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December 2025

Thursday, 4 December

Daily Programme

Films

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.

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.

Films

In Focus: Pedro Pinho

The Nothing Factory

A group of workers realise that their administration has organised the stealing of machines from their factory. They soon understand that this is the first signal of a massive layoff. As the world around them collapses, new desires start to emerge.

Films

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.

Films

UK PREMIERE
Fantaisie

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.

Films

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).

Films

Zodiac Killer Project

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

Films

In Focus: Luc Moullet

Les Sièges de l'Alcazar + shorts
+ online Q&A with Luc Moullet

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.

Talks & Engagement

Members' Book Club: Big Kiss, Bye Bye

A discussion of Claire-Louise Bennett's latest novel, exclusively for ICA Members

Live

A version of james K was born. Comprised of bones, reactive metals and a larynx with freckled eyes that catalyzes that mix, she can now see through all the schemes. This is the truth. When she chews gum, it’s not clear which one of her personas does it. Since their first release in 2013, describing them separately is grunt work as they switch places, cosplay each other and would most likely lull you into a lonesome dream.

Films

Armenian Film Festival London 2025

UK PREMIERE Monsieur Aznavour

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.

Films

UK PREMIERE
Fiume o morte!

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.