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Artists’ Film Club
4 December 2019 – 4 December 2099
Artists’ Film Club is a recurring programme dedicated to the screening and discussion of moving image works by visual artists and those who work on the fringes of moving image practice.
Off-Circuit
1 January 2023 – 27 October 2073
A continuing series spotlighting new films that expand the possibilities of the medium and provide a vision for its future.
Screen Practices
2 January 2023 – 9 July 2073
A series foregrounding collective endeavour in the Cinema, that becomes a space of experimentation, collaboration and exchange programmed over a weekend by an invited collective.
Celluloid Sunday
3 January 2023 – 26 September 2073
An ongoing series presenting rare films from the ICA Archive, screening on original 35mm and 16mm prints.
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On Release
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Close Your Eyes
12 – 24 April 2024
Víctor Erice's first film in thirty years centres upon the mystery of an actor who disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the edge of a cliff. Many years later, the mystery returns to the present day.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Grace
18 – 25 April 2024
A father and daughter traverse the vast, winding backroads of rural Russia in Ilya Povolotsky's stunning debut fiction feature which premiered at Cannes Director's Fortnight in 2023.
Queer East Festival 2024
19 – 21 April 2024
Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities.
Fantastic Machine
19 – 25 April 2024
To explore, explain and expose how our unchecked obsession with image has grown, filmmakers Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck turn their cameras directly on society itself and take a look at how this obsession has begun to change our very own behaviour.
Queer East Festival 2024
A Princess' One-Sided Love + Introduction
Fri, 19 April
The Joseon era: after meeting a handsome young scholar, the stubbornly romantic princess Suk-yeong contrives to leave the palace grounds in which she has been confined her whole life. This lively costume drama by South Korea’s third-ever female director is a testament to role-play in all its myriad forms.
If Only I Could Hibernate
19 – 25 April 2024
The first Mongolian film to ever play in official selection at Cannes, writer/director Zoljargal Purevdash’s beautifully photographed debut feature is a hope-filled coming-of-age drama about resilience and determination against the odds.
Queer East Festival 2024
The River + Introduction
Sat, 20 April
Hsiao-Kang is suddenly struck by debilitating neck pain in director Tsai Ming-Liang's subversive family drama.
Queer East Festival 2024
UK PREMIERE Sara + Q&A
Sun, 21 April
A trans woman returns to her village in rural Indonesia to discover that her mother has lost all memory of her.
Strands
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Weekly cinema releases
The Sweet East
29 March – 23 April 2024
The debut feature from acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams is a picaresque journey through contemporary America.
Evil Does Not Exist
5 – 24 April 2024
Urban ambitions clash with nature in a quiet village near Tokyo in this eco-fable from the Oscar and BAFTA-winning director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Io Capitano
5 – 23 April 2024
Two Senegalese teenagers leave Dakar to travel to Europe where they believe opportunities await. On a journey neither could have imagined, the boys face the dangers of the desert and the perils of the sea in Matteo Garrone's epic coming-of-age tale.
Off-Circuit
The Human Surge 3
5 – 21 April 2024
Eduardo Williams returns to the bold, time-and-continent-skipping world of his 2016 film
The Human Surge
, armed with a 360-degree camera, in this hypnotic and drifting exploration of technology, language and image-making.
The Teachers' Lounge
12 – 25 April 2024
The Oscar-nominated feature from German writer-director İlker Çatak’s is a brilliantly observed drama, which expertly explores the fault lines of contemporary society.
LONDON PREMIERE
Tokyo Pop (4K Restoration)
13 – 21 April 2024
An underseen gem of ‘80s American independent cinema by Fran Rubel Kuzui (
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
), the newly restored
Tokyo Pop
takes us on a breezy tour through bubble era Tokyo, replete with knowing nods to the city’s vibrant pop culture.
Strands
Highlights
On Release
Upcoming
El Cicle Gaudí
2 March – 2 August 2024
This film exhibition circuit, coordinated by the Catalan Film Academy, continues its international expansion thanks to the Institut Ramon Llull. From March to August, each month you can enjoy a film that exemplifies the vitality and diversity of Catalan cinema.
Open City Documentary Festival 2024
24 – 30 April 2024
The open space for non-fiction cinema returns for its 14th edition.
Omen
26 – 28 April 2024
This magic realist film is a tale of family, relationships, suspicion and belonging. It navigates the thin layer between reality and sorcery to weave a distinct, deeply impressionistic aesthetic.
Tomorrow's Freedom + Q&A
28 April – 3 May 2024
For five years, Georgia and Sophia Scott followed the family of imprisoned Palestinian political leader and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Marwan Barghouti.
Sonic Cinema: Eve Heller
Thu, 2 May
Sonic Cinema presents a retrospective of films by Eve Heller, programmed in collaboration with the filmmaker. This programme brings together eight of Eve Heller’s films, each highlighting the artist’s skill at recording traces of experience and conveying fragments of history.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
3 – 5 May 2024
Elene Naveriani's shrewd and refreshing portrait of a woman who doesn’t want, or need, to conform.
Leila and the Wolves
(40th Anniversary)
3 – 9 May 2024
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition, Heiny Srour’s film is a masterpiece of filmmaking, mixing together archival footage, fairy-tale storytelling, aesthetically bold imagery, and dramatisations of situations faced by women in Lebanon and Palestine.
Nezouh
3 – 5 May 2024
Delicately weaving lightness and magical realism among heart-breaking desolation, Soudade Kaadan’s Venice Film Festival award-winner offers a powerful and moving perspective on the Syrian conflict.
Lost and Found, You Still Remain There
A Phil Solomon Retrospective
4 – 5 May 2024
Internationally acclaimed American filmmaker Phil Solomon (1954-2019) created a body of cinematic virtuosity and poetic resonance that profoundly expanded the found footage genre.
Off-Circuit
Mambar Pierrette
10 – 16 May 2024
The latest film from acclaimed Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam is a moving portrait of a seamtress and single mother in Douala.
Blue ID + Q&A
Thu, 16 May
On October 4, 2012, Rüzgar Erkoçlar received his first testosterone injection, an important step in his gender confirmation, but only the beginning of a long and arduous journey. Followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Vuslat Karan and Burcu Melekoğlu
Tiger Stripes
17 – 19 May 2024
Winner of the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes in 2023, Amanda Nell Eu's debut feature is a potent coming-of-age tale centred on 12-year old Zaffan.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE
Regardless of Us + Q&A
23 – 29 May 2024
The nature of memory, performance and the very structures of reality are all drawn into question in Yoo Heong-jun’s strikingly original debut feature.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE
Tú me abrasas + Q&A with Matías Piñeiro
6 – 13 June 2024
Detours, fragments and foot notes abound in Matías Piñeiro's beguiling new film, as the poetry of Sappho, the life, death and work of Cesare Pavese and the nature of desire restlessly meld and transform.
Arts of Lebanon Festival
Anxious in Beirut
Sun, 9 June
In the ever-present desire to capture, record, and understand Beirut, and by extension himself, director Zakaria Jaber has been trying to tell a coherent story of his city. An award-winning documentary that holds a mirror to Lebanese society, and is screening as part of the inaugural Arts of Lebanon Festival.
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