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.

A nine-day festival of archival gems to celebrate the conclusion of our Celluloid Sunday series including rare prints of films by Hou-Hsiao Hsien, Edward Yang, Jim Jarmusch, David Cronenberg and many more.

This major group exhibition and event programme curated by Lubaina Himid celebrates 40 years since The Thin Black Line, the groundbreaking group show of young Black and Asian women artists at the ICA in 1985.

Remastered for the first time, The Quatermass Xperiment still retains its power to shock seven decades after its initial release.

This urgent documentary examines evidence of widespread destruction across Gaza’s medical infrastructure, where all 36 main hospitals have reportedly been damaged or destroyed. Followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and Dr. Victoria Rose.

Nigel Kneale and Val Guest's gripping tale of alien infiltration and Cold War paranoia is presented for the first time in 4K.

This urgent documentary examines evidence of widespread destruction across Gaza’s medical infrastructure, where all 36 main hospitals have reportedly been damaged or destroyed.

Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with a moody adaptation of Deborah Levy’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, featuring performances by Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, and Vicky Krieps.

In this intensely personal work, David Cronenberg crafts a genre-bending tale that slips between mystery and romance, all the while echoing his signature themes: the body as mutable flesh, technology as both saviour and parasite, and the uncanny union of sex and death.

Spanning the years from the Sudanese revolution of 2019, to the outbreak of the grievous civil war in 2023, this immensely moving documentary captures a collective portrait of Sudanese youth, dreaming of a new, democratic Sudan.

Inspired by an incredible true story set against the backdrop of a country torn by conflict, From Hilde, with Love is a powerful tale of love and resistance.

Six women return to the now abandoned Holloway Prison to take part in a women’s circle. Sharing some of the most intimate experiences of their lives, they each unravel what led them to prison, building an eye-opening portrait of failing systems and trauma, while discovering their extraordinary capacity to heal through sisterhood.

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s (Attenberg, Chevalier) striking adaptation of Jim Crace’s acclaimed novel finds an idyllic rural community coming under threat from outsiders. Followed by a Q&A with the director.

An essayistic exploration into the lasting ecological consequences of Belgium’s colonial rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Imbued with a languid and troubling sense of unease, Yang’s third feature The Terrorizers centres the mysterious connections that draw together a largely disparate group of individuals in contemporary Taipei. 

Drawing from a great tradition of romantic comedies, in particular Leo McCarey's The Awful Truth, Jonás Trueba's latest film is a playfully reflexive and sparkling exploration of love, conversation and cinema.

Cantopop superstars Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung star as doomed lovers in Stanley Kwan's stunning combination of melodrama and ghost story. 

Marion Hänsel's adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country, stars Jane Birkin in one of her best roles.

Magic and mystery abound in this striking debut feature by filmmaker Kaizo Hayashi which follows a private detective who is hired to find the missing daughter of a silent film actress.

Kaizo Hayashi's second feature plays as something of a companion piece to his first work To Sleep So as to Dream, and follows two brothers (Jinta and Wataru) who grow up as orphans in a traveling circus.

David Cronenberg's hallucinatory journey into a shadowy world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games and bodily transformation.

The film chronicles the Kafkaesque predicament of a bumbling factory translator who is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop.

Sent on a covert mission in Latin America in 1983, Vietnam veteran Eddie Guerrero's allegiance to the U.S. military begins to unravel as his growing awareness of his Latino heritage and his role in an imperial conflict leads him to identify with the people he is meant to oppose.

A young boy and his sister spend a summer at their grandparents’ house in the country while their mother recovers from an illness in Hou Hsiao-hsien's contemplative and profoundly moving coming-of-age tale.

A beloved favourite among Hou Hsiao-hsien’s early films, Dust in the Wind is an affecting and poignantly fatalistic story of first love.

Considered one of the best Chinese films about the cultural revolution, Hibiscus Town is a moving account of survival in the face of widespread social and political turmoil, told with clarity, compassion and insight. 

A resplendent centrepiece in Tian Zhuangzhuang’s loose trilogy about ethnic minorities, The Horse Thief portrays a young man being cast out from his clan and left to fend for himself in the mountains with his wife and child.

Probably the director’s most famous film, this impassioned drama follows the fate of a Beijing family and their acquaintances through the political and social upheavals of the 1950s and 1960s.

Orson Welles gives his final onscreen performance in independent filmmaker Henry Jaglom's tale of a puzzled film directors attempts to discover why life hasn't turned out like anyone expected.

Inspired by Thomas’ Heart (Toma no shinzo), a legendary manga by Moto Hagio, Shusuke Kaneko’s beguiling film explores teenage yearning, mystery and passion.

Atom Egoyan writes, directs and stars in this witty and devastating investigation of identity, memory and displacement – which here receives a rare 16mm screening.

The second part of Zhang Yimou's loose 'Red Trilogy' is a visually arresting drama of secret love starring Gong Li.

In Athina Rachel Tsangari's hallucinatory new film, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.

Filled with the warm tropical light and lush greens of Martinique, shot on 16mm, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s intoxicating feature debut imagines the life of Martinican writer and activist Suzanne Césaire.

Domingos and Neusia are a young couple from a small city in Mozambique. She goes to school, he has an underpaid job at a car wash. Yearning for a better life, Domingos sets on a journey through Mozambique, heading to the gold mines in the north of the country.

This double-bill brings together works by two Ukrainian-born filmmakers with a keen interest in dreams and temporality.

Hong Sangsoo's latest film follows a young poet who, after dropping off his girlfriend at her parents' home, finds himself staying longer than expected.

Youths brings together a selection of 15 films that observe and explore ways of navigating, questioning, or disrupting reality as a young adult through the formation of groups and communities. 

A programme of three short form works from the filmmaker rarely shown in the UK, ahead of the UK premiere presentation of Cent mille milliards (2024).

A special programme of six films celebrating the renowned work of the singular Argentine film collective.

Shot on 16mm, Trương Minh Quý's quietly expressive and sensual drama centred upon two young coal miners is a hypnotic excavation of the memories and legacies of a nation.

Wang Bing’s Youth unfolds as an epic observational trilogy, offering a profound, intimate portrait of young textile workers in Zhili, a factory town 150 km from Shanghai.

In this deeply personal and poetic non-fiction work, Portuguese filmmaker Catarina Ruivo embarks on a journey to resurrect the memory of her beloved grandmother, Júlia.

Histories and fictions intertwine as Sofia Bohdanowicz concludes her Audrey Benac cycle with a captivating exploration of the life and work of Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.

Serge Daney (1944–1992), one of the most influential critics of the 20th century, was described by Jean-Luc Godard as the end of criticism as he understood it. In conjunction with a new issue on Daney from the international film journal Sabzian, we present twelve films reflecting his philosophically rich, wide-ranging criticism, fueled by a passionate belief in a cinephilic internationalism.

The pageantry and brutality of bullfighting are drawn in stark relief in Albert Serra’s sublime portrait of the charismatic Peruvian-born torero, Andrés Roca Rey. 

Four films from the film unit of the Division of Community Education in Puerto Rico.  Formed in 1947, the unit made scores of short films, poetic documentaries and neorealist fictions, from the late 1940s through the 1960s.

A fascinating archival documentary exploring a utopian moment in the history of Puerto Rico, through the film unit of the Division of Community Education and the scores of short films it made in rural communities from the late 1940s through the 1960s.

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device in this striking collaboration between filmmaker Courtney Stephens and actress Callie Hernandez.

Spanning nearly five decades, Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos' body of work is, in a truly homeric tradition, an epic journey through myth and history. From the astonishing tracking shots that seem to collapse any distinction between time and space, to the travelling players, exiles and artists, whose stage keeps shifting beneath their feet. At its heart, the cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is one of movement, an endless voyage, an eternal search for home, and a reckoning with our pasts, both personal and collective.