After the sudden death of her estranged sister, Parker leaves her actor life in Los Angeles and returns to her desert hometown in search of answers.

At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille narrowly survives a fatal accident, saved by his best friend Matteo. After a swift recovery, an inexplicable pain gradually takes hold of him, threatening his dreams of greatness and his relationship with the team.

An increasingly morose and violent veteran detective is packed off to the snowy countryside to investigate the murder of a young woman in Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino's bruising mix of noir and melodrama.

18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.

Jia-hao is a sassy Singaporean drag queen who barely sees his family, but reluctantly returns home to help his brother care for their mother, who has dementia. Both hilariously funny and profoundly moving, this riveting drama features knockout performances from a talented cast, headed by rising star Richie Koh.

In 1964 Nagasaki, an orphaned yakuza heir enters the world of Kabuki, growing up beside his mentor’s son as rivalry and ambition shape their destinies.

A double bill devoted to the Godardian remake comprising Jacques Becker’s classic Don’t Touch the Loot (Touchez pas au grisbi, 1954), which he planned to remake in the 1990s, and Number Two (Numéro deux, 1975), which started off as a remake of À bout de souffle (Breathless).

18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.

Otoko is a famous painter who, as a teenager, was seduced by the married novelist Oto. Years later, when he reappears in her life, Otoko’s pupil and lesbian lover Keiko vows to take revenge. Exquisite cinematography and evocative use of the Kyoto locations conjure up a claustrophobic feel in this classic tale of obsessive love.

Julian Radlmaier's fifth feature brings together an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, in an enigmatic comedy about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present.

Garnering comparisons on its 1976 release to Jean Cocteau and Georges Mèlies, Niki de Saint Phalle’s colourful, marvellously polymorphic fairytale follows a girl into an alluring dreamscape, where sexual awakening is imagined as an excitable quest that runs on quixotic feminine desire. 

Widowed actor René lives in purposeful isolation, drifting between phone conversations and memories that refuse to settle, as fragments of a distant past resurface.

In 1964 Nagasaki, an orphaned yakuza heir enters the world of Kabuki, growing up beside his mentor’s son as rivalry and ambition shape their destinies.

Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives an accident. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build a familial routine. 

Radu Jude resurrects Dracula, dissecting modern Europe and its myths through a collision of AI mischief and pornographic absurdity.

Julian Radlmaier's fifth feature brings together an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, in an enigmatic comedy about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present.

When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn.

18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.

Manoel de Oliveira (on whose films Azevedo Gomes worked) and João Bénard da Costa are brought together within the quiet grandeur of Lisbon’s National Museum of Ancient Art. Decades of thought, friendship, and devotion to art.

In 1964 Nagasaki, an orphaned yakuza heir enters the world of Kabuki, growing up beside his mentor’s son as rivalry and ambition shape their destinies.

Iconic and game-changing, Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark anime returns to the cinema where it was first released in the UK.

After the sudden death of her estranged sister, Parker leaves her actor life in Los Angeles and returns to her desert hometown in search of answers.

Set in near-future Brazil where the government prioritises productivity above all else, elderly citizens are forcibly relocated to remote colonies to make way for younger generations. When 77 year old Tereza reaches the mandated age, she refuses to comply.

Iconic and game-changing, Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark anime returns to the cinema where it was first released in the UK.

18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.

Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives an accident. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident. When her husband and adult son also give up their initial resistance to Laura's presence, the four of them slowly build a familial routine. 

At a sports boarding school, talented young boxer Camille narrowly survives a fatal accident, saved by his best friend Matteo. After a swift recovery, an inexplicable pain gradually takes hold of him, threatening his dreams of greatness and his relationship with the team.

Julian Radlmaier's fifth feature brings together an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, in an enigmatic comedy about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present.

In 1964 Nagasaki, an orphaned yakuza heir enters the world of Kabuki, growing up beside his mentor’s son as rivalry and ambition shape their destinies.

When a fishing boat, the Rose of Nevada, lost with all hands 30 years ago, mysteriously reappears in the old harbour of a forgotten Cornish village, for those who remember, it’s surely a sign. The boat must go out to sea again and maybe then the luck of the devastated village will turn.

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the latest film from Jim Jarmusch takes the form of a triptych, to tell three stories concerning the relationships between adult children, their somewhat distant parent (or parents), and each other.

Julian Radlmaier's fifth feature brings together an East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm, in an enigmatic comedy about the ghosts of the past and the mysteries of the present.

18-year-old Marina, travels to Vigo on the Galician coast in the early 2000s, in search of information about her biological father, seeking his death certificate to apply for a scholarship to film school. Reconnecting with her paternal side of the family, she discovers a huge amount of shame and secrecy around his death.

Across speculative storytelling, deepfake resurrection, and AI mythologies, Myths We Call Bodies explores how contemporary Asian artists use digital aesthetics to question the structures that shape our realities. From algorithmic gazes to cosplay, these works reveal how technology both reproduces and disrupts systems of gender, labour, and visibility. Moving between online fantasy and social critique, the artists imagine alternative myths and futures where identity becomes mutable and collectively re-scripted. 

In 1964 Nagasaki, an orphaned yakuza heir enters the world of Kabuki, growing up beside his mentor’s son as rivalry and ambition shape their destinies.

Iconic and game-changing, Katsuhiro Otomo's landmark anime returns to the cinema where it was first released in the UK.

In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a queer punk band led by a trans man are outliers of the system – carving out spaces to exist through their music while challenging conservative traditions and religious extremism.

Artist and filmmaker Tianyi Zheng returns to her ancestral village in Huangpi, Wuhan, the purported hometown of Mulan, the legendary figure known for fighting battles while disguised as a male warrior. With documentary and performative elements, Where Comes Mulan excavates cultural mythology while offering a personal reflection on displacement, queerness, and identity.

In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a queer punk band led by a trans man are outliers of the system – carving out spaces to exist through their music while challenging conservative traditions and religious extremism.

Queer East hosts a special all-day event at the ICA, featuring a line-up of film, performance, and practice-based workshops culminating in a club night. Chasing the dizzying ecstasy of movement in all its eclectic potentials. This experimental showcase will flow across disciplines and throughout the venue, concocting a sensory mixed bill of bold sounds, moving image, and haptic intimacies.

A Rita Azevedo Gomes double bill: an adaption of a medieval Portuguese farce and a contemplation on art and cultivated lives, faltering and fragile.

Vitor Gonçalves' debut feature is both a moody and atmospheric portrait of a young woman unable to make the crucial decisions needed to move forward with her life and a fascinating portrait of post-Salazar youth culture.

Kidnapped on a journey through Mongolia, two European anthropologists become embroiled in a lesbian love triangle with their captor, the Mongolian warrior princess Ulan Iga. This resplendently eccentric film by lesbian cinema pioneer Ulrike Ottinger provides a subtly satirical commentary on the ethnographic tourist gaze. 

In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a queer punk band led by a trans man are outliers of the system – carving out spaces to exist through their music while challenging conservative traditions and religious extremism.

In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a queer punk band led by a trans man are outliers of the system – carving out spaces to exist through their music while challenging conservative traditions and religious extremism.

In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a queer punk band led by a trans man are outliers of the system – carving out spaces to exist through their music while challenging conservative traditions and religious extremism.

In Muslim-majority Malaysia, a queer punk band led by a trans man are outliers of the system – carving out spaces to exist through their music while challenging conservative traditions and religious extremism.

When a mysterious woman enters Roberto’s life, unfurling as a measured and elegant interrogation of power, gender, and narrative ownership through confession in Azevedo Gomes’ adaptation of Barbey d’Aurevilly. 

A kaleidoscopic portrait of the visionary jazz musician, composer, and poet known as Sun Ra and the musical, historical, and philosophical currents that shaped him.

A taut political thriller from the director of Cairo Conspiracy, Tarik Saleh's latest film centres upon Egypt’s most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, who on the verge of losing everything finds himself forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, following a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

A taut political thriller from the director of Cairo Conspiracy, Tarik Saleh's latest film centres upon Egypt’s most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, who on the verge of losing everything finds himself forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

Casa Verdi, a rambling mansion in the city of Milan that once belonged to the composer Guiseppe Verdi, but is now a home for retired musicians, sits at the centre of Daniel Schmid's tender exploration of aging and the timeless capacity of music to inspire.

Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

A tapestry of intimate dialogue where voices float free of their sources and images drift away from illustrations. Correspondences is cinema as epistolary form built from letters exchanged between poets Jorge de Sena and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

In this deadpan and refreshingly intimate new comedy, we follow Ann, a young woman in a low-level corporate job, as she juggles her long-term casual BDSM relationship, difficult New Yorker parents, and a desire for something more.

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, following a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

A taut political thriller from the director of Cairo Conspiracy, Tarik Saleh's latest film centres upon Egypt’s most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, who on the verge of losing everything finds himself forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

A constellation of films offering a unique insight into Godard’s creative process: his seminal investigation of the cinema-painting relationship, Passion (1982), and four related satellite works, including rare test footage he shot in 1981 at Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios, his audiovisual ‘script’ for the film, and the video essay he made about it afterwards. 

Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

A double bill featuring Ghassan Salhab’s, Phantom Beirut and Shaden Safieddine Tazi’s, A Few Moments of Happiness. Filmed thirty years apart, these two works hold Beirut as a central protagonist, working through memory, transmission and the search for joy across two generations of filmmakers.

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, following a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

A taut political thriller from the director of Cairo Conspiracy, Tarik Saleh's latest film centres upon Egypt’s most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, who on the verge of losing everything finds himself forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama, known as The Magic City, a segregated industrial town in the rural South. After leaving for Chicago at the age of 32, he would become Sun Ra, one of the most eccentric and prolific jazz musicians of this century, as well as the founder of a strange cosmic philosophy. 

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, following a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

A taut political thriller from the director of Cairo Conspiracy, Tarik Saleh's latest film centres upon Egypt’s most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, who on the verge of losing everything finds himself forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, following a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

A taut political thriller from the director of Cairo Conspiracy, Tarik Saleh's latest film centres upon Egypt’s most adored actor, George El-Nabawi, who on the verge of losing everything finds himself forced to accept an offer he can’t refuse.

Rita Azevedo Gomes and Pierre Léon’s roaming inquiry into the danse macabre as a turning point in European thought, that draws on Jean Louis Schefer’s writings to trace a quiet shift from medieval worldviews to modernity, moving between Paris and Portugal.

Charlotte Zhang's mesmerising debut feature effortlessly merges forms and formats to craft a paranoid spiral into a city on the brink, as Los Angeles is encircled by militarized policing, meat shortages and cockroach infestations on the eve of the 2028 Olympics.

Told entirely from the perspective of its avian protagonist, following a chicken who escapes an industrial farm only to find herself navigating the pecking order of a crumbling seaside restaurant in Greece.

UNIFORM explores the pleasures of costume, rank, and role - the way a garment can assign desire, confer power or demand submission. From the maid’s apron to nurse’s scrubs and military camo - it’s time to get ready and dress for the occasion.

Originally made for television this sparse chamber piece. set in an empty theatre, returns Ingmar Bergman to one of his perennial themes the permeability of life and art.

A luminous contemplation on waiting and interior life reimagined from Robert Musil’s tale

A final double bill from the Machine that Kills Bad People.

A constellation of meetings between two former lovers, The Kegelstatt Trio unfolds through rehearsals, fragments, and returns, guided by Mozart’s trio. 

Fifteen years after the original trip to Greece, with a cancer diagnosis once thought final, a filmmaker retraces her journey through the Greek islands – this time with a group of young friends, filming, reading, singing, and moving from ferry to roadside to ruin.

Fifteen years after the original trip to Greece, with a cancer diagnosis once thought final, a filmmaker retraces her journey through the Greek islands – this time with a group of young friends, filming, reading, singing, and moving from ferry to roadside to ruin.

Fifteen years after the original trip to Greece, with a cancer diagnosis once thought final, a filmmaker retraces her journey through the Greek islands – this time with a group of young friends, filming, reading, singing, and moving from ferry to roadside to ruin.

A girl called Moon adventures in a world without adults in Mare’s Nest, the latest feature by acclaimed British artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers, followed by a Q&A.

Fifteen years after the original trip to Greece, with a cancer diagnosis once thought final, a filmmaker retraces her journey through the Greek islands – this time with a group of young friends, filming, reading, singing, and moving from ferry to roadside to ruin.

A provocative portrait of a ‘cruel’ dominatrix, co-written and directed by Elfi Mikesch and Monika Treut. Once divisive, it is now considered as a landmark of queer cinema, celebrated for its exquisite mise-en-scène and Mikesch’s striking cinematography, preceded by the short film The Blue Distance.