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.

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.

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.

A special programme of five films celebrating the work of Michael Snow (1929-2023), titan of experimental cinema.

This programme, containing one film from each decade between the 1990s and 2010s, offers a condensed overview of the dynamism, intransigence, transnationalism, and experiential spirit of Iranian auteur Amir Naderi’s output in three films made in the US and Japan.

The UK’s biggest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP), returns to the ICA for its latest installment.

Shot entirely in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing drama depicts a man’s growing paranoia around encroaching state repression, whilst his family’s increasingly anti-patriarchal conviction at home threatens his carefully constructed public life.

Awarded Best Film in the BFI London Film Festival’s Official Competition, Adam Elliot’s heartfelt animation about twins navigating loss, blends humour and darkness.

From Tokyo to the Lake District – a universal portrait of love, acceptance and family loss in which the true journey toward forgiveness and reconciliation will prove the hardest of all.

Mahdi Fleifel’s first fiction feature portrays Chatila, a Palestinian refugee in Athens, as he cares for his addicted cousin Reda while seeking an escape to Germany.

From Tokyo to the Lake District – a universal portrait of love, acceptance and family loss in which the true journey toward forgiveness and reconciliation will prove the hardest of all.

New Contemporaries and ICA have invited exhibiting artists to select and introduce a film that has been formative, or a reference in their practice.   

Legendary provocateur Bruce LaBruce reimagines Pasolini’s Teorema, with a refugee protagonist liberating the bourgeoisie from sexual repression, critiquing anti-immigration rhetoric and exploring sexual and spiritual transformations.

The endlessly blurred and tangled lines of reality and fiction, cinema and theatre, and art and life form the heart of Jacques Rivette’s cinema. Throughout his extensive body of work the French filmmaker continually eschews and reformulates the traditional patterns of narrative cinema and instead embraces mystery, conspiracy, and the inexplicable.

Anne arrives in Paris to study, but quickly finds herself enwrapped in the lives of a loose-knit group of bohemians and the mysterious death of their friend. A detective story by way of Shakespeare's Pericles, Jacques Rivette's sublime debut feature is a labyrinth of conspiracies, deception and cold-war paranoia.

Walker Salles' return to fiction depicts the Paiva family's struggle for justice after Rubens Paiva's 1970 disappearance under Brazil’s military regime.

A documentary portrait of British photographer Martin Parr’s politically charged, humanist and humorous work.

Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky’s film follows two women through a series of drifting vignettes. Their quotidian moments blend and overlay reality with performance, describing an aching state, and a meditation on identity.

The third iteration of Late Tapes series; an exploration of fetishistic desire, curated by Content Warning in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive.

Legendary provocateur Bruce LaBruce reimagines Pasolini’s Teorema, with a refugee protagonist liberating the bourgeoisie from sexual repression, critiquing anti-immigration rhetoric and exploring sexual and spiritual transformations.

Initially banned by the Information Ministry in France after outcry from the Catholic community, Jacques Rivette's second feature, an adaptation of Diderot's famous novel, follows the life of a young woman (Anna Karina) who is forced, against her will, to take vows as a nun.

Sine Screen presents a programme of radical films born from the collective labour of filmmakers who rejected traditional hierarchies, aiming to create cinema for and by the people, in 1960s and 1970s East and Southeast Asia.

Sent on a covert mission in Latin America, a Vietnam veteran’s allegiance begins to unravel as his awareness of his Latino heritage and role in an imperial conflict grows.

New Contemporaries and ICA have invited exhibiting artists to select and introduce a film that has been formative, or a reference in their practice.   

Between the making of La Religieuse and L'amour fou, Rivette directed a three part documentary on the great Jean Renoir. The experience would prove profoundly impactful, particularly on his work with actors. One of the many films Rivette revisited was Jean Renoir's La chienne, a bitter tale of amour fou which marked a watershed in the storied collaboration between the filmmaker and actor Michael Simon.

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will close, Shelley (Pamela Anderson) sets out to plan her next act. Reconciling the life she's built, she decides to repair the complicated relationship with her daughter.