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Saturday, 18 October
Daily Programme
Exhibitions
Tanoa Sasraku: Morale Patch
Morale Patch is an exhibition of new work by Tanoa Sasraku (b. 1995, Plymouth) examining the seductive and destructive power of oil – its ties to war and national identity – through a meditation on emblems and mementos.
Exhibitions
Frieze × ICA Artists' Film Programme 2025
From ancestral memory to digital desire, from queer ecologies to fragile landscapes, ten artists’ films explore resistance, love and transformation in the present tense. 
Films
A House of Dynamite
12:20 PM
An unattributed nuclear missile is launched at the US, igniting a chain response to identify the responsible party and to decide on how the nation will respond, in Kathryn Bigelow's latest.
Films
BFI London Film Festival 2025
Kontinental '25
1:20 PM
Prolific Romanian provocateur Radu Jude returns with a sharp social satire on our materialistic society, blending dark comedy, drama and giant, plastic dinosaurs.
Films
A Want In Her
2:30 PM
When her mother goes missing somewhere in Ireland, artist Myrid Carten returns from London to find her. Her search takes her into a feuding family, a contested house; and a history that threatens to take everyone down, including herself.
Films
BFI London Film Festival 2025
Cadences of Refusal
4:00 PM
Activated by political urgency and defiance, these five works envision a collective reimagining and remaking of the world. Each crafts a counter-grammar to traditional non-fiction cinema – grounded in poetry, fragmentation, inquiry and the voice.
Films
Happyend
4:10 PM
Set in a dystopian near-future Tokyo, Neo Sora’s striking debut feature follows a group of teenagers challenging the rigid expectations of society.
Films
BFI London Film Festival 2025
Afterlives
6:15 PM
Media artist, filmmaker and critic Kevin B. Lee presents an unflinchingly complex and thought-provoking tapestry that interrogates the many faces of violence confronting our lives.
Films
Souleymane's Story
6:30 PM
Every second of Souleymane’s new life in France is precious. Having fled Guinea, his asylum interview looms. He powers through the streets of after dark Paris as a delivery rider, sleeps in hostels and prepares for his make-or-break appointment. 
Live
In the Round: the Art of This
7:00 PM
The Art of This, an off shoot, a descendant, a sub-set of electronic pioneers Art of Noise, make their performance debut at ICA. This show will feature words, music and images by Art of This, Art of Noise and the art of others, and will be a performance in the round, using the venue's 360° spatial soundsystem, d&b Soundscape. 
Films
One Battle After Another
8:20 PM
Sixteen years after the defeat of their great enemy, a group of former revolutionaries must reunite when he resurfaces, to save one of their own’s daughter, in Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaption from Thomas Pynchon's Vineland.
Films
BFI London Film Festival 2025
What Marielle Knows
8:45 PM
This sharply observed and darkly comic tale of familial relations will leave you rolling in the aisles and perhaps reassessing your own bond with your loved ones.