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’.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.