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

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

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.

The latest from acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier, a wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning in contemporary Oslo.

The 2023 Academy Award for Best Documentary portrays Russia’s opposition leader Alexei Navalny in the wake of his August 2020 Novichok poisoning.

Two travel companions journey into the thick of Tibet to seek out an elusive creature in Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier’s beautiful documentary.

The latest feature from Gaspar Noé is a tender and undeniably powerful exploration of loneliness and love. 

A young girl tries to carve herself a place amid a troubled family in Colm Bairéad’s multi-award-winning debut feature.

Join us for this summer-long season dedicated to the best in contemporary Portuguese cinema – programmed by the ICA with pioneering production house TERRATREME.  

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.

Joana Pontes’ insightful film explores the history of Portuguese colonialism through the photographs taken to tell its story.

A young Maltese fisherman faces an agonising moral and financial dilemma in Alex Camilleri’s powerful feature debut.

Two filmmakers find their relationship at breaking point during a Swedish retreat in the latest film from Mia Hansen-Løve.

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.

A long-overdue survey of pioneering shorts by female directors from the dawn of British documentary filmmaking.

 Robert Bresson’s classic morality tale trails an unscrupulous pickpocket through the demi-monde of Paris in the 1950s.

A Portuguese man in his sixties looks back on his working life in Susana Nobre’s gentle and likeable portrait.

An innocent teenager becomes the number-one enemy of the Polish state in Jan Paweł Matuszyński’s gripping true-life drama.

Michelangelo Frammartino’s beautifully considered meditation on life on Earth deservedly won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival.

An ailing Italian goatherd quietly watches the world turn around him in Michelangelo Frammartino’s beautifully restrained meditation.

A Brazilian woman vanishes without trace from her failing relationship in Maria Clara Escobar’s compelling drama.

An ageing father enlists his daughter to help him die in François Ozon’s involving drama.

A Brazilian woman vanishes without trace from her failing relationship in Maria Clara Escobar’s compelling drama.

An unhinged hitman goes looking for love and death in Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza’s Puglian romp.

A raw, vital and groundbreaking exploration of the adult film industry.

Three short films by emerging Portuguese directors come together to create an engaging snapshot of life in 21st-century Portugal.

Director Jacqueline Lentzou introduces her long-awaited debut feature, a poetic and original study of a father-daughter relationship.

The King gets the Baz Luhrmann treatment in this suitably epic biopic.

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 director joins us to discuss her work following this special survey of her acclaimed short films.

A poetic and original study of a father-daughter relationship.

After the Carnation Revolution, the sexual revolution – a story retold by Portuguese director José Filipe Costa in this delightful feature.