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.

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. 

A special programme of six films celebrating the renowned work of the singular Argentine film collective.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Johanne's untold love and writing ignite familial conflict, revealing generational divides on love, sexuality, and the line between art and intimacy.

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. 

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.

A darkly funny symphony of family dysfunction following the estranged members of the Lunies family as they wrestle with chaotic private lives.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An essayistic exploration into the lasting ecological consequences of Belgium’s colonial rule in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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.

Commissioned to create a documentary about Argentine art collective Mondongo, filmmaker
Mariano Llinás crafts an experimental portrait of friendship, failure and self-destruction.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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). 

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.

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.

After a blind date, Marianne meets Tor on a ferry, provoking a curiosity about his approach to casual, spontaneous intimacy.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

22 extraordinary stories, from 22 Palestinian filmmakers, living through the unimaginable. 

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.

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.