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.

Spanning nearly five decades, Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos' body of work is, in a truly homeric tradition, an epic journey through myth and history.

Igor Bezinović weaves archive and interview to recount poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio’s radical 1919 occupation of Fiume (Rijeka, Croatia), revealing the stirrings of European fascism in the wake of World War I.

The annual festival’s 2025 edition showcases some of this year’s most anticipated new releases reflecting on Palestine.

Jean-Luc Godard’s vast oeuvre is littered with unmade and abandoned projects. This programme brings these phantom works into the light, revealing their connections with his completed films and those of other directors, and highlighting his creative process.

The first ever realisation of a Godardian proposition inspired by the structure of William Faulkner’s The Wild Palms: the screening of his Made in USA and Two or Three Things I Know About Her as a single integrated work.

A haunting testament to the resilience of daily life under siege in Gaza. Captured through a filmmaker's video calls with a Palestinian photojournalist, these calls are a powerful digital lifeline to the realities of war, resistance and survival. 

An elegiac journey through memory, Theo Angelopoulos closes his Borders trilogy with the tale of an unexpected friendship between a dying poet and a young refugee.

A special programme of five films from the work of Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho, on the occasion of (and culminating in) the ICA UK release of I Only Rest in the Storm.

From soundwaves to trembling ground and watchful skies, four powerful films trace how people bear witness in the shadow of violence. Through sonic archives, silent vibrations, and atmospheric unrest, ordinary people endure extraordinary hardship—holding fragments of life that refuse to be silenced.

Bab Sebta means 'The door of Ceuta' in Arabic, where migrants from the African continent who want to reach Europe converge. 

Using audio from actual phone conversations, Kaouther Ben Hania’s searing film recounts a day in January 2024 where workers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society  struggled to intervene in the preventable murder of Hind Rajab.

In the first part of his final (and ultimately unfinished) trilogy, Theo Angelopoulos draws even further into Greek history to trace a saga of forbidden love across generations. In many ways the culmination of Angelopoulos's work, The Weeping Meadow is an aching ode to love and music.

Three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, reunite in their sister Lilia's inherited villa. As the night unfolds, buried grievances, shared memories, and long-held silences surface, testing their fragile bond.

A portrait of the daily lives of young people living in a new-built estate on the outskirts of Lisbon, made collectively with the help of a well-known young documentary filmmaker.

After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalisation, embarking on a wild journey towards freedom. Klára Tasovská’s debut feature is a formally inventive and deeply personal film. 

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

An afternoon of short films - stories of people on the move that are confronted with the new reality their life has become. From difficult goodbyes, to unlikely encounters, this programme encompasses the best short fiction films we’ve seen this year.

In 2008, the growing tourism industry of Cape Verde froze. The building of resorts halted due to a shortage of sand. Tracing the shipping routes of the sand industry As Cidades e as Trocas highlights the physical and social transformations in the landscape produced in its exchanges.

To coincide with World AIDS Day, The Independent partners with the ICA to present Bel Trew's documentary exploring the real cost of Trump's aid cuts on HIV.

Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton tells the story of what might have been.

Colin is a quiet parking attendant, whose steady existence is disrupted by the exploration of pleasure, dependence, and his own limits, when he enters a dominant-submissive relationship with biker Ray (Alexander Skarsgård). 

Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau’s latest film offers a quiet revolution in genre filmmaking, borrowing from body horror, leading us through a family’s story of fear and pain, and their journey towards love. 

Runaway Jeanne falls under the spell of Cristina, the enigmatic star of a film adaption of the Hans Christian Andersen story being shot in the studio where she has taken refuge. A dark, richly textured and deeply moving tale of longing and solitude.

To Catch a Predator was a popular television show in the US designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and  arrested. Predators explores its rise and staggering fall, and the world it helped create.

From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die My Love is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness.

Lost in her fears and fantasies, a young woman writes in a notebook. A young man finds this notebook on a train. Suddenly, they find themselves in the heart of a forest, in a nocturnal reality where dreams come to life in Isabel Pagliai’s first feature.

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet earth.

Mondays for Members returns with a special screening of The Things You Kill, Canada's entry for the 98th Academy Awards

A three-night programme presenting two features, one featurette, and four shorts by Luc Moullet, whom Jean-Marie Straub called 'the most important filmmaker of the French post-Godard generation.'

Following the success of its inaugural edition in 2024, the Armenian Film Festival London is proud to return to the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) for its second edition. 

A fearless, Palme d’Or winning, tour-de-force from cinematic luminary Jafar Panahi. Both urgently political and deeply humane, this new moral classic confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy, head-on.

Sergio, an environmental engineer from Portugal, travels to Guinea-Bissau for an impact report. There, lonely in the heat, he encounters Diara and Guilermhe and begins to approach the post-colonial and capitalist forces shaping their lives.

On New York's Upper West Side, actress Carol Kane lives with her 98-year-old mother Joy, an active music teacher, former dancer, and lifelong Francophile. In this intimate short 16mm documentary, the two are filmed for an afternoon of music and friends and stories — a lifetime in a day.

Werner Herzog's spectacular documentary about ecological disaster and the Gulf War. Selected by Tanoa Sasraku to accompany her solo exhibition.

Cinema Tehran presents a rarely seen and long banned masterpiece from pre-revolutionary Iran. Loosely based on Chekhov’s A Lady’s Story, an 18-year-old woman becomes obsessed with a stranger in Parviz Sayyad’s Dead End.

Nikola is a farmer grappling with the harsh realities of new government policies. When his family leaves, Nikola takes a job as a landfill attendant, where he encounters the injured white stork Silyan and an unlikely bond forms between man and animal. 

The London Community Video Archive takes over for a Late Tapes screening of Pout Issue One, London’s groundbreaking queer video magazine which first launched in 1992.

Cinema Tehran presents Bahram Beyzayi’s first feature which helped usher in the Iranian New Wave. When he takes a job as a schoolteacher in a new neighborhood, the hapless intellectual Mr. Hekmati finds that he is a fish out of water. 

A special screening of Keith Gordon’s psychological World War II drama adapted from William Wharton’s autobiographical novel.

An evening celebrating Diane Keaton, screening her directorial debut, Heaven (1987).

A double bill that pairs famed street photographer Ho Fan and Suh Po-ling’s experimental feature with Tiffany Sia’s short film that reworks mid-20th-century Hong Kong travelogue footage. 

An incomplete selection of Wiseman’s landmark works, spanning nearly six decades, on the occasion of the UK release of his most recent film, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros. 

Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the masterful new film from Ira Sachs, an intimate, richly cinematic rendering of a conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz.

A young Marine sniper awaiting action in the Gulf War experiences the loneliness and frustrations of combat while worrying about home and his future. Selected by Tanoa Sasraku to accompany her exhibition.

Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s monumental latest details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera.

Following a violent bus hijacking, three survivors – a bus driver and two siblings – embark on a quiet journey across Japan’s southern landscape. Part road film, part unconventional family drama, Eureka reimagines the bounds of cinema at the turn of the century with magnetic force.

Sonic Cinema presents a programme of ten short films, bringing together the practices of Vienna-based filmmakers Viktoria Schmid and Johann Lurf for the first time.