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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.
Long Takes
25 October 2024 – 1 January 2050
A continuing series of in-depth retrospectives exploring the work of cinema's great artists, both past and present.
Strands
Highlights
On Release
Upcoming
Youths
24 July – 17 August 2025
Youths brings together a selection of 15 films that observe and explore ways of navigating, questioning, or disrupting reality as a young adult through the formation of groups and communities.
In Focus: El Pampero Cine
27 July – 3 August 2025
A special programme of six films celebrating the renowned work of the singular Argentine film collective.
In Focus: El Pampero Cine
The Little Match Girl
Tue, 29 July
Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale is the gravitational centre around which a constellation of characters and ideas orbit in Alejo Moguillansky's fascinatingly reflexive and playfully tangential exploration of creativity and its obstacles.
In Focus: El Pampero Cine
Un andantino
Tue, 29 July
Alejo Moguillansky weaves together a Schubert sonata, Robert Bresson's Au hasard Balthazar, and an unfinished scene from his film The Little Match Girl, in this playful and poignant exploration of the creative process and the inevitable passage of time
Youths
Dry Ground Burning
Thu, 31 July
An exploration of the turbulence of contemporary Brazil through the prism of the Gasolineiras de Kebradas: fearless Chitara, her sister Léa and their all-female gang in the Sol Nascente favela on the edge of Brasília, who hijack a pipeline in order to sell oil to their community.
Youths
The Devil, Probably
Fri, 1 August
Painfully contemporary, Robert Bresson's penultimate film portrays a youth caught between a sense of aimlessness and a necessity to resist in the face of the state of the world.
In Focus: El Pampero Cine
UK PREMIERE Corsini sings Blomberg & Maciel
Sat, 2 August
The history and politics of 19th century Argentina are unravelled with playful abandon in Mariano Llinás' exploration, analysis and recreation of an album by singer Ignacio Corsini.
In Focus: El Pampero Cine
UK PREMIERE Popular tradición de esta tierra
Sat, 2 August
The second part of Mariano Llinas' investigation into the music of Ignacio Corsini narrows in on the man behind the music and his roots in the Argentine countryside.
Pavements
Sat, 2 August
As Pavement reunites for their sold-out 2022 tour, their legacy takes on new dimensions through a genre-defying cinematic odyssey directed by Alex Ross Perry—melding biopic, stage musical, and museum exhibition into a hall-of-mirrors tribute that blurs the lines between fact and fiction.
In Focus: El Pampero Cine
Trenque Lauquen
Sun, 3 August
Laura Citarella’s labyrinth of fictions is an enigmatic and liberating mystery that embodies El Pampero Cine’s inventive spirit whilst also forging new and intriguing directions.
Youths
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
Sun, 3 August
An underground classic,
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
offers a unique and unprecedented variation on chaos, approximation, confusion and rebellion while sketching a feverish portrait of a group of runaways and young marginals as they roam the city of Seoul.
Strands
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Weekly cinema releases
My Beautiful Laundrette
2 – 7 August 2025
My Beautiful Laundrette
established the career of writer Hanif Kureishi, launched the cinema star that is Daniel Day-Lewis and catapulted director Stephen Frears into the spotlight. This culture-clash controversial comedy captured the tensions of multiculturalism and Thatcherism whilst its central gay inter racial relationship was both praised and criticised.
Dreams
1 – 7 August 2025
Johanne's untold love and writing ignite familial conflict, revealing generational divides on love, sexuality, and the line between art and intimacy.
2000 Meters to Andriivka
1 – 7 August 2025
From the Oscar-winning director of
20 Days in Mariupol,
Mstyslav Chernov’s latest film follows a Ukrainian platoon's mission: traverse a heavily fortified mile of forest to liberate a strategic village from Russian forces.
Savages
1 – 7 August 2025
A strikingly realised stop-motion animation, invoking a magical forest world teeming with Indigenous history and legend, with an uncompromising environmental and anti-colonialist message from the director of
My Life as a Courgette.
Dying
25 July – 7 August 2025
A darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction following the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE What Does That Nature Say to You
23 July – 7 August 2025
Hong Sangsoo's latest film follows a young poet who, after dropping off his girlfriend at her parents' home, finds himself staying longer than expected.
UK PREMIERE Gold Songs
18 – 30 July 2025
Domingos and Neusia are a young couple from a small city in Mozambique. She goes to school, he has an underpaid job at a car wash. Yearning for a better life, Domingos sets on a journey through Mozambique, heading to the gold mines in the north of the country.
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
18 July – 6 August 2025
Filled with the warm tropical light and lush greens of Martinique, shot on 16mm, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s intoxicating feature debut imagines the life of Martinican writer and activist Suzanne Césaire.
Harvest
18 July – 6 August 2025
In Athina Rachel Tsangari's hallucinatory new film, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity.
The Other Way Around
11 – 30 July 2025
Drawing from a great tradition of romantic comedies, in particular Leo McCarey's
The Awful Truth
, Jonás Trueba's latest film is a playfully reflexive and sparkling exploration of love, conversation and cinema.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE The Tree of Authenticity
10 – 30 July 2025
An essayistic exploration into the lasting ecological consequences of Belgium’s colonial rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Shrouds
4 July – 5 August 2025
In this intensely personal work, David Cronenberg crafts a genre-bending tale that slips between mystery and romance, all the while echoing his signature themes: the body as mutable flesh, technology as both saviour and parasite, and the uncanny union of sex and death.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE The Triptych of Mondongo
19 June – 31 July 2025
Commissioned to create a documentary about Argentine art collective Mondongo, filmmaker
Mariano Llinás crafts an experimental portrait of friendship, failure and self-destruction.
Strands
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Upcoming
Youths
Balcon Atlantico + Deprisa, Deprisa + DJ sets
Tue, 5 August
This double bill, sun-drenched and set on both sides of the Mediterranean, takes up the theme of the love encounter. Followed by DJ sets by Hegoa and Arapiente in the ICA Bar.
Youths
Hanging Out Yonkers + My Crasy Life
Thu, 7 August
This double bill brings together two films directed respectively by Chantal Akerman and Jean-Pierre Gorin, both shot by cinematographer Babette Mangolte on opposite coasts of the United States, capturing fragments of life in peripheral and marginalised neighborhoods of New York and Los Angeles.
The Kingdom
8 – 14 August 2025
Julien Colonna’s debut feature is a taut, sun-scorched crime drama that pulses with the tension of familial loyalty, territorial power, and adolescent awakening.
Off-Circuit
Việt and Nam
8 – 14 August 2025
Shot on 16mm, Trương Minh Quý's quietly expressive and sensual drama centred upon two young coal miners is a hypnotic excavation of the memories and legacies of a nation.
Youths
Regrouping
Sat, 9 August
With
Regrouping
, Lizzie Borden initiates the exploration into the social dynamics of female collectivity that she would continue to pursue in her subsequent fiction films,
Born in Flames
(1983) and
Working Girls
(1986).
Youths
Nadie es inocente: 20 años después
Sun, 10 August
Twenty years after her experimental documentary
Nadie es inocente
about the Mierdas Punks gang, Sarah Minter reconnects with several of the former members. The film offers a retrospective on a youth that has passed yet persists in both images and spirit.
Youths
Wang Bing's Youth Trilogy
15 – 17 August 2025
Wang Bing’s
Youth
unfolds as an epic observational trilogy, offering a profound, intimate portrait of young textile workers in Zhili, a factory town 150 km from Shanghai.
Love
15 – 21 August 2025
After a blind date, Marianne meets Tor on a ferry, provoking a curiosity about his approach to casual, spontaneous intimacy.
My Grandmother Trelototó
16 – 22 August 2025
In this deeply personal and poetic non-fiction work, Portuguese filmmaker Catarina Ruivo embarks on a journey to resurrect the memory of her beloved grandmother, Júlia.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Measures for a Funeral + Q&A
22 – 28 August 2025
Histories and fictions intertwine as Sofia Bohdanowicz concludes her Audrey Benac cycle with a captivating exploration of the life and work of Canadian violinist Kathleen Parlow.
Sex
22 – 28 August 2025
Two married men confront unexpected experiences that challenge their views on sexuality, identity, and gender — one through a same-sex encounter, the other through transformative dreams.
UK PREMIERE L'homme-vertige, Tales of a City + Q&A
Tue, 26 August
The debut feature film by Guadeloupean artist Malaury Eloi Paisley follows wanderers—prophets and seers—through Pointe-à-Pitre, a city both decaying and frozen in time. Followed by a Q&A with Malaury Eloi Paisley.
Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema
29 August – 7 September 2025
Serge Daney (1944–1992), one of the most influential critics of the 20th century, was described by Jean-Luc Godard as the end of criticism as he understood it. In conjunction with a new issue on Daney from the international film journal Sabzian, we present twelve films reflecting his philosophically rich, wide-ranging criticism, fueled by a passionate belief in a cinephilic internationalism.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Afternoons of Solitude + Q&A
5 – 11 September 2025
The pageantry and brutality of bullfighting are drawn in stark relief in Albert Serra’s sublime portrait of the charismatic Peruvian-born torero, Andrés Roca Rey.
The Short Films of the Puerto Rican film unit + Q&A
Thu, 11 September
Four films from the film unit of the Division of Community Education in Puerto Rico. Formed in 1947, the unit made scores of short films, poetic documentaries and neorealist fictions, from the late 1940s through the 1960s.
Being and Time: The Cinema of Angela Schanelec
12 September – 5 October 2025
Enigmatic and endlessly intriguing, the cinema of German filmmaker Angela Schanelec defies easy classification. For more than thirty years Schanelec has crafted a singular body of work that is both elliptical and philosophical. Drawing and departing from classical dramaturgy in almost equal measure, Schanelec's cinema, at its heart, is a cinema of being and becoming, a profound exploration of the very act of existing.
Todo parecía posible (Everything Seemed Possible)
12 – 18 September 2025
A fascinating archival documentary exploring a utopian moment in the history of Puerto Rico, through the film unit of the Division of Community Education and the scores of short films it made in rural communities from the late 1940s through the 1960s.
From Ground Zero
12 – 18 September 2025
22 extraordinary stories, from 22 Palestinian filmmakers, living through the unimaginable.
Off-Circuit
London Premiere Invention + Q&A
26 September – 2 October 2025
In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device in this striking collaboration between filmmaker Courtney Stephens and actress Callie Hernandez.
A Moving Image of Eternity: The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos
23 October – 30 November 2025
Spanning nearly five decades, Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos' body of work is, in a truly homeric tradition, an epic journey through myth and history. From the astonishing tracking shots that seem to collapse any distinction between time and space, to the travelling players, exiles and artists, whose stage keeps shifting beneath their feet. At its heart, the cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is one of movement, an endless voyage, an eternal search for home, and a reckoning with our pasts, both personal and collective.
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