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John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection
24 May 2019 – 19 July 2022
Superbrat struggles to defeat his demons and conquer the French Open for the first time in Julien Faraut’s impressionistic essay film.
Diego Maradona
21 June 2019 – 8 January 2020
An immersive documentary portrait of monolithic football legend Maradona, constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage.
Pain and Glory
23 August 2019 – 8 January 2020
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature is a metafictional reflection on art, memory, love and family, seen through the perspective of an ageing film director.
Cinema 3
Bait
30 August 2019 – 5 February 2020
Filmed in black and white on a 16mm Bolex,
Bait
is a unique, genre-defying new feature from British writer-director Mark Jenkin.
Cinema 3
The Souvenir
13 September 2019 – 4 January 2020
From one of Britain’s most unique filmmakers, a deeply personal and beautifully crafted portrait of self-discovery.
Cinema 3
Honeyland
13 September 2019 – 9 January 2020
Honeyland
questions the cost, both human and ecological, of unsustainable growth and the reckless pursuit of profit.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
13 October 2019 – 2 January 2020
The life and career of musical giant and cultural icon Miles Davis – a true visionary, innovator and originator who defied categorisation.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
3 November 2019 – 3 January 2020
Director RaMell Ross’ acclaimed study of light, mood, movement and Black life in the US South.
For Sama
7 December 2019 – 2 January 2020
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.
La Belle Époque
13 December 2019 – 5 January 2020
From director Nicolas Bedos, a drama that reflects on love, memory and nostalgia.
Pink Wall
13 December 2019 – 7 January 2020
A relationship unfolds over the course of six years in this modern-day romance from actor and director Tom Cullen.
Aquarela
14 December 2019 – 2 January 2020
Aquarela
takes audiences on a cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water.
Monthly Members’ Screenings
15 December 2019 – 23 February 2020
From the ICA Cinema archives, a curated selection of cult classics and rare finds in original format 35mm, exclusively for ICA Members.
Diagnosis
20 December 2019 – 2 January 2020
A journey into the depths of a city through the memories and emotions of its inhabitants.
On Food and Subversion
20 December 2019 – 5 January 2020
The dining room becomes an open arena for lust, brutality, irrationality and ultimately, liberation in this programme of four outstanding works of European cinema.
The Favourite
22 December 2019 – 9 January 2020
Queen Anne is the centre of an erotic-political power struggle in this cheerfully obscene twist on period drama.
Climax
27 December 2019 – 9 January 2020
A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
27 December 2019 – 4 February 2020
A surreal film noir depicting a lovelorn drifter’s return to his hometown in Southwest China.
In Focus: Lynne Ramsay
29 December 2019 – 7 January 2020
A programme of three feature films celebrating the singular work of Scottish director Lynne Ramsay.
Present.Perfect.
2 January – 6 February 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 See Red People
3 – 8 January 2020
Bojina questions her parents about their unspoken past before the Iron Curtain fell.
Amanda
4 – 16 January 2020
A young man’s serene life in Paris is abruptly fractured by a national tragedy that claims the life of his sister in this tender film from director Mikhaël Hers.
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.
La Dolce Vita
4 – 23 January 2020
Federico Fellini’s exquisite tale of celebrity casts an adoring yet critical eye towards '60s Rome.
UK PREMIERE Marshawn Lynch: A History
Tue, 7 January 2020
A kaleidoscopic look at newly retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch and his defiant use of silence as a form of protest.
PREVIEW Joan of Arc
Wed, 8 January 2020
From French auteur Bruno Dumont, a dramatic semi-musical which follows the heroine’s trial for heresy.
Coincoin and the Extra-Humans: Black be Black + Q&A
Thu, 9 January 2020
Bruno Dumont’s acclaimed series
P’tit Quinquin
is back for a second season following the discovery of a mysterious extra-terrestrial magma.
El Topo
10 January – 26 February 2020
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s allegorical cult Western screens in a new 4K restoration.
Uncut Gems
10 January – 6 February 2020
A Manhattan jewellery dealer and compulsive gambler runs for his life in the Safdie brothers’ newest film.
London Short Film Festival 2020
10 – 19 January 2020
The premiere UK showcase for cutting-edge homegrown and international short film.
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.
Coincoin and The Extra-Humans: Episode 2
Sun, 12 January 2020
Bruno Dumont’s acclaimed series
P’tit Quinquin
is back for a second season following the discovery of a mysterious extra-terrestrial magma.
Midnight Traveler
17 – 30 January 2020
Shot entirely on smartphones, a gripping documentary made by a migrant family on the run.
Weathering with You
17 – 29 January 2020
From award-winning anime director Makoto Shinkai, a teenage love story with a supernatural twist.
A Hidden Life
17 January – 19 February 2020
The tenth feature film by writer-director Terrence Malick tells the story of an unsung World War II hero.
Coincoin and The Extra-Humans: Gunk, Gunk, Gunk!!!
Sun, 19 January 2020
Bruno Dumont’s acclaimed series
P’tit Quinquin
is back for a second season following the discovery of a mysterious extra-terrestrial magma.
I Was Here + Q&A
Wed, 22 January 2020
A Q&A with directors Nathalie Biancheri and Ola Jankowksa follows this screening of their documentary journey through post-Brexit vote England.
The Holy Mountain
24 January – 27 February 2020
A new digital restoration of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s hallucinogenic follow-up to
El Topo
caused a scandal when first released.
Another Year
Sat, 25 January 2020
Shengze Zhu’s second feature-length documentary screens to coincide with ICA CINEMA’s release of the director’s 2019 film
Present.Perfect.
UK PREMIERE In the Absence + Q&A
Sat, 25 January 2020
A Q&A with producer Gary Byung-Seok Kam follows the screening of this Oscar-nominated short film.
Monthly Members’ Screenings
Members’ Screening: Akira in 35mm
Sun, 26 January 2020
Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s cyberpunk ride through an imagined post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo.
Coincoin and The Extra-Humans: The Apocalypse
Sun, 26 January 2020
Bruno Dumont’s acclaimed series
P’tit Quinquin
is back for a second season following the discovery of a mysterious extra-terrestrial magma.
Akira in 35mm
26 – 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 2020
Claudia Weill’s
Girlfriends
(1978) and Friedl vom Gröller’s
Photo Session
(2010) capture the lives of two photographers.
Talking About Trees
31 January – 15 February 2020
Four ageing filmmakers and lifelong friends campaign to revive an old cinema in Sudan.
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.
Show Me The Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall
31 January – 6 February 2020
A documentary chronicling the late rock ‘n’ roll photographer Jim Marshall.
PREVIEW Parasite
Thu, 6 February 2020
Bong Joon-ho returns with a black comedy about wealth, greed and class discrimination.
The Lighthouse
7 February – 18 March 2020
A hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Fando y Lis
7 – 12 February 2020
The contentious first feature from iconoclastic filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Parasite
7 February – 19 March 2020
Bong Joon-ho returns with a dark comedy about wealth, greed and class discrimination.
A Paris Education
14 – 28 February 2020
Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s cinematic love letter to the movies – and to the possibilities of youth and young love.
First Love
14 – 29 February 2020
Passionate romance meets anarchic thriller in the latest from prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike.
Latin America Monthly: The Sharks
14 – 20 February 2020
The first feature-length film from Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi is a study of romantic fumbling and youthful obsession.
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 Midnight Family + Q&A
Tue, 18 February 2020
This Preview screening is followed by a Q&A with film director Luke Lorentzen.
Little Joe
21 February – 15 March 2020
Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw and Kerry Fox star as laboratory colleagues in Jessica Hausner’s deeply unnerving sci-fi chiller.
Midnight Family
21 February – 7 March 2020
When a crackdown by corrupt police forces a family to try legitimising their essential emergency medical services, their desperate financial situation pushes them into questionable practices.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders + introduction
Sat, 22 February 2020
A classic of the Czechoslovak New Wave set within the imagination of teenage girl on the threshold of adulthood.
The Disappearance of My Mother + Q&A
Fri, 28 February 2020
A once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good.
The Disappearance of My Mother
29 February – 19 March 2020
At the age of 75, Benedetta has become exhausted with the various roles that life has imposed upon her and decides escape the world of images and disappear for good.
In Focus: Pedro Costa
3 – 15 March 2020
A retrospective of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa to coincide with the release of Vitalina Varela.
PREVIEW And Then We Danced
Wed, 4 March 2020
An exploration of cultural identity, ambition and self-expression in Georgia.
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
6 – 19 March 2020
A new documentary exploring race, history, America and the human condition through the eyes of the writer and her peers.
In Focus: Pedro Costa
Vitalina Varela
7 – 19 March 2020
Pedro Costa’s latest film follows a bereaved woman as she faces the ghosts of her late husband’s past.
And Then We Danced
13 – 19 March 2020
Director Levan Akin’s latest film explores cultural identity, ambition and self-expression in Georgia.
Bacurau
13 – 19 March 2020
From Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, a genre-blending siege thriller set in Brazil’s remote backcountry.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
13 – 19 March 2020
A resonant love story set in set in 18th-century France from writer-director Céline Sciamma.
Casa de Lava
Wed, 18 March 2020
I Walked with a Zombie
is reimagined as a reflection on Portugal’s colonial legacy by Portugese filmmaker Pedro Costa.
PREVIEW Dogs Don’t Wear Pants
Thu, 19 March 2020
An emotionally withdrawn widower finds catharsis through an unexpected connection with a dominatrix in Finnish director J.-P. Valkeapää’s third feature.
Bones in 35mm
Thu, 19 March 2020
The first film in Pedro Costa’s Fontainhas trilogy is a tale of young lives torn apart by desperation.
Fire Will Come + Q&A
Fri, 20 March 2020
A pyromaniac returns home with fateful consequences in Oliver Laxe’s ravishing new film.
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants
20 – 22 March 2020
An emotionally withdrawn widower finds catharsis through an unexpected connection with a dominatrix in Finnish director J.-P. Valkeapää’s third feature.
KINOTEKA 2020 In Touch
Tue, 24 March 2020
In Touch follows the fractured families of a Polish village torn apart by migration.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
7 – 17 October 2020
Your chance to experience the world’s best new films, with a curated selection from BFI's London Film Festival playing at the ICA.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Mangrove
Wed, 7 October 2020
Multi-award winning director Steve McQueen’s rousing tale of Black solidarity and resistance brings a seminal moment in British history into sharp focus.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Herself
Thu, 8 October 2020
Phyllida Lloyd (
Mamma Mia!
) reunites with her all-female Shakespeare collaborators, Clare Dunne and Harriet Walter, for a stirring drama about a woman who refuses to be broken.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Days
Fri, 9 October 2020
Tsai Ming-Liang’s profound commitment to less is more flourishes in this exuberantly corporeal work, which is anchored by Lee Kang-Sheng’s transfixing performance.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Time
Sat, 10 October 2020
Enduring love and social justice lie at the heart of this poignant documentary about a single mother’s battle for the release of her incarcerated husband.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Shirley
Sun, 11 October 2020
Going nowhere with a novel about the disappearance of a local girl, writer Shirley Jackson gets the inspiration she needs when two young newlyweds come to stay.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Mogul Mowgli
Tue, 13 October 2020
Bassam Tariq’s visceral directorial debut, co-written with Riz Ahmed, finds a British-Pakistani rapper’s life spiralling out of control when, on the cusp of success, he succumbs to a debilitating illness.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Undine
Wed, 14 October 2020
Paula Beer embodies a modern-day incarnation of the mermaid myth in the latest from contemporary German cinema’s most audacious storyteller Christian Petzold.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
David Byrne's American Utopia
Thu, 15 October 2020
Imagine if you could be front row, onstage even, for one of the most electrifying performances of David Byrne’s career? This must be the place.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Nomadland
Fri, 16 October 2020
Frances McDormand illuminates Chloé Zhao’s follow up to
The Rider
, a humane and lyrical film about people living on the road in the American West.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Another Round
Sat, 17 October 2020
Mads Mikkelsen reunites with Thomas Vinterberg (
The Hunt
) in this spirited and thought-provoking drama that asks if a regular tipple is the key to unlocking the best version of yourself.
BFI London Film Festival 2020
Ammonite
Sat, 17 October 2020
Francis Lee follows up
God’s Own Country
with a film that is every bit as immersive, tactile and emotionally powerful, aided by the devastatingly good Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2020
27 November – 13 December 2020
The ICA’s annual film festival returns with a programme of screenings, discussions and workshops which revolve around the theme of spectatorship.
Cinema 3
Panquiaco
27 November – 2 December 2020
Panamanian filmmaker Ana Elena Tejera’s
Panquiaco
offers an unflinching reflection on the concept of home.
Cinema 3
Oroslan
28 November – 3 December 2020
A Slovenian minority group in a remote Hungarian village grapples with grief and mortality following the death of an elderly villager.
Cinema 3
The Earth is Blue as an Orange
28 November – 4 December 2020
Irina Tsilyk’s first feature tracks a Ukrainian single mother and her family as they film their lives against a backdrop of conflict.
Cinema 3
Immortal
29 November – 5 December 2020
Ksenia Okhapina’s observational study of a Russian industrial town that started life as a Soviet-era labour camp.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2020
Soviet Cycles: A Round-table Discussion on Spectatorship and Censorship
Sun, 29 November 2020
Directors Ksenia Okhapkina, Matjaž Ivanišin and Iryna Tsilyk, whose work features in FRAMES of REPRESENTATION, discuss their filmmaking practices.
Cinema 3
La vida en común
1 – 8 December 2020
A group of boys hunt for a puma that has been stalking their village in Ezequiel Yanco’s evocative study of rural Argentina.
Cinema 3
Piedra sola
2 – 9 December 2020
A devotional journey into the heart of the Argentinian Puna, a bare landscape shaped by myths and ancestral forces.
Cinema 3
Los conductos
3 – 10 December 2020
Los conductos
traces a restless man’s journey while simultaneously reflecting on the political and social landscape of Colombia.
Cinema 3
IWOW: I Walk on Water
4 – 11 December 2020
Centred on 125th and Lexington in East Harlem, Khalik Allah’s monumental new diary film is a rich and deeply personal work.
Cinema 3
FoR Shorts #1: Reynard + Seven Years in May + Tender
5 – 12 December 2020
Reynard
The first in FRAMES of REPRESENTATION’s two short film programmes features new works from Portugal, Brazil and France.
Cinema 3
Un Film Dramatique
6 – 13 December 2020
A powerful exercise in collectivity, co-directed by filmmaker Éric Baudelaire alongside a class of 20 middle schoolers.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2020
Harlem – 125th Street/Lexington Avenue Artist’s Talk: Khalik Allah
Mon, 7 December 2020
New York-based director and photographer Khalik Allah discusses his photography practice in conversation with Shanida Scotland of
The Guardian
.
Cinema 3
A Storm Was Coming
8 – 15 December 2020
Javier Fernández Vázquez’s solo debut feature interrogates the complex relationship between Spain and Equatorial Guinea, its former colony.
Cinema 3
Endless Night
9 – 16 December 2020
A man returns to his Galician home to unearth hidden stories of post-Franco Spain in Eloy Enciso’s powerful feature.
Cinema 3
From Tomorrow on, I Will
10 – 17 December 2020
The daily routine of a lonely nightwatchman becomes a prism through which Ivan Marković and Wu Linfeng explore Beijing.
Cinema 3
The Cloud in Her Room
11 – 18 December 2020
Zheng Lu Xinyuan mixes reality, fiction and experimental reveries into a powerful reflection on love and impermanence.
Cinema 3
FoR Shorts #2: Apiyemiyekî? + Aggregate States of Matters + Sun Dog
12 – 19 December 2020
Striking new works from Europe and Latin America feature in the second selection of short films in FRAMES of REPRESENTATION.
Cinema 3
Air Conditioner
13 – 20 December 2020
Angolan filmmaker Fradique expands the possibilities of the cinema of the real with his journey into the heart of Luanda.
Cinema 3
Landless
15 – 22 December 2020
Workers and activists in Brazil fight inequality and injustice in Camila Freitas’ searching documentary.
Cinema 3
Fatamorgana
17 – 24 December 2020
Formats, languages, truths and fictions blend and blur in Salomé Lamas’ speculative cinematic experiment.
Cinema 3
Rave Trilogy
18 December 2020 – 18 January 2021
A series of film works by artist Rebecca Salvadori, dedicated to electronic music and the communities which ritually congregate around it.
Cinema 3
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years Without Images
22 – 29 December 2020
Éric Baudelaire’s dark, complex and suspenseful story questions the ability of film to portray and influence reality.
Cinema 3
Just Don’t Think I'll Scream
24 – 31 December 2020
Frank Beauvais’ extraordinary film is a personal diary, a reflection on the world and a treaty on cinema.
Cinema 3
Fourteen
31 December 2020 – 7 January 2021
Dan Sallitt’s powerful and intimate portrait of two young New Yorkers.
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