Film
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The Insect Woman (Nippon konchuki)
3 February 2012 - 9 February 2012
A powerful, acerbic Japanese New Wave classic by legendary director Imamura follows 45 years in the life of a lone woman battling social taboos.
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Bombay Beach
3 February 2012 - 16 February 2012
Three characters inhabiting the desolate, faded setting of a 50s development in the Colorado desert are observed in this extraordinary, poetic quasi-documentary.
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Members' Preview: Hadewijch
5 February 2012
Bruno Dumont's latest is a contemporary examination of a devout young woman experiencing a crisis of faith.
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Artists' Film Club: Lisa Oppenheim - Double
9 February 2012
Presents a curated screening of double 16mm projections by Lisa Oppenheim, exploring the relationship between film process development and subject.
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Marx Reloaded
10 February 2012 - 16 February 2012
An electrifying examination of how Karl Marx’s ideas are relevant to the global economic crisis, with a stellar array of philosophers including Slavoj Žižek.
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Dear Doctor
10 February 2012 - 11 February 2012
The ICA features the third film by the one-time Kore-eda protégé Miwa Nishikawa, the most important Japanese female film director of her generation.
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The Dark Harbour (Futoko)
10 February 2012 - 11 February 2012
The Japan Foundation presents a charming tale of a lonely Japanese fisherman and an unexpected relationship.
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I Just Didn't Do It (Soredemo Boku Wa Yattenai)
11 February 2012 - 12 February 2012
A young man accused of sexual assault in Tokyo is forced to sign a statement that are not his own words.
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A Stranger of Mine (Unmei Janai Hito)
11 February 2012 - 16 February 2012
A normal day in the life of a young man changes abruptly as he encounters a number of people with enteretwining fates.
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Bad Company (Mabudachi)
12 February 2012
A boy is torn between his desire to please his father and his need to rebel against his strict education.
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About Her Brother (Otouto)
12 February 2012
A widow's life becomes troubled by the sudden appearance of her troublemaking brother.
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Heart, Beating in the Dark
15 February 2012
The ICA screens Nagasaki’s most recent adaptation of his original 1982 version of the same name, Heart, Beating in the Dark, considered one of the best films of the period.
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All Around Us (Gururi no Koto)
15 February 2012
The Japan Foundation analyses the difficulty of human relations in this portrait of an eight-year marriage brought together by an unexpected pregnancy.
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Sleep (Nemuri Yusurika)
16 February 2012
The Japan Foundation presents a sick yet beautiful film probing three generations of a family trapped in a matrix of prostitution, dysfunction and the desire for vengeance.
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Hadewijch
17 February 2012 - 2 March 2012
Bruno Dumont's latest is a contemporary examination of a devout young woman experiencing a crisis of faith.
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Position Amongst the Stars
17 February 2012 - 1 March 2012
The latest of Helmrich's exploration of increasing globalisation, rising Islamic fundamentalism and the implications of this on one working class Indonesian family.
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Axis of Light: Eight Artists from the Middle East
22 February 2012 - 4 March 2012
The ICA features the screening of Pia Getty's documentary of the work of a group of Middle Eastern film-makers.
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Eye of the Day
24 February 2012 - 1 March 2012
Helmrich's first film following the lives of Rumidjah, her family and friends, shows how the family is buffeted by the sweeping political turmoil in Indonesia at the turn of the 21st century.
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Shape of the Moon
25 February 2012 - 29 February 2012
With a new government in power change is happening all around Rumidjah's family at a dizzying pace. Shape of the Moon examines how this traditional matriarch steers her family through a time of opportunity and danger, attempting to hold on to her Christian tradition as her son Bakti converts to Islam to marry a Muslim woman.
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Screening Conditions: The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
26 February 2012
This 1955 film tells the darkly comic story of a would-be serial killer with a sexual obsession with murder.
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Midnight Movies presents Repo Man
29 February 2012
The ICA celebrates the four-year anniversary of Midnight Movies with Alex Cox's classic film from the mid 1980's.
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Khodorokovsky
2 March 2012 - 8 March 2012
Set to a gorgeous Arvo Part score dedicated to Khodorkovsky, this is the story of the eponymous Russian oligarch who has been in a Siberian prison since 2003 on contested tax evasion charges.
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Blank City
2 March 2012 - 15 March 2012
Blank City documents the early years of Debbie Harry, Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie, Lizzie Borden and many more artists, musicians and filmmakers inspired by the likes of Warhol and Basquiat.
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Artists' Film Club: Projections of the Self
7 March 2012
This Artists’ Film Club features several of Dóra Maurer’s films alongside recent works by a number of her contemporaries.
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Accattone
9 March 2012 - 15 March 2012
Presented in a new digital restoration, brimming with humanity and vitality, shot with a non-actor cast on the streets of its protagonists, Accattone announced Pasolini to the world.
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The Gospel According to St Matthew
9 March 2012 - 15 March 2012
Using his trademark cast of non-actors including his own mother, this continued Pasolini's long-standing exploration of humanism and stands as one of the great films of the 20th century.
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How To Re-Establish a Vodka Empire
16 March 2012 - 22 March 2012
When Daniel Edelstyn discovers his great-grandmother's journal it opens his eyes to a personal history which at once provides a dizzying history of the collapse of capitalism and subsequent rise of the Soviet Union.
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Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
16 March 2012 - 29 March 2012
Part crime drama, part road trip, part study of human nature, at over two and a half hours the film is epic both in ambition and achievements.
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Screening Conditions: Le Boucher
18 March 2012
As a number bloody crimes set out in a small town, a local butcher and a repressed school teacher engage in an affair.
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Love Crimes of Kabul + Q&A
23 March 2012
Jailed for running away from home to escape abuse, for allegations of adultery, and other "moral crimes," the women of Afghanistan's Badum Bagh prison band together to fight for their freedom.
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Family Portrait in Black and White
24 March 2012
A group of African and Slavic-born orphans grow up in a bi-racial society in Eastern Europe under the hand a single woman.
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The Price of Sex + Panel Discussion
24 March 2012
Intimate and revealing, The Price of Sex is a feature-length documentary about young Eastern European women who have been drawn into a world of sex trafficking and abuse.
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Screening Conditions: Matador
25 March 2012
The ICA presents the screening of a cinematographic study about romance, fetish and obsession in Pedro Almodovar's mid 1980's film.
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Salaam Dunk + Q&A
25 March 2012
With plenty of pop music and 'girl power', David Fine delivers a tale of hope and inspiration courtesy of one winning group of Iraqi women basketball players.
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Putin's Kiss + Q&A
25 March 2012
This coming-of-age tale paints a grim picture of the Russian political moral climate.
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Special Flight + Q&A
28 March 2012
Surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged this portrait of rejected asylum seekers and illegal migrants shows a world few know from the inside.
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Little Heaven + Q&A
29 March 2012
"HIV is like somebody living in my body without paying rent. I don’t know him and I don’t like him." — Lydia, age 13, Little Heaven Orphanage, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Bonsai
30 March 2012 - 12 April 2012
Playing out in a succession of flashbacks against his present day musings, Julio ruminates on what happened to his ex-lover Emilia and the impact this relationship has had on his adult life.
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The Future
1 April 2012
Filmmaker, artist and writer Miranda July follows up her first feature film Me, You and Everyone We Know, with The Future.
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Despair
1 April 2012
A man with a comfortably settled life struggles to cope with a vagabond who seems to share the same characteistics as himself.
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Shame
1 April 2012
A man's obsession with sex slowly begins to control his life and his relationship with his own family and with the women he encounters.
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This is Not a Film
1 April 2012 - 12 April 2012
A moving, hugely significant film by and about one of our major filmmakers who currently has no voice in the world thanks to his unjust imprisonment.
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This Must Be the Place
6 April 2012 - 19 April 2012
An eccentric, retired rock musician goes on a journey through North America to find the murderer of his father.
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Young Adult
7 April 2012 - 8 April 2012
The ICA screens Jason Reitman's recent comedy featuring award-winning actress Charlize Theron.
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L'Atalante
7 April 2012 - 8 April 2012
The relationship of a captain and his wife becomes complicated when they embark on a trip on his boat away from the city life.
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Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff)
13 April 2012 - 19 April 2012
Mizoguchi Kenji describes the lives of Tamaki and the members of their family after they are seperated from each other.
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Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of the Rain and the Moon)
13 April 2012 - 19 April 2012
The lives of two very different men soon become intertwined by their common search for a better life.
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Remote Control: To Die For & The Truman Show
14 April 2012 - 15 April 2012
This unique screening presents two films from Academy Award nominee directors, Peter Weir and Gus Van Sant.
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Marley
20 April 2012 - 29 April 2012
Kevin McDonald explores the life of Bob Marley and the way his philosophy and music continues to influence so many of his followers until this day.
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Breathing (Atmen)
20 April 2012 - 29 April 2012
A troubled, teenage orphan decides to learn about his life after he begins working at a morgue.
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8 1/2
21 April 2012 - 22 April 2012
A frustrated film maker struggles to create a new film as he tries to cope with his relationship with his wife and his mistress.
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Tiny Furniture
21 April 2012 - 29 April 2012
An unlucky University graduate returns home only to find herself immersed in a series of unfortunate situations.
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Taxi Driver
28 April 2012 - 29 April 2012
A unstable war veteran working as a taxi driver tries to save a young prostitute from the dangerous night life of the city.