This programme brings together five short films exploring themes of memory, family, return and identity.

I am fine, thank you. documents the stories of Hongkongers who migrated to the UK after 2019, as each gradually settled into a new life in the country while finding their own way to connect with memories of the homeland.

This captivating documentary explores the life and legacy of César Concepción (1909-1974), a maestro of La Plena, and trailblazer in Latin music.

David, a university student, meets Diego, an openly gay intellectual with a passion for art and literature. What begins as an unlikely encounter gradually develops into a deep and unexpected friendship that challenges David's assumptions and changes both of their lives in 1970s Havana.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Against the backdrop of Havana’s sun-drenched streets and shimmering coastline, ¡Quba! delves into the history and transformation of Cuba’s LGBTQ+ community.

A programme of experimental documentary, artists’ moving image and lecture performance explores voices as both fragile and impossible to fully erase. Traces endure as bodies, images and technologies become sites where histories and memories are reactivated against systems that seek to silence them.

Guided by dreams and ancestral wisdom, a 13-year-old Shuar girl discovers her identity while her Amazonian community struggles to protect its land from mining.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

Listen with your eyes is an ongoing series of screenings for children of all ages and their grown-up companions. It’s a space where curious minds and open hearts can come together to drift through the worlds of experimental cinema. 

This programme brings together four short films exploring the theme of resilience. Across different contexts and forms, the films consider resilience as the capacity to move through what does not work, and to adapt to life’s challenges rather than remaining in a static state. 

The Saldaña family has new tasks for the summer: looking after the dog and the house of the Pernas, their neighbours. The house is a small luxury that provokes the envy of the neighbourhood, and the Saldañas, taking advantage of their duties as improvised caretakers, will live out their own vacation in it.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Walerian Borowczyk’s critically acclaimed and influential medieval tale — a beautiful tragedy told with pitch-black humour and the director’s remarkable idiosyncratic inventiveness. Screening as a part of Contemporary Films 75th Anniversary celeberation.

Inspired by true events, this story intertwines a crime thriller with a migrant drama. In 2010, Chinese mafias arrived in the city of Mendoza, which became the hidden stage of a silent war between two factions fighting for control of organised crime.

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

Life is Dance follows the stories of six main protagonists, across 3 generations. Ordinary Cubans with one thing in common, their love of dance.

Naira, an imaginative nine-year-old girl living in precarious conditions near the Colca Canyon, desperately seeks a way to save her mother, Nieves, from the cruel abuse of their landlord, Don Demetrio. 

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

A subtle meditation on memory and performance, Hong Sangsoo's latest film unfolds through a series of increasingly intimate conversations, as he continues his exploration of the boundaries between lived experience and artistic creation.

The filmmaker Ignacio Agüero creates an intimate audiovisual correspondence with his parents, beginning with his father’s death just days after Allende’s election and spanning fifty years of personal and Chilean history.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois intellectual, chooses to stay in Havana while his family flees to Miami after the Cuban Revolution. Unable to join the new socialist fervour or let go of his past, he wanders the city as a cynical, detached observer.

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives, The Neon Demon) returns to the silver screen with Her Private Hell. As a strange mist unleashes an elusive darkness, a young actress (Sophie Thatcher) and an American GI (Charles Melton) find their lives intertwined in a hypnotic, neon-drenched moodscape where memory, reality, and survival collide. 

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

A playful spin on theatrical adaptation, Alejo Moguillansky's latest film is a delightfully imaginative take on Samuel Beckett's Fin de Partie, punctuated by music, tennis, and another exceptional turn by Laura Paredes.

Willem Defoe plays Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, who is sought out by a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius. Kent Jones's thoughtful, witty film is a wistful yet unromantic look at a lost idea of downtown New York.

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

This mysterious and uniquely introspective journey through Tbilisi traces the steps of a once famous, but now faded Georgian actor. 

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

Two emotionally scarred strangers are thrust into an arranged marriage, in this wildly original, pitch-black comedy with hints of the supernatural.

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2026 Berlin Film Festival, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is a biographical drama film about the famous jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. 

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a deadly case involving a murderer known as the “Tooth Fairy.” After enlisting the help of imprisoned serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, Graham and the FBI are soon entangled in a menacing cat-and-mouse game.

Winner of the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 2026, Queen at Sea is a riveting drama which poses challenging and heartwrenching questions about care, choice and ageing. Amanda and her stepfather, Martin, struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda’s mother, Leslie, who is suffering from advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interests? And, if so, who is responsible – a spouse, a child, an institution – for making such a determination?

In Remake, filmmaker Ross McElwee turns his lens on the passage of time and the uneasy space between documenting life and understanding it. The film traces McElwee’s relationship with his son Adrian, and the fragile bond the camera created between them while Adrian was alive, and now that he’s gone.

In his striking feature debut, long-time Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz captures an intimate, formally daring portrait of Colombia's forgotten youth. Barrio Triste is heightened by a restless, intense debut score from Arca, whose fluid soundscapes anchor the film's vision. Navigating the thin line between desperation and the supernatural, Stillz delivers a beautiful, unclassifiable piece of contemporary cinema.

The stakes are high for a prize-winning show dog, his owner, her butler and their extended family, in this kitsch comedy about avarice and love.

Weaving together oral histories, archaeological field notes, regional legends, poetry, and song, Maureen Fazendeiro's The Seasons is a remarkable portrait of the Alentejo region of Portugal, its people, and its stories.

A new feature debut from Sudanese-Russian filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani explores the legacy of colonialism and the fight for self-determination through the tender eyes of a teenage girl.

When his only cow delivers a stillborn calf and then falls sick, a retired professor turns to an age-old calf-doll ritual, while industrialisation closes in around him.

Acclaimed visual artist Rachel Rose gives Mrs Dalloway a contemporary makeover in her arresting mood piece, starring Alicia Vikander and Victoria Pedretti.

Jing Zou’s captivating debut feature, an intimate, decade-spanning character study, explores the consequences of the single-child policy on generations of Chinese girls.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Set in the remote highlands of Montenegro, this year’s Sundance World Documentary Prize winner reflects on the fragile coexistence between ancestral knowledge and the growing pressures of the contemporary world.

Filmed by William Greaves in 1972 and completed by his son David 50 years later, this is a rapturous love letter to the Harlem Renaissance.

Featuring a vibrant lead performance, this gripping realist drama, set in a lawless town on the Bulgaria-Turkey border, exudes an atmosphere of danger and paranoia.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Playing versions of themselves as the central protagonists, Hoda Taheri and Boris Hadžija make a daring debut: a witty, irreverent and politically astute portrait of lives shaped by the search for belonging.

The film collective Cosmic Salon (Jack Auen and Kevin Walker) make their beguiling and assured feature debut, guiding us through hidden histories and uncanny landscapes of belief, mystery and the unknown.

Infused with gentle humour and profound humanity, Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s fiction debut presents a serene passage through family, faith and the cycles of life.

Beatrice Gibson’s feature directorial debut is a luminous nocturne, evocatively capturing the streets of Paris over the course of a single night on 16mm.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Shaped by the tidal rhythms of British Columbia’s oyster farms, this richly cinematic documentary, shot on 35mm, exists where labour, scientific inquiry and the living world meet.

In this striking British feature debut, a young man living in supported accommodation tries to juggle his musical aspirations and mental health issues.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Leonardo Pirondi’s timely reflection on ecological collapse imagines a future in which a biodome spaceship preserves the last traces of life on Earth.

Framed as a cinematic letter to the late Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab, this evocative and timely work reanimates Saab’s 16mm archive as a living space of dialogue and political imagination.

Master of archival film reconstruction, Sergei Loznitsa, reframes Soviet history once again via the revealing gaze of Italian cameramen who captured life there in the early 1970s.

Contending with oppression, violence, and dispossession, these four works embody acts of defiance and solidarity; some enacted up close, others from afar. As images narrow the gaps, kinships are formed.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Discovering a cache of Super 8 home movies and photographs following the death of his grandmother, Chilean filmmaker Rafael Guendelman embarks on a personal journey through his family’s intertwined political histories.

The second part of Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, detailing the persecution of journalists in Russia, follows her brave protagonists’ escape abroad following the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Sekja, an ageing and charismatic Korean trans burlesque star, is front and centre in this glorious film about life.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

Revolution is the beat that drums through this electrifying story about the landmark case against the Bradford 12.

Iranian director Mohsen Amiryousefi discusses his eventful career with the Angel of Death in this hilarious cinematic autofiction about the highs and lows of radical filmmaking.

Resisting the enduring legacies of colonial violence and honoring those who continue to gather, speak and dream, these films transform acts of remembrance into radical forms of reclamation, solidarity and world-making.

In 1993, invited by David Lynch to come up with a low-budget genre movie, Michael Almereyda (Tesla, Experimenter, Hamlet) came up with a moody, postmodern reimagining of the Dracula myth which draws inspiration from Dracula’s Daughter (1936) and André Breton’s surrealist novel Nadja. 

These films invite reflection on places that remember, histories that persist, and cinema’s role in unearthing hidden relationships between ecology, extractive capitalism and collective survival.

The new film by Alain Gomis is a formally inventive, politically attuned meditation on the enduring ties of the African diaspora, and the meaning of family and community.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Nolitha Refilwe Mkulisi’s debut feature – a tender love letter to Tapoleng, her hometown in South Africa – offers an intimate evocation of a community in transition.

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Hanabi is a visceral cinematic adaptation of Yoko Hayasuke’s Journal of a Radioactive Brain, written in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and nuclear disaster.

Winner of the Grand Jury Dramatic Prize at Sundance, this suspenseful and devastating film follows a child trying to navigate life after witnessing a sexual assault.

Following a screening of her short Ghazal-e Sorkh, Jarman Award–winning artist Maryam Tafakory presents this live film performance, which explores erased histories of women’s political resistance in Iran.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Resisting the enduring legacies of colonial violence and honoring those who continue to gather, speak and dream, these films transform acts of remembrance into radical forms of reclamation, solidarity and world-making.

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

The latest in Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s series of cinematic essays is a rich and thought-provoking journey through ageing, legacy and the intersection between artistic and personal relationships.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

Invoking existing media and texts, alongside introspection and collaborative gestures, these five works intervene in structures that determine and shape meaning. Language, architecture, and filmic grammar are remade and re-experienced.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Jacqueline Lentzou follows Moon 66 Questions with this evocative and playful look into the life of a teenager who is completely unaware of the forces at play in her fate.

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Andrey Zvyagintsev transposes Claude Chabrol’s La Femme infidèle to contemporary Russia, delivering a magnificent political allegory that dissects the mechanics of ego, violence and corruption.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi. Mother to two sons, fate and history conspired to bring her to the forefront of Myanmar's push for democratic freedom, the world rushing to build her up as an icon of democracy. 

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

For many women, the physical demands of 14-hour shifts cutting sugar in southern India are only part of the challenge. More deeply concerning is the pressure some face to put their reproductive health at risk in order to remain in employment. 

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Celebrating a new anthology of Peter Wollen's writings, a screening of his film Friendship’s Death (1987) and a conversation with the book's editors, Kodwo Eshun, Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-Grovas. There will be a short reception [with books available for purchase]  
at 7pm. The conversation with the book’s editors will take place in the cinema at 8pm.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

A woman (Juliette Lewis) swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair in a surreal, deadpan comedy from director Amanda Kramer.

Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, the film reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

Assigned with adapting a story that shared striking parallels with his own life, Shōhei Imamura’s debut feature tells the tragi-comic tale of a down-and-out kabuki troupe and their idealistic young director, who finds himself caught between artistic ambition and his other, decidedly more carnal, desires.

Set against the backdrop of mass protests in Paris, Case 137 follows Stéphanie, a meticulous internal affairs investigator working on the case of a teenager severely wounded by police fire. As she searches for the truth her inquiry collides with institutional resistance and pressure mounts as the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

The new offering from Oscar-winner Pawel Pawlikowski takes place in 1949, just as the novelist Thomas Mann returns to Germany from exile, having opposed Hitler’s regime.

A projectionist navigating his own precarious living situation finds himself at the centre of an unconventional nocturnal community in Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas' luminous tale of friendship.

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires. 

The young Shōhei Imamura began his apprenticeship under Yasujirō Ozu with this tender portrait of the happily unmarried Noriko (Setsuko Hara), whose unexpected response to mounting pressure to marry quietly unsettles three generations of her family.

The new offering from Oscar-winner Pawel Pawlikowski takes place in 1949, just as the novelist Thomas Mann returns to Germany from exile, having opposed Hitler’s regime.

A group of WWII veterans gather ten years on to recover a cache of morphine hidden during the final days of the war which is now worth millions. From this ‘B’ movie premise Imamura crafts an idiosyncratic study of post-war Japan as the gang's desperate attempts to retrieve the treasure are beset by a whole host of obstacles, not least their own increasingly venal amorality.

A projectionist navigating his own precarious living situation finds himself at the centre of an unconventional nocturnal community in Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas' luminous tale of friendship.

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires. 

The new offering from Oscar-winner Pawel Pawlikowski takes place in 1949, just as the novelist Thomas Mann returns to Germany from exile, having opposed Hitler’s regime.

This double bill brings together two outliers from Imamura’s time as a director-for-hire for Nikkatsu, a minor comedy centred upon a henpecked husband's extra-marital affair and a profoundly tender exploration of the attempts of four orphaned children to make their way in the world, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

A projectionist navigating his own precarious living situation finds himself at the centre of an unconventional nocturnal community in Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas' luminous tale of friendship.

A visually striking and thought-provoking film based on Virginia Woolf’s novel, following its protagonist across centuries as they move through different identities, relationships and social worlds

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires. 

The new offering from Oscar-winner Pawel Pawlikowski takes place in 1949, just as the novelist Thomas Mann returns to Germany from exile, having opposed Hitler’s regime.

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires. 

A special screening of Akira Kurosawa’s tale of the unlikely bond between a sickly Yakuza and an alcoholic doctor, exclusively for ICA Members and their guests

In a Japanese coastal town still haunted by the 2011 tsunami, a taxi becomes a moving confession booth. Over the course of one night, a series of conversations between drivers and their passengers reveal how those who survived live with the dead.

A projectionist navigating his own precarious living situation finds himself at the centre of an unconventional nocturnal community in Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas' luminous tale of friendship.

The new offering from Oscar-winner Pawel Pawlikowski takes place in 1949, just as the novelist Thomas Mann returns to Germany from exile, having opposed Hitler’s regime.

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires. 

A projectionist navigating his own precarious living situation finds himself at the centre of an unconventional nocturnal community in Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas' luminous tale of friendship.

Éditions 1989 celebrates the launch of the second edition of Who Are You Dorothy Dean? When Dorothy Dean (1932–1987) entered the 1960s New York underground scene, she quickly became one of its key figures, starring in six of Andy Warhol's films. The evening will feature a special 40-minute excerpt from Andy Warhol's Prison (1965), followed by a Q&A with author Anaïs Ngbanzo.

Reiko, a shape-shifting android, embarks on a cybersexual odyssey collecting data for a shadowy corporation. Each sexual encounter dissolves the binaries of gender and sexuality in a neon-lit orgy of moaning, techno beats and vintage CGI.

The new offering from Oscar-winner Pawel Pawlikowski takes place in 1949, just as the novelist Thomas Mann returns to Germany from exile, having opposed Hitler’s regime.

A riotous state of the union delivered in dazzling monochrome NikkatsuScope, Shōhei Imamura’s break-out film is a tale of shifting loyalties and naked ambition centred upon a young couple and their desperate attempts to navigate a sea of small-time gangsters, corrupt businessmen, and occupying soldiers in the port town of Yokosuka.

A story of two married couples – a laid-off worker and his spouse and a documentary filmmaker and her spouse – crossing paths to film a documentary and facing their different lives and hidden desires. 

A projectionist navigating his own precarious living situation finds himself at the centre of an unconventional nocturnal community in Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas' luminous tale of friendship.

Join us to celebrate the publication of Erika Balsom's The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture with the London premiere of James Benning's little boy (2025). The screening will be accompanied by an introduction by Erika Balsom. 

The old maxim that to live is to suffer finds its crystalline realisation in Shōhei Imamura’s decade-spanning portrait of a woman’s desperate will to survive, as she struggles through a century of social change and upheaval beset at every turn by poverty and tragedy.

Join us to celebrate the publication of Erika Balsom's The Edges of Cinema: Essays on Twenty-First Century Film Culture with a panel discussion between Erika Balsom, Lola Lemke, Maria Palacios Cruz, and Jonathan Romney. 

A refracted b-side to its more famous predecessor, Imamura followed up The Insect Woman with this unflinching treatise on the torturous patriarchal structures that undergird Japanese society and the immense suffering and trauma they unleash on a daily basis.