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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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

The London Short Film Festival returns for its 21st year with a constellation of new films, new curators, and new talent to ring in 2024 with the best in short-form cinema, selected from over 5,000 international submissions.

The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos tells the fantastical tale of a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist.

The tumultuous relationship between the most famous Russian composer of all time and his wife is the subject of award-winning director Kirill Serebrennikov’s latest film.

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 latest film from Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso is an audacious and spellbinding journey through time and space that connects three stories haunted by the spectre of colonial violence.

A transcendental journey through time and space and an astonishingly immersive exploration of the cycle of life and death from Galician filmmaker Lois Patiño.

A special preview screening of filmmaker Jonathan Glazer's (Under the Skin, Birth) chilling and oblique examination of the Holocaust, and the capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity.

A programme of six films celebrating the singular work of Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz to coincide with the UK Premiere of A Woman Escapes.

An excerpt of Brian De Palma’s crime saga precedes Mike Leigh’s class drama as the final viewings of Californian religious group Heaven’s Gate and cartoonist Mel Calman unite via Hackney in the third iteration of Last Movies. Followed by a conversation between Adrian Dannatt and Stanley Schtinter.

A screening of Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s early films The Point of Least Resistance (1981) and The Right Way (1983).

While grieving the loss of her friend, a woman living alone in Paris begins an unusual correspondence with two filmmakers in Sofia Bohdanowicz, Burak Çevik and Blake Williams’ formally inventive collaboration.

The UK’s largest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP24), returns with its biggest showcase ever.

The latest film from filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin, Birth) is a chilling and oblique examination of the Holocaust, and the capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity.

Writer-director Felipe Gálvez makes his revelatory debut with a searing and indelible take on the Western.

Made over 6 years, director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of writer and activist Aubrey Gordon from anonymous blogger “Your Fat Friend” to New York Times best selling author and beloved podcaster.

From Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen comes this mesmerising and monumental excavation of how the past haunts our precarious present.

From Oscar and BAFTA-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen comes this mesmerising and monumental excavation of how the past haunts our precarious present.

A double-bill screening programmed by the Machine That Kills Bad People featuring The Alcohol Years and You Made Me Love You.

For this Valentine’s Day special, Last Movies presents the extraordinary film by Jane Campion that Kurt Cobain saw last. Followed by a conversation with Elena Gorfinkel and Stanley Schtinter.

The latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng is a sumptuous and immaculately crafted adaptation of Marcel Rouff's novel.

The latest film from Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso is an audacious and spellbinding journey through time and space that connects three stories haunted by the spectre of colonial violence.

Stanley Kwan combines melodrama and ghost story to stunning effect in this story of doomed romance starring Cantopop icons Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. Screening on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.

The first of two screenings dedicated to the work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

The second of two screenings dedicated to the work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

A special screening of Oleksandr Dovzhenko's fiercely poetic and politically radical film with live music accompaniment.

A unique workshop with Colectivo Los Ingrávidos delving into their approach to filmmaking.

The latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire) is a subtle and ultimately life-affirming reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.

Winner of the Encounters Award for Best Director at the 2022 Berlin Film Festival, writer-director-editor Cyril Schäublin’s second feature is a creative and intellectually invigorating tale about anarchism and the march of global capitalism. 

Innovative and chilling in equal measure, Everardo González's documentary dives deep into the world of organised crime in Mexico, dissecting the ways the system affects the lives of young people. 

A sculptor preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily reality of admin work and family drama, in Kelly Reichardt's vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art and craft.

Filmmaker Thierno Souleymanne Diallo embarks on a quest to find the seminal lost Guinean film Mouramani, and in turn interrogates the disparate cultures of film-making, archiving and exhibition across Europe and Africa today.

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear.

Robin Campillo, director of the acclaimed 120 BPM and Eastern Boys, mines the memories of his upbringing in post-colonial Madagascar to create a spellbinding, autobiographically inspired drama that mixes forms and textures to stunning and imaginative effect. 

This film exhibition circuit, coordinated by the Catalan Film Academy, continues its international expansion thanks to the Institut Ramon Llull. From March to August, each month you can enjoy a film that exemplifies the vitality and diversity of Catalan cinema.

Organised by the Polish Cultural Institute and supported by the Polish Film Institute, the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival is an annual celebration of Poland’s rich cinematic output that showcases not only the best of contemporary filmmakers but also classics that make up Poland’s rich filmography.

A gripping and thought-provoking new documentary from Academy Award® winner Kevin Macdonald, charting the rise-and-fall story of fashion designer John Galliano. 

Following up his Golden Bear-winning Bad Luck Banging, Radu June crafts a two part tragi-comedy which caustically dissects corporate malfeasance and the absurdities of modern life.

Winner of last year’s Caméra d’Or at Cannes, Phạm Thiên An’s daring first feature is an evocative and visually enthralling reverie on faith and loss.

Blurring the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction Victoria Linares Villegas offers a postmodern pastiche of class observed through the interplay of documentary, fiction, and theatre. 

This programme curated by Aria Dean brings together artists' shorts exploring questions of place and virtuality, including work by Diego Marcon, Rachel Rose, Harun Farocki, and Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson.

As the city of Chengdu changes, the future of beloved club Funky Town is unclear. For a vibrant group of DJs, drag performers, lovers, ravers, and skaters, this is a sanctuary for underground partying that allows them to thrive after hours.

A special preview screening of Sean Price Williams' picaresque journey through contemporary America.

The London premiere of Eduardo Williams' hypnotic and drifting exploration of technology, language and image-making. Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and presented in partnership with Cinema Mentiré.

Mysterious and deeply moving, the latest film from Hirokazu Kore-eda  is a timely tale of family, false impressions, and, ultimately, hope.

A young couple living in remote Senegal, whose star-crossed love is in conflict with family tradition, face a new challenge as drought hits their village.

Written, directed, and produced by film industry workers who were blacklisted during the McCarthy era, the film centers on a long and difficult miners strike in New Mexico.

Three people navigate the liminal space between life and the afterlife in an attempt to heal themselves and each other. A fragile, wordless meditation on grief and how it can transform and baptize the body and spirit.

Inspired by Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck’s intimate portraits of women, Tom Shkolnik's darkly mysterious film set on the banks of a lake centres upon three women living in seclusion.

Maeve Murphy's landmark Troubles drama screens alongside her latest short film St Pancras Sunrise as a part of Irish Film and TV UK's programme celebrating female voices.

Buenos Aires bank employee Morán (Daniel Eliás) dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony in Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno's inventive and playful new film.

Freely inspired by the story of Oedipus, this transcendent exploration of fate, tragedy and hope is yet another astonishing achievement from one of contemporary cinema's preeminent artists.

Screening from a new 4K restoration, Jacques Rivette's hynoptic and long unavailable study of tempestuous love is one of the filmmakers most radical works, and a striking examination of performance, art, theatre and life.

Developed from interviews with numerous transgender subjects, this ground breaking drama from acclaimed film-making duo Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert (Never Gonna Snow Again) is ambitious and heart felt.

This focus celebrating the work of Flora Kerrigan is presented as a part of Irish Film and TV UK's programme celebrating female voices.

A special collaboration with MACK presenting Richard Billingham’s feature-film debut, to celebrate the launch of the new edition of Ray’s a Laugh (MACK, 2024). The screening will be followed by Q&A with Richard Billingham and writer and curator Sacha Craddock, including book signing.

This screening brings together two films that confront sexual violence: a 35mm print of Outrage (1950) by Ida Lupino and the UK premiere of Ghost Carnival (1991) by Qiu Miaojin and Lin Hsu Wen-er.

Bringing together two films by Aoife Desmond this screening is presented as a part of Irish Film and TV UK's programme celebrating female voices.

The latest film from Portuguese filmmaker Susana Nobre is a laconic comedy about grief that effortlessly combines humour and melancholy.

A heart-swelling, hand-drawn delight that explores love and loss through its tender portrait of a new friendship.

The debut feature from acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams is a picaresque journey through contemporary America.

A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is the definitive swan song of the beloved maestro.

From one of the most established names of Iranian cinema, comes a subtle and lyrical drama of a man and woman. The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home

Ebrahim Golestan's seminal films, which were virtually unseen, are pristinely and painstakingly restored by Cineteca di Bologna with supervision by the director. A moody critique of modernizing Tehran, and the Iranian society, during the Pahlavi era.

Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village near Tokyo in this eco-fable from the Oscar and BAFTA-winning director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Two Senegalese teenagers leave Dakar to travel to Europe where they believe opportunities await. On a journey neither could have imagined, the boys face the dangers of the desert and the perils of the sea in Matteo Garrone's epic coming-of-age tale.

Eduardo Williams returns to the bold, time-and-continent-skipping world of his 2016 film The Human Surge, armed with a 360-degree camera, in this hypnotic and drifting exploration of technology, language and image-making.

A 30th anniversary screening of Atom Egoyan’s stylish, hypnotic puzzle of a film centred around a strip-club where a group of characters intertwine and their histories and traumas are slowly revealed.

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, Xie Jin's thirteenth feature is a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.

The UK premiere of Erkan Gürsel’s No.910 which explores the impacts of the 2023 earthquakes on the neighbourhood of Affan in the city of Antakya, Turkey. 

The Oscar-nominated feature from German writer-director İlker Çatak’s is a brilliantly observed drama, which expertly explores the fault lines of contemporary society.

Víctor Erice's first film in thirty years centres upon the mystery of an actor who disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.  

An underseen gem of ‘80s American independent cinema by Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the newly restored Tokyo Pop takes us on a breezy tour through bubble era Tokyo, replete with knowing nods to the city’s vibrant pop culture.

Summer of 1977. Bea is 16 years old and joins the wind of change that sweeps the country; She collaborates with a group of women to make the feminist cause visible, as well as to help them have abortions in dignified conditions.

December 1919. The American government deports 249 anarchists and radicals on the “Soviet Ark”. Five years later, this same ship becomes the decor of Buster Keaton’s slapstick comedy The Navigator.

Award-winning director Gerald Fox charts a journey over a momentous year with the late British sculptor as he develops a large-scale commission for the sculpture park at Kistefos Museum in Norway and prepares for a major retrospective at Tate Britain.

A father and daughter traverse the vast, winding backroads of rural Russia in Ilya Povolotsky's stunning debut fiction feature which premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight in 2023.

Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities.

To explore, explain and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown, filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck turn their cameras directly on society itself and take a look at how this obsession has begun to change our very own behaviour.

The Joseon era: after meeting a handsome young scholar, the stubbornly romantic princess Suk-yeong contrives to leave the palace grounds in which she has been confined her whole life. This lively costume drama by South Korea’s third-ever female director is a testament to role-play in all its myriad forms.

The first Mongolian film to ever play in official selection at Cannes, writer/director Zoljargal Purevdash’s beautifully photographed debut feature is a hope-filled coming-of-age drama about resilience and determination against the odds.

Hsiao-Kang is suddenly struck by debilitating neck pain in director Tsai Ming-Liang's subversive family drama.

A trans woman returns to her village in rural Indonesia to discover that her mother has lost all memory of her.

The open space for non-fiction cinema returns for its 14th edition.

Never one to shy away from controversial subject matter, the veteran Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio (Fists in the Pocket, The Conviction) here brings to life an unbelievable true story lifted from the pages of a shocking and horrifying history.

This magic realist film is a tale of family, relationships, suspicion and belonging. It navigates the thin layer between reality and sorcery to weave a distinct, deeply impressionistic aesthetic.

For five years, Georgia and Sophia Scott followed the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouti.

Delicately weaving lightness and magical realism among heart-breaking desolation, Soudade Kaadan’s Venice Film Festival award-winner offers a powerful and moving perspective on the Syrian conflict.

Sonic Cinema presents a retrospective of films by Eve Heller, programmed in collaboration with the filmmaker. This programme brings together eight of Eve Heller’s films, each highlighting the artist’s skill at recording traces of experience and conveying fragments of history.

Elene Naveriani's shrewd and refreshing portrait of a woman who doesn’t want, or need, to conform.

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition, Heiny Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatisations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and Palestine.

Delicately weaving lightness and magical realism among heart-breaking desolation, Soudade Kaadan’s Venice Film Festival award-winner offers a powerful and moving perspective on the Syrian conflict.

From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre.

Another Man and the ICA partner to screen a selection of Super 8 short films from the Derek Jarman archive - presented by LUMA films and James Mackay. 

A heartfelt story tackling the Guatemalan genocide that killed thousands of indigenous people in the early 1980s.

The latest film from acclaimed Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam is a moving portrait of a seamtress and single mother in Douala.

Martin Scorsese tells the story of his lifelong love affair with the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

A heartfelt story tackling the Guatemalan genocide that killed thousands of indigenous people in the early 1980s.

Cauleen Smith's self-inventive treasure of independent filmmaking is both an incisive look at racial injustice and a gorgeously generous study of friendship, creativity, violence, and survival.

The ICA, and host Ethan Lyon, are excited to welcome you to the ICA’s first Relaxed Screening.

On October 4, 2012,  Rüzgar Erkoçlar received his first testosterone injection, an important step in his gender confirmation, but only the beginning of a long and arduous journey. 

For the sixth straight year the ICA Cinema partners with independent film production unit Terratreme to present a selection of contemporary Portuguese cinema.

A journey into the life and work of legendary Colombian filmmaker Luis Ospina.

British writer-director Luna Carmoon draws on her own life for this visceral psychological drama that won her the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at BFI London Film Festival 2023.

Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes in 2023, Amanda Nell Eu's debut feature is a potent coming-of-age tale centred on 12-year old Zaffan.

The debut feature of writer-director Sacha Chuk chronicles the poignant journey of two sisters over a span of 20 years, from 1997 to 2017, beginning with their relocation from China to Hong Kong.

Recently separated, Irene is faced for the first time with the absence of her 4-year-old daughter, who is spending a few days with her father. 

Orson Welles gives his final onscreen performance in independent filmmaker Henry Jaglom's tale of a puzzled film directors attempts to discover why life hasn't turned out like anyone expected. Screening on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.

A double-bill of first films: Chantal Akerman’s first four short films (all 1967) alongside Kelly Reichardt’s debut feature River of Grass (1994) 

The nature of memory, performance and the very structures of reality are all drawn into question in Yoo Heong-jun’s strikingly original debut feature.

A celebration of the work of audacious French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello to coincide with the release of The Beast.

Mariam's precarious existence is ripped apart when her father passes. Living in a deep-rooted and toxic patriarchy, Mariam and her mother must find the strength to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to swallow them.

A portrait of a dazzling and irrepressible woman who helped create the DNA of rock 'n' roll.

From Sundance-winning director Marija Kavtaradze comes a modern love story about two people exploring how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Drawing inspiration from Henry James haunting ghost story The Beast in the Jungle, the latest film from audacious French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello is an odyssey of past lives and loves that expertly melds melodrama and science fiction.

Drawing inspiration from Henry James haunting ghost story The Beast in the Jungle, the latest film from audacious French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello is an odyssey of past lives and loves that expertly melds melodrama and science fiction.

Detours, fragments and foot notes abound in Matías Piñeiro's beguiling new film, as the poetry of Sappho, the life, death and work of Cesare Pavese and the nature of desire restlessly meld and transform.

The latest film from acclaimed Palestinian director Muayad Alayan is a moving study of love and loss.

In the rolling hills of Wyoming, three mischievous children are tasked with collecting a blueberry pie from their local store. However, what begins as a simple errand soon evolves into an odyssey across the American West.

Finnish writer-director Selma Vilhunen’s third fiction feature offers a sharp, funny and heartbreaking exploration of contemporary love.

Winner of the Berlin 2023 Encounters section, the latest film from Bas Devos is both a quiet and graceful character study and a beautiful city symphony. Followed by an in-person Q&A with filmmaker Bas Devos.

From Boat People to Our Time Will Come, from family struggles to anti Japanese history, Venice Career Golden Lion-winning auteur Ann Hui films a topic she holds most dear – poetry.

To accompany the release of his new film You Burn Me, Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro joins us for an interactive exploration of his filmmaking process and the detours and foot notes that make up his latest work.

Winner of the Berlin 2023 Encounters section, the latest film from Bas Devos is both a quiet and graceful character study and a beautiful city symphony.

In tribute to the life and work of German filmmaker Thomas Heise, his monumental historical essay about a family torn apart by the upheavals of the 20th century, returns to the ICA Cinema.

In the ever-present desire to capture, record, and understand Beirut, and by extension himself, director Zakaria Jaber has been trying to tell a coherent story of his city. An award-winning documentary that holds a mirror to Lebanese society, and is screening as part of the inaugural Arts of Lebanon Festival.

A father and son in the suburbs of Casablanca get by on petty crimes for a local mob. When a kidnapping goes wrong, they must find a way to dispose of the body.

In the heart of Bairro Alto, right in the centre of Lisbon, the building of an old printing workshop is demolished to make way for luxury apartments. João Rojas crafts an intricate urban diary portraying the daily life of the construction site and those who work there. 

Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, Wilding tells the incredible story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. 

Cléo (an exceptional performance by six-year-old Louise Mauroy-Panzani) loves her nanny Gloria (Ilça Moreno Zego) more than anything. When Gloria suddenly has to return home to Cape Verde to look after her own children, Gloria invites Cléo to visit her and the two have to make the most of their last summer together.

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

A laid-up polyamorous bicycle courier discovers her boyfriend has been hiding a sinister secret in his closet. Presented in partnership with Double Wonderful and followed by a Q&A with director Nate Wilson.

Director Myriam El Hajj narrates four tumultuous years of a nation in turmoil, battling to break free from its own chains. As the country is shaken by disruptions, personal quests for meaning and survival unfold.

The largest festival in the UK dedicated to cinema from the Arab world. This year’s festival theme aims to highlight a multitude of daily realities being faced across the Arab world and reflect on how small hopes and bigger dreams co-exist within such contexts.

Curated by artist Rheim Alkadhi, this film programme accompanies the artist's first UK exhibition Templates for Liberation.

Following the lives of a midwest motorcyle club through the 1960s and 70s, the latest film from Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) is an engrossing drama starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the latest film from Agnieszka Holland is a stirring exploration of the collision between idealism and harsh reality.

The revolutionary period of Palestinian cinema began in 1968 with the founding of the Palestine Film Unit (PFU), dedicated not only to providing visual representation of and political education about the struggle for Palestinian liberation, but to asserting the right of Palestinians to be the subjects of their own representation.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, the latest film from Agnieszka Holland is a stirring exploration of the collision between idealism and harsh reality.

A Beirut rooftop conversation about living with Sexually Transmitted Infections opens into a cinematic dialogue, as Danielle’s raw filmed diary and Moe’s vibrant queer memory of living with an STI ignite a collaborative exploration of bodies, intimacy, and shame.

The young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly is visiting a film festival in Tromsø in 2014, when the borders to Gaza close. He finds himself stuck in the arctic winter. Little does he know that it will be seven years before he can see his family again.

In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, Mandoob brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his ailing father.

A roundtable discussion with Palestinian and foreign filmmakers on tactics and best practices for producing selfless and internationalist cinema in genuine solidarity with Palestinians and the Palestinian struggle.

Haunted by the spectres of its pasts, impoverished by scant narration as parched as its landscape, the Gulf holds fantasy, darkness and mysticism close to the crevices of its heart.
Seeking refuge from its attributed meanings and manufactured images, we encounter instead the elements of magic, dreams, mysticism and mystery which have long seduced the shores and hinterlands of the (Arabian) Gulf.

Victor Iriarte's debut feature is a strikingly original and wholly unconventional film noir encompassing three deaths, two robberies, and a runaway.

A special screening of Shūji Terayama’s film, which is rarely seen in cinemas outside Japan, to mark its 50th anniversary. Preceded by a performance drawing from Terayama's eponymous poetry collection.

The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos is a triptych fable, following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman whose missing wife suddenly returns; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability.

Set between past and present, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds, despite exile, dispossession, and heartbreak. 

Winner of the FIPRESCI Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2023, Sotnychenko’s meta-cinematic investigation into the alienated underbelly of post-Soviet Ukraine is a muted reckoning with a past that must be confronted before its insidious grip on the present can be loosened.

Celebrating its 15th year, London Indian Film Festival showcases Indian and South Asian premieres, classic movies and emerging filmmakers’ shorts.

Heiny Srour's multi-temporal, anti-narrative historical epic tells the stories of Arab women resisting both colonialism and male chauvinism.

In this documentary, linguist and liberal political activist Noam Chomsky presents his thoughts on how the mass media works against democracy's best interests. Screening on a rare 16mm print from the ICA archive.

The festival’s internationally-renowned competition selects emerging filmmakers’ works from South Asia and around the world. All the selected films are, in different ways, felt to enshrine the legendary director Satyajit Ray’s humanist vision and subtlety of story and eye.

An exploration of the historical experiences of Park Soo-nam, born in colonial-era Japan, retracing the journey and the history of ZainichiーKorean in Japan. Screening as a part of Korean Film Nights 2024.

The ICA partners with Project Art Divvy to present Divvy Film Festival London - a showcase of independent films from across South Asia and the diaspora, with filmmakers from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

From acclaimed writer and activist Paul B. Preciado, Orlando, My Political Biography told through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel.

Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, is in a stable if somewhat socially conforming relationship with Xavier, but when she meets Sylvain the craftsman renovating their home, her world is turned upside down.

Winner of the best documentary award at Cannes, Payal Kapadia’s immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India.

A special 16mm print of Alain Resnais' landmark film, screened exclusively for ICA Members and their guests.

A programme of films celebrating the singular work of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan including Winter Sleep, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia on 35mm and a preview screening of Ceylan's latest film About Dry Grasses.

Artist and filmmaker Pierre Creton's latest film is an erotic and sensual study of the natural world that charts the journey of Pierre-Joseph, a young man studying at a gardening school.

Often overlooked, filmmaker Lorenza Mazzetti was a co-founder of the influential Free Cinema movement and a Cannes prize winner, this British Academy-funded film reevaluates her cultural significance reconnecting her work with the European modernist tradition.

Directed by David Schickele, Bushman follows Gabriel (Paul Elam Nzie Okpokam), a young Nigerian, living in San Francisco. Lovestruck and culturally stranded he faces the harsh realities of life in the 60’s.

Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. 

Filmmaker, Julian Cole first met Gilbert & George when he modelled for them in 1986. His intimate and moving portrait filmed over 18 years, reveals the individuals behind the living sculptures. Followed by a conversation with Gilbert & George and Julian Cole

In 1966, Marguerite Duras, already a prolific writer of novels, plays and screenplays, turned to filmmaking, co-directing the first of her nineteen films. In collaboration with Another Gaze Editions, the ICA presents a full retrospective of her shorts, features and televisual work,  alongside several works she wrote, or to which she lent her voice.

From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced), Crossing is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and unlikely connection that transcends borders and generations. 

From filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) comes a daring tale of betrayal, accusations and desire.

This omnibus film began as a community project in 2004, and this special screening celebrates its 20th anniversary. Presented jointly by London LGBTQ+ Community Centre and Queer East.

From filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) comes a daring tale of betrayal, accusations and desire.

Set in El Eco (The Echo), a remote village in the Mexico highlands, the latest film from acclaimed director Tatiana Huezo is a poetic portrait of the daily lives of three families which won the 2023 Berlinale Documentary Award.

This Machine That Kills Bad People screening features two films about women who possess desires to murder men: The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) by avant-garde filmmaker Germaine Dulac, and A Question of Silence (1982), written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris.

The latest feature from filmmaker Ted Fendt is a story of friendship, summer reunions and sleepless nights in Berlin and Vienna. Screening on 35mm and followed by an in-person Q&A with Ted Fendt.

A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn.

A vibrant documentary portrait of Marguerite Duras at home, by the journalist Michelle Porte.

The debut feature from writer/director Moin Hussain is an unconventional sci-fi drama about feeling alienated in modern Britain.

In a Mexican border town, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to unleash the curiosity and potential of his students.

Jane Schoenbrun's follow-up to We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a haunting one-of-a-kind exploration of nostalgia, fandom and identity.

French filmmaker Claire Simon documents the daily operations of a gynaecology ward in a Paris public hospital and in the process questions what it means to live in a woman's body.

Dedicated police detective Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong) is assigned the case of a series of horrific murders in a rural Chinese town, in this gripping thriller.

Egyptian filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at bears witness of United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 by depicting Taliban leaders transforming from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.

Following nearly a decade of technological and formal innovation, often in the relatively isolated milieu of French television, Sauve qui peut (la vie) marked Jean-Luc Godard’s return to the spotlight and the beginning of another remarkably productive period. Featuring an oral cameo from Godard's friend and frequent sparring partner, Marguerite Duras.

In the deserted lobby of a hotel by the sea, the memories of an incestuous summer love story between a sister and a brother unfold over voice-over, as Bulle Ogier and Yann Andréa, dressed for winter, drift across the large room without making contact. Sometimes, in the hall’s mirror, we see a cameraman standing behind the heavy equipment being used to make the film itself.

Rich Peppiatt’s remarkable feature debut is a fictionalised retelling of the story of the real-life trio of the same name.

Justin Lerner’s film is a story of revenge and personal resilience that considers the complexity of life in contemporary Guatemala under the perpetual threat of violence.

In order to think about current practices of political dissidence, Maria Mire dives into the past and into the experience of Margarida Tengarrinha who played an important role in the antifascist resistance.

Narrated from the perspective of desert winds that blow over Iran, this colonial-style film was shot by French filmmaker and board game designer Albert Lamorisse.

Edward Yang's mournful anatomy of a city caught between the past and the present illuminates the precariousness of domestic life and the desperation of Taiwan’s globalized modernity.

Imbued with a languid and troubling sense of unease, Yang’s third feature The Terrorizers centres the mysterious connections that draw together a largely disparate group of individuals in contemporary Taipei.

Sisters Laura, Mira and Steffi get by on their own. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree. When the social services demand a family meeting, eldest sister Laura plans to find a stand in for their mother.

Deborah Stratman's astonishing 16mm exploration of evolution and extinction, as told through the prism of minerals, is accompanied by Marcel Mrejen's short film exploring the relentless (neo)colonial exploitation of the Algerian territory.

In the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, Mandoob brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a man racing against time to save his ailing father.

After being released from jail, Lang strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls now embark on a new journey together. Winner of Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.

Edward Yang's sweeping satire of 1990s Taipei charts the tangled web of emotional and professional manipulations among a group of young urbanites.

Edward Yang’s penultimate film is an acerbic, sprawling tragicomedy, a poison love letter to Taipei as a rising cosmopolis of big money, big dreams, and big cons.

This rediscovered jewel of Iranian cinema has reemerged as one of the most astonishing works of the country’s pre-revolutionary New Wave.

Legendary Iranian New Wave director Bahram Beyzaie’s sophomore feature possesses both the epic dimensions of myth and the hallucinatory atmosphere of a dream.

Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark (Saint Maud) star in this stylish adaptation of Andrew Michael Hurley’s folk horror novel.

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle.

Kassem Hawal's document of the marsh people of southern Iraq is accompanied by the second film by Michel Khleifi, considered the founder of contemporary Palestinian cinema.

The second part of Zhang Yimou's loose 'Red Trilogy' is a visually arresting drama of secret love starring Gong Li. Screening on a rare 16mm print from the ICA archive.

The ICA is delighted to present a retrospective of the films of Jon Sanders and Anna Mottram. Irreverent and punk in their making; subtle, affecting, and highly personal in their tone, Jon Sander and Anna Mottram’s underseen and under-shown films, crafted with virtually no budget and outside the traditional funding circuits, are unique and fascinating objects in the contemporary history of cinema.

Low Tide tells the story of the last three days of a woman's life, Kathy, who is dying of cancer and is being nursed at home.

Mahin lives alone in Tehran since her husband’s death and her daughter’s departure for Europe, until an afternoon tea with friends leads her to break her solitary routine and revitalize her love life.

Twenty-something Aden (Nabhaan Rizwan) dreams of becoming a successful actor, but the nightmarish grind of the audition circuit, with its callous rejections and upsetting micro-aggressions, is starting to take its toll.

Azra is worlds apart from her conservative muslim mother. When her father suddenly dies on a trip home to Karachi, Azra finds herself on a Bollywood-inspired journey through memories, both real and imagined; from her mother’s youth in Karachi to her own coming-of-age in Canada.

The first iteration of the Lates series; an exploration of fetishistic desire on VHS, in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive.

Taking place over a 24-hour period, in a beautiful Kent house and garden, the film follows the course and aftermath of a birthday celebration organised by a middle-aged woman for her husband to whom she has been married for nearly 40 years.

A meditation on love and loss and an evocation of the joys and sadnesses of later life, explored with humour and tenderness by the improvising cast.

A special screening of Jan Švankmajer's Surviving Life, presented in partnership with the Czech Centre London, to celebrate the 90th birthday of the grand master of Czech animation.

Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, and Demi Moore star in Coralie Fargeat’s explosive new film.

The tense, immersive courtroom drama follows the 1975 trial of Pierre Goldman, a fiery and controversial figure of revolutionary left-wing activism.

Multi-disciplinary artists Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg’s astonishing silent short The Giver Gives to Give precedes a live acoustic performance by Poppy Jean Crawford, who also stars in the film.

Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s explosive Cannes sensation is a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages.

Indian filmmaker Shuchi Talati's award-winning debut follows a model student and her stifled mother, who are both vying for the attention of a new crush.

In her new film, Catarina Mourão captures with tremendous precision the moment a father passes on a story to his son, a story that has been a family taboo for decades.

The tense, immersive courtroom drama follows the 1975 trial of Pierre Goldman, a fiery and controversial figure of revolutionary left-wing activism.

In an attempt to revisit a creative collaboration and revive his marriage, a theatre director brings together a group of performers to spend a week with him and his wife in an isolated, mountainous part of southern France.

A group of artists respond polyphonically to one starting prompt, the work and legacies of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, who passed away in 2015. 

An evening with filmmaker, performer, and artist Vex Ashley as she explores the captivating intersection of art and pornography through a presentation of her 10 years of artistic practice.

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

Broke and on the edge of eviction, Leo and her mother bond over their misfortune as they scheme, bluff, and grift their way to a stylish lifestyle beyond their means. El Planeta will be preceded by the first live performance of Amalia Ulman's video essay Sordid Scandal and followed by an in-person Q&A.

In this adaptation of the best-selling, prize-winning memoir by Amy Liptrot, Saoirse Ronan stars as Rona, a young woman who returns to her remote home in the Orkney Islands after losing herself in London. 

Charles Burnett’s heart-warming romantic comedy sees two great actors pair off against each other with hilarious results. Showing from a new 4K restoration.

After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer, Libuše Jarcovjáková, strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey towards freedom, capturing her experiences on thousands of subjective photographs.

In the 1980s, a Palestinian Bedouin artist, Bashir Abu Rabia, was hired to create special effects for Rambo III. Today, Bashir returns to the desert locations, where he finds material remnants and debris left behind in the sand.

A collection of four films, each telling a unique story centred around the theme of islands—whether set on, about, or originating from them. These films explore alternative narratives that delve into the vulnerable histories of the islands of Okinawa, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, as well as the lived experiences of their inhabitants.

Grasshopper Republic follows a local grasshopper trapping team in verité style, as these modern-day prospectors push into remote forests seeking their fortune by capturing this elusive prey. 

As humanity continues to transform and reshape nature, Earth has entered the Anthropocene, a new epoch where its natural regulatory capacities face unprecedented challenges. These short films will showcase the lives of individuals and ecosystems across the globe that have been disrupted and impacted by human activities.

Curated by artist Geumhyung Jeong, this film programme accompanies the artist's exhibition Under Construction.

Very loosely based on Mary Shelley's classic novel of the same name, James Whale’s iconic 1931 horror film portrays a scientist who assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

Unresolved historical injustices and a devastating drought raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between indigenous farmers and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.

A collaboration with Sine Screen and Gasworks to present an evening of a lecture performance by Riar Rizaldi, a screening followed by an artist's talk.

Carey Born’s engaging documentary follows the world’s first formally recognised cyborg, Neil Harbisson, as he confronts his detractors. The screening is followed by a panel discussion.

The next iteration in our Celluloid Sunday series presents Chinese filmmaker Chen Keige's acclaimed 1987 film on a rare 35mm print from the ICA Archive.

A programme of seven artists’ film and moving image works, coinciding with Frieze London 2024. 

The ICA partners with Tom of Finland Foundation to present the premiere of Jamison Rockmore’s House of Leather, followed by a panel discussion with artists in residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation.

The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express returns to the ICA for its 68th edition running from 9 to 20 October.

After being a peddler, street photographer, radio announcer, policeman, and mechanic, Jacinto (Asdrúbal Melendez) decides to become a film projectionist. He aspires to bring cinema experiences to the people of Venezuela.

Yang Lina uses the story of an all-female family to present a series of multi-levelled themes, epitomising women relations in Chinese society. Screening as a part of Personal Cinema from China, a season of fiction and non-fiction films from China curated by Wifak Gueddana.

Young girls Haolin, Yini, Zining, and Yujia are about to compete in an equestrian championship tour in China. Told from the gaze of three mothers, including the director herself, the film is a gallery of personal moments, happy and sad.

Featuring Tilda Swinton as the voice of Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Mark Cousin's new work tells the story of a remarkable artist and a magnificent obsession.

Set in past and present South Africa, Milisuthando is a poetic coming-of-age personal essay documentary about what it means to become human in the context of race.

Mike Leigh returns to the BFI London Film Festival with this uncompromising, yet heartfelt, portrait of contemporary family life in London.

A special programme of four films celebrating the work of contemporary Japanese filmmaker Maiko Endo, joining for a conversation.

Coinciding with Black History Month, the ICA partners with Reclaim The Frame and The New Black Film Collective to present a preview screening of Mati Diop's latest film, followed y a conversation.

Mara, a young creative writing professor dealing with a strained marriage, reunites with Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past. But as their mutual connection grows, pressure also mounts against their close, but undefined, relationship.

With his incisive and humorous explorations of infidelity, artistic endeavour, and communication (or lack thereof), South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo's narratively concise and formally radical work has marked him out as not only contemporary cinema’s most prolific filmmaker but also its most inventive.

A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.

Acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop's latest film is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution.

The latest work from Jacques Audiard, awarded in Cannes, is an audacious and genre-bending fever dream tracing the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness.

The Machine That Kills Bad People presents a pre-halloween horror double bill.

The ICA partners with Klassiki and Glasgow-based Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2024 to present an instalment of bizarre, eerie, and unique animated films from the late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997). This is a collection of some of the most dreamlike and thought-provoking shorts from a time and place where the animated image served as a stage for radically unprecedented artistic and political expression.

A special programme dedicated to the acclaimed Soviet and Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov presented in partnership with Pushkin House. Featuring the UK premiere of his most recent work, Fairytale, and offering the opportunity to explore the major facets of his cinematic universe.

This year’s boisterous Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a New York odyssey that is the most immersive and accomplished comic adventure yet from American original Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Red Rocket, Tangerine). 

Alexander Sokurov's first feature film follows Red Army soldier Nikita Firsov, who returns home to a remote Soviet village after the Civil War, haunted by disturbing memories.

Winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language work starrs Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in a moving adaption of Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through.

The UK's music documentary film festival returns for its eleventh edition with a programme of four screenings.

A double bill bringing together one of Hong Sangsoo's most rigorously composed works and his most structurally playful.

Genesis P-Orridge lived their art to the extreme. A pioneering musician, avant-garde artist, spiritual explorer and gender revolutionary, Genesis has been featured in films and videos, but never the full story… never this intimate... until now.

Burning Bridges tells the explosive story of an artist who challenged boundaries and pushed to the most extreme edges of creativity.

Set in 1953 at a psychiatric clinic in Blida, Algeria, and shot on location, the film follows Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, as he is appointed head doctor.

To celebrate the release of the 13th edition of YES & NO magazine, which sheds light on more than one hundred years of the all-but-hidden history of Austrian cinema and film, YES & NO present a two-part programme in partnership with the ICA.

With the biggest programme dedicated to Korean cinema outside of the country itself, The London Korean Film Festival returns for its 19th edition with an exciting programme including Cinema Now, Women’s Voices and Special Screenings.

Manny Coto’s 1992 slasher film portrays an asylum escapee arriving to the town where his mass-murderer father was killed and soon starts on a spree of his own.

A delightful comic mystery of mistaken identity, he-said she-said, and excessive drinking, Hong Sangsoo's eighteenth feature questions what it means to know someone and to be known.

Hidden away deep in the suburban San Fernando Valley, legendary cult musician Swamp Dogg, alongside housemates Moogstar and Guitar Shorty, has transformed his home into an artistic playground.

The latest cinematic venture from Academy Award-winning auteur Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank) is a bold and evocative exploration of a fractured world told through the untainted eyes of youth. 

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Structured around both commemorative rites for departed ancestors and actual funerals that occasionally draw young, failing actor Kim Seong-jin (Kang Seung-ho) back from Seoul to his family home in rural Daegu, Oh Jung-min’s feature debut tracks multiple generations of the extended Kim family.

A special 35mm double bill of Jim Jarmusch's existential tale of a mysterious loner journeying across Spain, preceded by, perhaps, his most beloved Coffee and Cigarettes short starring Iggy Pop and Tom Waits. Screening on rare 35mm prints from the ICA archive.

Sokurov employs his signature cinematic style to craft a phantasmagoric scene where four of the most infamous leaders of twentieth-century European history, alongside Christ and a cameo appearance by Napoleon, wander aimlessly, muttering in their native languages. 

Love, death, miscommunication and friendship abound in this exquisite double bill of two of Hong Sangsoo's most astounding works.

Made in Prague Festival presents a multilayered portrait of Czech dissident playwright turned head of state, who became a political icon while retaining his insight, humour, and dedication to public service. 

Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, Ana, Patricia, and Mayela found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires.

Johan Grimonprez’s film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.

A programme of six short form works addressing land and identity.

Christmas Eve in Miller's Point sees four generations of the Balsano family gather for what may be the last Christmas in their family home in small-town Long Island.

London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF) presents its 2024 edition with a selection of recently released titles alongside favorites from throughout the years. We aim to present stories of political realities as experienced by Palestinians at home and in the diaspora through the creative lens of cinema. 

A programme of seven short form works addressing fate and kinship.

A programme of three films by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, delving into the Sansour’s family history.

Monica Maurer and Samir Nemr's The Fifth War gives a visceral account of the 1978 ‘Litani Operation’, in which Israeli forces invaded south Lebanon aiming to eradicate the PLO. Mustafa Abu Ali's Scenes from Occupation in Gaza is a documentary that presents some of the Israeli occupation measurements against Palestinians, and a profile of the struggle of Palestinian people in the Gaza strip after the 1967 invasion.

At the centre of Hong Sangsoo's twenty-fifth feature as director and his first as cinematographer, sit a series of intergenerational interactions, as Youngho, a young man on the brink of adulthood, questions the direction his life is taking.

Filmmaker Sonia Kronlund investigates a man hiding himself behind so many identities, through the eyes of his victims.

When a local snow leopard claims the lives of nine rams belonging to a herder, tensions escalate as the herder seeks retribution while his father, monk brother and law enforcement advocate to save the leopard at all costs.

Both a deeply personal journey through cinema and a caustic examination of the power and politics of image-making, Leos Carax's C'est pas moi is an exhilaratingly free-form act of self portraiture that draws inspiration from Rimbaud, Godard and Tintin alike.

Beautifully simple and heartbreakingly tender, Hong Sangsoo's In Front of Your Face is a rapturous exploration of faith, mortality, and hope.

Disconsolate Ivorian bride Aya abandons her groom at their wedding, then promptly moves to the Chinese city of Guangzhou where she finds work in a tea shop owned by a divorced trader.

Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book, Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing estate. The beginning of an experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.

PUNISHMENT marks the second instalment of the Lates series; an exploration of fetishistic desire, curated by Harlan and Helena Whittingham in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive.

To coincide with the release of her latest work, All We Imagine as Light, the ICA presents a focus on one of the most remarkable emerging names in contemporary cinema, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia.

In this hypnotic cinematic love letter that flows through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes into what her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.

Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia’s stunning sophomore feature – which follows ICA Distribution project A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) – is a profound meditation on urban migration and dislocation.

Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize (Critic's Week) at Cannes Film Festival, the debut feature from Lillah Halla centres upon a young volleyball player who finds her future freedom and agency threatened.

A programme of short films by filmmaker Payal Kapadia.

The uncertainty of creativity, the joy of friendship, and the bittersweet nature of existence combine in this serenely melancholic story of three friends attempt to make a short film.

Payal Kapadia’s bold and distinctive debut feature is an immersive and spiritual work addressing issues of artist production as well as the political complexities of contemporary India. A Night of Knowing Nothing is framed by fictional letters from a female student to her estranged lover. 

A rare opportunity to see Jean-Luc Godard's radical reinvention of Bizet's opera, screening exclusively for ICA Members and their guests.

Favoriten is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Vienna and the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s latest documentary, in which she accompanies a class of pupils from the age of seven to ten.

An elegiac study of the transformative effects of language, poetry and sincerity, Hong Sangsoo's third collaboration with Isabelle Huppert, is a moving portrait of one of the filmmakers most mysterious characters.

The Armenian Film Festival London is the first London-based annual festival celebrating Armenian culture and creative potential. It aims to showcase the best emerging and classic filmmaking from the Republic of Armenia and the Diaspora. 

As the 2021 UK national lockdown drags on, increasingly isolated theatre actors Sam and Mark spend their days in the online world of Grand Theft Auto. When they have an idea to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game.

The new film from acclaimed, BAFTA-winning director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not a Witch), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a compelling drama about community and sisterhood.

The latest film from Guy Maddin, Evan & Galen Johnson sees the leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.

In this performance-lecture, researcher and curator Léa Morin brings together an assemblage of absent images and marginalised cinematic narratives. Followed by a conversation with Philip Widmann and a presentation of the book Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema (Archive Books 2024).

The first time director’s younger brother Soghomon, 21, a musician, was close to completing his mandatory military service when the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) War broke out on September 27, 2020. Soghomon disappeared in the war zone without a trace on the 7th day.  Coping with despair, Vardanyan started documenting her family's daily ordeal with her phone.

A coming-of-age story set against a multigenerational war in the post-Soviet Caucasus Mountains.

The artist has selected three examples of her past work for this special screening: Munbangu, RECORD STOP PLAY and Delivery Service 2020.

In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi trip through time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, and gender-swapped by master visionary Bertrand Mandico.

Bertrand Mandico's debut feature tells the tale of five adolescents drawn to crime, transgressions and genderfluidity, shot in gorgeous 16mm.

Winner of the Teddy Award at Berlinale, All Shall Be Well offers a nuanced and compassionate look into elderly queer lives, grief, and resilience in the face of indignity.

A special short film strand highlights moving image works produced or directed by British Armenian filmmakers, regardless of thematic choices, plot twists, genres, or techniques. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Nelly ben Hayoun-Stépanian.

A battle-toughened Chinese drill sergeant is assigned to whip a ragtag group of raw recruits into a perfect marching unit in this sophomore feature film by acclaimed filmmaker Chen Kaige. Showing on an original 35mm print from the ICA Archive.

Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. 

Yui Kiyohara guides us through the Tokyo suburb of Tama New Town as she follows the lives of three women of different ages whose paths converge and intersect. 

Recipient of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice Film Festival this year, the film is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside.

1962. Against the towering landscape of the post-war Swiss Alps, a gifted young physicist meets an elusive pianist – one who knows things about him that he’s never told another living soul. Before long his curiosity traps him inside a mind-bending web of murder and mystery.

Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines. 

A unique exploration of the final creative work of cinema’s great innovator, Jean-Luc Godard. Appearing in exhibition format, Scénario(s) will see Godard’s last two films, including the UK premiere of his final work, Scénarios (2024), installed in the ICA's upper galleries alongside his extensive creative notebooks, offering a rare glimpse into the artist’s reflective process, blurring the lines between film, visual art, and philosophy.

A curated programme of works by Jean-Luc Godard, spanning six decades, further contextualising his legacy in both film and visual art. 

Winner of the Cannes Special Palme d’Or, Jean-Luc Godard's final feature film is a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film interrogating our relationship with film, culture and global politics.

Barbara Hammer's The Female Closet , combines rare footage, interviews, and rich visual documentation to survey the lives of three variously closeted and not-so-closeted artists from different segments of the 20th century. Followed by a conversation between artist Nicole Eisenman and writer Andrew Durbin.

Godard's submission to television anthology Série Noire is a typically relexive, philosophic and freewheeling exploration of the always-precarious relationship between television, film, and video. 

Polyphonic and disquisitive in equal measure, Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique is an at turns hopeful and melancholy meditation on both the war and barbarism of the twentieth century and the nature and essence of cinema.

Shot alternately in black-and-white 35mm and fauvist digital colour, Éloge de l'amour is a densely layered exploration of love, resistance and betrayal.

A daring queer love story between a young Arab drag queen and a white cis corporate gay man, exploring the relationship and conflicts between identity and desire, revealing how far we will all change who we are to be with the people we so desperately desire.

An eight-part video project, whose genesis can be traced both to the great Henri Langlois and a series of lectures Godard gave at Concordia University in 1978, Histoires(s) du cinéma, is both a monumental treatise on cinema as a medium, industry and art form and a profoundly moving examination of the century it defined.

In many ways both the beginning and the apotheosis of Godard's collage films, this sprawling essayistic voyage through the twentieth century serves as both a testament and indictment of the medium that defined it.