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.

Benicio del Toro is Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe, in Wes Anderson's latest, a story of a family and a family business. 

A man's solitary life in a Scottish highland forest is portrayed through the changing seasons, with occasional encounters disrupting his otherwise isolated existence in Ben Rivers follow-up to Two Years at Sea.

Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, Iva Radivojević’s evocative film investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. 

A soul-searching story about three friends, Wolf, Alan and Sophie, who have different conditions of deafness.

Commissioned to create a documentary about Argentine art collective Mondongo, filmmaker
Mariano Llinás crafts an experimental portrait of friendship, failure and self-destruction.

Inspired by true events, Lotfi Achour's powerful debut feature is a poetic and unflinching descent into the fractured psyche of a child grappling with unspeakable violence—and the quiet, resilient strength it takes to survive.

Six women return to the now abandoned Holloway Prison to take part in a women’s circle. Sharing some of the most intimate experiences of their lives, they each unravel what led them to prison, building an eye-opening portrait of failing systems and trauma, while discovering their extraordinary capacity to heal through sisterhood.

Genesis P-Orridge lived their art to the extreme. A pioneering musician, avant-garde artist, spiritual explorer and gender revolutionary, Genesis has been featured in films and videos, but never the full story… never this intimate... until now.

Inspired by an incredible true story set against the backdrop of a country torn by conflict, From Hilde, with Love is a powerful tale of love and resistance.

In a Cairo once alive with the promise of change, now haunted by memory, a heartbroken doctor and his troubled friend drift through the city’s decaying streets and abandoned homes.

Spanning the years from the Sudanese revolution of 2019, to the outbreak of the grievous civil war in 2023, this immensely moving documentary captures a collective portrait of Sudanese youth, dreaming of a new, democratic Sudan.

In this intensely personal work, David Cronenberg crafts a genre-bending tale that slips between mystery and romance, all the while echoing his signature themes: the body as mutable flesh, technology as both saviour and parasite, and the uncanny union of sex and death.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with a moody adaptation of Deborah Levy’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, featuring performances by Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps.

Remastered for the first time, The Quatermass Xperiment still retains its power to shock seven decades after its initial release.

This urgent documentary examines evidence of widespread destruction across Gaza’s medical infrastructure, where all 36 main hospitals have reportedly been damaged or destroyed. Followed by a panel discussion hosted by Bassem Youssef.

Nigel Kneale and Val Guest's gripping tale of alien infiltration and Cold War paranoia is presented for the first time in 4K.

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s (Attenberg, Chevalier) striking adaptation of Jim Crace’s acclaimed novel finds an idyllic rural community coming under threat from outsiders. Followed by a Q&A with the director.

This urgent documentary examines evidence of widespread destruction across Gaza’s medical infrastructure. Screenings are followed by Q&As with filmmakers and doctors.

An essayistic exploration into the lasting ecological consequences of Belgium’s colonial rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

A nine-day festival of archival gems to celebrate the conclusion of our Celluloid Sunday series including rare prints of films by Hou-Hsiao Hsien, Edward Yang, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg and many more.

Imbued with a languid and troubling sense of unease, Yang’s third feature The Terrorizers centres the mysterious connections that draw together a largely disparate group of individuals in contemporary Taipei. 

Drawing from a great tradition of romantic comedies, in particular Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, Jonás Trueba's latest film is a playfully reflexive and sparkling exploration of love, conversation and cinema.

Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung star as doomed lovers in Stanley Kwan's stunning combination of melodrama and ghost story. 

Marion Hänsel's adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country, stars Jane Birkin in one of her best roles.

Magic and mystery abound in this striking debut feature by filmmaker Kaizo Hayashi which follows a private detective who is hired to find the missing daughter of a silent film actress.

Kaizo Hayashi's second feature plays as something of a companion piece to his first work To Sleep So as to Dream, and follows two brothers (Jinta and Wataru) who grow up as orphans in a traveling circus.

David Cronenberg's hallucinatory journey into a shadowy world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games and bodily transformation.

The film chronicles the Kafkaesque predicament of a bumbling factory translator who is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop.

Sent on a covert mission in Latin America in 1983, Vietnam veteran Eddie Guerrero's allegiance to the U.S. military begins to unravel as his growing awareness of his Latino heritage and his role in an imperial conflict leads him to identify with the people he is meant to oppose.

A young boy and his sister spend a summer at their grandparents’ house in the country while their mother recovers from an illness in Hou Hsiao-hsien's contemplative and profoundly moving coming-of-age tale.

A beloved favourite among Hou Hsiao-hsien’s early films, Dust in the Wind is an affecting and poignantly fatalistic story of first love.

Considered one of the best Chinese films about the cultural revolution, Hibiscus Town is a moving account of survival in the face of widespread social and political turmoil, told with clarity, compassion and insight. 

A resplendent centrepiece in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s loose trilogy about ethnic minorities, The Horse Thief portrays a young man being cast out from his clan and left to fend for himself in the mountains with his wife and child.

Probably the director’s most famous film, this impassioned drama follows the fate of a Beijing family and their acquaintances through the political and social upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s.

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.

Inspired by Thomas’ Heart (Toma no shinzo), a legendary manga by Moto Hagio, Shusuke Kaneko’s beguiling film explores teenage yearning, mystery and passion.

Atom Egoyan writes, directs and stars in this witty and devastating investigation of identity, memory and displacement – which here receives a rare 16mm screening.

The second part of Zhang Yimou's loose 'Red Trilogy' is a visually arresting drama of secret love starring Gong Li.

In Athina Rachel Tsangari's hallucinatory new film, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.

Filled with the warm tropical light and lush greens of Martinique, shot on 16mm, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s intoxicating feature debut imagines the life of Martinican writer and activist Suzanne Césaire.

Domingos and Neusia are a young couple from a small city in Mozambique. She goes to school, he has an underpaid job at a car wash. Yearning for a better life, Domingos sets on a journey through Mozambique, heading to the gold mines in the north of the country.

Believing that the end of the world is imminent, Coco, Tsumuji and Satoru, three patients of a mental asylum, escape their institution to seek the perfect picnic spot and watch the apocalypse.

McMullen’s painterly treatment of the Paris Commune recounts the events of those heady days – from the assassination of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico in 1867, through the Franco-Prussian War, to the crushing of the communards.

Screening on a rare 16mm print, Mark Rappaport’s film is at once a tribute and deconstruction of Jean Seberg’s life and the various studio systems that employed her. 

The sophomore feature by Chen Kaige, regarded as one of China’s most important directors and a leading filmmaker of the Fifth Generation of Chinese cinema, follows a group of military cadets on a gruelling training programme to prepare for a parade celebrating the 35th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic.

A landmark work from one of the leading figures of China’s fifth generation of filmmakers, Chen Kaige, King of the Children is set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution and centres upon a young man who is sent from the city to the country for his scheduled tour of farm labour.

The debut feature from filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee, Suture (1993) is a neo-noir thriller about two long-lost brothers whose identities become entangled.

This programme brings together three shorts by Hal Hartley, Jim Jarmusch and Neil Bartlett.

The debut film from Zhang Zeming, one of the lesser-known figures of China's famed 5th generation of filmmakers who revolutionised Chinese cinema in the 1980s, Swan Song spans three tumultuous decades to tell the haunting and melancholy tale of a Cantonese composer and his son.

Directed by gay activist and figure of the Toronto New Wave John Greyson, Zero Patience delivers a bold critique of the stigma surrounding the origins of HIV and of the myth of the patient zero.

A special 35mm double bill of Jim Jarmusch's existential tale of a mysterious loner journeying across Spain, preceded by perhaps his most beloved Coffee and Cigarettes short starring Iggy Pop and Tom Waits.

Released in 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s handover, Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan soon garnered critical praise for its raw and unflinching portrayal of urban disillusionment and youthful hopelessness.

As a closing event of the festival, we present a surprise screening of a cult film on 35mm.

This double-bill brings together works by two Ukrainian-born filmmakers with a keen interest in dreams and temporality.

Hong Sangsoo's latest film follows a young poet who, after dropping off his girlfriend at her parents' home, finds himself staying longer than expected.

Youths brings together a selection of 15 films that observe and explore ways of navigating, questioning, or disrupting reality as a young adult through the formation of groups and communities. 

A darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction following the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives.

A programme of three short form works from the filmmaker rarely shown in the UK, ahead of the UK premiere presentation of Cent mille milliards (2024).

This double bill brings together two films that reflect on the question of identity and its formation, social and intimate relationships, projection, and the feeling of solitude conveyed through portraits of night workers. 

A special programme of six films celebrating the renowned work of the singular Argentine film collective.

After her boyfriend wins a free stay at a resort hotel, Laura finds herself becoming increasingly intrigued by the mysterious lives of her fellow guests.

A powerful observational documentary that reclaims a once-pejorative term used to dismiss Nigerian youth as apathetic and disengaged. 

Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale is the gravitational centre around which a constellation of characters and ideas orbit in Alejo Moguillansky's fascinatingly reflexive and playfully tangential exploration of creativity and its obstacles.

Alejo Moguillansky weaves together a Schubert sonata, Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar, and an unfinished scene from his film The Little Match Girl, in this playful and poignant exploration of the creative process and the inevitable passage of time

An exploration of the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of the Gasolineiras de Kebradas: fearless Chitara, her sister Léa and their all-female gang in the Sol Nascente favela on the edge of Brasília, who hijack a pipeline in order to sell oil to their community.