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June 2026

Tuesday, 23 June

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

Pink Narcissus
4k restoration

With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay cinema.

Films

A 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family's expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.

Films

One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm.

Films

In 1975 Cologne, an ambitious teenage concert promoter , Vera Brandes (Mala Emde),
defies her conservative family and navigates impossible odds to book American jazz
pianist Keith Jarrett (John Magaro) for what becomes the legendary Köln Concert.

Films

A drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider in John Huston’s swan song to the Western, and Marilyn Monroe’s final film.

Talks & Events

Talk: Femmephilia by Sophie Lewis

In celebration of the launch of Femmephilia: Love Letters to Trans Mermaids, Queer Mothers, and Marilyn Monroe, join Sophie Lewis and S. Lamble for a discussion on femme feminism, queer liberation, trans politics, and revolutionary futures.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Live

Ghanaian-Australian artist Genesis Owusu has emerged as one of the most exciting artists of the moment.

Films

A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Wednesday, 24 June

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

Pink Narcissus
4k restoration

With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay cinema.

Films

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.

Films

One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm.

Films

A drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider in John Huston’s swan song to the Western, and Marilyn Monroe’s final film.

Films

Leonora in the Morning Light

The story of artist Leonora Carrington, a woman who turned trauma into transcendence, creating beauty from chaos and forging a legacy that changed the history of modern art.

Films

Henry Henry Henry + The Queen of Versailles

A double-bill screening of Buck Ellison’s short film and Lauren Greenfield’s documentary.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Live

Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s and were at the forefront of the indie rock scene at the time. Support from Middleman.

Films

A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Thursday, 25 June

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

UK PREMIERE
Fuck The Polis

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.

Films

A 16-year-old boy defies his bourgeois family's expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.

Films

One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm.

Films

A drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider in John Huston’s swan song to the Western, and Marilyn Monroe’s final film.

Films

UK PREMIERE
Tycoon

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.

Films

A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Talks & Events

Gushing to Perform: TRU DA VEIL

An evening of music and performance rooted in Black Trans experimentation, exploring identity, survival, and expression through sound, movement, and spirit. Curated by TRIBE, the event features Chloe Filani, The Prodigy Sisters (Munya Jani & Sakeema Crook), faith//agency, and TRIBE.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Films

Pink Narcissus
4k restoration

With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay cinema.

Friday, 26 June

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy.

Films

A drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider in John Huston’s swan song to the Western, and Marilyn Monroe’s final film.

Films

Boogie Nights (4K Restoration)

Paul Thomas Anderson's San Fernando Valley-set tale of the rise and fall of a dishwasher turned porn phenom is a bravura exploration of family, fame and the American dream in all its excess.

Films

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.

Films

One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm.

Live

Alejandro Sanchez, better known as Chezile, has had the kind of overnight success that would give anyone whiplash. After 2023 psych-pop single “Beanie” went viral on TikTok, he went from living out of his car in Los Angeles to getting calls from labels. The Albuquerque-born multi-instrumentalist is now based in San Diego, where he’s hard at work on a full-length debut. Support from Kilu.

Films

A Better Tomorrow (4K Restoration)

At once a landmark of 1980s Hong Kong cinema and the harbinger of John Woo's future star-studded career, A Better Tomorrow broke the mould with its kinetic action sequences, razor sharp script and breakout performance by Chow Yun-Fat.

Films

Audition (4K Restoration)

One of the most notorious J-Horror films ever made, Takashi Miike's Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the 21st century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film catapulted Miike to the international scene and paved the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and 13 Assassins.

Saturday, 27 June

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Films

On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy.

Films

A Better Tomorrow (4K Restoration)

At once a landmark of 1980s Hong Kong cinema and the harbinger of John Woo's future star-studded career, A Better Tomorrow broke the mould with its kinetic action sequences, razor sharp script and breakout performance by Chow Yun-Fat.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Films

Boogie Nights (4K Restoration)

Paul Thomas Anderson's San Fernando Valley-set tale of the rise and fall of a dishwasher turned porn phenom is a bravura exploration of family, fame and the American dream in all its excess.

Films

Audition (4K Restoration)

One of the most notorious J-Horror films ever made, Takashi Miike's Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the 21st century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film catapulted Miike to the international scene and paved the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and 13 Assassins.

Films

One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm.

Sunday, 28 June

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

Pink Narcissus
4k restoration

With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay cinema.

Films

One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm.

Films

Jean-Luc Godard:
Unmade and Abandoned

Literary Adaptation II: Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

A programme exploring Godard’s relationship with Swiss author Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. Includes the UK Premiere of the acclaimed restoration of Dimitri Kirsanoff’s landmark Ramuz adaptation, Rapt (The Kidnapping, 1934), and two Godard videos made in dialogue with Ramuz: Les Signes parmi nous (‘The signs among us’, 1998) and, co-directed with Anne-Marie Miéville, Liberté et patrie (‘Freedom and fatherland’, 2002).

Films

A Better Tomorrow (4K Restoration)

At once a landmark of 1980s Hong Kong cinema and the harbinger of John Woo's future star-studded career, A Better Tomorrow broke the mould with its kinetic action sequences, razor sharp script and breakout performance by Chow Yun-Fat.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Films

On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy.

Films

Audition (4K Restoration)

One of the most notorious J-Horror films ever made, Takashi Miike's Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the 21st century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film catapulted Miike to the international scene and paved the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and 13 Assassins.

Films

A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Monday, 29 June

The ICA is closed on Mondays.

Tuesday, 30 June

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

A drama of broken-hearted cowboys and broken-down marriages, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift co-star as an aging cowboy and a rodeo-rocked bull rider in John Huston’s swan song to the Western, and Marilyn Monroe’s final film.

Films

On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy.

Films

Boogie Nights (4K Restoration)

Paul Thomas Anderson's San Fernando Valley-set tale of the rise and fall of a dishwasher turned porn phenom is a bravura exploration of family, fame and the American dream in all its excess.

Films

A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Films

Pink Narcissus
4k restoration

With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay cinema.

Talks & Events

Mindy Seu: A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

How have technologies shaped and been shaped by sexuality? Join us for the first London performative lecture of A SEXUAL HISTORY OF THE INTERNET by artist and technologist Mindy Seu, exploring the entangled histories of desire, media, and digital culture.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Films

Audition (4K Restoration)

One of the most notorious J-Horror films ever made, Takashi Miike's Audition exploded onto the festival circuit at the turn of the 21st century to a chorus of awards and praise. The film catapulted Miike to the international scene and paved the way for such other genre delights as Ichii the Killer and 13 Assassins.

Wednesday, 1 July

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy.

Films

Boogie Nights (4K Restoration)

Paul Thomas Anderson's San Fernando Valley-set tale of the rise and fall of a dishwasher turned porn phenom is a bravura exploration of family, fame and the American dream in all its excess.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Films

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.

Talks & Events

BELIEF SYSTEMS
Maite de Orbe & Baby Red

Maite de Orbe, ICA Artist Development Resident, launches BELIEF SYSTEMS at the ICA Studio, a monthly work-in-progress performance series co-curated with Baby Red.

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

Adieu Philippine

Capturing both the giddy thrill of innocent flirtation and the anguish of youth faced with an uncertain future, Jacques Rozier's debut feature was championed by his contemporaries François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

Films

A rare screening of Cindy Sherman's only feature film, a comedy-slasher film co-written with Todd Haynes.

Films

A Better Tomorrow (4K Restoration)

At once a landmark of 1980s Hong Kong cinema and the harbinger of John Woo's future star-studded career, A Better Tomorrow broke the mould with its kinetic action sequences, razor sharp script and breakout performance by Chow Yun-Fat.

Thursday, 2 July

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

An opaque journey through the Georgian countryside, Alexandre Koberidze's latest film is a remarkable exploration of absence, as a father traces a path through villages and football fields in search of his missing daughter.

Films

On Vancouver Island in the late 1990s eight-year-old Sasha and her Hungarian immigrant family attempt to build a new life, only to be destabilised by the increasingly dangerous behaviour of her older brother, Jeremy.

Films

UK PREMIERE
Fuck The Polis

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.

Films

UK PREMIERE
Tycoon

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.

Films

Pink Narcissus
4k restoration

With its highly charged hallucinogenic quality and its atmosphere of lush decadence, Pink Narcissus is a landmark of gay cinema.

Talks & Events

ICA Creatives Exhibition:
Rift

Rift is an exhibition of new work by participants of the Young Artist Programme. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound and performance, Rift reflects a year of collaboration and exchange.

Talks & Events

ICA Creatives Takeover

Join us for ICA Creatives: Rift, a celebration of the work created by the next generation of artists and cultural voices, as they take over the ICA for a final event.

Talks & Events

Screening + Q&A
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995)
with Isaac Julien and Françoise Vergès

A rare screening of Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1995), followed by a conversation between the film’s director, Isaac Julien, and academic Françoise Vergès, who contributed to the film’s production, research and translation.

Films

A coming-of-old-age film following an older woman’s transition into assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship with herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

Films

One morning, Nino attends a doctor’s appointment where he is given some upsetting news. The treatment will start on Monday morning, but there is a high chance that it might leave him infertile, so the doctor tells him to consider freezing his sperm.

Friday, 3 July

Daily Programme

Talks & Events

ICA Creatives Exhibition:
Rift

Rift is an exhibition of new work by participants of the Young Artist Programme. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound and performance, Rift reflects a year of collaboration and exchange.

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Films

A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.

Films

Inspired by Mia Couto's tale A Morte, o Tempo e o Velho and Aristophanes' play The Birds, this surreal fable delves into the relationship between humans, gods, and time, exploring the cycles of life and the quest for freedom.

Saturday, 4 July

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Talks & Events

ICA Creatives Exhibition:
Rift

Rift is an exhibition of new work by participants of the Young Artist Programme. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound and performance, Rift reflects a year of collaboration and exchange.

Films

Inspired by Mia Couto's tale A Morte, o Tempo e o Velho and Aristophanes' play The Birds, this surreal fable delves into the relationship between humans, gods, and time, exploring the cycles of life and the quest for freedom.

Films

A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.

Live

Samba Jean-Baptiste + “Nacre” by Samara Langham

A double bill with songwriter and composer Samba Jean-Baptiste, and a performance of choreographer Samara Langham’s most recent piece, Nacre.

Sunday, 5 July

Daily Programme

Exhibitions

Genuine Fake Premium Economy:
Jenna Bliss, Buck Ellison & Jasmine Gregory

Through satirising, staging or appropriating the real, these artists probe what effect this post-2008 era of financial collapse has had on societal myths of fairness and progress under capitalism.

Talks & Events

ICA Creatives Exhibition:
Rift

Rift is an exhibition of new work by participants of the Young Artist Programme. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound and performance, Rift reflects a year of collaboration and exchange.

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

Perfectly capturing both the liberating promise and melancholic effervescence of summer, Near Orouët is a masterpiece of the post-New Wave era and a beautiful meditation on the fleetingness of youth, love, and time.

Films

Inspired by Mia Couto's tale A Morte, o Tempo e o Velho and Aristophanes' play The Birds, this surreal fable delves into the relationship between humans, gods, and time, exploring the cycles of life and the quest for freedom.

Films

Jukebox Film Club:
UK PREMIERE Komitas

Armenian Film Society London and Armenian Heritage Month campaign present the long overdue UK premiere of Komitas, a haunting and unconventional film by Don Askarian centred upon one of Armenia’s most significant cultural figures, the pioneering composer and musicologist Komitas Vardapet.

Films

A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.

Monday, 6 July

The ICA is closed on Mondays.

Tuesday, 7 July

Daily Programme

Talks & Events

ICA Creatives Exhibition:
Rift

Rift is an exhibition of new work by participants of the Young Artist Programme. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound and performance, Rift reflects a year of collaboration and exchange.

Films

Inspired by Mia Couto's tale A Morte, o Tempo e o Velho and Aristophanes' play The Birds, this surreal fable delves into the relationship between humans, gods, and time, exploring the cycles of life and the quest for freedom.

Talks & Events

BOOK LAUNCH
Too little, Too Hard

Join us for the launch of Too Little, Too Hard, a new collection of essays published by Peninsula Press exploring the realities of writing today. Featuring readings and discussion on literary work, the book reflects on value, resistance and the future of writing.

Films

Hunted: Kidnapped, blackmailed
and tortured for being LGBTQ* + Panel

Abducted, beaten and tortured for money on camera, the footage then shared online, destroying lives. This is the world of “kito” attacks in Nigeria: where members of the LGBTQ+ community are entrapped, humiliated and extorted by gangs in a rising surge in violence and hatred.

Films

A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.

Wednesday, 8 July

Daily Programme

Talks & Events

ICA Creatives Exhibition:
Rift

Rift is an exhibition of new work by participants of the Young Artist Programme. Spanning sculpture, installation, photography, film, sound and performance, Rift reflects a year of collaboration and exchange.

Films

Inspired by Mia Couto's tale A Morte, o Tempo e o Velho and Aristophanes' play The Birds, this surreal fable delves into the relationship between humans, gods, and time, exploring the cycles of life and the quest for freedom.

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

Shorts Programme

This programme brings together four shorts by Jacques Rozier from 1958's Rivera-set Blue Jeans to 1983's unique reflection on the state of contemporary filmmaking Lettre de la Sierra Morena

Films

A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.

Thursday, 9 July

Daily Programme

Talks & Events

Visible Justice
Carceral Injustice: Imagining Abolition

Join writers, artists and filmmakers Lola Olufemi, Sofia Karim, and Saeed Taji Farouky to imagine a rethinking of the present justice system, countering the violence inherent in policing, prisons and punishment.

Films

A London-based Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist and cameraman retrace their love story over thirteen years of war, revolutions and exile. Drawing on intimate personal archive, Birds of War asks what it means to build a life together in a world shaped by conflict.

Films

Inspired by Mia Couto's tale A Morte, o Tempo e o Velho and Aristophanes' play The Birds, this surreal fable delves into the relationship between humans, gods, and time, exploring the cycles of life and the quest for freedom.

Friday, 10 July

Daily Programme

Films

The Last One for the Road

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Films

Inspired by Mia Couto's tale A Morte, o Tempo e o Velho and Aristophanes' play The Birds, this surreal fable delves into the relationship between humans, gods, and time, exploring the cycles of life and the quest for freedom.

Talks & Events

Visible Justice
Hunger by Steve McQueen

The second part of Carceral Injustice: Imagining Abolition will comprise a screening of Steve McQueen’s film Hunger (2008). It explores the limits of the human body in acts of resistance, which foregrounds the 66-day hunger strike of Irish political prisoner Bobby Sands at the Maze Prison in 1981.

Films

London Indian Film Festival 2026

Too Desi Too Queer

This now legendary LGBTQIA+ showcase is back with a fresh crop of inspiring, thought- provoking short films and Q&A discussions.

Films

The Girls (4K Restoration)

Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first loves.

Films

PRESSURE explores the fetishism of bodies and the desire for no frills full body contact - stripped back to the sensation of flesh against flesh and the beautiful stink of sweat. Dust yourself off and get in the ring as we get physical with tickling, trampling, wrestling, and more than a few muscle mummies.

Saturday, 11 July

Daily Programme

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

Adieu Philippine

Capturing both the giddy thrill of innocent flirtation and the anguish of youth faced with an uncertain future, Jacques Rozier's debut feature was championed by his contemporaries François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.

Films

London Indian Film Festival 2026

Anmol - Lovingly Ours
+ Q&A

A parent's love is put to the ultimate test when their newborn's unique identity forces them to confront their own beliefs and biases, leading to a heartwarming journey of acceptance and the true meaning of family.

Films

The Girls (4K Restoration)

Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first loves.

Films

London Indian Film Festival 2026

All About Weddings

A dazzling Kolkata wedding spirals into a chaotic showdown over the course of a day, as secrets explode, relationships fracture, and unspoken desires come to the surface.

Films

The Last One for the Road

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Sunday, 12 July

Daily Programme

Films

The Girls (4K Restoration)

Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first loves.

Films

London Indian Film Festival 2026

UK Premiere
Master

Winner of the Big Screen Competition at IFFR, the film follows a socialist schoolteacher whose electoral victory in rural Bangladesh gives way to political compromise, exposing the corrosive machinery of power and bureaucracy.

Films

The Last One for the Road

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

The Castaways of Turtle Island

Having framed his first two features as seaside holiday films, Rozier used the third, The Castaways of Turtle Island, to mock the tourist industry in a hilarious comic send-up that could only have emerged from Rozier’s puckish imagination.

Monday, 13 July

The ICA is closed on Mondays.

Tuesday, 14 July

Daily Programme

Films

London Indian Film Festival 2026

UK Premiere
Give It a Shot + Q&A

A timely and inspiring documentary following the decades-long scientific push to bring a reversible male contraceptive to market, aiming to introduce the first breakthrough in reproductive technology since the modern condom, some 200 years ago.

Films

The Last One for the Road

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Films

The Girls (4K Restoration)

Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first loves.

Wednesday, 15 July

Daily Programme

Films

The Girls (4K Restoration)

Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first loves.

Talks & Events

Short films + Music
An evening with Liz Johnson Artur

Join us for an evening of short films and music celebrating Liz Johnson Artur’s new video work Pass the Mic and recent publication I Will Keep You in Good Company, exploring Black diaspora communities and their influence on London’s musical culture.

Films

The Last One for the Road

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Thursday, 16 July

Daily Programme

Films

The River Douro in Porto is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

Films

The Last One for the Road

Francesco Sossai’s dazzling sophomore feature is many things at once: a road movie, a casual caper, a tribute to a vanishing industrial Italy, a scruffy intergenerational odyssey, and free-flowing bender through time and space.

Films

To the Horizon and Back + Q&A

Artist Alexander Carey-Morgan buries himself within half a ton of clay for three days on a journey of self discovery and creative metamorphosis.

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

Perfectly capturing both the liberating promise and melancholic effervescence of summer, Near Orouët is a masterpiece of the post-New Wave era and a beautiful meditation on the fleetingness of youth, love, and time.

Films

The Girls (4K Restoration)

Sumitra Peries' groundbreaking Sri Lankan film offers a tender and transporting journey through young dreams and first loves.

Friday, 17 July

Daily Programme

Films

The River Douro in Porto is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

Exhibitions

Elisa Giardina Papa:
She Flickered In and Out of History 

A new video and mixed-media installation by Elisa Giardina Papa exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean through a historical and speculative story of a vanished island.

Saturday, 18 July

Daily Programme

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

Shorts Programme

This programme brings together four shorts by Jacques Rozier from 1958's Rivera-set Blue Jeans to 1983's unique reflection on the state of contemporary filmmaking Lettre de la Sierra Morena

Films

The River Douro in Porto is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

Exhibitions

Elisa Giardina Papa:
She Flickered In and Out of History 

A new video and mixed-media installation by Elisa Giardina Papa exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean through a historical and speculative story of a vanished island.

Sunday, 19 July

Daily Programme

Films

Time to Play
Films by Jacques Rozier

Maine-Océan Express

Applying his long take shooting style to episodic, anarchic zaniness, Rozier once more proves himself a master of making the patently absurd appear completely realistic, and vice versa, in this irresistible shaggy-dog story.

Films

The River Douro in Porto is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

Exhibitions

Elisa Giardina Papa:
She Flickered In and Out of History 

A new video and mixed-media installation by Elisa Giardina Papa exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean through a historical and speculative story of a vanished island.

Monday, 20 July

The ICA is closed on Mondays.

Tuesday, 21 July

Daily Programme

Films

The River Douro in Porto is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

Talks & Events

PULSE: Maite de Orbe

This iteration of PULSE focuses on the work of ICA Artist Development Resident Maite de Orbe. Across two days, de Orbe will present a work-in-progress installation, offering audiences an opportunity to engage with research and material developed during their residency.

Films

Synthetic Sincerity + Q&A

The Synthetic Sincerity Lab based at the University of Southern England are trying to create authentic AI characters as part of a new research project and licence the films of Marc Isaacs' to better understand what his AI characters are lacking.

Exhibitions

Elisa Giardina Papa:
She Flickered In and Out of History 

A new video and mixed-media installation by Elisa Giardina Papa exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean through a historical and speculative story of a vanished island.

Wednesday, 22 July

Daily Programme

Talks & Events

PULSE: Maite de Orbe

This iteration of PULSE focuses on the work of ICA Artist Development Resident Maite de Orbe. Across two days, de Orbe will present a work-in-progress installation, offering audiences an opportunity to engage with research and material developed during their residency.

Films

The River Douro in Porto is the area of Portuguese maritime territory with the highest number of suicides by jumping. Gastão has dedicated his life to recovering these bodies, not to try to save them, but to return them to their families, who can only move on once they have been recovered.

Exhibitions

Elisa Giardina Papa:
She Flickered In and Out of History 

A new video and mixed-media installation by Elisa Giardina Papa exploring the geological, mythological and political temporalities of the Mediterranean through a historical and speculative story of a vanished island.