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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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Off-Circuit
Music
22 March – 4 April 2024
Freely inspired by the story of Oedipus, this transcendent exploration of fate, tragedy and hope is yet another astonishing achievement from one of contemporary cinema's preeminent artists.
Cidade Rabat + online Q&A
29 March – 4 April 2024
The latest film from Portuguese filmmaker Susana Nobre is a laconic comedy about grief that effortlessly combines humour and melancholy.
Robot Dreams
29 March – 4 April 2024
A heart-swelling, hand-drawn delight that explores love and loss through its tender portrait of a new friendship.
The Sweet East on 35mm
29 March – 4 April 2024
The debut feature from acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams is a picaresque journey through contemporary America.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus
29 March – 4 April 2024
A celebration of an artist’s life in the purest sense,
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus
is the definitive swan song of the beloved maestro.
Cinema Tehran
It's Winter on 35mm + Q&A
Sat, 30 March
From one of the most established names of Iranian cinema, comes a subtle and lyrical drama of a man and woman. The struggle to survive, for a generation, torn between wanting to leave its country, yet bound by blood to home
Cinema Tehran
Brick and Mirror + Crown Jewels of Iran
Sun, 31 March
Ebrahim Golestan's seminal films, which were virtually unseen, are pristinely and painstakingly restored by Cineteca di Bologna with supervision by the director. A moody critique of modernizing Tehran, and the Iranian society, during the Pahlavi era.
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Weekly cinema releases
Perfect Days
23 February – 30 March 2024
The latest film from acclaimed filmmaker Wim Wenders (
Paris, Texas
,
Wings of Desire
) is a subtle and ultimately life-affirming reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
8 March – 4 April 2024
Following up his Golden Bear-winning
Bad Luck Banging
, Radu June crafts a two part tragi-comedy which caustically dissects corporate malfeasance and the absurdities of modern life.
Off-Circuit
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
8 – 31 March 2024
Winner of last year’s Caméra d’Or at Cannes, Phạm Thiên An’s daring first feature is an evocative and visually enthralling reverie on faith and loss.
Monster
15 March – 2 April 2024
Mysterious and deeply moving, the latest film from Hirokazu Kore-eda is a timely tale of family, false impressions, and, ultimately, hope.
Banel & Adama
15 – 30 March 2024
A young couple living in remote Senegal, whose star-crossed love is in conflict with family tradition, face a new challenge as drought hits their village.
The Delinquents
22 – 29 March 2024
Buenos Aires bank employee Morán (Daniel Eliás) dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony in Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno's inventive and playful new film.
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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.
Off-Circuit
The Human Surge 3
5 – 11 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.
Exotica on 35mm + online Q&A with Atom Egoyan
Sat, 6 April
A 30th anniversary screening of Atom Egoyan’s stylish, hypnotic puzzle of a film centred around a strip-club where a group of characters intertwine and their histories and traumas are slowly revealed.
Celluloid Sunday
Hibiscus Town on 35mm
Sun, 7 April
Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, Xie Jin's thirteenth feature is a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
UK PREMIERE No.910 + Q&A
Thu, 11 April
The UK premiere of Erkan Gürsel’s
No.910
which explores the impacts of the 2023 earthquakes on the neighbourhood of Affan in the city of Antakya, Turkey.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Grace + online Q&A
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.
Open City Documentary Festival 2024
24 – 30 April 2024
The open space for non-fiction cinema returns for its 14th edition.
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.
Off-Circuit
UK PREMIERE Regardless of Us
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.
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