Acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos’ 2005 film studies the cryptic activities of an oddball trio.

A self-referential exploration of moviegoing assembled entirely from existing footage.

Queen Anne is the centre of an erotic-political power struggle in this cheerfully obscene twist on period drama.

After a three-year absence, New York transplant Adrian returns to Texas aching with truths he longs to share.

Sensuous and immersive, this audiovisual essay is both a philosophical inquiry and an invitation to inhabit our animal bodies.

A year in the life of a fisherman who drifts between river solitude and the family that anchors him.

After a three-year absence, New York transplant Adrian returns to Texas aching with truths he longs to share.

Actor and director Dennis Hopper’s seldom-seen follow-up to Easy Rider takes on Hollywood artifice.

A furious chronicle of young people spiralling amid economic depression.

In Alexei German’s satire, something monumental is happening in 1950s Moscow but no one knows precisely what.

A selection of new and recent work by Laura O’Neill whose CGI worlds are populated by bulbous characters and unknown creatures.

A homage to Jules Verne by visionary Czech filmmaker and innovator of 20th Century fantasy cinema Karel Zeman.

A year in the life of a fisherman who drifts between river solitude and the family that anchors him.

Young people spiral amid economic depression in the late filmmaker Hu Bo’s furious debut feature.

Money worries and entitlement impinge on a flourishing teenage friendship.

A raw, unfiltered document of a family attempting to navigate collective trauma.

Online video, archival footage, fact and fiction merge in Turkish filmmaker Gürcan Keltek’s document of a military campaign hidden by media blackout.

Jean-Luc Godard’s visually explosive new work on the human capacity for horror.

A young man’s face transplant exposes the worst of a small Polish town.

Sensuous and immersive, this audiovisual essay is both a philosophical inquiry and an invitation to inhabit our animal bodies.

Discussion with director RaMell Ross follows this screening of his acclaimed study of light, mood, movement and Black life in the US South.

A seasonal screening of two Soviet classics featuring a favourite Russian musical.

Part two of artist Wang Bing’s eight-hour epic, which unearths the testimony of survivors of the Communist Party of China’s re-education camps.

Jean-Luc Godard’s visually explosive new work on the human capacity for horror.

The director’s first feature, All the Cities of the North, screens alongside his shorter work Fantasy Sequences.

Part one of artist Wang Bing’s eight-hour epic, which unearths the testimony of survivors of the Communist Party of China’s re-education camps.

Six short works by director Dane Komljen screen as part of this two-day retrospective.

Five newly recovered and restored films from Palestine’s revolutionary era.

A would-be writer returns to his rural home in director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s richly melancholic mood piece.

A raw, unfiltered document of a family attempting to navigate collective trauma.

Painful yet essential, this monumental eight-hour work unearths the testimony of survivors of the Communist Party of China’s re-education camps.

An overnight search for a body yields an exhilarating reflection on the human condition.

A would-be writer returns to his rural home in director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s richly melancholic mood piece.

Leaving Essex for London and in search of stimulation, Jim goes from penniless to escort and artist’s muse.

A disquieting portrait of Argentinian society that inverts the structure of a typical crime story.

Two films reimagine Palestine through the possibilities of sound and listening.

Five newly recovered and restored films from Palestine’s revolutionary era.

A timely study of the contemporary art world, greed and the new global elite.

Fixated on France’s ‘lost cultural identity’, teenager Antoine becomes the troubled centre of a summer writing workshop.

Recreation of the 1981 interview that captured European megastar Romy Schneider in deep personal crisis.

Soviet director Larisa Shepitko’s experimental WWII feature screens alongside Ute Aurand and Ulrike Pfeiffer’s West German travelogue.

How did Trump and Brexit happen? Director Astra Taylor spans millennia and continents to explore democracy’s present crisis.

Two surreal works commissioned by the ICA investigate architecture and place, accompanied by live performance.

Multimedia artist Rachel Maclean’s film is a comic deconstruction of European art history’s feminine beauty ideals.

A small US town reckons with its traumatic history in a dazzling new work by acclaimed documentarian Robert Greene.

A young woman director’s research for a new script turns into an attempt at seduction.

Two new works by ICA commissioned artists Ayo Akingbade and Célia Hay.

The true story of Scottish factory workers' protest against Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.

The first anime ever to premiere at Cannes, director Mamoru Hosoda renders childhood with insight and ingenuity.

The tumultuous story of Orson Welles’ long unfinished final film told through archival footage and revelatory new interviews.

An hypnotic meditation on Jamaica’s history, spirituality and class stratification that ultimately centres on its people.

Director Khalik Allah presents his hypnotic meditation on Jamaican experience.

This landmark work of contemporary moving image proposes the ecstatic religious lineages of rock music.

An urgent documentary investigation into the export of the deadly asbestos industry to the developing world.

Shot entirely at night on the corner of 125th and Lexington Avenue in Harlem, the film captures the mental, physical and spiritual struggles of the neighborhood's inhabitants.

Unfolding in real-time, in a single take, Erik Poppe delivers a reconstruction of the devastating Utøya summer camp massacre.

The story of how Singapore-made 1992 cult classic from teenage friends Sandi Tan, Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique disappeared and returned with a vengeance.

Director Gus Van Sant interprets the memoir of provocative humourist and cartoonist John Callahan.

In the fluid space between reality and fiction, director Adina Pintilie explores sexuality and intimacy.

A visceral and captivating critique of masculinity revolving around the toxic relationship between a dog groomer and a former boxer.

In the fluid space between reality and fiction, director Adina Pintilie explores sexuality and intimacy.

Dreams collide with hard choices in this social-realist drama about a mother living with HIV in Miono, Tanzania.

25 features. 77 countries. 14 cinemas. 12 days. One Festival.

A magical tale of identical twins born then separated in 1880s Budapest.

The story of how Singapore-made 1992 cult classic from teenage friends Sandi Tan, Jasmine Ng and Sophie Siddique disappeared and returned with a vengeance. This London premiere is followed by a Q&A with film director Sandi Tan.

A graphic animation of lives intertwined by sex, drugs and corruption in Iran’s capital.

A graphic animation of lives intertwined through prostitution, drugs and corruption in Tehran.

As sinkholes appear along the Dead Sea, this documentary examines the entanglement of economic, military and geological forces in Israel and Palestine.

A passionate story told in flashback, Gaspar Noé’s sexually-charged melodrama is emblematic of his provocative style.

A modern day war documentary bringing together insights into Russian military training and family grief.

An alluring documentary paying homage to haute couture legend André Leon Talley.

A seductive exploration of NYC skate culture and female friendship in male-dominated spaces.

Collaborators Agnès Varda and JR traverse the countryside in a cine-van documenting French working-class life.

A dance rehearsal turns into a series of traumatic scenes after a bad trip on LSD.

The personal story of British rapper and activist M.I.A., from Tamil resistance politics to pop.

The Badlands Collective and ICA present four features by maverick and long overlooked director Elaine May.

A Palestinian drama following a father and son around Nazareth amid preparations for a family wedding.

A partial story of the US entertainment industry through the life of Quincy Jones.

A screening of Claire Denis’ Nénette and Boni and Mati Diop’s Big in Vietnam

Desiree Akhavan’s coming-of-age clash between evangelical Christianity and gender non-conforming teens, set in 1990s Montana.

A compassionate study of a working-class actor coming of age and coming out.

A meditative documentary that follows those who forage, salvage and find what is worth treasuring.

Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg chronicle the history of US abortion rights, namely the landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 and the pro-choice/pro-life battle that continues to rage in its wake.

Lizzie Borden’s 1983 feminist classic offers a futuristic vision of a post-revolutionary United States.

The true story of Scottish factory workers’ protest against Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.

The poetry of everyday life in contemporary France depicted via short films made on a live video streaming app.

Director Grégoire Beil presents the UK premiere of his innovative film, constructed entirely from Periscope exchanges.

Irish-American director Arthur MacCaig’s blistering and emotional portrait of those at the centre of the Troubles.

Donal Foreman's autobiographical essay on the legacy of his late father, radical filmmaker Arthur MacCaig, is followed by a Q&A with the director.

A satirical essay-film told from the perspective of Nothing, narrated by Iggy Pop and shot by 62 cinematographers in 70 countries.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s epic romance is a dreamlike journey through a continent divided by World War II.

An intimate biography of Milford Graves, master of the 1960s avant-garde jazz scene.

A satirical essay-film told from the perspective of Nothing, narrated by Iggy Pop and shot by 62 cinematographers in 70 countries.

This masterwork traces the final days of a young homeless woman who has drifted beyond the bounds of society.

In director Claude Faraldo’s 1973 satire, Themroc’s rebellion against dull conformism topples bourgeois society.

The festival returns for its eighth year, with a programme of contemporary and retrospective creative documentary and non-fiction filmmaking.

Charting Ada Colau’s momentous journey from radical activist to Mayor of Barcelona, the London premiere of this documentary is followed by a Q&A with director Pau Faus.

Marcelo Martinessi presents his Silver Bear winning feature, an intimate study of a lesbian couple formerly of Paraguay’s elite.

Two women forge and rekindle friendship based on their experiences of activism, in Agnès Varda’s feminist musical.

William Greaves’ joyfully opaque meta-documentary interrogates hierarchy, leadership and power structures.

Investigating how aid dollars are spent, Thor Neureiter’s documentary offers unique insight into a multi-billion dollar world. Followed by a Q&A with writer and producer Antony Lowenstein.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s epic romance is a dreamlike journey through a continent divided by World War II.

Director Pawel Pawlikowski’s haunting exploration of faith and history uses gritty monochrome to evoke Poland’s communist era.

Living by their own rules, two families inhabiting Siberia’s boreal forest are threatened by each other, wild animals and environmental change.

Eugene Jarecki’s film takes Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America.

In this documentary by Clément Cogitore, two feuding families live in adjoining compounds deep in Siberia’s boreal forest, their settlement completely unreachable by road.

An African-American detective infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in visionary filmmaker Spike Lee’s retelling of a true story.

Eugene Jarecki’s film takes Elvis Presley’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America.

This sensual and unsettling film explores fidelity and the myth of domestic happiness.

Ulrike Ottinger’s rarely seen first feature, shown on 16mm, is a highly aestheticised adventure of self-transformation.

A love letter to Welles that connects the director’s films to his paintings and drawings. Introduced by Jack Klaff.

Filmmaker Mark Cousins delves into Welles’ off-screen art in this heartfelt new portrait of the legendary actor and director.

Questions of responsibility and culpability swirl in this story of a forensics doctor who becomes convinced he has caused a child’s death.

Sitting somewhere between ethnography and magical realism, Shevaun Mizrahi’s debut documentary records the stories of the residents of an old people’s home in Istanbul.

Told in real time, Agnès Varda’s breakthrough film follows a young singer as she awaits a diagnosis.

On writing about artists’ and experimental film, led by critic & curator Ed Halter, and artist & editor Sam Ashby.

Frank Simon‘s rarely screened documentary follows a 24-year-old drag queen named Flawless Sabrina.

Avi Mograbi’s provocative documentary probes Israeli myth, memory and origin stories.

A dark Icelandic dramedy in which mistrust and petty conflicts between neighbours boil over into violent acts.

Marcelo Martinessi’s Silver Bear winning debut feature is at once a fine character study and an acute commentary on class privilege.

A Sundance prize-winner documents a father training his sons to become soldiers of holy war.

Created entirely from hundreds of hours of Chinese surveillance footage found online, Dragonfly Eyes is an attempt to understand how the spaces in which we live are increasingly framed by the gaze of others, both human and computer.

Agnès Varda’s gorgeously filmed, radical debut is a penetrating study of a marriage in trouble.

Artists Tony Cokes, Branda Miller, Ellen Cantor, Peter d’Agostino and Ed Emshwiller explore the power of ‘the media’.

Vincent Lindon plays a traumatised war reporter investigating an 18-year-old’s sighting of the Virgin Mary.

Fairy tales weave with mafia control in this story of a missing 13-year-old and one girl’s unrelenting desire to find him.

El Mar La Mar by J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua Bonnetta is an attempt via an innovative combine of aesthetics, sound design and ethnography to tell the story of migration across the Sonoran desert into the US.

A trio of women wrestle with the rules and restrictions of their faith in British director Daniel Kokotajlo’s devastating debut.

A new presentation of footage filmed in the Sonoran Desert, near the perilous US-Mexico border.

This experimental documentary chronicles the stories of migrants at the US–Mexico desert border. The screening is followed by a Q&A with director Joshua Bonnetta.

Wim Wenders’ striking homage to dance theatre choreographer Pina Bausch.

Jacques Rivette’s 1966 drama returns to the screen in a glorious new digital restoration.

Returning home to attend his father’s funeral in the Dominican Republic, an evangelical Christian must defend his belief.

Unable to find a job, Tina, a Taiwanese recent graduate living in London, starts working in a massage parlour as a receptionist.

Unable to find a job, Tina, a Taiwanese recent graduate living in London, starts working in a massage parlour as a receptionist.

An epic document of the run up to Uruguay’s 1989 referendum questions the compatibility of justice and peace.

A hypnotic, dreamlike meditation on the troubled borders of Eastern Europe’s past and present.

Wim Wenders’ debut film about an errant goalkeeper losing his mind, newly remastered in 4K.

Orphaned at six years old, Frida is adopted by her uncle’s family in the Catalan countryside and learns to cope with her trauma, displacement, confusion and loneliness.

Mother and daughter duo move to a new town, face the wrath of frenemies and retreat into fantasy.

Frederick Wiseman delves into the inner workings of the New York Public Library, highlighting its rich and layered range of community services.

A lyrical film by Frances Scholz and Mark von Schlegell set amid the cultural mythologies, fakery and shared hallucinations of Los Angeles.

Dual screening featuring the story of Ake, a young paralysed man in Thailand, and a memorial portrait of artist Mark Aguhar.

Assaulted and raped by policemen, a young Tunisian woman struggles against patriarchal systems, systemic corruption and the narrative of victimhood.

Cyclist David Millar, once famously banned for doping, trains for a final race.

Orphaned at six years old, Frida is adopted by her uncle’s family in the Catalan countryside and learns to cope with her trauma, displacement, confusion and loneliness.

Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s portrait of the influential psychologist, philosopher, writer and revolutionary Frantz Fanon.

An intimate portrait of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, following his return to music after battling cancer.

A kaleidoscope of short films by African women filmmakers, curated by June Givanni.

This chronicle of the Shakedown parties, hosted by African-American lesbians in Los Angeles, shows how the underground strip club events galvanized a community.

This chronicle of the Shakedown parties, hosted by African-American lesbians in Los Angeles, shows how the underground strip club events galvanized a community.

A tale of love and loss, this animated fantasy tells the story of Maquia, an immortal teenage girl who raises a mortal child.

A rare selection of short films by the pioneering Japanese filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto (1932 – 2017).

Set in Tokyo’s underground gay scene in the 1960s, Matsumoto’s disorientating counter-cultural narrative is part quasi-documentary, part fiction and unrestrained experiment.

A retired teacher uncovers a rare collection of film history paraphernalia in small town Iowa.

This latest biopic about Whitney Houston brims with revelations told in interviews with her closest circles.

Frederick Wiseman, master documentarian, takes the audience behind the scenes of this British institution.

Preview screening featuring an intro and Q&A session with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto about his life and work.

As more details of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US election emerge, acclaimed filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin assembles a fever dream of Russian propaganda aimed at both Clinton and Trump from YouTube and other media platforms.

An exploration of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s pre-fame years, offering a window into his life and the city that shaped his work.

A gritty penetrating story of adolescence to adulthood set in a small Romani community in Calabria.

As more details of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 US election emerge, acclaimed filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin assembles a fever dream of Russian propaganda aimed at both Clinton and Trump from YouTube and other media platforms.

Rock documentary about musician Linn da Quebrada challenging machismo, transphobia, and racism in Brazil.

Rock documentary about musician Linn da Quebrada challenging machismo, transphobia, and racism in Brazil.

A gritty penetrating story of adolescence to adulthood set in a small Romani community in Calabria.

A chronicle of Studio 54’s founders, who created a den of excess for the ostracized, queer and fabulous.

This documentary follows Matt Johnson of the English band The The, as he dives into a new creative project to purge his sense of disenchantment and inertia.

A gritty penetrating story of adolescence to adulthood set in a small Romani community in Calabria.

This experimental film reconstructs the life story of a man found living with feral dogs in Moscow in the mid-1990s.

This documentary follows Matt Johnson of the English band The The, as he dives into a new creative project to purge his sense of disenchantment and inertia.

The powerful impact of Alexander's personality and work is captured in never-before-seen home movies, audio tapes and behind the scenes footage.

The newly restored sci-fi cult classic featuring New York's new wave fashion and music scenes returns with visceral glory.

This experimental film reconstructs the life story of a man found living with feral dogs in Moscow in the mid-1990s.

Lost for decades, extraordinary footage re-emerges about the Beales of Grey Gardens and artist Peter Beard's vibrant creative community in Montauk in the 1970s.

Fateful coming of age story about American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Chloé plunges into a dark and bewildering world of smoke, mirrors and doppelgangers when investigations reveal that her lover leads a double life.

Artist Shen Xin presents a screening of new and recent video work.

Lost for decades, extraordinary footage shot by artist Peter Beard about the Beales of Grey Gardens and his vibrant creative community in Montauk in the 1970s re-emerges.

A radical documentary version of James Baldwin’s unfinished novel, uncovering America’s historical denial and irrational relationship with race.

An officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America pines for a letter from the king granting him a long-awaited transfer.

This documentary delves into the illegal mineral trade and cyclical violence marring the Democratic Republic of Congo.

An animated children’s tale about eleven-year-old Parvana, who dresses as a boy to support her family under Taliban rule.

Intergalactic traveller WA4 lands in a satellite city of Brasilia, where he teams up with outer-space warriors to battle monsters occupying National Congress.

The artist-filmmaker's first solo presentation of moving image work in the UK, whose work reappraises colonialism and the routes of the slave trade for their underlying contemporary significance.

A retrospective of the work of Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel, celebrating her complex, unsettling cinema.

Shedding light on the relationship between a document and its political context, this filmic essay investigates lasting affects on participants of momentous historical events.

Anarchic, complicated and undeniably charming, Paula, a French hot-mess heroine, sets out to reinvent herself.

Documentary portrait of Leon Vitali, director Stanley Kubrick’s muse and right-hand man.  

Trapped on a supernatural island, five privileged and savagely violent teenagers test temptation, lust and power.

Anime adventure film about a curious young girl who finds a witch’s flower in the woods and is granted magical powers for one night only.

Jayne Mansfield. Goddess? Genius? Satanist? A true story about the blonde bombshell created to rival Monroe.

The story of the birth of the most complete theoretical and political transformation of the world since the Renaissance – driven, against all expectations, by two brilliant, insolent and sharp-witted young men from wealthy families.

Fifteen-year-old Charley lives with his alcoholic father and takes a job at a local racetrack to keep afloat, as he struggles to find belonging on the fringes of society.

Third annual festival of films, workshops and artist presentations, this time exploring the idea of landscape.