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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.