A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

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

The pageantry and brutality of bullfighting are drawn in stark relief in Albert Serra’s sublime portrait of the charismatic Peruvian-born torero, Andrés Roca Rey. 

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet earth.

Lost in her fears and fantasies, a young woman writes in a notebook. A young man finds this notebook on a train. Suddenly, they find themselves in the heart of a forest, in a nocturnal reality where dreams come to life in Isabel Pagliai’s first feature.

From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.

To Catch a Predator was a popular television show in the US designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and  arrested. Predators explores its rise and staggering fall, and the world it helped create.

Igor Bezinović weaves archive and interview to recount poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio’s radical 1919 occupation of Fiume (Rijeka, Croatia), revealing the stirrings of European fascism in the wake of World War I.

Runaway Jeanne falls under the spell of Cristina, the enigmatic star of a film adaption of the Hans Christian Andersen story being shot in the studio where she has taken refuge. A dark, richly textured and deeply moving tale of longing and solitude.

Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau’s latest film offers a quiet revolution in genre filmmaking, borrowing from body horror, leading us through a family’s story of fear and pain, and their journey towards love. 

A special programme of five films from the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho, on the occasion of (and culminating in) the ICA UK release of I Only Rest in the Storm.

Colin is a quiet parking attendant, whose steady existence is disrupted by the exploration of pleasure, dependence, and his own limits, when he enters a dominant-submissive relationship with biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). 

Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton tells the story of what might have been.

A portrait of the daily lives of young people living in a new-built estate on the outskirts of Lisbon, made collectively with the help of a well-known young documentary filmmaker.

In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde froze. The building of resorts halted due to a shortage of sand. Tracing the shipping routes of the sand industry As Cidades e as Trocas highlights the physical and social transformations in the landscape produced in its exchanges.

Mondays for Members returns with a special screening of The Things You Kill, Canada's entry for the 98th Academy Awards.

A three-night programme presenting two features, one featurette, and four shorts by Luc Moullet, whom Jean-Marie Straub called 'the most important filmmaker of the French post-Godard generation.'

This programme presents two products of Moullet’s proud Alpine heritage: his early adventure comedy Les Contrebandières, brimming with pre-68 anti-authoritarian energy, and the late short Le Litre de lait, a favourite of the director himself, which recreates an ominous episode from Moullet’s youth.

Following the success of its inaugural edition in 2024, the Armenian Film Festival London is proud to return to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) for its second edition. 

The 1980s saw Moullet experiment with short forms. Barres and Essai d’ouverture, two works built around increasingly absurd variations on a single scenario, are among the director’s most enduringly popular films, while the featurette Les Sièges de l’Alcazar lovingly pokes fun at the cinephilia of 1950s Paris.

The story of the legendary crooner Charles Aznavour: son of refugees who fled the Armenian Genocide, once a small, poor boy with a veiled voice.

A fearless, Palme d’Or winning, tour-de-force from cinematic luminary Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on.

Filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan embarks on an evocative journey through the forgotten world of Armenian cinema. Sparked by a dialogue with her father, renowned Armenian actor Vigen Stepanyan.

Sergio, an environmental engineer from Portugal, travels to Guinea-Bissau for an impact report. There, lonely in the heat, he encounters Diara and Guilermhe and begins to approach the post-colonial and capitalist forces shaping their lives.

Before beginning the production of The Colour of Pomegranates, Sergei Parajanov crafted this exquisite short, honouring nineteenth-century Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan. Blending fragments of paintings, staged tableaux, and scenes of Tbilisi life, it stands as a poetic tribute from one visionary artist to another.

A screening of four British Armenian short films exploring identity, religion, landscape and deep memory.

Departing from the premise of a Cecil B. DeMille silent melodrama, Le Prestige de la mort sees Moullet play himself in a hilarious examination of the lengths a lowly filmmaker will go for recognition (and remuneration). It is here presented alongside Le Fantôme de Longstaff, an arresting adaptation of a Henry James short story that reveals a facility for melodrama rarely explored elsewhere in Moullet’s oeuvre. 

In a working-class Los Angeles neighbourhood reeling from decades of violence in a forgotten corner of Venice Beach, a struggling single mum tries to steer her teenage son Freddy away from a veteran gangster who has become a father figure to him. 

On New York's Upper West Side, actress Carol Kane lives with her 98-year-old mother Joy, an active music teacher, former dancer, and lifelong Francophile. In this intimate short 16mm documentary, the two are filmed for an afternoon of music and friends and stories — a lifetime in a day.

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead in the 4k restoration UK Premiere of Atom Egoyan's unforgettable 1997 film.

A young employee in a UK dead letter office reads a mangled treatise from an author who claims to be Mott, an angel from the future, sent to earth on a holy mission. 

A selection of literary adaptations by Godard and Alexandre Astruc, including Godard’s first fiction film, Une femme coquette (d’après Maupassant) (A Flirtatious Woman (Based on Maupassant), 1956). His subsequent planned remake of this early short culminated in Masculin féminin (1966).

Werner Herzog's spectacular documentary about ecological disaster and the Gulf War. Selected by Tanoa Sasraku to accompany her solo exhibition.

Nikola is a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies. When his family leaves, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan and an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. 

A sense of otherworldly threat pervades French-Moroccan director Sofia Alaoui’s intriguing philosophical sci-fi Animalia, an extension of her Sundance Grand Jury-winning 2020 short, So What If the Goats Die.

Nikola is a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies. When his family leaves, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan and an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. 

Cinema Tehran presents a rarely seen and long banned masterpiece from pre-revolutionary Iran. Loosely based on Chekhov’s A Lady’s Story, an 18-year-old woman becomes obsessed with a stranger in Parviz Sayyad’s Dead End.

The London Community Video Archive takes over for a Late Tapes screening of Pout Issue One, London’s groundbreaking queer video magazine which first launched in 1992.

A timeless masterpiece of love and yearning, L’Atalante was the only full-length film made by Jean Vigo before his tragic early death. The film is now considered to be one of cinema’s very greatest works.

Cinema Tehran presents Bahram Beyzayi’s first feature which helped usher in the Iranian New Wave. When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. 

A special screening of Keith Gordon’s psychological World War II drama adapted from William Wharton’s autobiographical novel.

An evening celebrating Diane Keaton, screening her directorial debut, Heaven (1987).

Peter Watkins' seminal pseudo-documentary sees countercultural dissenters thrown into a brutal California desert tribunal, exposing authoritarian overreach and state-sanctioned violence in America, as filmed in newsreel style by a European crew.

A double bill that pairs famed street photographer Ho Fan and Sun Po-ling’s experimental feature with Tiffany Sia’s short film that reworks mid-20th-century Hong Kong travelogue footage. 

An inspirational insight into the spectacular art at the center of this annual celebration, Burning Man: Art on Fire, directed by BAFTA winner Gerald Fox, follows the unpredictable journey of the artists who defy reason to bring their massive installations and sculptures to the punishing Nevada desert.

For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. As he slowly spirals into despair, he comes to the aid of a mysterious young woman in the park.

Magaluf Gallery presents Chill Fatalism, a focused programme of recent works by New York-based filmmaker Ken Kobland. Shown as a continuous loop