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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
Stage Projections
1 – 17 December 2023
A season of films about the creation of theatre, celebrating the art of performance and communal creative practices.
Queendom
1 – 7 December 2023
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.
Tótem
1 – 16 December 2023
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.
Fallen Leaves
1 December 2023 – 23 January 2024
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.
Off-Circuit
LONDON PREMIERE Pictures of Ghosts
1 – 16 December 2023
The London Premiere of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s multidimensional journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking.
In This World + Q&A with Michael Winterbottom
Sat, 2 December 2023
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.
Dust on 35mm
Sun, 3 December 2023
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.
In This World
3 – 7 December 2023
Michael Winterbottom’s Golden Bear-winning drama returns to the big screen to mark its 20
th
anniversary.
Mondays for Members: Bacurau
Mon, 4 December 2023
An exclusive member’s event featuring a screening, exhibition tour and discussion.
The Machine That Kills Bad People:
Blue Steel + In Order Not To Be Here
Wed, 6 December 2023
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.
Worlds: Selected works by Ben Rivers
Thu, 7 December 2023
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.
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA
8 – 10 December 2023
A programme of screenings curated by Berlin-based collective SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA who explore cinema as a space of social discourse, exchange and solidarity.
Trenque Lauquen
8 – 17 December 2023
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.
The Peasants
8 – 15 December 2023
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.
Earth Mama
8 – 15 December 2023
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.
Artists’ Film Club
Artists’ Film Club: Joan Jonas
Sat, 9 December 2023
A unique screening of Joan Jonas’s performance
The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things
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Transnational programming, solidarity and sociality:
A roundtable discussion
Sun, 10 December 2023
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.
SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA
Ya França, Ya França + Man Sa Yay + Introduction
Sun, 10 December 2023
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
.
20,000 Years in Sing Sing + Manhattan Melodrama + discussion
Tue, 12 December 2023
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.
London Palestine Film Festival 2023
Wajib
Wed, 13 December 2023
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.
Off-Circuit
Mal Viver
14 December 2023 – 24 January 2024
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.
Off-Circuit
Viver Mal
14 December 2023 – 19 January 2024
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.
Artists’ Film Club
Artists’ Film Club: Shu Lea Cheang: UKI + conversation
Fri, 15 December 2023
The UK premiere of Shu Lea Cheang’s feature length film followed by a discussion with the artist.
Monica
15 December 2023 – 21 January 2024
An intimate portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past.
PREVIEW Scala!!! + Q&A
Sat, 16 December 2023
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+.
PREVIEW Priscilla
Sat, 16 December 2023
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 Black Cannon Incident on 35mm
Sun, 17 December 2023
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.
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