A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.

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

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.

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.

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 darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction following the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives.

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

A strikingly realised stop-motion animation, invoking a magical forest world teeming with Indigenous history and legend, with an uncompromising environmental and anti-colonialist message from the director of My Life as a Courgette.

Painfully contemporary, Robert Bresson's penultimate film portrays a youth caught between a sense of aimlessness and a necessity to resist in the face of the state of the world. 

From the Oscar-winning director of 20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov’s latest film follows a Ukrainian platoon's mission: traverse a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces. 

Johanne's untold love and writing ignite familial conflict, revealing generational divides on love, sexuality, and the line between art and intimacy.

The history and politics of 19th century Argentina are unravelled with playful abandon in Mariano Llinás' exploration, analysis and recreation of an album by singer Ignacio Corsini.

The second part of Mariano Llinas' investigation into the music of Ignacio Corsini narrows in on the man behind the music and his roots in the Argentine countryside.

As Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour, their legacy takes on new dimensions through a genre-defying cinematic odyssey directed by Alex Ross Perry—melding biopic, stage musical, and museum exhibition into a hall-of-mirrors tribute that blurs the lines between fact and fiction.

My Beautiful Laundrette established the career of writer Hanif Kureishi, launched the cinema star that is Daniel Day-Lewis and catapulted director Stephen Frears into the spotlight. This culture-clash controversial comedy captured the tensions of multiculturalism and Thatcherism whilst its central gay inter racial relationship was both praised and criticised. 

Laura Citarella’s labyrinth of fictions is an enigmatic and liberating mystery that embodies El Pampero Cine’s inventive spirit whilst also forging new and intriguing directions.

An underground classic, Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie offers a unique and unprecedented variation on chaos, approximation, confusion and rebellion while sketching a feverish portrait of a group of runaways and young marginals as they roam the city of Seoul.

This double bill, sun-drenched and set on both sides of the Mediterranean, takes up the theme of the love encounter. Followed by DJ sets by Hegoa and Arapiente in the ICA Bar.

This double bill brings together two films directed respectively by Chantal Akerman and Jean-Pierre Gorin, both shot by cinematographer Babette Mangolte on opposite coasts of the United States, capturing fragments of life in peripheral and marginalised neighborhoods of New York and Los Angeles.

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.

Julien Colonna’s debut feature is a taut, sun-scorched crime drama that pulses with the tension of familial loyalty, territorial power, and adolescent awakening.

An entirely ordinary day on the beds ward of a surgical department. The nursing team is understaffed due to a shortage of personnel. Despite the hectic environment, Floria cares for her patients with expertise and full dedication.

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.

At 38, BAFTA award-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant, and broke. Shot over 20 years, Motherboard is a celebration of messy lives, capturing the pain, joy and comedy of raising her son Jim alone.

After a blind date, Marianne meets Tor on a ferry, provoking a curiosity about his approach to casual, spontaneous intimacy.

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.

Walter Salles' Oscar-nominated road movie centres upon the emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Jim Jarmusch's eccentric post-modern take on the crime thriller is an arresting combination of the irresistibly cool hitman movies of Jean-Pierre Melville and the philosophical underpinnings of samurai mythology.

Haunted by a tumultuous past, Vera has spent 20 years in refuge at a Belarusian monastery. Guided by her love of horses, she sets out on a path of redemption.

Blending heartache, humour and healing, Sorry, Baby is a bitingly-funny debut by director and actor Eva Victor.

Set in May of 2020, Ari Aster's latest film centres upon a stand-off between a small town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) which sparks a powder keg in the town of Eddington, New Mexico as neighbour is pitted against neighbour.

A haunting testament to the resilience of daily life under siege in Gaza. Captured through a filmmaker's video calls with Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona, these calls act as a powerful digital lifeline to the realities of war, resistance and survival.

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.

Two married men confront unexpected experiences that challenge their views on sexuality, identity, and gender — one through a same-sex encounter, the other through transformative dreams.

The debut feature film by Guadeloupean artist Malaury Eloi Paisley follows wanderers—prophets and seers—through Pointe-à-Pitre, a city both decaying and frozen in time. Followed by a Q&A with Malaury Eloi Paisley.

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.

Fritz Lang’s Moonfleet and Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog are two films that influenced Serge Daney’s understanding of cinema and the world early on, shaping the moral and aesthetic poles of his cinematic universe. Their influence would be felt throughout his career as a critic.

Haunted by a tumultuous past, Vera has spent 20 years in refuge at a Belarusian monastery. Guided by her love of horses, she sets out on a path of redemption.

First-time feature filmmaker Stéphane Ly-Cuong blends a heady cocktail of musical theatre, Vietnamese cuisine and second-generation tension to create a bitter-sweet musical comedy.

The debut feature from Slovenian director Urška Djukić is a tender portrayal, sensuously shot and beautifully scored, of the sexual awakening of a young chorister. 

Serge Daney in dialogue with Palestinian historian Elias Sanbar, who is engaged in archiving the photographic memory of his people. A meeting between two cultures and two different approaches to the image, a parable of North–South relations. Followed by a roundtable discussion featuring the programme curators, Arta Barzanji and Gerard-Jan Claes, joined by film scholars Pierre Eugène and Kate Ince, to discuss the enduring significance of his criticism.

Kenji Mizoguchi’s adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki, one of Japan’s greatest twentieth-century novelists, depicts a tragic love triangle in which ritual and repression entangle two sisters and one man in elegant torment. The film illuminates postwar familial hypocrisy with poignant, formal precision.

Described in various contexts as both an essay film and a landscape film, Too Early/Too Late is a diptych that juxtaposes a soundtrack reciting Friedrich Engels with images of landscapes from France and Egypt, investigating themes of history, land, and class struggle.

One of John Ford’s most lyrical, elegiac, and narratively sparse films, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon follows a cavalry captain (John Wayne) as he grapples with the ghosts of the past during his final mission before retirement.