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

Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson star as two friends-turned-enemies in the latest dark comedy from Three Billboards writer-director Martin McDonagh.

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.

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.

A haunted daughter looks back on a long-ago holiday with her father in Charlotte Wells’ award-winning debut feature.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig front up to an environmental catastrophe in Noah Baumbach’s take on Don DeLillo’s great American novel.

An unconventional German teacher looks for new ways to educate and integrate his diverse class in Maria Speth’s award-winning documentary.

A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.

Vicky Krieps is outstanding as an Austrian empress desperate to escape her monotonous existence in Marie Kreutzer’s subversive feature.

A young army officer pursues an elderly countess for a life-changing secret in Thorold Dickinson’s gripping ’40s supernatural melodrama, newly restored.

Ryan O’Neal plays a getaway driver on the run from the law in Walter Hill’s classic 1970s thriller – screening in a new 4K restoration.

A Catalan family faces up to the threat of eviction from their farm in Carla Simón’s beautiful Golden Bear-winning feature.

François Ozon remakes and remodels Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant into a strange, potent and fascinating feature all his own.

A welcome return to cinemas for Akira Kurosawa’s landmark 1950 feature, regularly ranked among the greatest films of all time.

Probably the director’s most famous film, this impassioned drama follows the fate of a Beijing family and their acquaintances through the political and social upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s.

A programme exploring the connections between paranoia, conspiracy, anxiety, and the precarious realities of artistic creation at the margins of the American film industry.

Mark Jenkin’s eerie feature is a study in solitude, a supernatural folk horror set on a deserted Cornish island.

Mark Jenkin’s eerie feature is a study in solitude, a supernatural folk horror set on a deserted Cornish island.

Treasa O’Brien goes deep into the experience of migration in her hybrid feature mixing auditions, observational documentary and magical realism.

As the legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture, is being turned into a luxury hotel, its 51 residents prepare for imminent upheaval.

Denmark’s Official Submission to the 2023 Academy Awards. A gripping and darkly atmospheric crime thriller inspired by the true story of Iran’s most notorious serial killer.

A terminally ill woman tries to take back control of her remaining days in Emily Atef’s desperately poignant feature.

Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt explore the legendary past, complicated present and gentrified future of New York’s most mythologised hotel.

A scientist falls in love with the ghost of the gay flight attendant who allegedly brought HIV to North America in John Greyson’s 1993 surreal militant musical.

Laura Poitras paints a vivid portrait of artist Nan Goldin – her life, her work and her momentous campaign against the Sackler family’s pivotal role in the opioid crisis.

Cate Blanchett stars as a trailblazing conductor forced to face up to her failings in Todd Field’s masterful character study.

Laura Poitras joins us for a live conversation following the screening of her vivid portrait of artist Nan Goldin – her life, her work and her momentous campaign against the Sackler family’s role in the opioid crisis.

The Japan Foundation’s flagship film programme celebrates its 20th annual season by surveying the last two decades in Japanese cinema.

William Wyler’s romantic comedy classic starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn celebrates its 70th anniversary with a brand new restoration.

Acclaimed filmmaker Alice Diop delivers a riveting and utterly unmissable courtroom drama in which novelist Rama confronts her personal traumas as she observes the trial of a woman accused of infanticide.

A donkey suffers at the hands of an inhumane world in Jerzy Skolimowski’s moving Cannes winner.

England, 1988 – as Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government is about to pass a law stigmatizing gays and lesbians, PE teacher Jean is forced to live a double life.

Award-winning filmmaker Treasa O’Brien goes deep into the experience of migration in her hybrid feature mixing auditions, observational documentary and magical realism.

A man with a hidden past returns home to Naples after decades away in Mario Martone’s soulful paean to his hometown.

A group of women from an isolated religious community, victims of sexual abuse, gather to take action in Sarah Polley’s riveting ensemble drama.

An irresistible exploration of a little-known painter’s legacy and mysterious disappearance from the iconic 1980s downtown art scene in NYC.

A young couple leave the industrial wasteland of their mining hometown for Taipei in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s 1986 bittersweet love story.

An in-person premiere screening for the band’s new live concert film.

Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters) returns with an unconventional and heartwarming family drama where a young mother becomes unexpectedly involved in the world of infant trafficking.

A conservative family in Pakistan is torn apart when their son falls in love with a dancer in Saim Sadiq’s debut feature.

Directed by Asif Kapadia (Amy) and based on the eponymous National Ballet stage production, Creature is a tragic tale of an outsider’s search for belonging.

A tragic tale of an outsider’s search for belonging. Directed by Asif Kapadia (Amy) and based on the eponymous National Ballet stage production. 

An intimate window into the world of WIlliam, a young man whose mysterious allergy to electronics has forced him to retreat from modern life to the Swedish wilderness.

Presented in partnership with the Delfina Foundation, this programme of short films looking at landscapes as sites where multiple histories have been inscribed and overwritten on the physical terrain.

Lukas Dhont (Girl) offers a nuanced depiction of intimacy and masculinity in his moving coming-of-age story on the friendship of thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi.

An intimate window into the world of William, a young man whose mysterious allergy to electronics has forced him to retreat from modern life to the Swedish wilderness.

The next iteration of Celluloid Sunday presents a rare screening of Tian Zhuangzhuang’s resplendent work on an original 35mm print.

The Polish film festival returns to the ICA with a fresh blend of award-winning films.

A young teacher gets transferred to the most remote school in the world in Pawo Choyning Dorji’s directorial debut. The first Bhutanese film to receive an Oscar nomination.

An immersive journey through the New York music scene of the early 2000s, featuring never-before-seen footage of artists like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Strokes, Interpol, and LCD Soundsystem.

In rural Brazil, a stretched-thin family's life is turned upside down as their home becomes the hideout for a mysterious fugitive.

David Cronenberg’s 1991 adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ novel of the same name returns in cinemas in a brand new 4K restoration.

A double-programme of films by and on filmmaker and novelist Assia Djebar.

Two children from a poor Iranian village come across a lost Academy Award statuette in Hassan Nazer’s moving love letter to Iranian cinema.

Scorcese’s 1993 period drama celebrates its 30th anniversary with a brand new 4K restoration.

Presented in partnership with the RAI Film Festival, this programme celebrates 35 years of Indigenous filmmaking from Brazil with short films on women’s environmentalist movements, and on Indigenous community history.

The ICA welcomes the festival for the first time to shine a spotlight on a new wave of cinema from Hong Kong and the Hong Kong diaspora in the UK.

The wildly imaginative breakout from writer-director Léa Mysius follows a young girl whose magical power conjures her family's secrets.

A woman starts questioning her cosy bourgeois lifestyle in Manuela Martelli’s debut feature set in the wake of Chile’s 1973 coup.

The festival returns with a wide-ranging selection of formally ambitious and politically engaged films of past and present.

A woman starts questioning her cosy bourgeois lifestyle in Manuela Martelli’s debut feature set in the wake of Chile’s 1973 coup.

Dominik Moll revives the investigation thriller to portray a detective plagued by doubts after the chilling murder of a young woman.

The latest film from Sierra Pettengill explores the treacherous militarisation of the US police from the late 1960s until today.

A married couple sees their dream of moving to the countryside gradually turn into a living nightmare in Sorogoyen’s accomplished new thriller.

A giant frog and a tsunami help a bunch of colourful characters to find a meaning to their lives in Pierre Földes’ debut, adapted from short stories by Haruki Murakami.

Dominik Moll revives the investigation thriller to portray a detective plagued by doubts while trying to solve the chilling murder of a young woman.

A woman (Emily Watson) struggles with her conscience after giving a false alibi to protect her son (Paul Mescal) in this psychological thriller set on the coast of Ireland.

A double bill about the pleasures and perils of female collectivity, with Lizzie Borden in person for an introduction and Q&A.

Lizzie Borden joins us for a special screening of her 1986 sharp and witty study of sex work.

A screening of R.I.P. Germain’s moving image work mew (2022) .

Exploring the political and philosophical nature of the night sky, this programme features new non-fiction work by artists from Morocco and Afghanistan that ruminate on the human condition bound by the cosmos.

A Danish priest journeys into the unknown in Hlynur Pálmason’s meditative drama set in the forbidding landscape in 19th century Iceland.

Andrew Legge’s imaginative debut feature follows two sisters as they create a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future amidst WWII.

Set in a remote area of the Moroccan desert, this captivating documentary follows the converging quest of a nomad and a scientist in search of meteorite fragments.

A raw yet deeply moving journey into the world of addiction through the lens of Lisa Selby, inspired by her relationship with her mother and partner.

Robert Fripp and the members of prog-rock giants King Crimson look back on 50 years of art, discipline and transcendence in this fascinating, funny and moving film.

Ali, a young Tunisian, dreams of a better life among the injustices he faces every day. Director Lofty Nathan highlights the voice of a generation fighting to be heard a decade after the Tunisian revolution.

Léa Seydoux plays a Parisian young widowed mother in Mia Hansen-Løve's moving portrayal of contemporary womanhood.

The sudden death of the grand imam leads to a ruthless battle for influence in Talek Saleh’s riveting thriller set in Cairo.

A weekend-long retrospective dedicated to the work of the Brazilian filmmaker whose bold, political and feminist oeuvre spans over six decades.

A vivid portrait of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith, one of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century.

A special presentation of Jon Sanders’ intimate film exploring sisterly bonds and the process of mourning.

A programme of seven films celebrating the work of the acclaimed Catalan filmmaker, who joins us for in-person conversations.

A modern action-adventure road story where a 17-year-old girl named Suzume helps a mysterious young man close doors from the outer side that are releasing disasters all over in Japan.

Two sisters return to their family home on the Isle of Wight in Jon Sanders’ intimate drama on grief and sisterly bonds.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, A.V. Rockwell’s debut follows an unapologetic mother in the rapidly gentrifying New York City of the 1990s.

Signe and Thomas’ unhealthy, competitive relationship takes a vicious turn in this cruel dark comedy from Kristoffer Borgli.

Albert Serra’s latest work is a hypnotic, dark film centering on a government official in Tahiti who embodies the greed, hypocrisy and paranoia of colonial power.

Three patients from an asylum seek the perfect picnic spot to view the world’s eminent end in Shunji Iwai's tale from 1996.

The new monthly series Screen Practices opens with a programme curated by Shasha Movies featuring recently restored works in order to spark discussion about the politics of film restoration.

Lola Quivoron’s rites-of-passage debut follows a young tearaway with a passion for motorbikes who is drawn into a local bike gang’s skeezy dealings.

Sundance’s opening documentary tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll through its originator and most influential pioneer.

Mira Erdevički follows the lives of three Roma in her compelling and nuanced documentary, which raises the question of identity in post-Brexit Britain.

Emmanuelle Nicot’s poignant debut feature navigates the ramifications of childhood sexual abuse through the story of Dalva, who at 12 dresses, wears make-up and lives like a woman.

A landmark for black and queer British film, Isaac Julien’s iconic, beautifully crafted 1991 period piece gets a rerelease in a brand new restoration.

In this London-set drama, the Baptiste family are caught in intergenerational debates reflecting Black viewpoints on life in Britain.

A survey of works selected by French visual artist and filmmaker to celebrate the release of Make, Do, With on the work of Éric Baudelaire.

A woman visits Seoul for the first time since her adoption in Davy Chou’s acclaimed drama on self-discovery.

Lofty Nathan highlights the voice of a generation through the story of Ali, a young Tunisian dreaming of a better life among the injustices he faces every day.

A reformed smuggler tries to raise his son well despite his own shady past in this noir-inflected drama set on the Ukrainian border.

In one of Morocco’s oldest medinas, a couple’s equilibrium is disturbed with the arrival of a younger apprentice.

Set on a construction site on the banks of the Nile, this political fable follows Maher, a brickmaker working on a mysterious mud sculpture against the backdrop of the 2019 coup in Sudan.

Set on a construction site on the banks of the Nile, this political fable follows Maher, a brickmaker working on a mysterious mud sculpture against the backdrop of the 2019 coup in Sudan.

A sweeping adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s novel which charts the lifelong friendship of two boys in a secluded Alpine village.

Director Nina Menkes compels the casual moviegoer and cinephile alike with a mesmerising visual journey through cinema’s sexist bloodstream.

Following the stories of the stones, rocks and peaks of a vast mountain landscape, this is a minimalist black and white cinematic odyssey.

A stirring treatment of the Paris Commune through the passions and political awakening of a young music hall actress.

The first retrospective dedicated to the multifaceted, international career of American filmmaker and cinematographer Skip Norman.

A portrait of the life and work of the pioneering ‘Godfather of Video Art’.

A man embarks on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother in this bold and ingeniously depraved new film from writer/director Ari Aster.

Over the course of one day women and men, young and old, work in a fig orchard under the watchful eye of the foreman.

Paul Schrader’s latest follows a meticulous horticulturist who seems to be hiding a troubled past.

David Lynch’s nightmarish vision of an actress losing her grip on reality is as striking as ever in this director-approved restoration.

A mesmerizing meditation on the mysterious nature of identity, David Lynch’s seventh feature film is one of the filmmaker’s most potent cinematic dreamscapes.

David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature remains both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty.

Screen Practices returns with a programme of screenings and live events curated by LUBUNYA Dispatches, an initiative from Turkey in solidarity with LGBTQ+ communities.

The feature debut from writer-director Carolina Cavalli is a playful character study of a young woman struggling to connect with those around her.

In June 2017, 25-year-old Reality Winner is confronted at her Georgia home by the FBI. A cryptic conversation begins, and Reality’s life quickly begins to unravel.

The life and career of the British actor, playwright, screenwriter and songwriter is explored in this insightful documentary.

A programme of four films celebrating the work of the acclaimed Chilean filmmaker.

After a stylist is found dead at a hairdressing competition, the remaining competitors try to uncover the killer over the course of an evening.

To celebrate its 35th anniversary, John Waters’ cult classic comedy returns to the big screen.

The interlocking stories of two Oglala Lakota men coming of age on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Featuring spellbinding performances from first-time actors Jojo Bapteise Whiting and LaDainian Crazy Thunder.

Patricio Guzmán’s latest film documents the protests that exploded onto the streets of Chile’s capital of Santiago in 2019.

Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet’s coup d’état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.

The second feature by filmmaker Chris Newby centres upon the unlikely bond that develops between two strangers, starring John Hannah and Bernard Hill.

Patricio Guzmán sets out on a journey through the Andes as he attempts to reconstruct Chile’s history and find a lost memory.  

One dress changes everything for a family in Dionne Edwards’ spirited debut, which investigates Black masculinity and family structures.

 When Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah’s Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape their lives.

A special presentation in partnership with The British Academy of the documentary, focusing on the most recent Argentine dictatorship. 

The UK’s largest festival of Arab cinema returns with releases from Palestine, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Syria, plus its annual shorts programme exploring the festival theme A Journey Through Space and Time.

French writer and Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following, opens a treasure trove with this journey into her family’s memory.

In a fictional American desert town circa 1955 the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

A portrait of the celebrated Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui. It spans seven decades of her life and features a wealth of archive footage, photos and interviews with friends, family and fellow filmmakers.

A captivating portrait of US cyclist Greg LeMond and the dramatic 1989 Tour De France, from BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Alex Holmes.

The photo agency’s second film festival in the UK offers an exploration its extensive 76 year archive through four film screenings and accompanying discussions.

A maximal, stroboscopic colour odyssey to the limits of human perception.

A three-fold programme exploring Algerian filmmaker, director and actor Mohamed Zinet’s unrealised film Tibelkachoutine.

The Machine That Kills Bad People screen Ruth Beckermann’s Paper Bridge and Sylvia Schedelbauer’s Way Fare.

A hearing impaired boxer is pushed further than she thought possible when an incident threatens the closure of her gym.

After moving to France from the Ivory Coast, young mother Rose must work low-paying jobs to raise Jean and Ernest. A vibrant portrait of a family told from multiple perspectives.

The true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), who after denouncing top-secret deals that shook the nuclear sector, finds her life suddenly turned upside-down.

Writer-directors Alejo Moguillansky and Luciana Acuña play versions of themselves alongside their eight-year-old daughter in this slapstick and absurdist odyssey through the family dynamics of lockdown life.

After his critically acclaimed debut Lynn + Lucy, British-Moroccan filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa enhances his reputation with an acutely observed tale of love, identity and belonging.

Shamira Raphaëla’s hilarious, endearing and indefatigably upbeat documentary is powered by the charm of its subject; the good-natured, street-smart, sensitive and resourceful Shabu.

From visionary director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin) comes an absurd and darkly hilarious superhero movie unlike any other.

A woman visits Seoul for the first time since her adoption in Davy Chou’s acclaimed drama on self-discovery.

Kaizo Hayashi’s beguiling and dreamlike tribute to silent cinema screens on a rare 16mm print from the ICA Archive.

The debut feature of renowned Portuguese filmmaker Paulo Rocha follows the tentative relationship between shoemaker Julio and housemaid Ilda.

Past and present become one in this elegant exploration of the city of Lisbon and the events, both real and imagined, that have taken place on its streets.

A turbulent newsroom drama intimately chronicling the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation.

Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary explores the work of Hipgnosis, the trailblazing artist studio behind the most iconic album art of the 1960s and 1970s.

A vigilante cult of young women prowls the city for sinners in this psychological horror from writer/director Anita Rocha da Silveira.

A vigilante cult of young women prowls the city for sinners in this psychological horror from writer/director Anita Rocha da Silveira.

Mark Cousins’ new work reexamines the vast filmography and legacy of Alfred Hitchcock through a new lens: the filmmaker’s own voice.

Drawing the widely acclaimed novel by Mei Hachimoku and inspired by Japanese legends, Tomohisa Taguchi’s work is an elegant love story set in rural Japan.

A programme of five films celebrating the work of the iconic actress and singer.

Three recent restorations from the D.I.Y generation of American filmmaking whose work explored controversial subjects and countered mainstream representations.

The films of one of cinema’s foremost provocateurs return to the big screen, including a brand new 4K restoration of Breaking the Waves.

With her luminous debut, Grammy-nominated producer and singer-songwriter turned documentarian D. Smith opens a window into the lives of Black transgender women sex workers in America.

From acclaimed filmmaker Alice Winocour, Paris Memories follows Mia (Virginie Efira) as she struggles to make sense of her experience in the aftermath of a violent attack.

A group of indigenous Achuar children roam the jungle along the Ecuador–Peru border. The natural world is their habitat, playground and workshop.

Raul Domingues’ second feature film is a fluid and digression-filled exploration of the very earth beneath our feet.

A rare 35mm screening of Kaizo Hayashi’s 1989 haunting and magical tale of two brothers from a circus family, showing on a print from the ICA Archive.

A rare 35mm screening of Kaizo Hayashi’s 1989 haunting and magical tale of two brothers from a circus family, showing on a print from the ICA Archive.

The UK premiere of seven new restorations of influential choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer’s work.

A programme of films celebrating the singular work of German filmmaker Christian Petzold.

A powerful and emotional drama about the secret lost gay love of a successful novelist.

The Irish artists known as Desperate Optimists (Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy of Further Beyond, Rose Plays Julie) return with a timely meditation on being Irish in England.

The Irish artists known as Desperate Optimists (Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy of Further Beyond, Rose Plays Julie) return with a timely meditation on being Irish in England.

A film about family and fresh starts, Charlotte Regan’s debut feature is a joyful comedy about hope.

Christian Petzold’s latest film, which played in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, unfolds like a modern day fable as four people’s lives become entwined during one long hot summer.

Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel’s latest film shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men will go to for the women they love.

Perceptive, intimate and unashamedly sexy, the latest film from Ira Sachs is a fresh, honest and brutally funny take on messy, modern relationships, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

The debut feature from best-selling author Takehiko Inoue is thirty-years in the making – an adaptation of his beloved manga series Slam Dunk.

Donald Cammell, co-director of Performance, revisits the world of crime, sex, and mind games in this dark, unruly pulp noir. A rare screening of this distinctive director’s little seen final work from a recently rediscovered 35mm print.

The latest film from Ira Sachs is a perceptive, intimate and funny take on messy, modern relationships, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos.

The debut feature from best-selling author Takehiko Inoue is thirty years in the making – an adaptation of the long-running manga and anime Slam Dunk.

The end of the world is nigh, as Lars von Trier employs a planetary apocalypse to explore the crippling nature of psychological trauma.

Charting the rise of the pop star / politician seeking to end Uganda’s brutal dictatorship.

A brand new restoration of Stanley Kwan’s queer classic followed by an online Q&A with the filmmaker.

A rare 35mm screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s contemplative coming-of-age drama that follows a young boy and his sister over the course of a summer spent at their grandparents’ house in the country.

Yasujirō Ozu’s enduring classic returns to the big screen in a brand new 4K restoration.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

A two-part programme celebrating the work of underground cinema pioneer Jack Smith, presented on 16mm.

A special preview screening of Babak Jalali’s deadpan yet loving portrait of Donya, a young Afghan woman who spends her days working at a fortune cookie factory.

From the Cannes award-winning director of Harmonium, Kōji Fukada's new family drama Love Life is a beguiling, beautifully paced portrait of a family navigating the aftermath of a tragedy.

Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the "Liberace of Lucha Libre."

A brand new restoration of Stanley Kwan's queer classic. 

A backstage look at the people and artists of the pioneering dance network Aerowaves, and their influence on contemporary dance across Europe since 1996.

A day-long screening of Moment 2, followed by an in-person reading by Francis Whorrall-Campbell, and conversation with Deborah-Joyce Holman, Imani Mason Jordan and Rebecca Bellantoni launching the new publication Queen for a Day.

Babak Jalali’s fourth feature, Fremont, is a deadpan yet loving portrait of Donya, a young Afghan woman who spends her days working at a fortune cookie factory and her nights dreaming of finding meaningful connection.

A backstage look at the people and artists of the pioneering dance network Aerowaves, and their influence on contemporary dance across Europe since 1996.

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest presents a ’70s musical midnight movie starring Trash Tgirl-superstar Holly Woodlawn.

A rare 16mm screening of Mark Rappaport’s creative biopic about actress Jean Seberg which seamlessly interweaves cinema and politics, showing on a print from the ICA archive.

A double screening of Jeanne Liotta’s Observando el Cielo (Observing the Sky) and Annik Leroy’s In der Dämmerstunde – Berlin (From Dawn to Night – Berlin).

An exploration of filmmaker Will Anderson’s relationship with his mother and their journey following the diagnosis of her cancer.

Set in a remote Transylvanian town where customs and tradition bind the community together, historic resentments start to bubble to the surface with the arrival of some new immigrant workers in the latest film from Cristian Mungiu.

A celebration of the life and work of glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan. Using archival performances, interviews with Bolan, and filmed interpretations by artists such as Nick Cave, U2 and Father John Misty.

Clive Barker’s horror classic returns to the big screen in a brand new 4K restoration.

Klassiki in partnership with Samizdat Film Festival and Manipulate Festival present a programme of gems of Eastern European animation.

The UK premiere of Su Friedrich’s feature length Today followed by an in-person Q&A.

Notebook presents a special screening of Godard’s Le Mépris to celebrate the release of their third issue, followed by a discussion with Erika Balsom and Simran Hans.

A small programme of films by Jean-Luc Godard exploring art, death and colour.

Ken Loach concludes his North East trilogy (I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You) with this drama centered around an ailing local pub.

Accompanying the exhibition The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low, a series of films foregrounding the question of paranoia.

The festival returns at the ICA with a curated selection of premiering films taking over      Cinema 1 for ten days.

Lucy, a disillusioned office clerk who lives in a dysfunctional relationship with her slovenly partner Paul, is surprised to find herself on the cusp of a none-too-secret affair with her new work colleague, Daniel. 

As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.

What happens when our environments call us to action? Six pressing shorts exploring the consequences on our sense of self and place.

A rural Irish community in the 1980s is portrayed with quiet beauty in this heartfelt drama, based on acclaimed writer John McGahern’s novel.

Artist and farm worker Pierre Creton’s hybrid film, set among the rural landscape of Normandy, combines the wonders of gardening with stark physicality.

The latest documentary from Academy-Award Nominee, Raoul Peck, follows the Reels family and highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile, and the racial wealth gap growing.

In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.

Join the filmmakers for an intimate discussion about their craft, following their new films at the festival.

Nicole Chi Amén’s documentary is both a personal reflection on her relationship to her Guián (Enping for grandmother) and a portrait of Chinese emigration in Costa Rica. Presented in partnership with Sine Screen.

A double bill 16mm programme including rarely screened films by Sumiko Haneda and Martine Rousset.

Based on David Grann's best-selling book, the latest epic from Martin Scorsese is set in 1920s Oklahoma and depicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation.

The latest film from Academy Award-Winning filmmaker Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the British former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.

A season of contemporary documentary films that provide a quiet space for contemplation and focus, reframing silence not as an uncomfortable absence of sound but as its own enriching presence.

A portrait of intense physical labour against the landscape of coastal Maine at its most beautiful.

An exploration of the work of legendary California light and space artist Robert Irwin, whose decade-spanning career has profoundly influenced generations of artists.  

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s delicate debut feature is a tender, heartfelt drama about an eight-year-old’s indelible summer holiday of self-discovery.

An exploration of the work of legendary California light and space artist Robert Irwin, whose decade-spanning career has profoundly influenced generations of artists.  

Off-Circuit launches with the UK Premiere of Wang Bing’s portrait of classical composer Wang Xilin.

A portrait of the lengths people will go to gain freedom, this moving portrait embeds viewers with a courageous pastor as he works tirelessly to guide various individuals attempting to flee North Korea.

From acclaimed British filmmaker, Carol Morley, this dark and funny exploration of the growing friendship between two women, is filled with adventure, humour and compassion.

Jess Kohl’s coming-of-age documentary follows 12-year-old JayDee as he prepares, with the help of his father, for his first banger race.

Shusuke Kaneko’s manga adaptation following the lives of a group of boys at a remote boarding school, screens on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.

Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment. But Sissy’s live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare in the latest film from cult filmmaker Amanda Kramer.

Nicolas Philibert’s Golden Bear-winning documentary centres upon the Adamant, a unique floating care centre located on the Seine, in the heart of Paris.

Filmed at hundreds of real locations across all five boroughs of New York, Sidney Lumet’s sprawling and unsparing procedural receives a rare 35mm screening in partnership with the Badlands Collective.

The festival returns for its 18th edition, with films about life in contemporary Korea.

In the spring of 1945 as Nazi Germany collapses, Swiss ambassador Heinrich Zwygart flees bombed-out Berlin after serving eight years in the capital of the Reich.

In Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, a celebrated writer is put on trial when her husband falls to his death from their secluded chalet.

Amanda Kramer’s latest is a psychedelic, paranoid ode to musical divas of the ’70s and ’80s

Oscar-nominated director Maite Alberdi (The Mole Agent) tells an uplifting yet heartbreaking love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human bond.

A Scottish hermit’s solitary forest existence brought to life in Ben Rivers' feature-length documentary, followed by a Q&A with Ben Rivers.

A screening of Catherine Yass’ Flood Barrier followed by a conversation with the artist.

The work of Portuguese filmmaker António Campos has for years been difficult to access. This programme presents some of Campos' most important documentary work from the 1960s and 1970s, including a selection of his shorts.

An elliptical voyage through the Mediterranean that elegantly explores layers of histories and the traces our actions leave behind.

The latest film from Todd Haynes follows popular television actor Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) as she heads to Savannah, Georgia, to research a part in a new film that follows a scandalous tabloid romance.

A special preview screening of Joanna Hogg’s highly anticipated latest film followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and Tilda Swinton.

Tish Murtha was a visionary photographer committed to documenting the struggle and inequality of the working-class communities that framed her upbringing.

German cinematographer and documentary director Gisela Tuchtenhagen's five-part series Heimkinder [Childen in Care Homes], is a rare piece of television that lets us follow a daring experiment in social care caught on camera with a unique commitment and tenderness.

Jae-sik is the owner of an event management company who poured his life’s savings into his work, only to be left drowning in debt. Following the sudden death of his employee Ji-young, Jae-sik finds himself the guardian of Ji-young’s 7-year-old daughter.

Last Movies remaps the first century of cinema according to what a selection of its key cultural icons saw just before dying. Conceived and created by Stanley Schtinter to enable an audience ‘to see what those who see no longer saw last’.

Remapping the first century of cinema according to what a selection of its key cultural icons saw just before dying. Conceived and created by Stanley Schtinter to enable an audience ‘to see what those who see no longer saw last’.

A screening of Angel Velasco Shaws' Nailed (1992) as part of Parallel Histories: Moving Image from the Philippines and the United Kingdom. 

Last Movies launches on the 60th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death with a film produced due to the president’s affection for the book. Followed by a conversation with Stanley Schtinter and Erika Balsom.

The third feature from director C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi, is a genre-bending tale that brings to life a futuristic fable that fuses spiritual beliefs with inter-generational tensions.

Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn’s documentary follows a college student's search for justice after she discovers deep fake pornography of herself circulating online.

A young man searches for his missing activist mother, and takes justice into his own hands, in the latest film by Amat Escalante.

An experimental documentary that explores language as an invisible but deeply engraved border that we carry inside us - and one that turns us into a mobile check-point, wherever we go.

An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.

Based entirely on courtroom footage in which members of the military junta are tried for their brutal involvement in Argentina’s military dictatorship, Ulises de la Orden's film is a tour de force of political filmmaking.

Four Chambers turns 10 and celebrates with a retrospective screening of their decade of genre-defining and defying pornographic work.

A spellbinding and enigmatic cross between feminist revenge thriller, folk horror, and animation that offers a dazzlingly new take on political themes. Screening as a part of London Migration Film Festival.

Screening as a part of Gray Wielebinski’s Film Club, Akira Kurosawa’s haunting exploration of life in the atomic age is as profoundly moving as the filmmaker’s best known works.

A special preview screening of Agniia Galdanova's film centred upon Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism - and put her life in danger.

A season of films about the creation of theatre, celebrating the art of performance and communal creative practices. 

Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism – and put her life in danger.

The second feature from Lila Avilés follows seven-year-old Sol as she goes to her grandfather’s house, where over the course of a long day, family and friends meet for a dual ritual.

Award-winning filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (Le Havre, The Other Side of Hope) returns with a timeless and hopeful love story about two lonely souls’ path to happiness.

The London Premiere of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking.

Michael Winterbottom's Golden Bear winning drama returns to the big screen to mark its 20th anniversary, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

Marion Hänsel's adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country, stars Jane Birkin in one of her best roles. Screening on 35mm from the ICA archive.

Michael Winterbottom’s Golden Bear-winning drama returns to the big screen to mark its 20^th anniversary.

An exclusive member’s event featuring a screening, exhibition tour and discussion.

A double bill screening of Kathryn Bigelow’s Blue Steel (1990) and Deborah Stratman’s In Order Not To Be Here (2002) in the regular Machine That Kills Bad People series.

Celebrating Second Run’s Blu-Ray release, a programme of seven short films by Ben Rivers, followed by a Q&A with the artist and filmmaker.

A programme of screenings curated by Berlin-based collective SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA who explore cinema as a space of social discourse, exchange and solidarity.

Laura Citarella’s labryinth of fictions is an enigmatic and liberating mystery that embodies Argentine collective El Pampero Cine’s inventive spirit whilst also forging new and intriguing directions.

Using the advanced oil painting animation technique pioneered in Loving Vincent, The Peasants is a visually thrilling rendering of Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize winning novel.

A moving and intimate story following the journey of a pregnant single mother with two children in foster care who embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.

A unique screening of Joan Jonas’s performance The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things.

A discussion with bi’bak the founders and creators of SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA about their practice exploring cinema as a space of social discourse, exchange and solidarity.

Effortlessly fluid in style, weaving together fiction, non-fiction, the essayistic and the epistolary, Senegalese auteur Safi Faye's film Man Sa Yay follows Moussa, a young student at Berlin’s Technische Universität. Preceded by Rabia Teguia's short film Ya França, Ya França.

Schtinter is joined in conversation by filmmaker and novelist Chris Petit to discuss the themes of liberty and decline, following a double-bill screening of pre-Code Hollywood films.

Annemarie Jacir’s deceptively low-key road movie explores the complicated relationship between a father and son, as the two prepare for a family wedding.

João Canijo’s captivating exploration of the intricacies of intergenerational family dynamics forms one half of a diptych of films set in a family hotel on Portugal’s northern shore.

Drawing inspiration from the plays of Strindberg and the films of Jacques Rivette, Joao Canijo’s Viver Mal along with its pair Mal Viver, form one of the most fascinating and ambitious cinematic projects in recent memory.

The UK premiere of Shu Lea Cheang’s feature length film followed by a discussion with the artist.

An intimate portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past.

In Britain’s post-punk Thatcher years, the infamous and legendary Scala cinema showed a diverse range of films, from high art to cult classics, sexploitation, horror, Kung-Fu and LGBTQIA+.

From a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland: through Priscilla Presley’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage.

The film chronicles the Kafkaesque predicament of a bumbling factory translator who is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Screening on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.