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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The uncertainty of creativity, the joy of friendship, and the bittersweet nature of existence combine in this serenely melancholic story of three friends attempt to make a short film.

Payal Kapadia’s bold and distinctive debut feature is an immersive and spiritual work addressing issues of artist production as well as the political complexities of contemporary India. A Night of Knowing Nothing is framed by fictional letters from a female student to her estranged lover. 

A rare opportunity to see Jean-Luc Godard's radical reinvention of Bizet's opera, screening exclusively for ICA Members and their guests.

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.

An elegiac study of the transformative effects of language, poetry and sincerity, Hong Sangsoo's third collaboration with Isabelle Huppert, is a moving portrait of one of the filmmakers most mysterious characters.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

A coming-of-age story set against a multigenerational war in the post-Soviet Caucasus Mountains.

The artist has selected three examples of her past work for this special screening: Munbangu, RECORD STOP PLAY and Delivery Service 2020.

In a barbaric fantasy sci-fi trip through time, sword-and-sorcery mythology is bent, fractured, and gender-swapped by master visionary Bertrand Mandico.

Bertrand Mandico's debut feature tells the tale of five adolescents drawn to crime, transgressions and genderfluidity, shot in gorgeous 16mm.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

A curated programme of works by Jean-Luc Godard, spanning six decades, further contextualising his legacy in both film and visual art. 

Winner of the Cannes Special Palme d’Or, Jean-Luc Godard's final feature film is a bracing, beautiful and confrontational essay film interrogating our relationship with film, culture and global politics.

Barbara Hammer's The Female Closet , combines rare footage, interviews, and rich visual documentation to survey the lives of three variously closeted and not-so-closeted artists from different segments of the 20th century. Followed by a conversation between artist Nicole Eisenman and writer Andrew Durbin.

Godard's submission to television anthology Série Noire is a typically relexive, philosophic and freewheeling exploration of the always-precarious relationship between television, film, and video. 

Polyphonic and disquisitive in equal measure, Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique is an at turns hopeful and melancholy meditation on both the war and barbarism of the twentieth century and the nature and essence of cinema.

Shot alternately in black-and-white 35mm and fauvist digital colour, Éloge de l'amour is a densely layered exploration of love, resistance and betrayal.

A daring queer love story between a young Arab drag queen and a white cis corporate gay man, exploring the relationship and conflicts between identity and desire, revealing how far we will all change who we are to be with the people we so desperately desire.

An eight-part video project, whose genesis can be traced both to the great Henri Langlois and a series of lectures Godard gave at Concordia University in 1978, Histoires(s) du cinéma, is both a monumental treatise on cinema as a medium, industry and art form and a profoundly moving examination of the century it defined.

In many ways both the beginning and the apotheosis of Godard's collage films, this sprawling essayistic voyage through the twentieth century serves as both a testament and indictment of the medium that defined it.