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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.