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FILMS
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
Current and Upcoming
Monthly Members’ Screenings
15 December 2019 – 23 February 2020
From the ICA Cinema archives, a curated selection of cult classics and rare finds in original format 35mm, exclusively for ICA Members.
In Focus: Pedro Costa
3 – 15 March 2020
A retrospective of the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa to coincide with the release of Vitalina Varela.
Essay Film Festival 2020
27 March – 2 April 2020
The Essay Film Festival returns to the ICA with a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works.
FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2020
17 – 25 April 2020
The ICA’s annual film festival returns with a programme of screenings, discussions and workshops which revolve around the theme of spectatorship.
Heaven Without Earth + Q&A
Sat, 21 March
The directors and main actor of Heaven Without Earth, an evocative study of a father-son relationship, join us for the premiere of this new directors’ edit.
LONDON PREMIERE My First Film
Sat, 21 March
An interactive live cinema performance from filmmaker Zia Anger, who reflects on her lost and abandoned projects.
Fire Will Come + Q&A
Fri, 20 March
A pyromaniac returns home with fateful consequences in Oliver Laxe’s ravishing new film.
In Focus: Pedro Costa
Vitalina Varela
7 – 12 March 2020
Pedro Costa’s latest film follows a bereaved woman as she faces the ghosts of her late husband’s past.
PREVIEW And Then We Danced + Q&A
Wed, 4 March
Director Levan Akin joins us to discuss his beautiful new film, which explores cultural identity, ambition and self-expression in Georgia.
The Disappearance of My Mother + Q&A
Fri, 28 February
A once-iconic fashion model strives to escape the world of images and disappear for good.
Monthly Members’ Screenings
Members’ Screening: Suture in 35mm
Sun, 23 February
An early ‘90s neo-noir thriller from filmmakers David Siegel and Scott McGehee.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders + introduction
Sat, 22 February
A classic of the Czechoslovak New Wave set within the imagination of teenage girl on the threshold of adulthood.
Midnight Family
21 – 27 February 2020
When a crackdown by corrupt police forces a family to try legitimising their essential emergency medical services, their desperate financial situation pushes them into questionable practices.
Little Joe
21 – 27 February 2020
Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw and Kerry Fox star as laboratory colleagues in Jessica Hausner’s deeply unnerving sci-fi chiller.
PREVIEW Portrait of a Lady on Fire
14 – 21 February 2020
A resonant love story set in set in 18th-century France from writer-director Céline Sciamma.
Latin America Monthly: The Sharks
14 – 20 February 2020
The first feature-length film from Uruguayan director Lucía Garibaldi is a study of romantic fumbling and youthful obsession.
First Love
14 – 23 February 2020
Passionate romance meets anarchic thriller in the latest from prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike.
A Paris Education
14 – 20 February 2020
Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s cinematic love letter to the movies – and to the possibilities of youth and young love.
Parasite
7 – 27 February 2020
Bong Joon-ho returns with a dark comedy about wealth, greed and class discrimination.
The Lighthouse
7 – 27 February 2020
A hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
The Holy Mountain
24 January – 27 February 2020
A new digital restoration of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s hallucinogenic follow-up to El Topo caused a scandal when first released.
A Hidden Life
17 January – 19 February 2020
The tenth feature film by writer-director Terrence Malick tells the story of an unsung World War II hero.
El Topo
10 January – 26 February 2020
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s allegorical cult Western screens in a new 4K restoration.