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Off-Circuit
1 January 2023 – 27 October 2073
A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.
Celluloid Sunday
3 January 2023 – 20 July 2025
An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.
Past Lives
8 September – 1 November 2023
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Gray Wielebinski:
The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low
Gray Wielebinski’s Film Club
3 October – 12 December 2023
Accompanying the exhibition
The Red Sun is High, the Blue Low
, a series of films foregrounding the question of paranoia.
20 Days in Mariupol
6 October – 1 November 2023
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.
Killers of the Flower Moon
20 October – 5 November 2023
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.
Present Silence
22 October – 10 December 2023
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.
20,000 Species of Bees
27 October – 12 November 2023
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s delicate debut feature is a tender, heartfelt drama about an eight-year-old’s indelible summer holiday of self-discovery.
Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling
27 October – 2 November 2023
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
UK PREMIERE Man in Black
27 October – 2 November 2023
Off-Circuit launches with the UK Premiere of Wang Bing’s portrait of classical composer Wang Xilin.
Beyond Utopia
27 October – 7 November 2023
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.
Typist Artist Pirate King
27 October – 8 November 2023
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.
On the Adamant
3 – 18 November 2023
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.
Prince of the City on 35mm
Sun, 5 November 2023
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.
London Korean Film Festival 2023
8 – 21 November 2023
The festival returns for its 18th edition, with films about life in contemporary Korea.
A Forgotten Man
10 – 15 November 2023
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.
Anatomy of a Fall
10 November 2023 – 6 March 2024
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.
Give Me Pity!
10 – 15 November 2023
Amanda Kramer’s latest is a psychedelic, paranoid ode to musical divas of the ’70s and ’80s
The Eternal Memory
10 – 19 November 2023
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.
Two Years at Sea + Q&A
Sun, 12 November 2023
A Scottish hermit’s solitary forest existence brought to life in Ben Rivers' feature-length documentary, followed by a Q&A with Ben Rivers.
Catherine Yass: Flood Barrier + conversation
Tue, 14 November 2023
A screening of Catherine Yass’
Flood Barrier
followed by a conversation with the artist.
The Films of António Campos
16 – 23 November 2023
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.
Off-Circuit
Human Flowers of Flesh
16 November – 23 December 2023
An elliptical voyage through the Mediterranean that elegantly explores layers of histories and the traces our actions leave behind.
May December
17 November – 17 December 2023
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.
PREVIEW The Eternal Daughter + Q&A with Joanna Hogg & Tilda Swinton
Fri, 17 November 2023
A special preview screening of Joanna Hogg’s highly anticipated latest film followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and Tilda Swinton.
Tish
17 – 30 November 2023
Tish Murtha was a visionary photographer committed to documenting the struggle and inequality of the working-class communities that framed her upbringing.
London Palestine Film Festival 2023
18 – 26 November 2023
A selection of recent releases in documentary cinema, along with urgent discussions on issues through the creative lens of cinema.
Gisela Tuchtenhagen: Heimkinder, Part 1-3 on 16mm
Sun, 19 November 2023
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.
My Lovely Angel 내겐 너무 소중한 너 + Q&A
Tue, 21 November 2023
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
22 November 2023 – 12 March 2024
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’.
Artists’ Film Club
Artists’ Film Club: Parallel Histories
Wed, 22 November 2023
A screening of Angel Velasco Shaws'
Nailed
(1992) as part of
Parallel Histories: Moving Image from the Philippines and the United Kingdom.
From Russia with Love + War is Hell + discussion
Wed, 22 November 2023
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.
Mami Wata
24 November – 3 December 2023
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.
Another Body
24 – 30 November 2023
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.
Lost in the Night
24 November – 2 December 2023
A young man searches for his missing activist mother, and takes justice into his own hands, in the latest film by Amat Escalante.
LMFF UK PREMIERE By the Throat + Q&A
Fri, 24 November 2023
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.
The Eternal Daughter
24 November – 2 December 2023
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.
The Trial + Q&A
Sat, 25 November 2023
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: 10 Years
Sat, 25 November 2023
Four Chambers turns 10 and celebrates with a retrospective screening of their decade of genre-defining and defying pornographic work.
LMFF Stone Turtle
Sun, 26 November 2023
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.
I Live in Fear on 35mm
Tue, 28 November 2023
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.
PREVIEW Queendom + Q&A
Wed, 29 November 2023
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.
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