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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

Set against the backdrop of the Nuremberg Trials, this 1976 documentary raises urgent questions about violence, war, and justice that are still relevant today. This special screening, introduced by international lawyer Professor Philippe Sands Hon FBA.

To coincide with the BFI's retrospective, the ICA presents a curated programme of work by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

James Baldwin left New York behind for Paris in November 1948. Filmmaker Yashaddai Owens paints an impressionistic portrait of these early days on rich 16mm black-and-white, capturing a transformative moment in the life of a young artist.

Wanda and Janek struggle to navigate their relationship, discovering not all is lost, in Maria Zbąska’s debut exploring love’s survival in a disposable world.

The dog is apparently man's best friend, but what about its relationship to women? The immaculately groomed purebreds and dry humour of Good Girl... Sit Down! might seem miles apart from the languor of Dog Lady and its pack of mutts, but in both films, dogs figure as an important part of a woman's search for beauty and freedom.

An intense psychological drama featuring Amanda Seyfried as a troubled opera director facing current and past traumas as she works on a new staging of Salomé.

Jérémie returns to his hometown for his former boss's funeral. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour, and a strange priest complicate his visit. This screening is followed by a Q&A with Alain Guiraudie.

The Austrian Cultural Forum London, in cooperation with the Austrian Film Institute, presents the third edition of watchAUT, a dedicated film festival featuring the best new and recent films to emerge from Austria that is both a timely snapshot and an intriguing reflection of the current status quo. 

An intense psychological drama featuring Amanda Seyfried as a troubled opera director facing current and past traumas as she works on a new staging of Salomé.

The second edition of Screen Cuba, a festival that celebrates Cuba’s pioneering homegrown cinema industry, presents films rarely screened in the UK and looks at the achievements and challenges of the Cuban people through the decolonising lenses of their filmmakers since the 1959 revolution.

For two years, filmmakers Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau followed a militant activist community of squatters, anarchists, farmers in France. Composed of forty-one long takes, the film quietly assembles an immersive portrait of the movement and those involved alongside their activism.

In 1930s Podhale, mountaineer Jędrek Zawrat’s love and loyalty clash with family, history, and wartime politics, as brothers face the controversial Goralenvolk decision, shaping their fates and region’s future.

A tense and human musical about a family that survived the end of the world, from the director of The Act of Killing.

An exploration of a world shaped by neurodiverse perspectives, capturing diverse subjects navigating environments both challenging and comforting. Characters, some concealing their autism, others thriving in their communities, share a common goal: finding a space free from societal norms.

David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic on a 35mm print from the ICA Archives.

A selection of work by influential French documentarian Sylvain George, the first of its kind in the UK.

The first full retrospective of the great Polish director Wojciech Jerzy Has, is presented in partnership with KINOTEKA and the BFI.

Assembled from footage shot over a span of more than twenty years, Jia Zhangke crafts a boundless story of enduring but fragile love, anchored by the eternally captivating presence of Zhao Tao.