The past and present finally meet in what would prove to be Theo Angelopoulos' final film. Intended as the middle section of a trilogy bridging Greece's history from post-WW1 to the present day, The Dust of Time centres upon an American filmmaker attempting to reconcile past and present while making a film about the journey of his mother.

A Greek-American filmmaker embarks upon an epic journey through the breadth of the Balkans, from desolate borders to cities under siege, in search of what is believed to be the very first film shot in the region.

With his fifth feature, Theo Angelopoulos turns to the dawn of the twentieth century for a politically charged fable centred upon the leader of a revolutionary commune, who causes an international incident when he takes a group of British aristocrats hostage.

A fantastical exploration of performance, The Written Face drifts through the twilight between reality and dreams, drawing out the artistic philosophies of kabuki star Bando Tamasaburo V and other legends like Kazuo Ohno, captured with Daniel Schmid’s singular aesthetic vision.

Theo Angelopoulos' second feature, and the first part of his trilogy of history, Days of '36 leans further into the procedural tendencies of his debut as he crafts a densely layered investigation into the machinations of political corruption.

The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express returns to the ICA for its 69th edition running from 8 to 19 October.

Harris Dickinson’s debut, featuring Frank Dilane in a career-defining role, is a lyrical portrait of youth, loss and fragile resilience though the experience of rough sleeper in London.

Enigmatic and endlessly intriguing, the cinema of German filmmaker Angela Schanelec defies easy classification. For more than thirty years Schanelec has crafted a singular body of work that is both elliptical and philosophical. Drawing and departing from classical dramaturgy in almost equal measure, Schanelec's cinema, at its heart, is a cinema of being and becoming, a profound exploration of the very act of existing.

Set in pre-colonial Senegal, the film chronicles the titular Ceddo people's struggle to uphold their culture and traditions in the face of colonial and religious incursions from outside, as well as political intrigues from within. 

Awkward Moments present 90-minute performance-based mixed-media odyssey that reimagines the notion of Expanded Cinema as a queer dreamscape, transforming Cinema 1 into a shimmering space of fluid identity and radical expression. Featuring works from Awkward Moments & Norbert Schoerner, Zoë Marden, Eloise Fornieles & HOWL Vocal Ensemble, Grace Pickering & Sarah Nimmo, and Rowdy SS. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

One of the great works by the often overlooked Soviet filmmaker Boris Barnet, By the Bluest of Seas is a euphoric tale of love and friendship filled with lyrical imagery and bursting forth with desire, laughter and music. The screening will be introduced by Angela Schanelec.

As a part of our major retrospective of her work, the ICA is delighted to welcome filmmaker Angela Schanelec for an in-depth conversation about her background in theatre, her relationship to cinema, and her endlessly intriguing body of work.

Ana Vaz is a pioneering Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist whose experimental works push the boundaries of cinema. This project marks the ICA’s first comprehensive exploration of Vaz’s work, presenting four carefully curated sessions that reflect her bold cinematic vision and invite audiences to reimagine their perception of time, space, and life.

The first two sessions in this programme dedicated to the work of Ana Vaz narrow in on the influence of Vaz's hometown Brasília, Brazil's capital city, while also exploring the marks of colonialism and extractivism.

From explosive quarrels to tentative reunions, Maurice Pialat's elliptical examination of the end of an affair between a married filmmaker and his younger, working-class lover is a magnetic and unflinching work of autobiography.

Valerie decides to stay in the city for summer, rhythmically and directionlessly making contact with friends, lovers and family, with both affection and unease.

Set in a dystopian near-future Tokyo, Neo Sora’s striking debut feature follows a group of teenagers challenging the rigid expectations of society. Followed by a DJ set in the ICA Bar.

A taut political thriller and haunting character study, Ghost Trail follows a Syrian exile whose quiet life in Strasbourg unravels when he believes he’s found his former torturer. Followed by a Q&A with Jonathan Millet.

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.

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.

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.

A landmark in Latin American video art and experimental cinema, Sarah Minter's raw hybrid of documentary and fiction captures the lives of the Mierdas Punks, a rebellious youth gang on the outskirts of Mexico City. Preceded by Sarah Minter and Gregorio Rocha's dystopian short film Sabado de mierda.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This urgent documentary examines evidence of widespread destruction across Gaza’s medical infrastructure. Screenings are followed by Q&As with filmmakers and doctors.

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 hosted by Bassem Youssef.

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. 

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

Released in 1997, the year of Hong Kong’s handover, Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan soon garnered critical praise for its raw and unflinching portrayal of urban disillusionment and youthful hopelessness.

An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.

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.

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.

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.

SAFAR Film Festival is proud to be presenting the newly restored Watch Out for Zouzou (1972), by Hassan Al-Imam, a beloved 1970s Egyptian musical brimming with wit, romance, and cultural tension

A woman seeks her own brand of justice when her sister’s sexual harassment case is smothered by acts of foul play. Screening on a 16mm print from the ICA archive.

The ill-prepared crew of an American documentary production stumble into a rural town in Argentina in pursuit of their next viral story, and things spiral into from bathos into trendy mayhem.

The endlessly blurred and tangled lines of reality and fiction, cinema and theatre, and art and life form the heart of Jacques Rivette’s cinema. Throughout his extensive body of work the French filmmaker continually eschews and reformulates the traditional patterns of narrative cinema and instead embraces mystery, conspiracy, and the inexplicable.

Inspired by a true story, this touching film follows Shokoo as she brings her ailing ex-husband into her home, confronting love, memory, and forgiveness alongside her current husband, Reza.

As Edhi prepares to undergo gender reassignment surgery, she is filmed by a crew that includes lighting technician Alice. Exploring connections between the two women’s stories, director and queer activist Ilrhan Kim interrogates how documentaries about trans communities are made: the creative decisions, relationships, and ethical questions involved.

A satirical look at the frenzied professional and romantic lives of the staff of a daytime TV show. Screening on a 16mm print from the ICA archive.

Michio Okabe’s underground film was shot on 16mm in Shinjuku in 1968, and documents the radical spirit of Japan’s creative and artistic scene in those years.

Inspired by MGM’s low budget musicals of the 1950s, Rivette crafts an all-singing all-dancing sojourn through a sweltering Parisian summer in this captivating story of love, friendship and liberation.

Corinne Cantrill’s sole-authored, autobiographical feature, in which she traces her life story through a series of photographs and probes the relationships between body and image, cinema and photography, the moving and the static.

In response to his latest, autobiographical film Being John Smith, this programme brings together four works that explore, in different ways, what it is to “be” John Smith.

On the occasion of the launch of How to Do Things with VALIE EXPORT, a new book on her filmic work published by the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna) and Spector Books (Leipzig), we present a selection of canonical and lesser-known films by VALIE EXPORT, followed by a conversation about the artist's work.

The ICA partners with the Garden Cinema to present a 12-film retrospective curated by Instituto Rouanet, commemorating 60 years of L.C. Barreto Film Productions, Brazil’s legendary production company, helmed by the renowned family of filmmakers.

Set in 1950s–60s Rio amid Brazil’s brewing military coup, the turbulent relationship between American poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto) and architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Glória Pires) offers a unique perspective on this period in Brazil’s history.

The festival closes with a special musical interpretation of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bester Quartet.

A hallucinatory masterpiece blending Bruno Schulz’s novella with Has’s obsessions, where Józef, seeking his past, finds a sanatorium portal revealing his fears. Stylistically rich, with a striking atonal score.

Jérémie returns to his hometown for his former boss's funeral. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour, and a strange priest complicate his visit. 

Brutal and despairing, Jacques Rivette's radical reinterpretation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights transposes its tale of love and revenge from the English countryside to a Chateau in 1930s France.

A police chief is sent to a diamond mine to stop a tyrannical inspector. While travelling through the forest, he becomes involved in a tragic love affair with a beautiful indigenous girl.

Based on Graciliano Ramos’s posthumously published memoirs, this extraordinarily ambitious film from Nelson Pereira dos Santos centres on Ramos (Carlos Vereza) sinking ever deeper into a bizarre nightmare after he is locked up with other political prisoners in Rio de Janeiro and then, eventually, with all stripes of inmates on a remote island.

A tense and human musical about a family that survived the end of the world, from the director of The Act of Killing.

David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic on a 35mm print from the ICA Archives.

This Stephen Sayadian (aka Rinse Dream) double bill presents a unique and timely opportunity to both discover and appreciate the true auteur of Americana’s dark underbelly. Presented by the Armenian Film Society London (AFSL) and Daniel Bird.

A dystopian sci-fi oddity from one of American cinema's true underground originals, Café Flesh is a post-apocalyptic “adults-only” reworking of Bob Fosse’ Cabaret.

As sexually deranged as it is stylistically unhinged, this psychedelic surrealist neo-noir reworking of the 1920 German expressionist classic features Laura Albert as Mrs Van Houten, a woman whose libido is dangerously out of control. There’s only one place for her: the Caligari Insane Asylum.

Jean Cocteau's second interpretation of the Orpheus myth is a peerless work of visual poetry whose echoes reverberate through Rivette's oeuvre – from the labyrinthine streets of Paris to the marrying of the modern and the fantastical.

A tribute to the revolutionary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez and his “urgent cinema” approach he developed, making hundreds of incredibly innovative newsreels and documentaries raising public consciousness from the early 1960s. Followed by three important early shorts by Alvarez.

Raoul Peck's portrait of Ernest Cole, a South African photographer who was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience, resulting in his exile.

A tense and human musical about a family that survived the end of the world, from the director of The Act of Killing. Followed by an in-person Q&A with Joshua Oppenheimer and George MacKay.

A documentary portrait of British photographer Martin Parr’s politically charged, humanist and humorous work.

Jérémie returns to his hometown for his former boss's funeral. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbour, and a strange priest complicate his visit. This screening is followed by a Q&A with Alain Guiraudie.

An intense psychological drama featuring Amanda Seyfried as a troubled opera director facing current and past traumas as she works on a new staging of Salomé.

The UK’s biggest festival of Japanese cinema, the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme (JFTFP), returns to the ICA for its latest installment.

Locating identity within Iranian diaries, confronting the Arabian media archive, and using the writing of Marguerite Duras to interrogate hysterical, silenced ghosts, these short documentaries all deploy radical intervention. They blur the fictional and recompose the chronological. ‘My body has always been your first cinema’ becomes a sentence unwound; the regained self finally taking centre-stage.

In the past 50 years, pop has travelled around like an infection, accompanying revolutions, coups and the steady trudge of modern history – a balm for a spiritually lost world. Pop expands beyond its musical resonances as a constellation of social spaces, infiltrating the realm of politics and aesthetics.

Co-written by Shinji Aoyama and starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Cut follows a young filmmaker who finds himself in the unenviable predicament of owing the Yakuza, who, unbeknownst to him, had been the original source of funding for his film.

Gentrification and unregulated landlordism are fracturing communities, while social housing disintegrates and profits soar. However, as these films constantly underline we can and should resist. 

“Intimacy is much more (and much less) than sex,” Sophie K. Rosa writes in Radical Intimacy. This selection of new short films explores the connections we desire, or fear.

A programme of new short films for lovers of the hauntological, or those interested in the psychogeography of forgotten spaces.

In a world of relentless routines and quiet absurdities, this film series illuminates the radical potential of the ordinary. 

Reflecting on the traces that linger in the quiet pursuit to understand what lies ahead.In our most delicate moments of reflection, how are we to reconcile the lingering fragments bridging past and present?

From Palestinian worldmaking to the Cuban revolution, French colonial capture and Mexican post-revolutionary artistic revivals to the subversion of monuments of indigenous people, this programme explores art's relationship to (anti)coloniality across a range of historical and national contexts.

Nickel Boys tells the story of Elwood Curtis, a young African-American boy sent to the Nickel Academy after he is falsely accused of a crime. There he meets Turner, and the two form a close friendship trying to survive the horrors of the school.

An intense psychological drama featuring Amanda Seyfried as a troubled opera director facing current and past traumas as she works on a new staging of Salomé.

To coincide with the BFI's retrospective, the ICA presents a curated programme of work by Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.

As a part of our retrospective of the work of Jacques Rivette, we are delighted to present Howard Hawk's classic technicolor musical, a key inspiration for Céline and Julie Go Boating, screening exclusively for ICA Members and their guests.

The Austrian Cultural Forum London, in cooperation with the Austrian Film Institute, presents the third edition of watchAUT, a dedicated film festival featuring the best new and recent films to emerge from Austria that is both a timely snapshot and an intriguing reflection of the current status quo. 

Austrian experimental cinema has long been a hotbed of radical ideas and daring artistry, as this programme of shorts attests to.

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.

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

When the glittering Las Vegas revue she has headlined for decades announces it will close, Shelley (Pamela Anderson) sets out to plan her next act. Reconciling the life she's built, she decides to repair the complicated relationship with her daughter. 

Shot in a dazzling mixture of 35mm and 16mm film stocks, Jacques Rivette's hypnotic and long unavailable study of tempestuous love is one of the filmmakers most radical works.

Sent on a covert mission in Latin America, a Vietnam veteran’s allegiance begins to unravel as his awareness of his Latino heritage and role in an imperial conflict grows.

Sine Screen presents a programme of radical films born from the collective labour of filmmakers who rejected traditional hierarchies, aiming to create cinema for and by the people, in 1960s and 1970s East and Southeast Asia.

11-year-old Karin (voiced by GOTO Noa) is sent to stay with her grandfather and his goofy talking cat Anzu (voiced by MORIYAMA Mirai). Wishing to see her mother again, she goes with Anzu to visit her grave on the anniversary of her death... but their journey soon escalates into a magical adventure into the underworld.

A film and installation project by artist, filmmaker, and writer Arjuna Neuman and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva. Filmed in the Atacama desert it explores the entanglements and overlaps of historical events, past present and future, in this site. 

A film of two halves, Hong Sangsoo's first collaboration with Kim Minhee is both a radical culmination of his explorations with repetition and a profoundly beautiful portrait of the roles imagination and truth play in both art and love.

Whit Stillman's follow-up to his debut feature Metropolitan is another delightfully loquacious comedy of manners, this time centred upon two mismatched American cousins staying in Barcelona.

This double bill brings together two of Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's most intriguing works from the 1970s. Marking the filmmakers first long-form experiment with video, Numéro deux is a raw exploration of French family life in the 1970s, while Comment ça va incisively investigates the nature of audio-visual communication.

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. 

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.

The first Armenian production short-listed for Academy Awards tells the story of an American Armenian who returns to his homeland in 1948, decades after fleeing Armenia to the US as a child. 

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 special programme of three films celebrating the work of American filmmaker Whit Stillman.

Godard's 'neorealist musical' is a delightfully playful comedy centred upon a burlesque dancer (Anna Karina) who wants to have a baby but finds herself rebuffed by her lover (Jean-Claude Brialy). 

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.

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.

An actress and a poet each separately receive visitors, give advice and eat ramyun in Hong Sangsoo's thirtieth feature, a wondrous unravelling of philosophical conversations and simple pleasures.

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). 

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.

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. 

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. 

In conjunction with her exhibition, this 2003 horror film explores animate and inanimate objectification through a relationship with a jealous sex doll.

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.

Set between past and present, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds, despite exile, dispossession, and heartbreak. 

From acclaimed writer and activist Paul B. Preciado, Orlando, My Political Biography told through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s iconic novel.

The ICA partners with Project Art Divvy to present Divvy Film Festival London - a showcase of independent films from across South Asia and the diaspora, with filmmakers from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

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.

For the sixth straight year the ICA Cinema partners with independent film production unit Terratreme to present a selection of contemporary Portuguese cinema.

A special 16mm print of Alain Resnais' landmark film, screened exclusively for ICA Members and their guests.

The story of five unfinished Afghan Communist films, and just how far artists will go to keep making art in times of war and political repression.

The largest festival in the UK dedicated to cinema from the Arab world. This year’s festival theme aims to highlight a multitude of daily realities being faced across the Arab world and reflect on how small hopes and bigger dreams co-exist within such contexts.

The revolutionary period of Palestinian cinema began in 1968 with the founding of the Palestine Film Unit (PFU), dedicated not only to providing visual representation of and political education about the struggle for Palestinian liberation, but to asserting the right of Palestinians to be the subjects of their own representation.

In tribute to the life and work of German filmmaker Thomas Heise, his monumental historical essay about a family torn apart by the upheavals of the 20th century, returns to the ICA Cinema.

In the heart of Bairro Alto, right in the centre of Lisbon, the building of an old printing workshop is demolished to make way for luxury apartments. João Rojas crafts an intricate urban diary portraying the daily life of the construction site and those who work there. 

In order to overcome their delicate realities, Hasna, Muna, Nayla, Layal and Rim will have to navigate both private spaces and public places. But can they dare to dream of more fulfilling days ahead?

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s delicate debut feature is a tender, heartfelt drama about an eight-year-old’s indelible summer holiday of self-discovery.

British writer-director Luna Carmoon draws on her own life for this visceral psychological drama that won her the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at BFI London Film Festival 2023.

Winner of the best documentary award at Cannes, Payal Kapadia’s immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India.

An exploration of the historical experiences of Park Soo-nam, born in colonial-era Japan, retracing the journey and the history of ZainichiーKorean in Japan. Screening as a part of Korean Film Nights 2024.

In this documentary, linguist and liberal political activist Noam Chomsky presents his thoughts on how the mass media works against democracy's best interests. Screening on a rare 16mm print from the ICA archive.

Mithun, an impressionable eleven-year-old boy struggling to come to terms with the loss of his parents, is sent back to his idyllic home village to live with his estranged family. Sumanth Bhat’s debut feature is a delicate coming-of-age tale exploring themes of loss and acceptance.

Heiny Srour's multi-temporal, anti-narrative historical epic tells the stories of Arab women resisting both colonialism and male chauvinism.

Mixing political commentary, ethnography, teenage melodrama and genre horror, Bonello crafts a mysterious and subversive coming-of-age tale.

Another Man and the ICA partner to screen a selection of Super 8 short films from the Derek Jarman archive - presented by LUMA films and James Mackay. 

These short films showcase female characters facing immensely difficult personal, political, social and economic circumstances, and continuing on through different struggles. They demonstrate resilience and spirit. 

In the rolling hills of Wyoming, three mischievous children are tasked with collecting a blueberry pie from their local store. However, what begins as a simple errand soon evolves into an odyssey across the American West.

Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition, Heiny Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatisations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and Palestine.

Delicately weaving lightness and magical realism among heart-breaking desolation, Soudade Kaadan’s Venice Film Festival award-winner offers a powerful and moving perspective on the Syrian conflict.

The debut feature from acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams is a picaresque journey through contemporary America.

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. Screening on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.

The ICA, and host Ethan Lyon, are excited to welcome you to the ICA’s first Relaxed Screening.

ICA CINEMA champions innovative and daring films from international filmmakers past and present, providing a platform for their work to be shared and engaged with by UK audiences.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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.

The ICA partners with Klassiki and Glasgow-based Samizdat Eastern European Film Festival 2024 to present an instalment of bizarre, eerie, and unique animated films from the late Eastern Bloc (1980-1997). This is a collection of some of the most dreamlike and thought-provoking shorts from a time and place where the animated image served as a stage for radically unprecedented artistic and political expression.

The act of dreaming takes centre stage in Hong Sangsoo's luminous and profoundly melancholic film about a young woman coming to terms with her mothers emigration and the complications of a relationship with an older man.

Set in past and present South Africa, Milisuthando is a poetic coming-of-age personal essay documentary about what it means to become human in the context of race.

Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s explosive Cannes sensation is a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages.

Coinciding with Black History Month, the ICA partners with Reclaim The Frame and The New Black Film Collective to present a preview screening of Mati Diop's latest film, followed y a conversation.

The BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express returns to the ICA for its 68th edition running from 9 to 20 October.

Celebrated filmmakers Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell capture the radical visions of environmental activists ZAD (Zone à Défendre) as embodied in their everyday communal living.

Composed of arresting 16mm close-ups, Daniel Hui’s sombre chamber piece implores us to find connections between divergent acts of political dissidence across history.

Rooted in feminist modes of creativity and production, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s debut brings to life the remarkable Martinican writer and activist Suzanne Césaire.

Unresolved historical injustices and a devastating drought raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between indigenous farmers and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.

This Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner is an otherworldly account of the return of looted treasures to Africa, where their homecoming is hotly debated.

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

French provocateur Alain Guiraudie returns with a typically uncategorisable entertainment – a rural homecoming story mixing passion, crime, mushrooms and bedroom farce to dizzily involving effect.

Intimately observing a community of zoos and animal rescue centres across Argentina, Jessica Sarah Rinland’s feature-length second feature refutes the simple boundaries between human and non-human.

The ICA partners with Tom of Finland Foundation to present the premiere of Jamison Rockmore’s House of Leather, followed by a panel discussion with artists in residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation.

The next iteration in our Celluloid Sunday series presents Chinese filmmaker Chen Keige's acclaimed 1987 film on a rare 35mm print from the ICA Archive.

The ICA is delighted to present a retrospective of the films of Jon Sanders and Anna Mottram. Irreverent and punk in their making; subtle, affecting, and highly personal in their tone, Jon Sander and Anna Mottram’s underseen and under-shown films, crafted with virtually no budget and outside the traditional funding circuits, are unique and fascinating objects in the contemporary history of cinema.

A group of artists respond polyphonically to one starting prompt, the work and legacies of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, who passed away in 2015. 

Dedicated police detective Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong) is assigned the case of a series of horrific murders in a rural Chinese town, in this gripping thriller.

In 1966, Marguerite Duras, already a prolific writer of novels, plays and screenplays, turned to filmmaking, co-directing the first of her nineteen films. In collaboration with Another Gaze Editions, the ICA presents a full retrospective of her shorts, features and televisual work,  alongside several works she wrote, or to which she lent her voice.

The second part of Zhang Yimou's loose 'Red Trilogy' is a visually arresting drama of secret love starring Gong Li. Screening on a rare 16mm print from the ICA archive.

Two of Duras’s most simple but aesthetically radical films, both made using footage originally shot for two feature films.

In order to think about current practices of political dissidence, Maria Mire dives into the past and into the experience of Margarida Tengarrinha who played an important role in the antifascist resistance.

Duras’s narratively most conventional film is also perhaps her most personal, and its painful autobiographical components might explain the 22-year gap between writing the source novel and its translation onto the screen. A film about the waning of the French colonies, embodied here by an ageing, troublesome mother. With a brilliant performance by Bulle Ogier.

In a Mexican border town, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to unleash the curiosity and potential of his students.

Following nearly a decade of technological and formal innovation, often in the relatively isolated milieu of French television, Sauve qui peut (la vie) marked Jean-Luc Godard’s return to the spotlight and the beginning of another remarkably productive period. Featuring an oral cameo from Godard's friend and frequent sparring partner, Marguerite Duras.

Wanting to “finish what [she] had started” in 1975 with India Song, a film that had left her dissatisfied, Duras set out the following year, during the coldest days of winter, to remake it. The result is radical, even by Duras's standards: a film that does away with representation entirely.

A coming-of-age comedy-drama about three African American women living in Brooklyn.

Marguerite Duras’s first film as a director – co-directed with Paul Seban – is a delicate and poignant exploration of a man and a woman as they try to go their separate ways.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s eighth feature is ingrained with literary references that touch on existential and philosophical questions, such as the place of religion in our lives, while also rendering a sensitive and distinctive portrait of young people in contemporary Turkey.

Peter Brook acquired the rights to Marguerite Duras’s bestseller, Moderato Cantabile, as a vehicle for Jeanne Moreau whom he had directed in a theatrical production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. But the endeavour was much more collaborative than many filmic adaptations of Duras’s work.

Often overlooked, filmmaker Lorenza Mazzetti was a co-founder of the influential Free Cinema movement and a Cannes prize winner, this British Academy-funded film reevaluates her cultural significance reconnecting her work with the European modernist tradition.

Part two of a three programme retrospective on the internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019), who created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre. Presented by Sonic Cinema and The Phil Solomon Project, the series has been curated by Mark McElhatten and will be introduced by Eve Heller.

Programme one of a three part retrospective on the internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019), who created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre. Presented by Sonic Cinema and The Phil Solomon Project, the series has been curated by Mark McElhatten and will be introduced by Eve Heller.

Delicately weaving lightness and magical realism among heart-breaking desolation, Soudade Kaadan’s Venice Film Festival award-winner offers a powerful and moving perspective on the Syrian conflict.

Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre.

Part three of a three programme retrospective on the internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019), who created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre. Presented by Sonic Cinema and The Phil Solomon Project, the series has been curated by Mark McElhatten and will be introduced by Eve Heller.

For five years, Georgia and Sophia Scott followed the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouti.

A film about the American Left in the 1970s and the afterlives of political activism, a sprawling epic that interweaves the lives of numerous characters - hippies, farmers, immigrants, Native Americans and activists - as they navigate the complexities of American life. 

This programme curated by Jessica Sarah Rinland explores the work of Argentine filmmaker Narcisa Hirsch.

A perennial and dynamic presence in American avant-garde circles from New York to Los Angeles, Amy Halpern (1953–2022) remained dedicated to probing cinema’s special capacity to heighten perception and reveal ephemeral states of consciousness.

Simon Liu's analogue-based experimental film practice comprises abstract diary films, multi-channel video installations, and 16mm multiple-projection performances. This programme presents a body of short films made between 2014 and 2024 amid the ongoing political unrest in Hong Kong, his place of origin.

Argentine-British artist filmmaker Jessica Sarah Rinland proposes a cinema of tactility. Closely observing the work of archivists, archaeologists, naturalists, and others, her films investigate museological and environmental conservation as a creative process. This programme consists of a selection of works made between 2006 and 2021 and is followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

An underseen gem of ‘80s American independent cinema by Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the newly restored Tokyo Pop takes us on a breezy tour through bubble era Tokyo, replete with knowing nods to the city’s vibrant pop culture.

A 30th anniversary screening of Atom Egoyan’s stylish, hypnotic puzzle of a film centred around a strip-club where a group of characters intertwine and their histories and traumas are slowly revealed.

December 1919. The American government deports 249 anarchists and radicals on the “Soviet Ark”. Five years later, this same ship becomes the decor of Buster Keaton’s slapstick comedy The Navigator.

Following up his Golden Bear-winning Bad Luck Banging, Radu June crafts a two part tragi-comedy which caustically dissects corporate malfeasance and the absurdities of modern life.

From one of the most established names of Iranian cinema, comes a subtle and lyrical drama of a man and woman. The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home

The ICA’s annual convening dedicated to experiments in artists’ moving image returns in Spring 2022 with a programme that addresses significant shifts in moving image practices.

Screening from a new 4K restoration, Jacques Rivette's hynoptic and long unavailable study of tempestuous love is one of the filmmakers most radical works, and a striking examination of performance, art, theatre and life.

A special preview screening of Sean Price Williams' picaresque journey through contemporary America.

This full-length documentary, made from found footage and shot over a number of years, focuses on family, identity and emigration (through the lens of Polish-Irish-South African-English ties), as well as the circle of life, death and rebirth.

Robin Campillo, director of the acclaimed 120 BPM and Eastern Boys, mines the memories of his upbringing in post-colonial Madagascar to create a spellbinding, autobiographically inspired drama that mixes forms and textures to stunning and imaginative effect. 

Filmmaker Thierno Souleymanne Diallo embarks on a quest to find the seminal lost Guinean film Mouramani, and in turn interrogates the disparate cultures of film-making, archiving and exhibition across Europe and Africa today.

A special screening of Oleksandr Dovzhenko's fiercely poetic and politically radical film with live music accompaniment.

The second of two screenings dedicated to the work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

The first of two screenings dedicated to the work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.

Stanley Kwan combines melodrama and ghost story to stunning effect in this story of doomed romance starring Cantopop icons Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. Screening on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.

The latest film from Yorgos Lanthimos tells the fantastical tale of a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist.

The lives of extreme hoarders revolve around Ritsuki (Shinoda Ryo) as he takes on a new path with a specialised cleaning crew for hoarder houses. In this anthological comedy, he confronts not only cluttered spaces but also clients with diverse challenges, exploring the complexities in the lives of those on the fringes of Japanese society.

A shocking mystery unfolds as bodies are discovered, implicating dedicated caregiver Shiba Munenori (Matsuyama Kenichi) in the deaths of 42 elderly patients.

From a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland: through Priscilla Presley’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage.

A special preview screening of filmmaker Jonathan Glazer's (Under the Skin, Birth) chilling and oblique examination of the Holocaust, and the capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity.

This screening, of work by commerical and music director Ian Pons Jewell includes music videos for Kwes, Tinie Tempah, Beardyman, and Paolo Nutini alongside short films, provides an opportunity to see Ian's uncompromising vision in action.

Everybody in the place, make some noise. LSFF throws it back in the ICA Theatre to the heyday of 90s club culture with a selection of short films from that iconic era, mixed with contemporary works that evoke the same free spirit and good vibes.

Deep within a foggy wood or out in a verdant green field; the countryside holds magic, history and fantastical visions, as this selection of shorts reveals.

This programme of Latin American short films explores the internet and our digital nature in a variety of ways. The films are creative, fun, thought-provoking, and sometimes even critical of the internet's impact on our lives.

João Canijo’s captivating exploration of the intricacies of intergenerational family dynamics forms one half of a diptych of films set in a family hotel on Portugal’s northern shore.

An intimate portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past.

A rarely-seen series of shorts (some screening for the first time in London) directed by Sara Gómez between the early 1960s and 1970s, this programme offers a study of rhythms during the critical stage of the revolutionary process.

It wouldn't be opening night without LSFF's annual comedy extravaganza, from dry to slapstick, ponderous to nonsensical, and acerbic to heartfelt

Four Chambers, Zodiac Film Club and LSFF welcome you into the ICA theatre on opening night for a multi-screen, multi-format screening of films that mirror and speak to each other, entwined around themes of sex, domesticity, looking, and the materiality of cinema.

An elliptical voyage through the Mediterranean that elegantly explores layers of histories and the traces our actions leave behind.

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. Screening on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.

Sixteen-year-old Madeline joins a New York City physical theatre troupe. When the ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur.

From a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland: through Priscilla Presley’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage.

Annemarie Jacir’s deceptively low-key road movie explores the complicated relationship between a father and son, as the two prepare for a family wedding.

‘Film’ at the ICA encompasses the most challenging and underrepresented aspects of international narrative cinema, documentary practices and experimental moving image works that test the boundaries of film and video media.

Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism – and put her life in danger.

Marion Hänsel's adaptation of J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country, stars Jane Birkin in one of her best roles. Screening on 35mm from the ICA archive.

A special preview screening of Agniia Galdanova's film centred upon Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, stages radical performances in public that become a new form of art and activism - and put her life in danger.

A spellbinding and enigmatic cross between feminist revenge thriller, folk horror, and animation that offers a dazzlingly new take on political themes. Screening as a part of London Migration Film Festival.

Based entirely on courtroom footage in which members of the military junta are tried for their brutal involvement in Argentina’s military dictatorship, Ulises de la Orden's film is a tour de force of political filmmaking.

Shusuke Kaneko’s manga adaptation following the lives of a group of boys at a remote boarding school, screens on a rare 35mm print from the ICA archive.

Rooted in Filipino realities – both concrete and cinematically reimagined – John Torres’ meticulous yet generous approach is a synthesis of the personal and the political.

Huw Lemmey and Onyeka Igwe’s investigation of the historical convergence of British espionage and homosexuality, screening as a part of Gray Wielebinski’s Film Club.

Horror can reveal the insidious impositions afflicting society, ecology, geopolitical relations and our very bodies. The supernatural and occult can be a tangible force, bringing these oppressions into focus and directing us towards acts of resistance.

One of Campos’ most original films, this exploration of the life of a fishing community in the central region of Portugal, diverts from a rigid ethnographical portrait and instead discovers a new way to approach the reality of these people living in post-revolutionary Portugal.

Nicole Chi Amén’s documentary is both a personal reflection on her relationship to her Guián (Enping for grandmother) and a portrait of Chinese emigration in Costa Rica. Presented in partnership with Sine Screen.

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s delicate debut feature is a tender, heartfelt drama about an eight-year-old’s indelible summer holiday of self-discovery.

Off-Circuit launches with the UK Premiere of Wang Bing’s portrait of classical composer Wang Xilin.

For five years, Georgia and Sophia Scott followed the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouti.

A portrait of intense physical labour against the landscape of coastal Maine at its most beautiful.

The festival returns at the ICA with a curated selection of premiering films taking over      Cinema 1 for ten days.

Amanda Kramer’s latest is a psychedelic, paranoid ode to musical divas of the ’70s and ’80s

James Benning chronicles a year in the life of Allensworth, the first town in California to be founded and governed by African Americans.

A teen actor’s quest to gain authenticity in her performance as a pregnant runaway becomes a rich study of Dominican girlhood.

Six years after his searing Western Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton returns to the Festival with an artful and fiercely political tale of spiritual worlds colliding.

A young Jewish woman’s relationship with a British policeman stationed in British Mandatory Palestine has lasting consequences for the region in this historical thriller.

Radu Jude’s follow-up to the Golden Bear-winning Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a pin-sharp, caustically funny critique of workplace culture and oppression.

Following the life of radical queer performance artist Gena Marvin in Russia, Agniia Galdanova’s documentary is every bit as bold and brave as its protagonist.

The end of the world is nigh, as Lars von Trier employs a planetary apocalypse to explore the crippling nature of psychological trauma.

Artist and farm worker Pierre Creton’s hybrid film, set among the rural landscape of Normandy, combines the wonders of gardening with stark physicality.

A high-school senior escapes a Washington school trip and takes her own subversive journey through underground America, in this darkly comic travelogue.

A rare 16mm screening of Mark Rappaport’s creative biopic about actress Jean Seberg which seamlessly interweaves cinema and politics, showing on a print from the ICA archive.

Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest presents a ’70s musical midnight movie starring Trash Tgirl-superstar Holly Woodlawn.

A day-long screening of Moment 2, followed by an in-person reading by Francis Whorrall-Campbell, and conversation with Deborah-Joyce Holman, Imani Mason Jordan and Rebecca Bellantoni launching the new publication Queen for a Day.

The first programme in the No Master Territories series includes works that challenge the representation and commodification of women’s bodies.

The first UK survey of the work from the American artist, including all her completed short films and more.

The end of the world is nigh, as Lars von Trier employs a planetary apocalypse to explore the crippling nature of psychological trauma.

With her luminous debut, Grammy-nominated producer and singer-songwriter turned documentarian D. Smith opens a window into the lives of Black transgender women sex workers in America.

In the Copenhagen suburbs, a commune aims to disrupt bourgeois society by spontaneously feigning physical or mental disabilities in public.

A group of indigenous Achuar children roam the jungle along the Ecuador–Peru border. The natural world is their habitat, playground and workshop.

Raul Domingues’ second feature film is a fluid and digression-filled exploration of the very earth beneath our feet.

In a fictional American desert town circa 1955 the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

Three recent restorations from the D.I.Y generation of American filmmaking whose work explored controversial subjects and countered mainstream representations.

A devoutly anarchic comic satire on religion, greed and consumerism in 1980s America.

Lars von Trier spins a family tragedy into a fable that is both magical and nightmarish, but thoroughly in keeping with the filmmaker’s vision.

A rare 35mm screening of Kaizo Hayashi’s 1989 haunting and magical tale of two brothers from a circus family, showing on a print from the ICA Archive.

After his critically acclaimed debut Lynn + Lucy, British-Moroccan filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa enhances his reputation with an acutely observed tale of love, identity and belonging.

A vigilante cult of young women prowls the city for sinners in this psychological horror from writer/director Anita Rocha da Silveira.

A vigilante cult of young women prowls the city for sinners in this psychological horror from writer/director Anita Rocha da Silveira.

Kaizo Hayashi’s beguiling and dreamlike tribute to silent cinema screens on a rare 16mm print from the ICA Archive.

The true story of Maureen Kearney (Isabelle Huppert), who after denouncing top-secret deals that shook the nuclear sector, finds her life suddenly turned upside-down.

In a Palestinian town, Tamer and his friends lead a typical high school student’s life until the arrival of the beautiful Maysaa.

Embarking on a journey across years, this screening showcases a multifaceted portrayal of a Nicaraguan family who have dedicated themselves to the pursuit of revolutionary ideals for social transformation.

Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet’s coup d’état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.

Three experimental movies that explore the implications of women talking between each other in a home setting, in the diaspora and in public spaces.

Set on a construction site on the banks of the Nile, this political fable follows Maher, a brickmaker working on a mysterious mud sculpture against the backdrop of the 2019 coup in Sudan.

The first retrospective dedicated to the multifaceted, international career of American filmmaker and cinematographer Skip Norman.

This collaboration between legendary Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima and Norman here credited as cinematographer focuses on the wrongful 1972 imprisonment of 10 civil rights activists.

A programme dedicated to Norman’s essay films that brought a Marxist, structuralist critique to issues of Black disenfranchisement in both the United States and Africa.

A stirring treatment of the Paris Commune through the passions and political awakening of a young music hall actress.

Emmanuelle Nicot’s poignant debut feature navigates the ramifications of childhood sexual abuse through the story of Dalva, who at 12 dresses, wears make-up and lives like a woman.

Set on a construction site on the banks of the Nile, this political fable follows Maher, a brickmaker working on a mysterious mud sculpture against the backdrop of the 2019 coup in Sudan.

Éric Baudelaire selects Chantal Akerman’s work depicting America’s brutal history as it is inscribed in physical and mental landscapes.

A vivid portrait of celebrated American author Patricia Highsmith, one of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century.

Albert Serra’s explicit and opulent exploration of the limits of the erotic imagination is one of the most radical and subversive works of recent times.

Mathilde Rouxel, author of the first monograph dedicated to Jocelyne Saab and the person responsible for the preservation and distribution of her work, presents three films made by Saab in Egypt in the 1970s and 1980s.

A weekend-long retrospective dedicated to the work of the Brazilian filmmaker whose bold, political and feminist oeuvre spans over six decades.

Set in a remote area of the Moroccan desert, this captivating documentary follows the converging quest of a nomad and a scientist in search of meteorite fragments.

The 1995 documentary chronicles the life and career of actress Carmen Miranda, who found fame in Hollywood in the 1940s by incarnating the spirit of Latin American.

A woman (Emily Watson) struggles with her conscience after giving a false alibi to protect her son (Paul Mescal) in this psychological thriller set on the coast of Ireland.

Exploring the political and philosophical nature of the night sky, this programme features new non-fiction work by artists from Morocco and Afghanistan that ruminate on the human condition bound by the cosmos.

The wildly imaginative breakout from writer-director Léa Mysius follows a young girl whose magical power conjures her family's secrets.

The festival returns with a wide-ranging selection of formally ambitious and politically engaged films of past and present.

Filmmakers Ian Christie and Chiemi Shimada present a historical exploration of Sergei Eisenstein’s time in Mexico in 1931.

Farouk Beloufa’s Insurrectionnelle (Algeria 1972) is the starting point of this programme from the Non-Aligned Film Archive series, a project aiming at sharing films that have been marginalised from dominant cinematic narratives.

Ruchir Joshi’s self-reflexive account of his anthropological study of a group of Bauls, Bengal’s traditional wandering musicians.

The ICA welcomes the festival for the first time to shine a spotlight on a new wave of cinema from Hong Kong and the Hong Kong diaspora in the UK.

The Polish film festival returns to the ICA with a fresh blend of award-winning films.

Presented in partnership with the Delfina Foundation, this programme of short films looking at landscapes as sites where multiple histories have been inscribed and overwritten on the physical terrain.

Maya Duverdier and Amélie van Elmbt explore the legendary past, complicated present and gentrified future of New York’s most mythologised hotel.

Award-winning filmmaker Treasa O’Brien goes deep into the experience of migration in her hybrid feature mixing auditions, observational documentary and magical realism.

A scientist falls in love with the ghost of the gay flight attendant who allegedly brought HIV to North America in John Greyson’s 1993 surreal militant musical.

LSFF’s first International Documentary programme focuses on collective radical activism coming to the fore across the world and across decades. 

A programme exploring the connections between paranoia, conspiracy, anxiety, and the precarious realities of artistic creation at the margins of the American film industry.

Made at the height of pandemic restrictions, Tyler Taormina’s second feature is a wordless soundscape of a seemingly typical American suburb, capturing that moment’s isolation, anxiety, as well as our innate desire to connect with each other.

Treasa O’Brien goes deep into the experience of migration in her hybrid feature mixing auditions, observational documentary and magical realism.

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.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig front up to an environmental catastrophe in Noah Baumbach’s take on Don DeLillo’s great American novel.

Two young West Africans strive to make new lives for themselves in Belgium in the latest award-winning feature from the Dardennes brothers.

An artist spends four years working on his masterpiece behind bars in Alysa Nahmias’s excellent documentary, receiving its UK premiere at the ICA.

The first UK retrospective of the work of Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro, whose formally inventive and thematically rich films have marked him out as one of contemporary cinema’s most singular voices.

A young Jewish boy in ’80s New York fronts up to the injustices of American society in this moving autobiographical feature from director James Gray.

Spanning 50 works across 50 years, this major survey celebrates the work of one of London’s most radical and influential artist filmmakers.

An invigorating thrilling sci-fi punk musical set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonised and free, male and female, memory and prescience – and bursting with energy and ideas.

The UK premiere of Matías Piñeiro’s exquisite debut feature centred upon a young woman who becomes enveloped in an intricate web of intersecting romances and complicated friendships.

A Mexican filmmaker takes a life-changing journey home in Oscar-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first feature since 2015’s The Revenant.

A 40-year-old woman in rural Costa Rica frees herself from religious and spiritual repression in Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s tremendous debut feature.

A screening dedicated to the work of the filmmaking duo, with three of their films centring on manufacture and creation.

A 40-year-old woman in rural Costa Rica frees herself from religious and spiritual repression in Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s tremendous debut feature.

The world’s longest running film festival dedicated to Korean cinema returns with its 17th edition.

Two dozen Texans face off in a ludicrous competition to win a pick-up truck in SR Bindler’s classic 1997 documentary – screening as an ICA Exclusive.

Kim Dong-won’s latest work examines the lives of long-term political prisoners hoping for repatriation to North Korea.

Unpublished home recordings and rare archive footage contribute to director Sasha Jenkins’ definitive feature-length portrait of an American icon.

An invigorating thrilling sci-fi punk musical set between states of being – past and present, dream and waking life, colonised and free, male and female, memory and prescience – and bursting with energy and ideas.

The ICA and La Clef Revival welcome filmmakers Françoise Romand and Mario Valero for a joint screening symbolizing the spectacular support received by the collective from the cinema community.

Incomparable Paris-based collective Les Froufrous de Lilith bring their Food&Film series to the ICA for the first time – with something to watch and something to eat.

The filmmaker is joined in conversation by director Carol Morley following screenings of five of his most radical and influential films.

Renowned artist Martine Syms brings her razor-sharp satire and vivid aesthetic invention to a riotous coming-of-age comedy, her electrifying debut.

An American doctor forges an unlikely bond with a troubled Tanzanian patient in Martin Mhando and Ron Mulvihill’s acclaimed 2001 feature.

David Cronenberg returns with a typically unsettling journey into a coming dystopia, starring Léa Seydoux and longtime collaborator Viggo Mortensen.

Patricio Guzmán takes a deeply personal and political journey through the Andes in a feature that won the Best Documentary prize at Cannes.

A landmark in African filmmaking inspired by Angola’s fight for independence, Sarah Maldoror’s powerful feature screens here in a newly restored edition.

The electrifying feature debut from renowned artist Martine Syms brings her razor-sharp satire and vivid aesthetic invention to a riotous coming-of-age comedy.

This vibrant documentary celebrates Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the contribution his radical, queer, anti-colonial art has made to conversations around border-thinking, gender politics and Latinx identity.

In this striking debut feature from Zia Mohajerjasbi, an Eritrean American teen embarks on an odyssey through a rapidly gentrifying Seattle.

In this richly allegorical film, a plastic statue of the Virgin Mary creates unexpected changes to the lives of those who encounter it on the streets of Luanda.

Anthropological attention to detail distinguishes this delicate tale of an elderly couple in rural Bolivia coming to terms with climate change and declining health.

Confined to his studio during lockdown, South African artist William Kentridge channels his creative energies into a series of short films that throw light on his artistic process.

A weekend-long celebration of one of the most significant documentary filmmakers of the German Democratic Republic, with her participation.

Ruth Beckermann’s feature uses the 1906 novel Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, published anonymously, as a starting point to grapple with male sexuality.

Revisit the African-American origins of techno music in Kristian R Hill’s fascinating, hugely enjoyable and often surprising journey through the musical genre.

Owen Kline’s breathtakingly subversive debut feature is a black comedy following an impressionable young American cartoonist on a misguided pursuit for authenticity.

In what is considered to be her most significant film, Misselwitz undertakes a journey through East Germany by train, encountering a broad range of women along the way.

The people and places of Provincetown, Massachusetts are captured beautifully in Mischa Richter’s poetic meditation on freedom in America – screening only at the ICA.

The people and places of Provincetown, Massachusetts are captured beautifully in Mischa Richter’s poetic meditation on freedom in America, screening only at the ICA.

The culmination of several years of working with Minamata disease patients and a lyrical tribute to the people’s resilience.

The second programme showcasing works made and chosen by Ecuadorian-American filmmaker Alexandra Cuesta.

Two US-born children of undocumented Mexican immigrants try to shape their own American dreams in Isabel Castro’s masterful cinematic portrait.

A summer-long showcase of five outstanding recent features from around the world – available to watch in the UK exclusively at the ICA Cinema.

Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s gripping social history retells the story of a Korean-American journalist’s fight to free an innocent man in 1970s San Francisco.

Join us for this summer-long season dedicated to the best in contemporary Portuguese cinema – programmed by the ICA with pioneering production house TERRATREME.  

Accompanying the book launch of Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams's Diego Garia, the ICA presents Oliver Magis’s work on the little-heard story of the Chagossian people’s banishment from their homeland by the UK government.

In the latest Summer Exclusives screening, filmmaker and educator Todd Chandler explores the everyday nature of gun violence in American schools.

Theo Anthony’s feature questions and reimagines the idea of the ‘objective lens’ in reference to 21st-century American policing.

The only feature directed by singular American artist Steven Arnold is a transgressive masterpiece, and a vivid new restoration receives its UK release.

First-time director Peter Costigan unearths the story of one of Britain’s most electrifying musical subcultures.

The only feature directed by singular American artist Steven Arnold is a transgressive masterpiece, and a vivid new restoration receives its UK premiere.

Thousands of seabirds inadvertently destroy a huge expanse of Lithuanian pine trees in Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė’s dry, wry and subversive nature documentary.

George Peter Barbari’s compelling drama follows three troubled teens on their way to lose their virginity with a prostitute.

Connecting past, present and future, Karim Aïnouz takes a journey to his father’s Algerian homeland in this poignant and powerful feature.

An unhinged hitman goes looking for love and death in Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza’s Puglian romp.

The ICA’s annual convening dedicated to experiments in artists’ moving image returns in Spring 2022 with a programme that addresses significant shifts in moving image practices.

After the brutal killing of a Polish student by security police in 1983, the State’s supposedly ‘independent’ legal system finds itself under intense political pressure.

Introduced at the ICA by producer Bernat Manzano, Miguel Ángel Blanca’s compelling feature shows a very different side of the notorious Spanish resort.

The ICA’s annual festival of the ‘cinema of the real’ returns for its seventh edition, on the theme of Communality.

The latest work from Franco-American artist and filmmaker Éric Baudelaire  is fabricated from a variety of materials and sources, exploring the process of creation as a radical act of resistance amid political instability.

Arnaud des Pallières’s new work unfolds as the four-month diary of an anonymous narrator in an unspecified year, weaving together images and narratives from the USA in the 20th century.

Opening film of FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2021, Payal Kapadia’s award-winning immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India.

Eduardo Crespo’s camera observes young students of the Las Delicias agrotechnical boarding school.

Rafiki Fariala follows a group of students of the University of Bangui in the Central African Republic, portraying their reflections on political activism and generational conflicts.

Colombian–Canadian filmmaker Lina Rodríguez poetically and empathetically explores the migrant experience through the stories of three Latin American women

Kiro Russo’s feature blends the real with the fantastical as it explores the plight of the working classes in La Paz.

The UK’s first survey of the Cameroonian filmmaker’s work, which deconstructs cinema’s colonialist gaze on African women and girls.

Mantas Kvedaravičius’s 2016 film documenting daily life under siege in Mariupol assumes added poignancy following the tragic death of its director.

Director Tatiana Huezo’s feature debut is a visceral journey into the Mexican drug trade and the families who fight to survive it. 

Opening film of FRAMES of REPRESENTATION 2021, Payal Kapadia’s award-winning immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India.

A Colombian father searches for the bodies of his two sons, taken by the paramilitaries, in Nicolás Rincón Gille’s debut feature.

The festival returns to the ICA for its eighth edition, with a focus on politically engaged and collectively authored essayistic film practices.

Director Jane Campion ventures into the American West for this gripping drama – her first feature in 12 years.

KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival returns to the ICA.

Argentine director Marcos Martínez takes a compelling journey deep into the twilight world of Buenos Aires’ homeless communities.

The ICA presents an exclusive screening of Ukrainian filmmaker Valentyn Vasyanovych’s post-apocalyptic drama.

This artful picaresque is centred on a drunk outsider forced to flee his Italian village for the wilds of Latin America.

Patrick Wang’s second feature explores the outer turmoil and inner lives of an American family struggling to come to terms with loss.

Comedy meets tragedy head on in the concluding part of Patrick Wang’s deep dive into art, politics and community in small-town America.

A community arts centre fights for survival in the first instalment of Patrick Wang’s two-part small-town American epic.

A mother-daughter relationship is stretched to near-breaking point in Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s powerful, political and deeply personal drama.

Academy Award-winning director Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank) heads to the farm for this unexpectedly compelling portrait of Luma, a dairy cow.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’or-winning feature retains a near-magical power that will take your breath away. 

An Outfest favourite, Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare’s debut explores the pitfalls and possibilities of finding love – and yourself – in New York.

A nurse turns to voodoo to heal her troubled patient in this 1940s classic. Exclusively chosen to screen at the ICA by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The people and places of a little-known corner of Serbia come under the microscope of Matjaž Ivanišin (Oroslan) in this slow-motion road movie.

The first feature-length documentary on the life and career of American tennis great and social activist Arthur Ashe.

The ICA’s annual international film festival returns for its sixth edition, dedicated to the works of pioneering filmmakers and researchers in the cinema of the real.

This artful picaresque is centred on a drunk outsider forced to flee his Italian village for the wilds of Latin America.

Félix Dufour-Laperrière’s poetic, playful and political travelogue explores and reimagines his native Québec.

Ousmane Zoromé Samassékou meets some of the countless migrants looking for a route out of Africa – and those returning home.

Theo Anthony’s feature questions and reimagines the idea of the ‘objective lens’ in reference to 21st-century American policing.

Todd Chandler examines American gun violence through the lens of the safety rituals now required in thousands of US schools.

Gianfranco Rosi, the Golden Lion and Golden Bear-winning Italian filmmaker, discusses his vision of the cinematic language with ICA Head of Cinema and FoR founder Nico Marzano, dwelling on the expansive range of methodologies that have accompanied his impressive 30-year career.

Both humorous and melancholic, Federica Di Giacomo’s film reconstructs the life of a man and an artist through stories of those who knew him.

Filmmaker Roberto Minervini joins Sandra Hebron, Head of Screen Arts at the National Film & Television School, for an in-depth conversation about his cinema, which often takes us to the backyards of the American Dream.

Kiro Russo’s feature blends the real with the fantastical as it explores the plight of the working classes in La Paz.

Winner of the best documentary award at Cannes, Payal Kapadia’s immersive work addresses the political complexities of contemporary India.

The debut feature by director Posy Dixon follows the rediscovery of a long-lost musical pioneer.

This double-bill focuses on two potent and powerful political movements led by Palestinian women – nearly 60 years apart.

An evocative study of a father-son relationship; join us for the premiere of this new directors’ edit.

The ICA partners again with the London Korean Film Festival, the UK’s leading showcase of Korean cinema, and the largest Korean Film Festival in Europe.

A symposium discussing the creative & ethical use of moving image, specifically with institutions connected to the exploitation of bodies.

Four films documenting and celebrating the historical, social and philosophical perspectives of Indigenous communities across Brazil.

A powerful and provocative dissection of art, class and decolonisation.

Renzo Martens’ first film is a typically discomfiting exploration of filmmaking in the time of war.

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s new feature is a one-of-a-kind cinematic testimony to the psychology of the viewer in our digital era.

A high-intensity political drama/satire from Israeli director Nadav Lapid, about a filmmaker coming face-to-face with his conscience and the state of a nation’s culture.

The directorial debut of poet-musician Saul Williams and actor-playwright Anisia Uzeyman is an exhilarating anti-capitalist sci-fi musical entirely shot in Rwanda.

Kamir Aïnouz’s coming-of-age drama follows a young woman finding and following her own path from adolescence to adulthood.

Lav Diaz’s sharp political fable testifies to the ongoing reality of exploitation, channelled through Ha, a ventriloquist’s puppet who embodies art’s redemptive potential.

Andrea Arnold takes you on a seemingly simple, yet ultimately radical journey, offering an insight into the life of a dairy cow.

Remarkably nuanced and emotionally engaging, Kavich Neang’s film delves into the impact of gentrification in Phnom Penh and pays homage to the enduring memory of the iconic White Building.

Be prepared to be surprised by this wildly inventive, hybrid documentary drama by Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios, following two Mexico City police officers on the beat.

A farcical yet highly perceptive satire of the indie film scene in South Korea, set on one long, hot summer’s day.

Melina Léon tells the tragic true-life story of an indigenous Peruvian woman whose new born baby is stolen by a fake clinic. 

German filmmaker Susanne Heinrich’s debut brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, in a post-modern comedy in pink and blue.

A programme of three experimental autobiographical works by Salomé Lamas, opening with an introduction from the filmmaker.

The Opening Night of the ICA’s full survey of Salomé Lamas’ work presents a screening of Lamas’ 2018 speculative comedy, followed by a Q&A with the Portuguese artist/filmmaker.

German filmmaker Susanne Heinrich’s debut brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, in a post-modern comedy in pink and blue.

In the lead-up to the 2021 London Palestine Film Festival coming this November, the ICA presents a programme celebrating acclaimed works from the festival’s previous editions.

A revealing and timely portrait of the man who became the face of America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

German filmmaker Susanne Heinrich’s debut brings together pop and theory, feminism and humour, in a post-modern comedy in pink and blue.

The 11th edition of Open City Documentary Festival takes place at the ICA from 9 September.

The first comprehensive survey of Alia Syed’s work in the UK, whose work draws from personal and historical realities to address the subjective relationship to gender, location, diaspora and colonialism.

The ICA presents a curated selection of outstanding contemporary works by filmmakers from and on Afghanistan.

At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments.

Presented exclusively at the ICA, Lech Kowalski’s film follows a group of militant French workers as they plot to blow up their factory – a social movement now recognised as one of the most successful examples of collective actions in recent years.

Lech Kowalski’s film follows a group of militant French workers as they plot to blow up their factory – a social movement now recognised as one of the most successful examples of collective actions in recent years.

The celebrated Russian director’s most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people.

A meditative contemplation on conservation, preservation and authenticity via the fabrication of a replica elephant’s tusk.

A wonder of American independent cinema, Claudia Weill's 1978 gem in a brand new restoration.

Pietro Marcello relocates Jack London’s autobiographical novel from Oakland to Naples in this sweeping and ambitious adaptation.

Judith Abensour’s work retraces the origins of a new museum dedicated to Palestinian history, inaugurated with no exhibition in 2016.

Judith Abensour’s work retraces the origins of a new museum dedicated to Palestinian history, inaugurated with no exhibition in 2016.

Francisco Márquez’s fiction debut is a gripping tale of class divisions and ethical responsibility in contemporary Argentina.

Ousmane Sembène’s brilliant satire on post-colonial Africa, the first feature shot in an African language, receives a stunning 4K restoration.

The ICA is thrilled to partner once again with the SAFAR Film Festival, dedicated to cinema from the Arab world.

An intoxicating love song to rural Portugal, and to cinema, by award-winning Portuguese director Miguel Gomes.

Pietro Marcello relocates Jack London’s autobiographical novel from Oakland to Naples in this sweeping and ambitious adaptation.

Judith Abensour’s work retraces the origins of a new museum dedicated to Palestinian history, inaugurated with no exhibition in 2016.

Mundane life meets magical daydreams in a West Bengal village where discarded film footage is turned into toys.

Peter Parlow’s micro-budget feature is at once a hilarious send-up of low-budget American indie filmmaking and a probing inquiry into race, relationships, and the social uncanny.

Swiss duo Kasa and Da Costa’s sophomore feature captures the quirky ambiance that reigns over the Ornithological Rehabilitation Center where birds in pain struggle to rediscover the desire to live. 

The ICA partners again with the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, unfolding this year in a digital format.

The ICA and Kinoteka present the cycle of Krzystof Kieślowski’s Dekalog in ten parts.

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

Consisting of a montage of archival footage, Lucas Gallo's latest work explores the media campaign by the Argentinian government claiming back the Falklands Islands from the British in 1982.

ICA and Dr. Martens have established a unique series of artists’ moving image production grants enabling UK-based emerging artists to make new work for inclusion in Image Behaviour 2021.

A monumental historical essay about a family torn apart by the upheavals of the 20th century.

A meditative contemplation on conservation, preservation and authenticity via the fabrication of a replica elephant’s tusk.

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.

At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments.

Roberto Minervini’s fifth feature-length work is a blistering meditation on the state of race in America.

A series of film works by artist Rebecca Salvadori, dedicated to electronic music and the communities which ritually congregate around it.