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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.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Atlantis
7 July 2021 – 10 March 2022
The ICA presents an exclusive screening of Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych’s post-apocalyptic drama.
Summer of Soul
16 July 2021 – 6 April 2022
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.
Annette
3 September 2021 – 1 February 2022
Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard’s lives are upended following the birth of their daughter in Leos Carax’s astonishing English-language debut.
Earwig
15 October 2021 – 16 June 2022
A young girl with teeth made from ice is held captive at home in the compellingly strange third feature from Lucile Hadžihalilović.
Drive My Car
19 November 2021 – 7 April 2022
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s affecting adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s piercing short story about the mysteries of love and grief.
The Power of the Dog
26 November 2021 – 7 April 2022
Director Jane Campion ventures into the American West for this gripping drama – her first feature in 12 years.
Titane
4 – 13 January 2022
Julia Ducournau became just the second female director to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes with this thrillingly uncompromising feature.
PREVIEW Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas)
4 – 23 January 2022
Almodóvar’s comedy-drama about a chance encounter that leads to a lifelong connection.
Gorbachev. Heaven
4 – 9 January 2022
Vitaly Mansky journeys to Russia for a gripping audience with the man whose actions in the 1980s and 90s helped give to birth – and rebirth – to a nation.
Nine Nights: Channel B
SWARM
6 – 30 January 2022
New works by artists biarritzzz, GLOR1A and LVLZ explore speculative fiction, human psyche and consciousness.
Nine Nights: Channel B
Minji: The Shape of Owu
6 – 30 January 2022
An imagined story through CGI and field recordings produced in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
The Dead on 35mm presented by The Badlands Collective
Thu, 6 January 2022
The Badlands Collective return to the ICA with a rare 35mm screening of John Huston’s
The Dead
, one of the greatest directorial swan songs and a film ripe for rediscovery.
The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups)
7 – 13 January 2022
One of the greatest films about childhood, Truffaut’s partly autobiographical first feature screens from a 4K digital restoration.
Licorice Pizza
7 January – 3 February 2022
Paul Thomas Anderson returns with a gorgeously evocative love story that sings of Southern California in the ‘70s.
PREVIEW Memoria + Q&A with Tilda Swinton
Fri, 7 January 2022
Tilda Swinton joins us for a conversation following the Preview screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s gripping work.
A Hero (Ghahreman)
7 – 19 January 2022
Asghar Farhadi’s signature cinematic web-weaving is deployed to captivating effect in his Cannes Grand Prix-winning drama – a reflection on the grey line between right and wrong.
Other, Like Me
7 – 13 January 2022
Marcus Werner Hed and Dan Fox’s long-awaited feature tells the extraordinary story of pioneering artists COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle.
PREVIEW Cow
Sun, 9 January 2022
A Preview screening of Academy Award-winning director Andrea Arnold’s (
American Honey, Fish Tank
) unexpectedly compelling portrait of Luma, a dairy cow.
Nine Nights: Channel B
Robots of Brixton
14 – 30 January 2022
Kibwe Tavares’ film follows young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living in poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment.
Memoria
14 January – 29 March 2022
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s gripping work stars Tilda Swinton as a woman left isolated and traumatised by unexplained sounds and noises that it appears only she can hear.
London Short Film Festival 2022
14 – 23 January 2022
The premiere UK showcase for cutting-edge homegrown and international short film.
Cow
14 January – 2 February 2022
Academy Award-winning director Andrea Arnold (
American Honey, Fish Tank
) heads to the farm for this unexpectedly compelling portrait of Luma, a dairy cow.
Cicada
21 – 27 January 2022
An Outfest favourite, Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare’s debut explores the pitfalls and possibilities of finding love – and yourself – in New York.
Memory Box
21 January – 1 February 2022
Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige take inspiration from their childhoods in war-torn Beirut in this quietly beautiful feature.
3+3: a project curated by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
22 – 30 January 2022
Marking the release of his astonishing new film
Memoria
, we are delighted to present a short season curated exclusively for the ICA by director Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
The Machine That Kills Bad People:
Les Mains negatives + Simone Barbès ou la vertu
Wed, 26 January 2022
Paris is the site of two films that explore love and alienation in the late 20th century in this double-bill screening.
Syrian Arts and Culture Festival: Dreams of the City
Thu, 27 January 2022
Syrian helmer Mohammad Malas’ debut fiction is widely referenced as Syria – and the greater Arab world’s – transition into auteur cinema.
Parallel Mothers
28 January – 6 March 2022
Almodóvar’s comedy-drama about a chance encounter that leads to a lifelong connection.
Taming the Garden
28 January – 3 February 2022
Salomé Jashi’s feature tracks trees as they are taken from the Georgian landscape for the benefit of one extremely wealthy man.
Double Bill: The Work of Taus Makhacheva + Q&A
Sat, 29 January 2022
In her video works, the Russian-Dagestani artist and graduate of the Royal College of Art, Taus Makhacheva, probes the resilience of the man-made world and its concepts vis-à-vis nature and the passage of time.
When the Persimmons Grew + prerecorded Q&A
Sat, 29 January 2022
Hilal Baydarov, a graduate of Béla Tarr’s Film Factory and one of the key new voices of contemporary Azerbaijani cinema, heads home to explore the relationship between time and belonging.
Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2022
4 – 13 February 2022
The UK’s largest festival of Japanese cinema returns for its 19th edition.
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
4 – 10 February 2022
A mother-daughter relationship is stretched to near-breaking point in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s powerful, political and deeply personal drama.
The Souvenir Part II
4 – 17 February 2022
A young film student rebuilds her life after the death of her older lover in Joanna Hogg’s searing drama.
Belle
11 February – 3 March 2022
A high school student reinvents and rediscovers herself in the breathtaking new feature from Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu.
Petrov’s Flu
11 February – 3 March 2022
Outspoken director Kirill Serebrennikov returns to pilot this wild hallucinogenic ride through a flu epidemic in post-Soviet Russia.
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
11 February – 6 April 2022
Ryusuke Hamaguchi brings together three compelling stories of love and coincidence in his follow-up to the acclaimed
Drive My Car
.
The Real Charlie Chaplin
18 – 24 February 2022
James Spinney and Peter Middleton combine newly unearthed footage with dramatic reconstructions to capture the essence of ‘the Little Tramp’.
PREVIEW La Mif + Q&A
Fri, 18 February 2022
Seven residents of a Geneva care home fight to find their future place in life in Fred Baillif’s astonishing feature.
Kino Klassika Foundation presents: Petrov’s Flu + recorded Q&A
Fri, 18 February 2022
The ICA welcomes Kino Klassika for a special screening of outspoken director Kirill Serebrennikov’s new work.
ICA EXCLUSIVE The Tale of King Crab
18 February – 2 March 2022
This artful picaresque is centred on a drunk outsider forced to flee his Italian village for the wilds of Latin America.
The Films of Patrick Wang
19 – 24 February 2022
A retrospective of all four of Patrick Wang’s features.
Rurangi
25 February – 3 March 2022
A transgender activist returns to his remote rural hometown after a decade away in Max Currie’s award-winning feature.
La Mif
25 February – 3 March 2022
Seven residents of a Geneva care home fight to find their future place in life in Fred Baillif’s astonishing feature.
Licorice Pizza on 35mm
26 February – 24 March 2022
Paul Thomas Anderson returns with a gorgeously evocative love story that sings of Southern California in the ’70s.
Decriminalised Futures
As long as I can continue to exercise my freedom
Wed, 2 March 2022
A triple-bill screening of international sex worker-made films from Brazil, Thailand and Germany with an introduction by sex worker activist, artist and filmmaker Cass Traitor.
Ali & Ava
4 – 15 March 2022
A South Asian landlord finds an unexpected connection with an Irish teaching assistant in Clio Barnard’s generous autumnal romance.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Dreams (Sueños)
4 – 10 March 2022
Argentine director Marcos Martínez takes a compelling journey deep into the twilight world of Buenos Aires’ homeless communities.
PREVIEW Great Freedom + Q&A
Tue, 8 March 2022
A gay prisoner in post-war Germany develops an unexpected bond with his cellmate in Sebastian Meise’s tough yet tender feature.
KINOTEKA 2022
9 – 27 March 2022
KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival returns to the ICA.
Young Plato
11 – 17 March 2022
Directors Neasa Ní Chaináin and Declan McGrath follow a maverick Belfast headmaster’s bid to transform his pupils’ minds and prospects through philosophy.
Great Freedom
11 – 30 March 2022
A gay prisoner in post-war Germany develops an unexpected bond with his cellmate in Sebastian Meise’s tough yet tender feature.
The Metamorphosis of Birds
11 – 31 March 2022
Catarina Vasconcelos explores family and memory in this haunting, category-defying and multi-award-winning feature.
Image Behaviour 2022
17 March – 17 June 2022
The ICA’s annual convening dedicated to experiments in artists’ moving image returns in Spring 2022 with a programme that addresses significant shifts in moving image practices.
Paris, 13th District (Les Olympiades)
18 March – 12 April 2022
The lives of four young Parisians connect and collide in the latest feature from Palme d’Or-winning French director Jacques Audiard.
Hive
18 – 24 March 2022
Blerta Basholli’s award-winning feature follows a fearless Kosovan woman as she faces down deep-set societal opposition to build herself a new life.
Europa
18 – 27 March 2022
An Iraqi migrant must dodge armed mercenaries and border guards to reach Europe in Haider Rashid’s tense thriller.
Essay Film Festival 2022
19 March – 8 April 2022
The festival returns to the ICA for its eighth edition, with a focus on politically engaged and collectively authored essayistic film practices.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Valley of Souls
25 – 31 March 2022
A Colombian father searches for the bodies of his two sons, taken by the paramilitaries, in Nicolás Rincón Gille’s debut feature.
The Worst Person in the World
25 March – 12 June 2022
The latest from acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier, a wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo.
The Audition
1 – 7 April 2022
Nina Hoss gives a flawless performance as an intense and obsessive music teacher on the edge in Ina Weisse’s compelling feature.
A Night of Knowing Nothing + Q&A
Fri, 1 April 2022
Opening film of FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2021, Payal Kapadia’s award-winning immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India.
Oslo, August 31st
2 – 5 April 2022
The second feature in Joachim Trier’s Oslo Trilogy is a beautiful, sympathetic portrait of a struggling addict trying to find his way in the world.
A Night of Knowing Nothing
2 April – 7 May 2022
Opening film of FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2021, Payal Kapadia’s award-winning immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India.
Reprise
3 – 7 April 2022
Two young writers try to make their names in the first film in Joachim Trier’s Oslo Trilogy – screening to mark the release of
The Worst Person in the World
.
The Machine That Kills Bad People:
Nervous Translation + The Untroubled Mind
Wed, 6 April 2022
A short and a feature in the bi-monthly programme from The Machine the Kills Bad People.
UK PREMIERE The Walk + Q&A
Wed, 6 April 2022
Director Giovanni Maderna trails a writer as he strolls the streets of Rome in this innovative feature – shot during the pandemic in a single day.
Compartment No. 6
8 April – 18 May 2022
With echoes of
Lost in Translation
, Juho Kuosmanen’s Cannes Grand Prix-winning two-hander follows two unlikely companions to the Arctic Circle.
Small Body
8 – 14 April 2022
A young woman takes a treacherous journey to save the soul of her stillborn child in Laura Samani’s captivating debut.
Prayers for the Stolen
8 – 17 April 2022
Director Tatiana Huezo’s feature debut is a visceral journey into the Mexican drug trade and the families who fight to survive it.
The Walk
8 – 12 April 2022
Director Giovanni Maderna trails a writer as he strolls the streets of Rome in this innovative feature – shot during the pandemic in a single day.
Catalan Cinema Now!
9 April – 29 May 2022
Catalan Cinema Now! looks at what is happening in film in Catalonia in the aftermath of Covid.
Benedetta
15 – 28 April 2022
A nun in 17th-century Italy falls prey to the sins of the flesh in the latest feature from
Basic Instinct
director Paul Verhoeven.
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
15 – 21 April 2022
Arthur Harari’s slow-burning biopic tells the astonishing true story of a lone Japanese soldier who kept fighting the Second World War until 1974.
The Great Movement (El Gran Movimiento)
15 April – 3 May 2022
Kiro Russo’s feature blends the real with the fantastical as it explores the plight of the working classes in La Paz.
Navalny + Q&A with editor Maya Daisy Hawke
Fri, 15 April 2022
A portrait of Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the wake of his August 2020 Novichok poisoning as he aggressively works to uncover who was behind his assassination attempt.
Navalny
16 April 2022 – 19 March 2023
The 2023 Academy Award for Best Documentary portrays Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the wake of his August 2020 Novichok poisoning.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Mariupolis
16 – 21 April 2022
Mantas Kvedaravičius’s 2016 film documenting daily life under siege in Mariupol assumes added poignancy following the tragic death of its director.
In Focus: Rosine Mbakam
19 – 23 April 2022
The UK’s first survey of the Cameroonian filmmaker’s work, which deconstructs cinema’s colonialist gaze on African women and girls.
Happening
22 April – 22 May 2022
A 22-year-old student in 1960s France faces a battle to access an illegal abortion in Audrey Diwan’s riveting feature.
Saint-Narcisse + Online Q&A
Fri, 22 April 2022
Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce reworks the myth of Narcissus into a gay fable on contemporary culture in his latest feature.
Playground
22 April – 10 May 2022
A seven-year-old girl faces daily trauma and terror in the schoolyard in Laura Wandel’s devastating debut feature.
Ennio
22 April – 5 May 2022
Giuseppe Tornatore (
Cinema Paradiso
) celebrates the life, music and legacy of legendary soundtrack composer and longtime collaborator Ennio Morricone.
Saint-Narcisse
23 April – 3 May 2022
Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce reworks the myth of Narcissus into a gay fable on contemporary culture in his latest feature.
Casablanca Beats (Haut et fort)
29 April – 10 May 2022
Hip hop-loving Moroccan youth fight to put on a show in Nabil Ayouch’s brash, bold and exhilarating portrait of a city in flux.
The Velvet Queen (La panthère des neiges)
29 April – 2 June 2022
Two travel companions journey into the thick of Tibet to seek out an elusive creature in Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier’s beautiful documentary.
Archipelago
29 April – 5 May 2022
Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s poetic, playful and political travelogue explores and reimagines his native Québec.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2022
5 – 12 May 2022
The ICA’s annual festival of the ‘cinema of the real’ returns for its seventh edition, on the theme of
Communality
.
The Swimmer
6 – 19 May 2022
Adam Kalderon’s sophomore feature is a stylish coming-of-age tale blending sports and love.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2022
Myanmar Diaries + Q&A
Sun, 8 May 2022
Directed by a collective of filmmakers,
Myanmar Diaries
documents life in the country after the violent military coup of February 2021.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2022
Workshop: Field of Vision on Production & the Moving Image
Mon, 9 May 2022
Charlotte Cook, Co-Creator of Field of Vision, discusses the emergence and positioning of the filmmaker-driven production unit.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2022
FoR shorts: Mangrove School + Nazarbazi + Atmospheric Pressure + Q&A
Mon, 9 May 2022
A programme of three short features engages with ideas of communality from three very different cinematic languages.
This Much I Know To Be True
11 – 15 May 2022
Andrew Dominik’s new documentary captures Nick Cave and Warren Ellis’ exceptional creative relationship as they bring to life the songs from their last two studio albums.
Vortex
13 May – 15 June 2022
The latest feature from Gaspar Noé is a tender and undeniably powerful exploration of loneliness and love.
The Quiet Girl
13 May – 2 June 2022
A young girl tries to carve herself a place amid a troubled family in Colm Bairéad’s multi-award-winning debut feature.
Intersections: Catalan Cinema Now!
14 – 15 May 2022
The unique talent of screenwriter Clara Roquet (
10,000km
and
Petra
) features across two first features made in 2021, showcasing the intersections of Catalan cinema in a global context.
a-ha: The Movie
20 – 26 May 2022
Directors Thomas Robsahm and Aslaug Holm take on one of the biggest bands of the ’80s in this searching pop portrait.
Lux Æterna
20 – 26 May 2022
Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg struggle to contain the chaos on an ill-starred film shoot in Gaspar Noé’s typically individualistic feature.
Vampyr
20 May – 7 June 2022
Carl Theodor Dreyer’s legendary adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s spooky short stories receives a breathtaking 2K restoration for its 90th birthday.
The Machine that Kills Bad People: Anybody’s Woman
Wed, 25 May 2022
This screening brings together two films of the same name,
Anybody’s Woman
, from 1930 and 1981.
Collective Mobilisation
27 May – 1 September 2022
Join us for this summer-long season dedicated to the best in contemporary Portuguese cinema – programmed by the ICA with pioneering production house TERRATREME.
Between Two Worlds
27 May – 5 June 2022
A journalist seeking to pin down a story struggles to keep her cover in Emmanuel Carrère’s fine adaptation of Florence Aubenas’s
The Night Cleaner
.
Collective Mobilisation
Visions of Empire (Visões do Império)
27 May – 2 June 2022
Joana Pontes’ insightful film explores the history of Portuguese colonialism through the photographs taken to tell its story.
Luzzu
27 May – 7 June 2022
A young Maltese fisherman faces an agonising moral and financial dilemma in Alex Camilleri’s powerful feature debut.
Identities: Catalan Cinema Now!
28 – 29 May 2022
The final weekend of Catalan Cinema Now! looks at the identities represented in recent Catalan cinema – of tourist towns, LGBTQ+ communities and cross-cultural writers.
Bergman Island
3 – 22 June 2022
Two filmmakers find their relationship at breaking point during a Swedish retreat in the latest film from Mia Hansen-Løve.
Collective Mobilisation
Amor Fati
3 – 9 June 2022
The force of destiny and the power of love combine in Cláudia Varejão’s beautiful portrait of people who can’t live without one another.
The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers
3 – 9 June 2022
A long-overdue survey of pioneering shorts by female directors from the dawn of British documentary filmmaking.
Pickpocket
3 – 16 June 2022
Robert Bresson’s classic morality tale trails an unscrupulous pickpocket through the
demi-monde
of Paris in the 1950s.
Il Buco + Q&A
Thu, 9 June 2022
Michelangelo Frammartino’s beautifully considered meditation on life on Earth deservedly won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.
Collective Mobilisation
Jack’s Ride (No táxi do Jack)
10 – 16 June 2022
A Portuguese man in his sixties looks back on his working life in Susana Nobre’s gentle and likeable portrait.
Leave No Traces
10 – 16 June 2022
An innocent teenager becomes the number-one enemy of the Polish state in Jan Paweł Matuszyński’s gripping true-life drama.
Il Buco
10 June – 24 July 2022
Michelangelo Frammartino’s beautifully considered meditation on life on Earth deservedly won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.
Le Quattro Volte in 35mm
11 – 18 June 2022
An ailing Italian goatherd quietly watches the world turn around him in Michelangelo Frammartino’s beautifully restrained meditation.
Pleasure + Q&A
Wed, 15 June 2022
A raw, vital and groundbreaking exploration of the adult film industry,
Pleasure
is the unflinching first feature from Ninja Thyberg.
Collective Mobilisation
PREVIEW Desterro + Q&A
Thu, 16 June 2022
A Brazilian woman vanishes without trace from her failing relationship in Maria Clara Escobar’s compelling drama.
Everything Went Fine
17 – 26 June 2022
An ageing father enlists his daughter to help him die in François Ozon’s involving drama.
Collective Mobilisation
Desterro
17 – 23 June 2022
A Brazilian woman vanishes without trace from her failing relationship in Maria Clara Escobar’s compelling drama.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Samp
17 – 21 June 2022
An unhinged hitman goes looking for love and death in Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza’s Puglian romp.
Pleasure
17 June – 17 July 2022
A raw, vital and groundbreaking exploration of the adult film industry.
Collective Mobilisation
PREVIEW Três Realizadoras Portuguesas + Q&A
Thu, 23 June 2022
Three short films by emerging Portuguese directors come together to create an engaging snapshot of life in 21st-century Portugal.
Moon, 66 Questions + Introduction
Thu, 23 June 2022
Director Jacqueline Lentzou introduces her long-awaited debut feature, a poetic and original study of a father-daughter relationship.
Elvis
24 June – 2 August 2022
The King gets the Baz Luhrmann treatment in this suitably epic biopic.
Collective Mobilisation
Três Realizadoras Portuguesas
24 – 30 June 2022
Three short films by emerging Portuguese directors come together to create an engaging snapshot of life in 21st-century Portugal.
Theo and the Metamorphosis
24 June – 5 July 2022
After his father leaves, a 27 year old with Down syndrome living in the woods has to reinvent his life and open himself up more to things and beings.
The Short Films of Jacqueline Lentzou + Q&A
Fri, 24 June 2022
The director joins us to discuss her work following this special survey of her acclaimed short films.
Moon, 66 Questions
24 June – 14 July 2022
A poetic and original study of a father-daughter relationship.
Collective Mobilisation
PREVIEW A Pleasure, Comrades! (Prazer, Camaradas!) + Q&A
Thu, 30 June 2022
After the Carnation Revolution, the sexual revolution – a story retold by Portuguese director José Filipe Costa in this delightful feature.
A Pleasure, Comrades!
1 – 13 July 2022
After the Carnation Revolution, the sexual revolution – a story retold by Portuguese director José Filipe Costa in this delightful feature.
Wayfinder
1 – 12 July 2022
A young girl traverses England alone during a pandemic in Larry Achiampong’s ambitious, haunting and deeply poignant debut feature.
SAFAR Film Festival
1 – 10 July 2022
The only UK festival dedicated to cinema from the Arab world returns for its 10th anniversary season with a rich and varied programme that celebrates Arab cinema past, present, and future.
Wayfinder + Q&A
Wed, 6 July 2022
A young girl traverses England alone during a pandemic in Larry Achiampong’s ambitious, haunting and deeply poignant debut feature.
Futura
8 – 21 July 2022
Three leading filmmakers team up to capture the hopes, dreams and fears of young people in Italy today.
UK PREMIERE Acid Forest + Q&A
Fri, 8 July 2022
Thousands of seabirds inadvertently destroy a huge expanse of Lithuanian pine trees in Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė’s dry, wry and subversive work.
Ithaka
8 – 13 July 2022
Ben Lawrence’s film is a moving and intimate portrayal of 76-year-old John Shipton’s fight to protect and save his son – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Acid Forest
10 – 13 July 2022
Thousands of seabirds inadvertently destroy a huge expanse of Lithuanian pine trees in Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė’s dry, wry and subversive nature documentary.
Ithaka + Q&A with John and Gabriel Shipton
Thu, 14 July 2022
Ben Lawrence’s film is a moving and intimate portrayal of 76-year-old John Shipton’s fight to protect and save his son – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
A Chiara
15 July – 4 August 2022
A teenage girl grapples with the sins of her father and the true meaning of family in Jonas Carpignano’s gritty third feature.
McEnroe
15 July – 3 August 2022
Barney Douglas’s inventive documentary explores the myths, legends, truths and fictions of tennis’s most charismatic and controversial superstar.
Laurent Garnier: Off The Record
15 – 16 July 2022
Gabin Rivoire paints an engaging portrait of one of club culture’s superstar DJs.
Donna
15 – 28 July 2022
Jay Bedwani’s film follows performer and trans activist Donna Personna as she tries to live an open, honest and authentic life in her seventies.
The Ciambra
17 – 20 July 2022
A gritty penetrating story of adolescence to adulthood set in a small Romani community in Calabria.
All Light, Everywhere
22 July – 16 August 2022
Theo Anthony’s feature questions and reimagines the idea of the ‘objective lens’ in reference to 21st-century American policing.
Robust
22 – 28 July 2022
Gérard Depardieu stars as a troublemaking film star who finds unexpected companionship with his security guard in Constance Meyer’s delightful feature.
The Big City (Mahanagar)
22 – 30 July 2022
A woman upends her comfortable family life in Satyajit Ray’s potent cinematic protest against patriarchal power in ’60s India.
She Will
22 – 31 July 2022
Multidisciplinary artist Charlotte Colbert’s debut is a female-led and female-focused psychological horror centred around a fading actress’s nightmarish retreat in a Scotish sanatorium.
The Lonely Wife (Charulata)
23 – 31 July 2022
A neglected woman finds herself dangerously drawn to her husband’s cousin in Satyajit Ray’s classic tale of love, class and jealousy.
Summer Exclusives
25 July – 1 September 2022
A summer-long showcase of five outstanding recent features from around the world – available to watch in the UK exclusively at the ICA Cinema.
The Machine That Kills Bad People: Quiproquo + O Movimento das Coisas
Wed, 27 July 2022
A programme of two films meditating on landscapes and their complex relationship to labour and industry.
Fire of Love
29 July – 11 August 2022
Sara Dosa’s gripping film unearths the story of Katia and Maurice Krafft, who lived, loved and died for their passion – volcanoes.
Hit the Road
29 July – 7 September 2022
A close-knit Iranian family takes a momentous road trip in Panah Panahi’s wonderful debut – winner of the Best Film award at last year’s BFI London Film Festival.
Summer Exclusives
Looking for Venera
29 July – 7 August 2022
A teenage girl in Kosovo seeks to escape her conservative family life in Norika Sefa’s award-winning debut feature – a Summer Exclusive.
Eye Rituals: Short Film Programme
Sat, 30 July 2022
Rarely-seen shorts from the likes of Kenneth Anger and Jodie Mack, introduced by Dr Felicity Gee for the nationwide Film Feels Curious season.
Céline and Julie Go Boating in 35mm
31 July – 6 August 2022
The ICA partners with the London Short Film Festival and Zodiac Film Club to present a 35mm screening of Jacques Rivette’s gloriously inventive and magical feature – second screening added due to popular demand.
PREVIEW Fadia’s Tree + Q&A
Tue, 2 August 2022
A Palestinian refugee in Lebanon is determined to find her family’s ancient ancestral mulberry tree in Sarah Beddington’s moving documentary.
Collective Mobilisation
PREVIEW Suzanne Daveau + Introduction
Thu, 4 August 2022
Luísa Homem’s captivating biopic explores the pioneering life of a French geographer who was driven to explore the world.
Fadia’s Tree
5 – 11 August 2022
Dreaming of a homeland she is denied, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon sets a challenge to find an ancient mulberry tree that stands witness to her family’s existence.
Collective Mobilisation
Suzanne Daveau
5 – 11 August 2022
Luísa Homem’s captivating biopic explores the pioneering life of a French geographer who was driven to explore the world.
Summer Exclusives
Feathers
5 – 23 August 2022
A magic trick goes absurdly wrong in Omar El Zohairy’s feature, winner of the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes – and a Summer Exclusive.
The Harder They Come
5 – 11 August 2022
Jimmy Cliff stars as a singer who finds himself on the wrong side of the law in Perry Henzell’s classic, reissued to mark its 50th anniversary.
Maisie
5 – 18 August 2022
Britain’s oldest drag queen prepares to deliver the performance of a lifetime in Lee Cooper’s glorious cinematic portrait.
UK PREMIERE Luminous Procuress + Introduction
Thu, 11 August 2022
The only feature directed by singular American artist Steven Arnold is a transgressive masterpiece, and a vivid new restoration receives its UK premiere.
Blind Ambition
12 – 25 August 2022
Four Zimbabwean refugees team up to enter the World Wine Tasting Championship in Warwick Ross and Robert Coe’s inspirational documentary.
Where Is Anne Frank
12 – 24 August 2022
Anne Frank’s imaginary best friend goes on the run in contemporary Amsterdam in the latest feature from
Waltz with Bashir
director Ari Folman.
Summer Exclusives
Aleph
12 – 25 August 2022
lva Radivojević’s second feature pays mesmerising tribute to Jorge Luis Borges across 10 countries on five continents.
The Rest is History: The Early Days of Drum and Bass + Q&A
Sun, 14 August 2022
First-time director Peter Costigan unearths the story of one of Britain’s most electrifying musical subcultures.
Luminous Procuress
Sun, 14 August 2022
The only feature directed by singular American artist Steven Arnold is a transgressive masterpiece, and a vivid new restoration receives its UK release.
UK PREMIERE The Art of Sin + Conversation
Thu, 18 August 2022
Ibrahim Mursal’s film follows acclaimed artist Ahmed Umar, a gay refugee from Sudan, as he considers making a long and hazardous journey home.
Free Chol Sol Lee
19 August – 1 September 2022
Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s gripping social history retells the story of a Korean-American journalist’s fight to free an innocent man in 1970s San Francisco.
Girls Can’t Surf
19 – 31 August 2022
A group of renegade female athletes fight to change the chauvinistic world of surfing in Christopher Neilus’s buoyant feature.
Anaïs in Love
19 August – 1 September 2022
A charming but untameable free spirit ricochets from lover to lover in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sparkling romantic comedy.
Summer Exclusives
Bulletproof
19 – 25 August 2022
In the latest Summer Exclusives screening, filmmaker and educator Todd Chandler explores the everyday nature of gun violence in American schools.
The Rest is History: The Early Days of Drum and Bass
20 August – 4 September 2022
First-time director Peter Costigan unearths the story of one of Britain’s most electrifying musical subcultures.
Her Way
26 – 31 August 2022
In Cécile Ducrocq’s debut feature, Laure Calamy delivers a new tour-de-force performance as Marie, a sex worker fighting to pay for her son’s tuition fee at an elite catering school.
Official Competition
26 August – 5 October 2022
Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have a world of fun in Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s vivid satire on the film industry.
Queen of Glory
26 August – 1 September 2022
A follow-up on the classic immigrant’s tale from debut director Nana Mensah – the story of a heroine coping with death, betrayal and cultural expectations.
Summer Exclusives
UK PREMIERE Bob Spit: We Do Not Like People
26 August – 6 September 2022
A comic-book character goes to war with his creator in Cesar Cabral’s gloriously crazy stop-motion feature – the latest Summer Exclusive.
Collaborative Storytelling: the forced exile of the Chagossian people
27 – 28 August 2022
A book launch and screenings of two rare films to celebrate the release of
Diego Garcia
by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams.
Collective Mobilisation
PREVIEW Dry Ground Burning
Tue, 30 August 2022
Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta explore the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of an all-female gang who hijacks a pipeline for the sake of their community.
Retrospective: Tsuchimoto Noriaki
1 – 18 September 2022
The first UK retrospective of the work of the Japanese documentary maker, in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival.
Dry Ground Burning
2 – 15 September 2022
Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta explore the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of an all-female gang who hijack a pipeline for the sake of their community.
The Territory
2 – 13 September 2022
Alex Pritz’s urgent and riveting documentary follows a young indigenous activist’s fight against his oppressors in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
Wildhood
2 – 8 September 2022
A teenager flees his trailer park home to explore his complex heritage, identity and sexuality in Bretten Hannam’s finely crafted debut feature.
UK PREMIERE Hideous + Q&A
Tue, 6 September 2022
Oliver Sim (The xx) and director Yann Gonzalez join us for a screening of their new short film – marking the release of Sim’s album
Hideous Bastard
.
Open City Documentary Festival
7 – 13 September 2022
The open space for nurturing and championing the art of non-fiction cinema returns for its 12th edition.
UK PREMIERE Mija + Q&A
Wed, 7 September 2022
Two US-born children of undocumented Mexican immigrants try to shape their own American dreams in Isabel Castro’s masterful cinematic portrait.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
9 – 21 September 2022
Luis Buñuel’s Oscar-winning masterpiece returns to cinemas in a radiant 4K restoration to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Crimes of the Future
9 September – 20 October 2022
David Cronenberg returns with a typically unsettling journey into a coming dystopia, starring Léa Seydoux and longtime collaborator Viggo Mortensen.
Ride the Wave
9 – 15 September 2022
Martyn Robertson’s debut feature is an intimate portrait of 14-year-old Scottish surfer Ben Larg and his quest to break into the big league of international surfing.
Videodrome on 35mm
10 – 21 September 2022
A rare and welcome 35mm outing for David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic, marking the release of his latest feature
Crimes of the Future
.
Three Thousand Years of Longing
10 – 15 September 2022
Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton star in George Miller’s sumptuously ambitious tale of a
djinn
who offers an academic three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
ICA EXCLUSIVE I Am a Town + Q&A
Thu, 15 September 2022
The people and places of Provincetown, Massachusetts are captured beautifully in Mischa Richter’s poetic meditation on freedom in America, screening only at the ICA.
Strawberry Mansion
16 – 28 September 2022
A surveillance state conducts ‘dream audits’ to collect taxes on its population’s unconscious lives in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s satiric romance.
Funny Pages
16 – 29 September 2022
Owen Kline’s breathtakingly subversive debut feature is a black comedy following an impressionable young American cartoonist on a misguided pursuit for authenticity.
Bloody Oranges
16 – 22 September 2022
Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s giddily inventive feature weaves several apparently unrelated threads into a captivating portrait of 21st-century French society.
ICA EXCLUSIVE I Am a Town
16 – 22 September 2022
The people and places of Provincetown, Massachusetts are captured beautifully in Mischa Richter’s poetic meditation on freedom in America – screening only at the ICA.
PREVIEW Sidney
Thu, 22 September 2022
A special preview of Reginald Hudlin’s documentary exploring the life and legacy of trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier.
Moonage Daydream
23 September – 26 October 2022
Brett Morgen’s extraordinary feature surveys and celebrates the life, music and unending inspirations of David Bowie.
Sidney
23 – 29 September 2022
Reginald Hudlin’s documentary explores the life and legacy of trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier.
In Front of Your Face
23 September – 20 October 2022
Hong Sang-soo’s latest exploration of the human condition is also a powerful love letter to his home city of Seoul.
Silent Land
23 September – 2 October 2022
An affluent couple face down a trauma at their holiday villa in Agnieszka Woszczyńska’s enthralling first feature.
Portraits from an Other Germany: The Early Films of Helke Misselwitz
24 – 25 September 2022
A weekend-long celebration of one of the most significant documentary filmmakers of the German Democratic Republic, with her participation.
Invisible Demons
30 September – 6 October 2022
An environmental disaster is brewing in New Delhi and Rahul Jain unsettling documentary details the profound impact of pollution and climate change.
Girls Girls Girls
30 September – 13 October 2022
Three young female friends fall quickly in love in Alli Haapasalo’s empowering coming-of-age drama – a recent Sundance Award-winner.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Mutzenbacher
30 September – 6 October 2022
Ruth Beckermann’s feature uses the 1906 novel
Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore
, published anonymously, as a starting point to grapple with male sexuality.
Midwives
30 September – 6 October 2022
Two women bravely breach Myanmar’s religious divide in in Hnin Ei Hlaing’s astonishing and revealing documentary feature.
John Smith: Introspective (1972 – 2022)
1 October – 1 December 2022
Spanning 50 works across 50 years, this major survey celebrates the work of one of London’s most radical and influential artist filmmakers.
BFI London Film Festival 2022
5 – 16 October 2022
The festival returns for its 66th edition in venues across London.
BFI London Film Festival 2022
5 – 16 October 2022
The festival returns for its 66th edition in venues across London.
The Cordillera of Dreams
7 – 20 October 2022
Patricio Guzmán takes a deeply personal and political journey through the Andes in a feature that won the Best Documentary prize at Cannes.
After Blue (Dirty Paradise)
7 – 20 October 2022
A lonely teenager hunts an escaped killer through space in Bertrand Mandico’s gloriously absurd follow-up to
The Wild Boys
.
All That Breathes
14 – 27 October 2022
Two Indian brothers fight to save birds laid low by pollution in Shaunak Sen’s Cannes and Sundance award-winning feature.
Olivia Plender, Hold Hold Fire + discussion
Sat, 15 October 2022
A screening and discussion with the artist Olivia Plender, and academics Janna Graham and Kirsten Lloyd.
The African Desperate + Q&A
Tue, 18 October 2022
The electrifying feature debut from renowned artist Martine Syms brings her razor-sharp satire and vivid aesthetic invention to a riotous coming-of-age comedy.
PREVIEW Decision to Leave
18 – 20 October 2022
A detective investigating a possible murder becomes entangled with the victim’s widow in Park Chan-wook’s feature – winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes.
Women’s Stories from the Global South (& To Whom They Belong)
19 – 26 October 2022
This compelling season covers 42 years, five countries, and five recently restored or digitised features, each linked to a uniquely challenging story of ownership and distribution.
UK PREMIERE Habit + Q&A
Thu, 20 October 2022
Writer, director and Glass Eye Pix founder Larry Fessenden joins us for the UK premiere of his memorably dark New York horror.
ICA EXCLUSIVE The African Desperate
21 – 27 October 2022
Renowned artist Martine Syms brings her razor-sharp satire and vivid aesthetic invention to a riotous coming-of-age comedy, her electrifying debut.
The Banshees of Inisherin
21 October 2022 – 5 January 2023
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson star as two friends-turned-enemies in the latest dark comedy from
Three Billboards
writer-director Martin McDonagh.
Decision to Leave
21 October 2022 – 2 February 2023
A detective investigating a possible murder becomes entangled with the victim’s widow in Park Chan-wook’s feature – winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes.
The Gravedigger’s Wife
21 – 27 October 2022
A poor but loving husband seeks a small fortune to help treat his ailing wife in Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s powerful and deeply personal debut.
The Machine That Kills Bad People: ALTIPLANO + The Bloody Child
Wed, 26 October 2022
A double bill of hallucinatory desert landscapes in which past, present, and future converge.
(G)Round Up! La Clef Revival in Four Acts
28 – 30 October 2022
Paris-based cinema collective La Clef Revival join us for a unique weekend exploring potential alternative futures for film exhibition in the 21st century.
Triangle of Sadness
28 October 2022 – 10 January 2023
A boatload of spoiled passengers are left stranded on an island when their cruise ship sinks in Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning satire.
Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues
28 October – 3 November 2022
Unpublished home recordings and rare archive footage contribute to director Sasha Jenkins’ definitive feature-length portrait of an American icon.
The Short Films of Fronza Woods + Q&A
Sat, 29 October 2022
Shown for the first time in the UK in a brand new restoration, Woods’ two short films follow funny, clever, wise heroines in the New York of the late 1970s.
PREVIEW Neptune Frost + Q&A
Tue, 1 November 2022
An invigorating thrilling sci-fi punk musical set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonised and free, male and female, memory and prescience – and bursting with energy and ideas.
London Korean Film Festival 2022
3 – 9 November 2022
The world’s longest running film festival dedicated to Korean cinema returns with its 17th edition.
The Wonder
4 – 17 November 2022
A suspicious nurse (Florence Pugh) is charged with assessing a child’s apparently miraculous survival in the latest feature from Academy Award-winner Sebastián Leilo.
Return to Dust
4 – 24 November 2022
An arranged marriage in rural Chinese defies expectations of failure in Li Ruijun’s beautiful feature.
Neptune Frost
4 – 30 November 2022
An invigorating thrilling sci-fi punk musical set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonised and free, male and female, memory and prescience – and bursting with energy and ideas.
This House (Cette maison) + Introduction
Fri, 4 November 2022
Miryam Charles’s debut feature investigates the passing of a 14 year-old girl in the form of an imaginary dialogue with a young girl who can no longer speak for herself.
This House
5 – 13 November 2022
Miryam Charles’s debut feature investigates the passing of a 14-year-old girl in the form of an imaginary dialogue with a young girl who can no longer speak for herself.
ICA EXCLUSIVE Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
Wed, 9 November 2022
Two dozen Texans face off in a ludicrous competition to win a pick-up truck in SR Bindler’s classic 1997 documentary – screening as an ICA Exclusive.
PREVIEW No Bears
Thu, 10 November 2022
An exiled director fights to live and work in the latest feature by Jafar Panahi – made in brave defiance of a filmmaking ban imposed by the Iranian government.
No Bears
11 – 30 November 2022
An exiled director fights to live and work in the latest feature by Jafar Panahi – made in brave defiance of a filmmaking ban imposed by the Iranian government.
Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters
11 – 17 November 2022
Focused on an annual carnival in an earthquake-hit port town, Leah Gordon and Eddie Hutton-Mills capture the essence of an extraordinary country and its culture.
A Bunch of Amateurs
11 – 19 November 2022
Kim Hopkins’ delicious documentary feature follows a close-knit gang of cinemaniacs in Bradford as they fight to keep their amateur filmmaking society afloat.
PREMIERE Meeting with a Judas Tree
12 – 13 November 2022
Duval Timothy joins us for two special screenings of his new short film marking the release of his album of the same name.
The Draughtsman’s Contract
12 – 17 November 2022
Peter Greenaway’s extraordinary country-house murder mystery receives a 4K remaster to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
Clara Sola + Q&A
Thu, 17 November 2022
A 40-year-old woman in rural Costa Rica frees herself from religious and spiritual repression in Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s tremendous debut feature.
London Palestine Film Festival 2022
18 – 22 November 2022
The essential and ever-relevant festival presents work from emerging and established Palestinian filmmakers.
Clara Sola
18 – 24 November 2022
A 40-year-old woman in rural Costa Rica frees herself from religious and spiritual repression in Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s tremendous debut feature.
Aftersun
18 November 2022 – 12 March 2023
A haunted daughter looks back on a long-ago holiday with her father in Charlotte Wells’ award-winning debut feature.
Armageddon Time
18 November – 3 December 2022
A young Jewish boy in ’80s New York fronts up to the injustices of American society in this moving autobiographical feature from director James Gray.
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths
18 – 27 November 2022
A Mexican filmmaker takes a life-changing journey home in Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first feature since 2015’s
The Revenant
.
OJOBOCA: True Counterfeits + Q&A
Sat, 19 November 2022
A screening dedicated to the work of the filmmaking duo, with three of their films centring on manufacture and creation.
The Oil Machine + Q&A
Sun, 20 November 2022
Director Emma Davie examines our decades-long dependence on North Sea oil in this timely feature-length documentary.
PREVIEW Myanmar Diaries + Q&A
Wed, 23 November 2022
Directed by a collective of filmmakers,
Myanmar Diaries
documents life in the country after the violent military coup of February 2021.
Saint Jack on 35mm
Thu, 24 November 2022
Peter Bogdanovich’s atmospheric 1979 study of a small-time hustler in Singapore receives a rare 35mm screening in partnership with the Badlands Collective.
Parallel Lives: The Cinema of Matías Piñeiro
25 November – 4 December 2022
The first UK retrospective of the work of Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro, whose formally inventive and thematically rich films have marked him out as one of contemporary cinema’s most singular voices.
Casque d’Or
25 November – 1 December 2022
A gangster’s moll is pulled between the underworld and the straight and narrow in Jacques Becker’s classic romantic thriller, restored in 4K for its 70th anniversary.
Utama
25 November – 6 December 2022
A big winner at Sundance, Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s gorgeous feature follows an ageing Bolivian couple as they face up to a changing climate.
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
25 November – 7 December 2022
A curse leaves a pair of young lovers unrecognisable to one another in this poetic romance from Georgian director Aleksandre Koberidze.
White Noise
2 December 2022 – 5 January 2023
Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig front up to an environmental catastrophe in Noah Baumbach’s take on Don DeLillo’s great American novel.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
2 – 15 December 2022
Bianca Stiger builds a fragment of home-movie footage into a telling memorial to the millions of lives cut short by the Nazis in the Second World War.
UK PREMIERE La Restanza + Q&A
Fri, 2 December 2022
A group of young Italians revive their local land through agriculture in Alessandra Coppola’s timely feature, screening as part of Delfina Foundation’s Politics of Food series.
Tori and Lokita
2 – 22 December 2022
Two young West Africans strive to make new lives for themselves in Belgium in the latest award-winning feature from the Dardennes brothers.
Lynch/Oz
2 – 21 December 2022
David Lynch’s apparently enduring obsession with
The Wizard of Oz
comes under the microscope in Alexandre O Philippe’s entertaining documentary.
PREVIEW The Silent Twins
Sat, 3 December 2022
Two twin sisters in rural Wales conjure themselves an astonishing inner life to escape their isolation in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s English-language debut – an extraordinary true story.
Into Their Labours: The Films of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro
8 – 11 December 2022
A comprehensive survey of features and shorts by the influential Portuguese duo – including films screening for the first time in the UK.
PREVIEW Alcarràs + Q&A
Thu, 8 December 2022
Carla Simón joins us for a special preview of her anticipated sophomore film – a sun-dappled, deeply moving ensemble portrait of Catalonia’s countryside and winner of the Golden Bear at this year's Berlinale.
The Silent Twins
9 – 21 December 2022
Two twin sisters in rural Wales conjure themselves an astonishing inner life to escape their isolation in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s English-language debut – an extraordinary true story.
Mr Bachmann and His Class
9 December 2022 – 4 January 2023
An unconventional German teacher looks for new ways to educate and integrate his diverse class in Maria Speth’s award-winning documentary.
Rimini
9 – 22 December 2022
The past and the present catch up with a faded Austrian crooner in the latest slice of cinematic discomfort from direct Ulrich Seidl.
UK PREMIERE Art & Krimes by Krimes + Q&A
Tue, 13 December 2022
An artist spends four years working on his masterpiece behind bars in Alysa Nahmias’s excellent documentary, receiving its UK premiere at the ICA.
Films from Iran for Iran + Q&A
Wed, 14 December 2022
A short film programme presented in partnership with Another Gaze to extend solidarity to the struggle in Iran.
Anonymous Club
16 – 22 December 2022
Filmed both on and off the road, Danny Cohen’s film paints a raw and revealing picture of acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett.
The Sweet Hereafter on 35mm
Sat, 17 December 2022
Atom Egoyan’s acclaimed 1997 feature celebrates its 25th anniversary with a rare 35mm presentation.
Celluloid Sunday: Calendar on 16mm
Sun, 18 December 2022
A rare 16mm screening of Atom Egoyan’s acclaimed 1993 feature tracing the disintegration of a marriage.
Celluloid Sunday: Suture on 35mm
Sun, 18 December 2022
An early ’90s neo-noir thriller from filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee, presented on 35mm.
PREVIEW Peter von Kant
Tue, 20 December 2022
François Ozon remakes and remodels Fassbinder’s
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
into a strange, potent and fascinating feature all his own.
The Machine That Kills Bad People: My Twentieth Century + Madame a des envies
Wed, 21 December 2022
A double bill from filmmakers Alice Guy and Ildikó Enyedi.
PREVIEW Corsage
Wed, 21 December 2022
A special preview of Marie Kreutzer’s subversive feature starring Vicky Krieps as an Austrian empress desperate to escape her monotonous existence.
Alyam Alyam + Masterclass with Ahmed El Maanouni
Thu, 22 December 2022
Ahmed El Maanouni joins us for a conversation following the screening of his 1978 debut feature – the first Moroccan film to be selected in Cannes Film Festival.
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1 January 2023 – 27 October 2073
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