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Off-Circuit
1 January 2023 – 27 October 2073
A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.
Celluloid Sunday
3 January 2023 – 26 September 2073
An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.
Long Takes
25 October 2024 – 31 May 2025
A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.
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The Human Comedy The Cinema of Hong Sangsoo
25 October – 8 December 2024
With his incisive and humorous explorations of infidelity, artistic endeavour, and communication (or lack thereof), South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo's narratively concise and formally radical work has marked him out as not only contemporary cinema’s most prolific filmmaker but also its most inventive.
In Focus: Payal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light
29 November – 22 December 2024
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.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Favoriten
3 – 15 December 2024
Favoriten is one of the most culturally diverse neighborhoods in Vienna and the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s latest documentary, in which she accompanies a class of pupils from the age of seven to ten.
Armenian Film Festival London
6 – 8 December 2024
The Armenian Film Festival London is the first London-based annual festival celebrating Armenian culture and creative potential. It aims to showcase the best emerging and classic filmmaking from the Republic of Armenia and the Diaspora.
Film Undone: BASTA. Films that don't exist do exist.
Fri, 6 December
In this performance-lecture, researcher and curator Léa Morin brings together an assemblage of absent images and marginalised cinematic narratives. Followed by a conversation with Philip Widmann and a presentation of the book Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema (Archive Books 2024).
Armenian Film Festival London
1489 + online Q&A
Sat, 7 December
The first time director’s younger brother Soghomon, 21, a musician, was close to completing his mandatory military service when the Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) War broke out on September 27, 2020. Soghomon disappeared in the war zone without a trace on the 7th day. Coping with despair, Vardanyan started documenting her family's daily ordeal with her phone.
Armenian Film Festival London
My Sweet Land + online Q&A
Sat, 7 December
A coming-of-age story set against a multigenerational war in the post-Soviet Caucasus Mountains.
Geumhyung Jeong: Under Construction Film Programme
Three films by Geumhyung Jeong
Sat, 7 December
The artist has selected three examples of her past work for this special screening:
Munbangu
,
RECORD STOP PLAY
and
Delivery Service 2020
.
A Bertrand Mandico double bill:Conann + Q&A
Sat, 7 December
In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi trip through time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, and gender-swapped by master visionary Bertrand Mandico.
A Bertrand Mandico double bill:The Wild Boys + Introduction
Sat, 7 December
Bertrand Mandico's debut feature tells the tale of five adolescents drawn to crime, transgressions and genderfluidity, shot in gorgeous 16mm.
All Shall Be Well + Q&A
Sun, 8 December
Winner of the Teddy Award at Berlinale,
All Shall Be Well
offers a nuanced and compassionate look into elderly queer lives, grief, and resilience in the face of indignity.
Armenian Film Festival London
British Armenian Focus + Q&A
Sun, 8 December
A special short film strand highlights moving image works produced or directed by British Armenian filmmakers, regardless of thematic choices, plot twists, genres, or techniques. The screening is followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Nelly ben Hayoun-Stépanian.
Celluloid Sunday The Big Parade on 35mm
Sun, 8 December
A battle-toughened Chinese drill sergeant is assigned to whip a ragtag group of raw recruits into a perfect marching unit in this sophomore feature film by acclaimed filmmaker Chen Kaige. Showing on an original 35mm print from the ICA Archive.
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Weekly cinema releases
Rumours
6 – 18 December 2024
The latest film from Guy Maddin, Evan & Galen Johnson sees the leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods and face increasing peril while attempting to draft a provisional statement regarding a global crisis.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
6 – 18 December 2024
The new film from acclaimed, BAFTA-winning director Rungano Nyoni (
I Am Not a Witch
), On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is a compelling drama about community and sisterhood.
Grand Theft Hamlet
6 – 17 December 2024
As the 2021 UK national lockdown drags on, increasingly isolated theatre actors Sam and Mark spend their days in the online world of Grand Theft Auto. When they have an idea to stage a full production of Hamlet within the game.
Power Alley
29 November – 7 December 2024
Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize (Critic's Week) at Cannes Film Festival, the debut feature from Lillah Halla centres upon a young volleyball player who finds her future freedom and agency threatened.
The Taste of Mango
29 November – 13 December 2024
In this hypnotic cinematic love letter that flows through time and generations, director Chloe Abrahams probes into what her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, tenderly untangling painful knots in her family’s unspoken past.
Off-Circuit
C'est pas moi
22 November – 6 December 2024
Both a deeply personal journey through cinema and a caustic examination of the power and politics of image-making, Leos Carax's
C'est pas moi
is an exhilaratingly free-form act of self portraiture that draws inspiration from Rimbaud, Godard and Tintin alike.
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État
15 November – 22 December 2024
Johan Grimonprez’s film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
3 November – 22 December 2024
Set in 1953 at a psychiatric clinic in Blida, Algeria, and shot on location, the film follows Frantz Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, as he is appointed head doctor.
Strands
Highlights
On Release
Upcoming
Geumhyung Jeong: Under Construction Film Programme
2 October – 7 December 2024
Curated by artist Geumhyung Jeong, this film programme accompanies the artist's exhibition Under Construction.
Burning Man: Art on Fire
Wed, 11 December
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.
PREVIEW The Bibi Files
Thu, 12 December
Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines.
Remembering Every Night
13 – 19 December 2024
Yui Kiyohara guides us through the Tokyo suburb of Tama New Town as she follows the lives of three women of different ages whose paths converge and intersect.
PREVIEW Vermiglio + Q&A
Fri, 13 December
Recipient of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize winner at Venice Film Festival this year, the film is a richly compassionate, emotional and detailed drama of family secrets in the wartime Italian countryside.
The Universal Theory
13 – 19 December 2024
1962. Against the towering landscape of the post-war Swiss Alps, a gifted young physicist meets an elusive pianist – one who knows things about him that he’s never told another living soul. Before long his curiosity traps him inside a mind-bending web of murder and mystery.
The Bibi Files
13 – 18 December 2024
Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines.
Jean-Luc Godard Scénario(s): Film Programme
14 – 22 December 2024
A curated programme of works by Jean-Luc Godard, spanning six decades, further contextualising his legacy in both film and visual art.
Ultra Violet Neon Planet
Sat, 14 December
A shared voice with no words.
Ultra Violet Neon Planet
is a film documenting the cultural origins of bleep, a subgenre of house and techno developed in Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford in the late 1980's.
Jean-Luc Godard: Scénario(s)
14 – 22 December 2024
A unique exploration of the final creative work of cinema’s great innovator, Jean-Luc Godard. Appearing in exhibition format, Scénario(s) will see Godard’s last two films, including the UK premiere of his final work,
Scénarios
(2024), installed in the ICA's upper galleries alongside his extensive creative notebooks, offering a rare glimpse into the artist’s reflective process, blurring the lines between film, visual art, and philosophy.
Nickel Boys
3 – 9 January 2025
Nickel Boys
tells the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime. There he meets Turner, and the two form a close friendship trying to survive the horrors of the school.
London Short Film Festival 2025
18 – 25 January 2025
With its annual celebration of emerging filmmakers and the art of short filmmaking, the London Short Film Festival (LSFF) returns for its 22nd edition, taking place 17th - 26th January 2025 across London’s most iconic screens and venues, alongside arts and community spaces and a community-hopping mobile cinema bus.
The Memory of Justice
Sat, 1 March 2025
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see a masterpiece of documentary cinema. Set against the backdrop of the Nuremberg Trials,
The Memory of Justice
(1976) raises urgent questions about violence, war, and justice that are still relevant today. Join us for a special screening, introduced by distinguished international lawyer Professor Philippe Sands Hon FBA.
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