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

A series of film works by artist Rebecca Salvadori, dedicated to electronic music and the communities which ritually congregate around it.

Dan Sallitt’s powerful and intimate portrait of two young New Yorkers.

Four shorts by directors recently featured at FRAMES of REPRESENTATION: Rosa Barba, Isabel Pagliai, Camilo Restrepo and Ana Vaz.

An easygoing cowboy struggles to overcome tragedy in Helvécio Marins Jr’s poignant feature.

A fascinating and immersive portrait of post-colonial Cuba from director Hubert Sauper (Darwin’s Nightmare).

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

Young Roma men trade their Bulgarian homeland for new lives as hustlers in Vienna in Patric Chiha’s captivating documentary.

Patric Chiha’s award-winning documentary explores sensuality and queer sexuality through the prism of a 15-strong touring dance company.

Spanish filmmaker Elisa Cepedal's debut long-form work observes a mining community as it negotiates the decline of the same industry that enabled its emergence.

Andrea Caccia’s latest film beautifully captures moments of daily life amid a bucolic Lombardy landscape.

Wong Kar Wai’s scintillating debut feature is a kinetic, hypercool crime thriller graced with flashes of the impressionistic, daydream visual style

Wong Kar Wai’s breakthrough feature represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style.

The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.

Lost souls reach out for human connection amid a glimmering Hong Kong in Wong Kar Wai’s hallucinatory, neon-soaked nocturne.

Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw, lushly stylized portrait of a relationship in breakdown casts Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung as a couple traveling through Argentina.

At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments.

Wong Kar Wai’s loose sequel to In the Mood for Love combines that film’s languorous air of romantic longing with a dizzying time-hopping structure and avant-sci-fi twist.

ICA and Dr. Martens have established a unique series of artists’ moving image production grants enabling UK-based emerging artists to make new work for inclusion in Image Behaviour 2021.

The body is transcended by the simulacrum in Keiken and George Jasper Stone’s Feel My Metaverse.

Shot entirely at night on the corner of 125th and Lexington Avenue in Harlem, the film captures the mental, physical and spiritual struggles of the neighborhood's inhabitants.

Centred on 125th and Lexington in East Harlem, Khalik Allah’s monumental new diary film is a rich and deeply personal work.

Eitan Efrat and Daniel Mann’s cinematic essay explores the resources, the secrets and the mysteries of the ground beneath our feet.

Three episodes from artist Olivia Erlanger and Architect Luis Ortega Govela’s expansive Garage project.

A Cuban veteran searches for the ghosts of his final mission in Francisco Marise’s searching feature.

An 80-year-old widow fights the construction of a dam on her treasured homeland in Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s powerful feature.

Panamanian filmmaker Ana Elena Tejera’s Panquiaco offers an unflinching reflection on the concept of home.

A meditative contemplation on conservation, preservation and authenticity via the fabrication of a replica elephant’s tusk.

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

Consisting of a montage of archival footage, Lucas Gallo's latest work explores the media campaign by the Argentinian government claiming back the Falklands Islands from the British in 1982.

A disquieting portrait of Argentinian society that inverts the structure of a typical crime story.

A special preview of the latest work by Renzo Martens, a powerful and provocative dissection of art, class and decolonisation.

Cristi Puiu returns with a rich, considered and exquisitely orchestrated chamber drama set among the aristocracy of 19th-century Transylvania.

A domestic abuse victim seeking justice and protection comes up against heavy-handed bureaucracy in Raymund Ribay Gutierrez’s compelling debut feature.

Melina Léon tells the tragic true-life story of an indigenous Peruvian woman whose newborn baby is stolen by a fake clinic.

Francisco Márquez’s fiction debut is a gripping tale of class divisions and ethical responsibility in contemporary Argentina.

Rock documentary about musician Linn da Quebrada challenging machismo, transphobia, and racism in Brazil.

Written by Emma Thompson, Richard Laxton’s 2014 film retells the scandalous tale of writer John Ruskin, painter John Everett Millais and Ruskin’s bride, Effie Gray.

Pia Hellenthal’s graphic debut is an audacious portrait of a professed sex worker, writer, anarchist, feminist, musician and recovering addict based in Berlin.

A sensorial homage to Radio Belgrade, Serbia’s most historic station that has broadcast continuously for the last 90 years.

Valeska Grisebach’s acclaimed 2017 film depicts the complex stakes and tensions at play within a group of German construction workers in the Bulgarian countryside.

An elephant that sits and ignores the world becomes an obsession for the protagonists of the late writer and filmmaker Hu Bo’s four-hour epic, for whom it represents the possibility of escape from the stagnation and violence of their daily lives.

French filmmaker Jonathan Rescigno’s debut feature follows various inhabitants and their stories in a former mining town.

The first programme of short films by Krzysztof Kieślowski presents a fascinating cross-section of Polish society across three works.

The ICA partners again with the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, unfolding this year in a digital format.

Polish filmmaker Eliza Kubarska’s latest film tells the story of an encounter between a young Sherpa boy and an experienced western mountaineer at the foot of the sacred mountain.

The ICA and Kinoteka present the cycle of Krzystof Kieślowski’s Dekalog in ten parts.

This programme of two short films by Krzysztof Kieślowski continues the Polish director’s fascinating and distinct exploration of Polish society.

Swiss duo Kasa and Da Costa’s sophomore feature captures the quirky ambiance that reigns over the Ornithological Rehabilitation Center where birds in pain struggle to rediscover the desire to live. 

A documentary essay composed entirely of archive photographs and documents of the first big massacre of Jews in Romania.

A bizarre rite of passage at the local deli determines the fate of a generation of teenagers, leading some to escape their suburban town and dooming others to remain.

Feminist artist and activist Oksana Shachko is the subject of Alain Margot’s fascinating 2014 portrait.

Peter Parlow’s micro-budget feature is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a probing inquiry into race, relationships, and the social uncanny.

A scornful teacher schools a class of newly arrived refugees in Guido Hendrikx’s unflinching film essay.

Two displaced lovers struggle to stay together in Carlos Lenin’s spellbinding debut.

An attempt via an innovative combine of aesthetics, sound design and ethnography to tell the story of migration across the Sonoran desert into the US.

Mundane life meets magical daydreams in a West Bengal village where discarded film footage is turned into toys.

In his debut feature, Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul bridges documentary realism and the avant-garde in the backdrop of rural Thailand.

An intoxicating love song to rural Portugal, and to cinema, by award-winning Portuguese director Miguel Gomes.

Judith Abensour’s work retraces the origins of a new museum dedicated to Palestinian history, inaugurated with no exhibition in 2016.

Ousmane Sembène’s brilliant satire on post-colonial Africa, the first feature shot in an African language, receives a stunning 4K restoration.

Mads Mikkelsen reunites with Thomas Vinterberg in a spirited midlife tragicomedy – winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best International Feature.

The ICA presents an exclusive screening of Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych’s post-apocalyptic drama.

Pietro Marcello relocates Jack London’s autobiographical novel from Oakland to Naples in this sweeping and ambitious adaptation.

The ICA is thrilled to partner once again with the SAFAR Film Festival, dedicated to cinema from the Arab world.

Judith Abensour’s work retraces the origins of a new museum dedicated to Palestinian history, inaugurated with no exhibition in 2016.

Judith Abensour’s work retraces the origins of a new museum dedicated to Palestinian history, inaugurated with no exhibition in 2016.

Pietro Marcello relocates Jack London’s autobiographical novel from Oakland to Naples in this sweeping and ambitious adaptation.

Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson’s debut unearths the little-known story of a 1960s Black cultural festival – with never-seen footage of Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone and many more.

A new divorcé falls into an obsessive spiral of criminality after buying an expensive jacket in Quentin Dupieux’s pitch-black comedy.

Julien Faraut’s latest film traces back the rise and popularity of the Japanese volleyball player team, winner of the Tokyo Olympics in 1964.

Told in real time, Agnès Varda’s breakthrough film follows a young singer as she awaits a diagnosis.

This film charts the life of the great iconic painter through a turbulent period of 15th-century Russian history marked by endless fighting.

Agnès Varda’s seminal 1985 film tells the story of a young homeless woman through to-camera accounts by those who barely knew her.

In his debut feature, Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul bridges documentary realism and the avant-garde in the backdrop of rural Thailand.

Young Roma men trade their Bulgarian homeland for new lives as hustlers in Vienna in Patric Chiha’s captivating documentary.

On a space station orbiting the ocean-covered planet Solaris, cosmonaut Kris Kelvin arrives to investigate a series of mysterious and bizarre occurrences among the crew.

The celebrated Russian director’s most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people.

Patric Chiha’s award-winning documentary explores sensuality and queer sexuality through the prism of a 15-strong touring dance company.

A meditative documentary that follows those who forage, salvage and find what is worth treasuring.

Andrei Tarkovsky’s unforgettably haunting film, his first to be made outside Russia, explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist Gorchakov, a Russian poet researching in Italy.

A wonder of American independent cinema, Claudia Weill's 1978 gem in a brand new restoration.

Angela Schanelec’s wonderfully elusive and allusive films intrigue audiences with their enigmatic explorations of everyday human dilemmas.

Can an artist and a filmmaker recalibrate the national debt by printing money from their own Walthamstow bank?

Who was Björn Andrésen – and what happened to him? Fifty years on, filmmakers Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri go in search of the teenage star of Death in Venice.

Adapted from Arkady and Boris Sturgatsky’s novel Roadside Picnic, a surreal and disturbing vision of the future.

Alexander makes a promise to God that he will sacrifice all he holds dear, if nuclear disaster can be averted. The next day dawns and, as if in a dream, everything is restored to normality. But Alexander must keep his vow.

Franco Rosso's cult classic pulsates with an irresistible dub soundtrack, capturing South London's Sound System culture in the early 1980s.

One of the true standouts of Hollywood's golden age, Irving Rapper’s 1942 work stars Bette Davis at her most beguiling. 

Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin's hypnotic fiction debut tells the story of a Justino, who works as a security guard in Manaus, in the middle of the Amazon forest. 

A unique screening of a recording documenting the play The Riots directed by Gillian Slovo, based on accounts from those involved in the 2011 riots.

A wry, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire by acclaimed director Ben Sharrock.

Venezuelan filmmaker Jorge Thielen Armand’s sophomore feature captures turmoil and self-destruction at both a personal and national level through the story of Roque, a middle-age man retreating in a cabin in the Amazon forest in his quest for redemption. 

Mo Scarpelli’s remarkable non-fiction film about the making of Jorge Thielen Armand’s La Fortaleza presents a close-up view of a father-son dynamic, swinging back and forth between explosive and enviably intimate. 

This screening of The Hard Stop will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with director George Amponsah and co-writer Dionne Walker.

Blending documentary with fiction, and a wry humour with emotional intensity, acclaimed filmmaker Marc Isaacs unfolds a story which asks pertinent questions about the nature of filmmaking itself.

Maren Eggert seeks love with an android in Maria Schrader’s captivating feature, a screwball comedy for the algorithm age.

Presented exclusively at the ICA, Lech Kowalski’s film follows a group of militant French workers as they plot to blow up their factory – a social movement now recognised as one of the most successful examples of collective actions in recent years.

Acclaimed writer-director Michel Franco’s latest film is a gripping dystopian thriller set in contemporary Mexico City 

A student and a paraplegic artist unexpectedly connect in Kotaro Tamura’s exquisite anime romance.

A meditative contemplation on conservation, preservation and authenticity via the fabrication of a replica elephant’s tusk.

Monte Hellman’s open road epic remains a timeless, existential portrait of lives in transit and of a country questioning its identity in the early 1970s.

Following the success of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider in the late 1960s, Hollywood was interrogating its model and gave their chance to outsiders, mavericks and cultural renegades. 1971 marked their zenith.

Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula, Klute saw Jane Fonda bring counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels – a sex worker and aspiring actor who becomes the centre of a missing-person investigation.

A devastating journey into the heart of Syria’s most dangerous refugee camp – and the fight to free the sex slaves held within its walls.

Lech Kowalski’s film follows a group of militant French workers as they plot to blow up their factory – a social movement now recognised as one of the most successful examples of collective actions in recent years.

The ICA presents a curated selection of outstanding contemporary works by filmmakers from and on Afghanistan.

The debut work by Afghan writer/director Shahrbanoo Sadat is a remarkable portrait of the rituals and traditions, tensions and rivalries in an Afghan village.

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

Afghan writer/director Shahrbanoo Sadat’s acclaimed sophomore feature continues to follow the life story of 15-year-old Qodrat in 1989 Kabul.

Esteemed French documentarist Sonia Kronlund’s curious, often hilarious debut follows exuberant Afghan filmmaker Salim Shaheen on the shooting of his 111th feature film. 

Following his breakout turn in Easy Rider, rising star Jack Nicholson gives an extraordinary performance as Bobby Dupea; a shiftless thirty-something oil rigger and former piano prodigy immune to any sense of responsibility, who returns to reckoning at his upper-middle-class childhood home.

German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger returns to the romance and turbulence of 1960s Paris, the city that shaped her, in this beautiful cinematic reverie. 

In his first full-length documentary, Aboozar Amini loosely follows the story of a young teenager who suddenly becomes head of his household before his time.

Featuring indelible performances from Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day and others, Bert Stern’s classic concert film receives a sparkling 4K restoration. 

Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard’s lives are upended following the birth of their daughter in Leos Carax’s astonishing English-language debut. 

Featuring indelible performances from Louis Armstrong, Anita O’Day and others, Bert Stern’s classic concert film receives a sparkling 4K restoration. 

Irish filmmaker Cathy Brady’s gripping debut feature follows Kelly, a missing sister whose return to her hometown sends shockwaves through the community.

Screening from a new 4K restoration, Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature is an exploration of the psychology of an interracial relationship in the 1960s France.

The 11th edition of Open City Documentary Festival takes place at the ICA from 9 September.

Alexandre Rockwell’s (In the Soup, Little Feet) intimate new work provides a poetic rendering of childhood through the lives of Billie, a 15 year-old teenager and her younger brother.

A new 4K restoration of Joseph Losey’s intemporal classic, celebrating the centenary of British actor Dirk Bogarde.

German filmmaker Susanne Heinrich’s debut brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, in a post-modern comedy in pink and blue.

A revealing and timely portrait of the man who became the face of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Screening in a new 4K restoration, Stanley Kubrick’s classic remains an unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. 

Mark Cousins’ personal meditation on the nature, role and importance of sight in his life – and in our collective cultural history. 

German filmmaker Susanne Heinrich’s debut brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, in a post-modern comedy in pink and blue.

German filmmaker Susanne Heinrich’s debut brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, in a post-modern comedy in pink and blue.

An adopted child goes in search of her parents in Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s suspenseful thriller.

Quentin ‘Mr Oizo’ Dupieux returns with a singular comedy about friendships, dreams and disasters – and a gigantic fly. 

Mark Cousins’ personal meditation on the nature, role and importance of sight in his life – and in our collective cultural history. 

In the lead-up to the 2021 London Palestine Film Festival coming this November, the ICA presents a programme celebrating acclaimed works from the festival’s previous editions.

A 24-hour screening of Olaf Nicolai’s extraordinary new work, filmed in a single shot and presented at the same time in 17 institutions worldwide. 

Sex, faith and politics collide in the exceptional new film from Tibetan director Pema Tseden. 

The first complete survey of the films of Portuguese filmmaker, artist and researcher Salomé Lamas.

A beguiling tribute to the power of community, the persistence of memory, and the ingenuity and indefatigability of youth.

David Lynch’s 1984 cult classic follows Kyle MacLachlan as he leads his band of desert warriors in a battle to reclaim the planet Arrakis. 

A grumpy teen finds herself unexpectedly smitten by a stranger in Marley Morrison’s coming-of-age holiday romance.

Melina Léon tells the tragic true-life story of an indigenous Peruvian woman whose new born baby is stolen by a fake clinic. 

Pablo Larraín returns home to Chile for this propulsive melodrama about a troubled couple and their adoptive son. 

From 6 – 17 October, a curated selection from the festival will show in Cinema 1.

Kamir Aïnouz’s coming-of-age drama follows a young woman finding and following her own path from adolescence to adulthood.

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s new feature is a one-of-a-kind cinematic testimony to the psychology of the viewer in our digital era.

Following Striding Into the Wind (LFF 2020), Wei Shujun returns with this impressive meta commentary on filmmaking that’s full of insight and deadpan humour.

Todd Haynes’ documentary explores the multiple threads that converged to bring together one of rock ’n’ roll’s most influential bands.

Two sisters harbour dreams of escaping conservative Brazilian society in Karim Aïnouz’s Cannes award-winning feature.

A masseur both heals and spooks residents of a Polish gated community in Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert’s compelling satire.

A young girl with teeth made from ice is held captive at home in the compellingly strange third feature from Lucile Hadžihalilović.

A powerful and provocative dissection of art, class and decolonisation.

The first Brazil Indigenous Film Festival features 12 films by Indigenous voices, each celebrating their heritage and asserting their right to their lands and cultural expression.

Wes Anderson assembles a star-packed ensemble cast for this glorious homage to The New Yorker.

Four shorts about the different forms of Indigenous struggle for the right to land. Additional screenings from the 1st Brazil Indigenous Film Festival.

Renzo Martens’ first film is a typically discomfiting exploration of filmmaking in the time of war.

Renzo Martens tackles the poverty-fighting industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo with compelling results.

Four films documenting and celebrating the historical, social and philosophical perspectives of Indigenous communities across Brazil.

Set in 1980s Argentina, Andreas Fontana’s debut feature is both a gripping thriller and a moral investigation into life on the wrong side of history.

Co-director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and cave diver John Volanthen join us for a Q&A following this gripping documentary about the 2018 Thai cave rescue.

Four shorts about the different forms of Indigenous struggle for the right to land. Rescreening online following the 1st Brazil Indigenous Film Festival.

Essential films from the Romanian New Wave director to celebrate the release of Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn.

A symposium discussing the creative & ethical use of moving image, specifically with institutions connected to the exploitation of bodies.

The ICA partners again with the London Korean Film Festival, the UK’s leading showcase of Korean cinema, and the largest Korean Film Festival in Europe.

Amjad Abu Alala’s acclaimed feature debut is a searching examination of the conflict between traditional values and modern aspirations in Sudan.

The directors and main actor of Heaven Without Earth, an evocative study of a father-son relationship, join us for the premiere of this new directors’ edit.

A double bill of Selbé et tant d’autres (Selbe: One Among Many) and Reassemblage, two counter-ethnographies from the 1980s concerning women's lives in rural Senegal.

Amjad Abu Alala’s acclaimed feature debut is a searching examination of the conflict between traditional values and modern aspirations in Sudan.

Pablo Larraín conjures ‘a fable from a true tragedy’ by imagining three days in the troubled marriage of Charles and Diana.

The debut feature by director Posy Dixon follows the rediscovery of a long-lost musical pioneer.

An evocative study of a father-son relationship; join us for the premiere of this new directors’ edit.

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s affecting adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s piercing short story about the mysteries of love and grief.

Céline Sciamma returns with a sublime modern fairytale about the quiet wonder of mother-daughter relationships.

The London Palestine Film Festival returns this year with a selection of awaited new releases and rediscovered works.

The ICA’s annual international film festival returns for its sixth edition, dedicated to the works of pioneering filmmakers and researchers in the cinema of the real.

Director Jane Campion ventures into the American West for this gripping drama – her first feature in 12 years.

Guido Hendrikx asks us to reconsider who we are when we find ourselves on camera – and how we fill the silences in our interactions with strangers.

Zia Anger’s experimental live multimedia performance seeks to reinterpret conventional frameworks of the cinematic experience.

A screening and Q&A with director/daughter Kirsten Johnson on the documentary about her own father and confronting death.

The next iteration in Minott’s durational project reflecting on the legacies of The Windrush Generation.

Director Kirsten Johnson and her aging father confront his death together in this hilarious and heartbreaking documentary.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing indictment of the death penalty led to the Golden Bear Award in Berlin – and a prison sentence in Iran.

Paolo Sorrentino translates a desperate tragedy from his Neopolitan childhood into his most personal film yet.

Maggie Gyllenhaal brings Elena Ferrante to the big screen in her compelling directorial debut.

The first feature-length documentary on the life and career of American tennis great and social activist Arthur Ashe.

THE THE return for a double-bill screening, both directed by long-time collaborator and music video legend Tim Pope.

Two documentary films from director Tim Pope following THE THE’s return to the stage.

Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together.

Tadhg O’Sullivan’s film is a poetic ode to the ways in which this celestial body impacts our lives and cultural heritage.

The people and places of a little-known corner of Serbia come under the microscope of Matjaž Ivanišin (Oroslan) in this slow-motion road movie.

A young trans woman is forced to face up to a family tragedy in Laurent Micheli’s beautiful and poignant feature.