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.

Curated by artist Geumhyung Jeong, this film programme accompanies the artist's exhibition Under Construction.

Featuring Tilda Swinton as the voice of Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Mark Cousin's new work tells the story of a remarkable artist and a magnificent obsession.

Mara, a young creative writing professor dealing with a strained marriage, reunites with Matt, a charismatic, free-spirited author from her past. But as their mutual connection grows, pressure also mounts against their close, but undefined, relationship.

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.

A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.

Acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop's latest film is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives on far-reaching issues surrounding appropriation, self-determination and restitution.

The latest work from Jacques Audiard, awarded in Cannes, is an audacious and genre-bending fever dream tracing the journey of four remarkable women in Mexico, each pursuing their own happiness.

A special programme dedicated to the acclaimed Soviet and Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov presented in partnership with Pushkin House. Featuring the UK premiere of his most recent work, Fairytale, and offering the opportunity to explore the major facets of his cinematic universe.

This year’s boisterous Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival is a New York odyssey that is the most immersive and accomplished comic adventure yet from American original Sean Baker (The Florida Project, Red Rocket, Tangerine). 

Alexander Sokurov's first feature film follows Red Army soldier Nikita Firsov, who returns home to a remote Soviet village after the Civil War, haunted by disturbing memories.

Winner of the Golden Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language work starrs Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore in a moving adaption of Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through.

The UK's music documentary film festival returns for its eleventh edition with a programme of four screenings.

A double bill bringing together one of Hong Sangsoo's most rigorously composed works and his most structurally playful.

Genesis P-Orridge lived their art to the extreme. A pioneering musician, avant-garde artist, spiritual explorer and gender revolutionary, Genesis has been featured in films and videos, but never the full story… never this intimate... until now.

Burning Bridges tells the explosive story of an artist who challenged boundaries and pushed to the most extreme edges of creativity.

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.

To celebrate the release of the 13th edition of YES & NO magazine, which sheds light on more than one hundred years of the all-but-hidden history of Austrian cinema and film, YES & NO present a two-part programme in partnership with the ICA.

With the biggest programme dedicated to Korean cinema outside of the country itself, The London Korean Film Festival returns for its 19th edition with an exciting programme including Cinema Now, Women’s Voices and Special Screenings.

Manny Coto’s 1992 slasher film portrays an asylum escapee arriving to the town where his mass-murderer father was killed and soon starts on a spree of his own.

A delightful comic mystery of mistaken identity, he-said she-said, and excessive drinking, Hong Sangsoo's eighteenth feature questions what it means to know someone and to be known.

Hidden away deep in the suburban San Fernando Valley, legendary cult musician Swamp Dogg, alongside housemates Moogstar and Guitar Shorty, has transformed his home into an artistic playground.

The latest cinematic venture from Academy Award-winning auteur Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank) is a bold and evocative exploration of a fractured world told through the untainted eyes of youth. 

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel's occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.

Structured around both commemorative rites for departed ancestors and actual funerals that occasionally draw young, failing actor Kim Seong-jin (Kang Seung-ho) back from Seoul to his family home in rural Daegu, Oh Jung-min’s feature debut tracks multiple generations of the extended Kim family.

A special 35mm double bill of Jim Jarmusch's existential tale of a mysterious loner journeying across Spain, preceded by, perhaps, his most beloved Coffee and Cigarettes short starring Iggy Pop and Tom Waits. Screening on rare 35mm prints from the ICA archive.

Sokurov employs his signature cinematic style to craft a phantasmagoric scene where four of the most infamous leaders of twentieth-century European history, alongside Christ and a cameo appearance by Napoleon, wander aimlessly, muttering in their native languages. 

Love, death, miscommunication and friendship abound in this exquisite double bill of two of Hong Sangsoo's most astounding works.

Made in Prague Festival presents a multilayered portrait of Czech dissident playwright turned head of state, who became a political icon while retaining his insight, humour, and dedication to public service. 

Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, Ana, Patricia, and Mayela found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires.

Johan Grimonprez’s film essay, anchored by the rhythm of American jazz, reveals disturbing truths about the decolonial struggle between global political powers.

A programme of six short form works addressing land and identity.

Christmas Eve in Miller's Point sees four generations of the Balsano family gather for what may be the last Christmas in their family home in small-town Long Island.

London Palestine Film Festival (LPFF) presents its 2024 edition with a selection of recently released titles alongside favorites from throughout the years. We aim to present stories of political realities as experienced by Palestinians at home and in the diaspora through the creative lens of cinema. 

A programme of seven short form works addressing fate and kinship.

A programme of three films by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, delving into the Sansour’s family history.

Monica Maurer and Samir Nemr's The Fifth War gives a visceral account of the 1978 ‘Litani Operation’, in which Israeli forces invaded south Lebanon aiming to eradicate the PLO. Mustafa Abu Ali's Scenes from Occupation in Gaza is a documentary that presents some of the Israeli occupation measurements against Palestinians, and a profile of the struggle of Palestinian people in the Gaza strip after the 1967 invasion.

At the centre of Hong Sangsoo's twenty-fifth feature as director and his first as cinematographer, sit a series of intergenerational interactions, as Youngho, a young man on the brink of adulthood, questions the direction his life is taking.

Filmmaker Sonia Kronlund investigates a man hiding himself behind so many identities, through the eyes of his victims.

When a local snow leopard claims the lives of nine rams belonging to a herder, tensions escalate as the herder seeks retribution while his father, monk brother and law enforcement advocate to save the leopard at all costs.

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.

Beautifully simple and heartbreakingly tender, Hong Sangsoo's In Front of Your Face is a rapturous exploration of faith, mortality, and hope.

Disconsolate Ivorian bride Aya abandons her groom at their wedding, then promptly moves to the Chinese city of Guangzhou where she finds work in a tea shop owned by a divorced trader.

Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book, Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing estate. The beginning of an experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.

PUNISHMENT marks the second instalment of the Lates series; an exploration of fetishistic desire, curated by Harlan and Helena Whittingham in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute’s UK Fetish Archive.

To coincide with the release of her latest work, All We Imagine as Light, the ICA presents a focus on one of the most remarkable emerging names in contemporary cinema, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia.

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.

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.

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.

A programme of short films by filmmaker Payal Kapadia.