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.

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

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

A second chance to explore a selection of South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo's work, from our recent major retrospective.

A special programme of three films celebrating the work of American filmmaker Whit Stillman.

A man quits work to care for dying grandmother, motivated by her wealth, scheming to win her favour before she dies.

Nickel Boys tells the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime. There he meets Turner, and the two form a close friendship trying to survive the horrors of the school.

Whit Stillman’s dryly comic drama about a group of young professionals experiencing life and love while frequenting a Studio 54-esque disco in Manhattan in the early 80s. 

The latest film from Magnus von Horn is a dark fairy tale about one woman’s search for tenderness and morality in a cruel world.

The latest film from Victor Kossakovsky (Gunda, Aquarela) is an epic, intimate, and poetic meditation on architecture and how the design and construction of buildings from the ancient past reveal our destruction — and offer hope for survival and a way forward. 

Made on discarded film stock and released in 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s handover, Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan follows alienated youth trapped in cycles of violence.

A double-bill screening programmed by the Machine That Kills Bad People featuring Mitchell's Death and The Cannibals.

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.

A film and installation project by artist, filmmaker, and writer Arjuna Neuman and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva. Filmed in the Atacama desert it explores the entanglements and overlaps of historical events, past present and future, in this site. 

With its annual celebration of emerging filmmakers and the art of short filmmaking, the London Short Film Festival (LSFF) returns for its 22nd edition, taking place 17th - 26th January 2025 across London’s most iconic screens and venues, alongside arts and community spaces and a community-hopping mobile cinema bus.

Following their well-received improvised live film score to Häxan last year, INVITATION TO LOVE (Laura Groves, Fran Lobo, Hopping Corpse and Auclair) collaborate again to present Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls. They come together through a shared enjoyment of sound, weird and wonderful films and creative community. 

Exploring the impact of erasure and the truths that endure despite it. There exists a sisyphean struggle to erase certain truths from our lives in an effort to control the wild nature of existence. Amidst this erasure, what truths endure?

From Palestinian worldmaking to the Cuban revolution, French colonial capture and Mexican post-revolutionary artistic revivals to the subversion of monuments of indigenous people, this programme explores art's relationship to (anti)coloniality across a range of historical and national contexts.

Underneath the walls and the fences, the checkpoints and the watchtowers, the waters never cease to flow, eroding the (infra)structures of oppression. In this double-bill, two filmmakers set their gaze upon the cityscapes of Bethlehem and Berlin, while zooming in on the architectural marks left by the state violence.

Reflecting on the traces that linger in the quiet pursuit to understand what lies ahead.In our most delicate moments of reflection, how are we to reconcile the lingering fragments bridging past and present?

The selection of six non-/fiction diary films, capture the moment everyday life is transformed into a poem - and the mundane is made to become sacred.

Fleeing persecution in the US, Hungarian architect László Tóth is commissioned to construct a monumental building. Driven by a powerful performance from Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist explores trauma, art’s value, and ambition’s price.

A programme of new short films for lovers of the hauntological, or those interested in the psychogeography of forgotten spaces.

Is any story ever the full truth? Can the same truth ever be recounted twice? Here, six shorts challenge the delineation of documentary and fiction, reminding us that there are even more sides to a story than there are voices to tell them.

Gentrification and unregulated landlordism are fracturing communities, while social housing disintegrates and profits soar. However, as these films constantly underline we can and should resist. 

Filmmaker Basim Magdy is simultaneously interested and dismissive of the meanings concealed within the world; as he layers interpretations, he increasingly questions their authenticity. His work doesn't concern itself with a fixed contemporary reality which he views as a masked parade of absurdity. In his eyes, there is no sense or logic in the world—time, memory, future, and dreams all blur together, dissolving into a hazy in-between.

Fleeing persecution in the US, Hungarian architect László Tóth is commissioned to construct a monumental building. Driven by a powerful performance from Adrien Brody, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist explores trauma, art’s value, and ambition’s price.

East German teacher Philipp questions his sexuality after reconnecting with a childhood friend, in this 1989 film by Heiner Carow.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a career-best performance as Pansy, a woman battling grief, rage, and disconnection in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, three decades after their collaboration on Secrets and Lies. 

The latest film from Hong Sangsoo reunites Kim Minhee and Kwon Haehyo in an autumnal tale of desire, self-expression and the inescapable nature of the past.

The first film from the former Yugoslavia to openly depict LGBTQ+ characters, remains one of Želimir Žilnik’s most enduring works, even more brilliant for its open acts of love and positivity at a time of such misery.