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

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 summer-long showcase of five outstanding recent features from around the world – available to watch in the UK exclusively at the ICA Cinema.

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.

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.

A charming but untameable free spirit ricochets from lover to lover in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s sparkling romantic comedy.

Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas have a world of fun in Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s vivid satire on the film industry.

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.

A comic-book character goes to war with his creator in Cesar Cabral’s gloriously crazy stop-motion feature – the latest Summer Exclusive.

The first UK retrospective of the work of the Japanese documentary maker, in partnership with Open City Documentary Festival.

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.

Alex Pritz’s urgent and riveting documentary follows a young indigenous activist’s fight against his oppressors in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.

A teenager flees his trailer park home to explore his complex heritage, identity and sexuality in Bretten Hannam’s finely crafted debut feature.

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.

The open space for nurturing and championing the art of non-fiction cinema returns for its 12th edition.

Two US-born children of undocumented Mexican immigrants try to shape their own American dreams in Isabel Castro’s masterful cinematic portrait.

Luis Buñuel’s Oscar-winning masterpiece returns to cinemas in a radiant 4K restoration to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

David Cronenberg returns with a typically unsettling journey into a coming dystopia, starring Léa Seydoux and longtime collaborator Viggo Mortensen.

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.

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.

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.

A surveillance state conducts ‘dream audits’ to collect taxes on its population’s unconscious lives in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s satiric romance.

Owen Kline’s breathtakingly subversive debut feature is a black comedy following an impressionable young American cartoonist on a misguided pursuit for authenticity.

Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s giddily inventive feature weaves several apparently unrelated threads into a captivating portrait of 21st-century French society.

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.

A special preview of Reginald Hudlin’s documentary exploring the life and legacy of trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier.

Brett Morgen’s extraordinary feature surveys and celebrates the life, music and unending inspirations of David Bowie.

Reginald Hudlin’s documentary explores the life and legacy of trailblazing actor and activist Sidney Poitier.

Hong Sang-soo’s latest exploration of the human condition is also a powerful love letter to his home city of Seoul.

An affluent couple face down a trauma at their holiday villa in Agnieszka Woszczyńska’s enthralling first feature.

A weekend-long celebration of one of the most significant documentary filmmakers of the German Democratic Republic, with her participation.

An environmental disaster is brewing in New Delhi and Rahul Jain unsettling documentary details the profound impact of pollution and climate change.

Three young female friends fall quickly in love in Alli Haapasalo’s empowering coming-of-age drama – a recent Sundance Award-winner.

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.

Two women bravely breach Myanmar’s religious divide in in Hnin Ei Hlaing’s astonishing and revealing documentary feature.