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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.