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

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

From a distinctive period in a filmmaker or actor’s career to the varied cinematographic interpretations of a great novelist's work, this continuing series offers an opportunity to draw connections across mediums and to narrow in on the details.

Based on the shocking story of a young Japanese couple jailed for throwing their ten-year old son into traffic in order to extort money from unwitting drivers, Boy is one of Ōshima's most beautiful and restrained films.

30-year-old Danielius returns to his hometown to sell his parents’ flat, but the visit lasts longer than expected in Vytautas Katkus' delicate study of homecoming, fatherhood, and belated farewells.

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.

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. 

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?

Pedro Almodóvar's 1986 erotic thriller explores the intimate relationship between pleasure and death through the convergence of bullfighting and murder.

A beloved coming-of-age story from Studio Ghibli and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, about a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt.

Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex tells the story of Elliot (Cooper Hoffman), a kind-hearted if unmotivated twentysomething whose fantasies quickly come true when he lands a job with renowned artist and provocateur Erika Tracy (Olivia Wilde). 

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

Songs of Forgotten Trees, for which Anuparna Roy won the Orizzonti Best Director award at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, is a gentle ode to female friendship.

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is
handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original's star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure. Set against the vivid backdrop of the massive student-led riots, Nagisa Ōshima's radical concoction of cinema verité, underground kabuki and just about everything in-between, is a striking meditation on the psychosexual ambiguities of the postwar counterculture.

At once disturbing and oddly amusing, Ōshima's macabre farce about a man who survives his execution and throws the judiciary system into chaos, is a searing indictment of both capital punishment and the treatment of Korean immigrants in his country.

12-year-old best friends Ish and Maram wrestle to hold on to their friendship in the wake of a police stop and search. As the ripples take hold, the boys try to make sense of the men they are becoming – and how ‘letting go’ can be the hardest part of growing up.

Sherman’s March, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at Sundance in 1987, is Ross McElwee’s monumental documentary weaving together observations on his journey through the American South, General Tecumseh Sherman and intimate reflections on his own search for love in the nuclear age.

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.

Vittorio Cottafavi's emotionally complex 1954 melodrama follows Liana, a young architecture graduate on the cusp of marriage, who becomes convinced she shouldn't live a life in service of a man. Instead, she leaves for Amalfi, where she embarks on an affair. 

Armenian Film Society London presents the UK premiere of In the Land of Arto (2025), the debut fiction by Tamara Stepanyan, as part of Jukebox Film Club.

Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill’s riveting documentary, shot over 3 months, following a group of women going through basic training for the US Army. Screening as a part of Contemporary Films 75th Anniversary celebration.

A landmark programme of restored and rediscovered films tracing Howard Brookner’s legacy through William S. Burroughs, Robert Wilson, downtown New York and AIDS-era memory, shaped by Aaron Brookner and Paula Vaccaro's 15-year effort to preserve, remaster and reactivate his archive.

To coincide with the BFI's retrospective, the ICA presents a selection of work by the French filmmaker Claude Chabrol.

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. 

In this powerful documentary, Bel Trew travels to some of the world's most dangerous places for pregnancy and childbirth, meeting mothers, babies and frontline healthcare workers as they confront the devastating consequences of conflict, poverty and collapsing healthcare systems.

In 2007, French actress Juliette Binoche and British dancer-choreographer Akram Khan stepped away from their established careers to embark on a bold artistic experiment.

Picture This is a heartwarming portrait of three groups of refugee and migrant women in Edinburgh, Farnham and London who received photography training as a way to reinterpret their own experiences of exile.

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.

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.

WET & MESSY is the eleventh iteration of the Late Tapes series – an ongoing exploration of fetishistic desire curated by Harlan Whittingham and Helena Whittingham in collaboration with the Bishopsgate Institute's UK Fetish Archive.

Hong Kong Film Festival returns for its fourth edition, presenting reflective and shape-shifting cinema from Hong Kong, the wider Asian diaspora and beyond.

As pioneers of the structural film movement, Michael Snow (1929-2023) and Joyce Wieland (1930-1998) reshaped and redefined experimental cinema. 

A double programme featuring restored experimental shorts of Cuban filmmakers Miñuca and Fernando Villaverde, plus a restoration of Carlos Oteyza’s Venezuelan documentary short Mayami Nuestro.

London Latino Film Festival (LoLaFF) is a community-led, non-profit film festival in London that celebrates and amplifies Latin American voices through cinema.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

Sonic Cinema and the Japan Foundation present the films of Montreal-based artist Daïchi Saïto, projected from his personal 35mm prints. A rare encounter with a singular voice in artisanal film practice, this programme highlights Saïto’s skill in bridging metaphysical concepts with sensory experience.