coercion, control and peer-to-peer surveillance, set on the fringes of contemporary Berlin 

Set in Leningrad in the months following the end of WWII, Russian filmmaker Kantemir Balagov’s is a devastating portrait of a broken city and its people.

Ali Jaberansari’s debut feature is a triptych of stories about love and yearning in Tehran.

The life and career of musical giant and cultural icon Miles Davis – a true visionary, innovator and originator who defied categorisation.

An intimate portrait of the iconic INXS frontman. 

In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory.

A birthday party quickly dissolves into chaos when an earthquake traps eight teenage girls alone in an isolated mansion.

Roberto Minervini’s fifth feature-length work is a blistering meditation on the state of race in America.

A high-concept horror about the scars of colonisation and cultural appropriation in contemporary France.

An intimate portrait of the iconic INXS frontman.

Roberto Minervini’s fifth feature-length work is a blistering meditation on the state of race in America.

In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his memory.

An otherworldly thriller about a rebel group of teenage guerrilla soldiers from Colombian-Ecuadorian filmmaker Alejandro Landes.

Steve James’s landmark 1994 documentary follows two African-American high schoolers from the West Side of Chicago as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional basketball players.

Joe Talbot’s directorial debut is a deep and resonant meditation on the stories we tell ourselves to find our place in the world.

Writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s darkly comedic film-within-a-film touches upon cinematic representation without offering simple resolutions.

To coincide with Black History Month in the UK, the ICA presents RaMell Ross’ Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening.

Writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s darkly comedic film-within-a-film touches upon cinematic representation without offering simple resolutions.

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

A revealing portrait of the late Parisian haute couture designer, filmed during the creation of his final collection.

A documentary about the hidden power of sound in cinema.

An evening of film, conversation and live performance celebrating the work of musician, painter and filmmaker Gina Birch.

Director RaMell Ross’ acclaimed study of light, mood, movement and Black life in the US South.

The London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) is the UK’s leading showcase of Korean cinema, and one of the world’s largest festivals dedicated to a national cinema.

An interactive introduction to FLAMIN Productions, Film London’s major commissioning scheme for London-based artist filmmakers.

Award-winning war photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy explores the creative inspiration behind PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album.

Digital restorations of British filmmaker Peter Whitehead’s iconic documentaries, presented 50 years after the ICA’s first screening of The Fall.

Werner Herzog returns with an intimate portrait of one man who changed the course of history.

Award-winning war photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy explores the creative inspiration behind PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album.

Australian director Peter Sant’s debut feature is a Maltese-language film about stasis and slow change.

The ICA’s annual convening takes artists’ moving image outside of the cinema, unfolding through multi-screen projections, performances and discussions.

A self-described ‘pop concerto for film’, Peter Whitehead’s celebrated documentary Tonite Let's All Make Love in London probes the myth and the reality of ‘Swinging London’. 

A chronicle of the turbulent events that took place in America between the autumn of 1967 and the summer of 1968.

Martin Scorsese’s epic saga of organised crime in post-war America told through the eyes of hitman Frank Sheeran.

A monumental historical essay about a family torn apart by the upheavals of the 20th century.

London Palestine Film Festival returns to the ICA with a selection of work from emerging and established Palestinian filmmakers.

Artist Ken Okiishi screens and discusses his recent video work Vital Behaviors, an intimate investigation of memory and transformation.

A screening of recent works from artists Julie Béna, Patrick Staff and Nora Turato.

A tribute to Czech filmmaker Helena Trestikova, whose impressive career spans over forty years and features more than fifty documentaries.

What begins as a portrait of a dying magician unravels into a meta-narrative about the process and ethics of documentary making.

Writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques presents a two-part programme of experimental queer cinema.

Honeyland questions the cost, both human and ecological, of unsustainable growth and the reckless pursuit of profit.

Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, the debut feature from director and actor Mati Diop is a haunting, fantastical depiction of young love.

Based on real events, Iranian writer-director Soheil Beiraghi’s second feature is the story of one woman’s fight for gender equality.

A monumental historical essay about a family torn apart by the upheavals of the 20th century.

Ten Londoners grapple with a system stacked against them in this unique production from filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and theatremaker Adrian Jackson.

What begins as a portrait of a dying magician unravels into a meta-narrative about the process and ethics of documentary making.

The latest film from Noah Baumbach is a compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.

Writer and filmmaker Juliet Jacques presents a two-part programme of experimental queer cinema.

Ten Londoners grapple with a system stacked against them in this unique production from filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and theatremaker Adrian Jackson.

To tie in with the release of Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, the ICA presents a screening of the director’s 2007 film Margot at the Wedding on 35mm.

A Q&A with director Robert Bahar follows the screening of this documentary about the first attempt in history to prosecute the crimes of Franco’s 40-year dictatorship.

Director and actor Mati Diop’s debut feature is introduced by Reclaim The Frame.

A retrospective of radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella’s work launches at the ICA with a screening of Portabella’s Vampir-Cuadecuc (1971) alongside his short film Acció Santos (1973).

Travel and the stories of those in transit form the focus of this screening featuring Alexandra Cuesta’s Piensa en Mí and Angela Schanelec’s Places in Cities.

A revenge tale set against the backdrop of Australia’s colonial past.

Stanley Kubrick’s final masterpiece screens to coincide with the 20th anniversary of its release.

A documentary portrait of Sicilian press photographer Letizia Battaglia, whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.

Radical Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella’s Nocturno 29 is introduced by scholar Ona Balló Pedragosa.

The Silence of Others documents the first attempt in history to prosecute the crimes of Franco’s 40-year dictatorship.

Four schoolboys embark on an epic voyage through prehistory in Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman’s influential 1955 fantasy, now released in a new 4K digital restoration.

Wang Xiaoshuai's So Long, My Son traces the lives of two families over three decades of social and political upheaval in China.

A Q&A with Dutch artist Sabine Groenewegen accompanies the UK Premiere of her genre-defying debut feature.

Indigenous cultural workers fight against a new fossil gas frontier in Australia.

An intimate portrait of one of the world’s most successful gay adult film stars.

Winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, the debut feature from director and actor Mati Diop is a haunting, fantastical depiction of young love.

Written by Shia LaBeouf and directed by Alma Har’el, a fictionalized account of LaBeouf’s ascent to stardom and subsequent crash-landing into rehab and recovery.

A programme of four feature films by one of Japan’s most thought-provoking contemporary filmmakers.

An intimate portrait of one of the world’s most successful gay adult film stars.

A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, For Sama tells the story of Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo.

A landmark film about the AIDS epidemic, written, produced and directed by Arthur J. Bressan Jr.

A documentary portrait of Sicilian press photographer Letizia Battaglia, whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Mafia’s brutal crimes.

After committing a heinous crime, a man escapes to the forest to avoid capture in Portuguese filmmaker Ico Costa’s debut feature.

After committing a heinous crime, a man escapes to the forest to avoid capture in Portuguese filmmaker Ico Costa’s debut feature.

From director Nicolas Bedos, a drama that reflects on love, memory and nostalgia.

Aquarela takes audiences on a cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water.

A relationship unfolds over the course of six years in this modern-day romance from actor and director Tom Cullen.

An absorbing documentary overview of Putin’s rise to power, centred upon exiled Russian oligarch and political dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Aquarela takes audiences on a cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water.

From the ICA Cinema archives, a curated selection of cult classics and rare finds in original format 35mm, exclusively for ICA Members.

David Cronenberg’s cult techno-horror Videodrome screens in 35mm.

Featuring work by artist Patrick Staff and their peers, an evening of screenings, music and readings.

A journey into the depths of a city through the memories and emotions of its inhabitants.

The dining room becomes an open arena for lust, brutality, irrationality and ultimately, liberation in this programme of four outstanding works of European cinema.

Young people spiral amid economic depression in the late filmmaker Hu Bo’s furious debut feature.

Wang Xiaoshuai's So Long, My Son traces the lives of two families over three decades of social and political upheaval in China.

In Alexei German’s satire, something monumental is happening in 1950s Moscow but no one knows precisely what.

Queen Anne is the centre of an erotic-political power struggle in this cheerfully obscene twist on period drama.

A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.

A surreal film noir depicting a lovelorn drifter’s return to his hometown in Southwest China.

A programme of three feature films celebrating the singular work of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay.