The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival
The ICA is proud to be part of the London Film Festival, showcasing the best new films from around the world.
All bookings via BFI Box Office 020 7928 3232 (9.30am-8.30pm daily) or the BFI website. Public booking opens 26 September, ICA Members receive priority booking online from 25 September
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Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly
17 October 2009 - 18 October 2009
The Chinese are the only pork-eaters in Muslim Indonesia, and a pig provides the central metaphor in a kaleidoscopic account of the fraught Chinese-Indonesian experience.
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Who's Afraid of the Wolf?
22 October 2009
Family relations and fairy stories become intertwined in a charming fantasy for ‘adults with children'.
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Adrift
22 October 2009
Almost a Vietnamese Les Liaisons dangereuses, Bui Thac Chuyen's elegant film about convoluted sexual relationships is a very grown-up song of innocence and experience.
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Visitors
21 October 2009
A triptych of digitally-shot stories from East Asian directors, linked by the motif of the home-coming outsider. Hong Sang-Soo, Naomi Kawase and Lav Diaz contribute funny, touching and surreal episodes, respectively.
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Burning Down The House: The Story of CBGB
16 October 2009 - 17 October 2009
Mandy Stein's brilliantly realised documentary presents the history of CBGB, featuring contributions from employees, punters and the artists who played there.
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Elementary Training for Actors
17 October 2009
Argentine filmmakers Martín Rejtman and Federico León cast their caustic eye on a child acting coach who shares the secrets of his successes.
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Like You Know It All
18 October 2009 - 19 October 2009
Hong Sang-Soo's latest wry, comic bulletin from the sex-war centres on a middle-aged man who encounters two married women - and has two very different experiences.
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Wah Do Dem
18 October 2009
A daring and inventive slice of slacker cinema, a fish-out-of-water story that will leave you unsure whether to laugh or despair...
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Trimpin: The Sound of Invention
17 October 2009
A portrait of the artist known simply as Trimpin, a sonic experimenter, a combination of inventor, engineer and composer.
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Little Indi
16 October 2009
Marc Recha's latest feature is a contemporary fable of a teenager caught between a dying way of life in the country and the possibilities offered by the laws and social conventions of a more wily city existence.
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They All Lie
21 October 2009 - 22 October 2009
An inventive post-modern thriller from Argentina's new avant-garde wave weaves together a series of intricate plotlines in a tale of historical intrigue, forgery, political legacies and sexual liaisons where we can never be sure of who or what to believe.
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The Search
19 October 2009 - 20 October 2009
Pema Tseden's Tibetan road movie centres on the search for actors to star in a traditional Buddhist opera; a beautiful film about a rapidly changing society, about dying traditions, about spiritual confusions... and about fragile hearts.
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Headhunter
16 October 2009 - 18 October 2009
A stylish corporate thriller. A journalist turned headhunter becomes entangled in a multinational power.
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Feast of Villians
19 October 2009 - 20 October 2009
In Pan Jianlin's pugnacious indie feature a young deliveryman in Beijing, desperately trying to pay his father's hospital bills, decides to sell one of his own kidneys on the black market.
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Oil City Confidential
20 October 2009
Julien Temple's latest conceptual rock documentary puts the case for Dr Feelgood, as 'four estuarine John-the-Baptists to Johnny Rotten's anti-Christ'.
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At the End of Daybreak
20 October 2009
Inspired by a tabloid news story, Ho Yuhang's tale of the illicit affair between a confused 23-year-old and an underage high-school girl is a kind of modern Malaysian film noir.
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Perestroika
21 October 2009
Twenty years after the death of a dear friend, the filmmaker re-traces a ghostly journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway to investigate how images of the past can invade the present.
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The Ferrari Dino Girl
21 October 2009
Jan Němec's 'auto-documentary' recounts the story of how he filmed the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and smuggled the footage out of the country.
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Kinatay
16 October 2009
Brillante Mendoza's Cannes prize-winner (Best Director) chronicles a young police cadet's horrified realisation that he's about to become an accessory to murder.
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Double Take
19 October 2009
Hitchcock, doppelgangers, the Cold War and American TV: a complex, conceptual and very enjoyable brew from artist/film-maker Johan Grimonprez.