Institute of Contemporary Arts

Mischa Barton and Piper Perabo star in this unflinching tale of first love at boarding school.

A striking debut from Matthew Thompson with three extraordinary young actors in the leading roles.

Coffin Joe begins his reign of terror...

Mohan is caught between personal dreams and family pressures in this intriguing domestic thriller set in Southall.

Joe gets into into some emotional entanglements in the second part of Marins' Brazilian horror trilogy.

Debut director Johnny Kevorkian creates a dark mythology to transform familiar surroundings into something worthy of your nightmares.

Kreuzpaintner's award-winning, semi-autobiographical romantic drama set in a Bavarian summer camp.

In the final part of the demented trilogy, Coffin Joe continues his gory search for a woman to bear him progeny.

A straightforward love story becomes a surreal nocturnal adventure, in the first Thai film to be in the main competition at Cannes - where it won the Jury Prize.

James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, Miriam Makeba and more at the 1974 Kinshasa 'rumble in the jungle' concert.

A preview screening for this beautifully shot saga that boldly looks at politics, society and love from generation to generation.

An adaptation of the hugely popular and award-winning novel of the same name, introduced by Jim MacSweeney, owner of Gay's The Word bookshop.

A riot-grrl teen romance, the first film from Alex Sichel, written by her sister.

A female take on the Zatoichi tales: blind singer Ichi may look vulnerable, but her fighting skills are lethal.

Paul Schrader's own cut of his true story of Japanese novelist and playwright Yukio Mishima whose literary career ended in ritual suicide.

This wonderful documentary tells you more than you thought you wanted to know about the great Swiss musical tradition of yodeling.

Powerful dramatised documentary that's set almost 50 years in the future and looks back at the current global warming crisis.

Emilia Fox stars in this dramatisation of the extraordinary life of psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein.

A boy living with his low caste Hindu parents on the Thar Desert border between Pakistan and India runs away and is arrested as a spy.

Compiled from their handheld footage, this award-winning documentary pulls us in as the film-makers become the target of the Burmese government.

In a futuristic Tokyo, a bio-mechanical virus is turning citizens into kill-crazy maniacs.

Two childhood friends grow up as ping pong champions, but their different approach to the sport forces them apart: an ICA favourite.

A sword-wielding, bikini-clad samurai wages war against an ever-increasing horde of unstoppable zombies in a video-game-based action-horror extravaganza.

Lois Rowe's films and videos explore the limits of language, and often exploit the narrative voice as a slippery form.

A captivating selection of the very best shorts from film-makers based in the UK.

Fantastical adventures in revenge and poignant takes on self sacrifice.

A mesmerising film based on the extraordinary true story of Sandra Laing, a black child in born in 1950s South Africa to white Afrikaners.

A journey through life in this year's animation category.

From no-budget to high-end with Coldplay, U2, Goldfrapp, Absentee, Bim and more.

Premiering a strand focusing on cultural values, attitudes to greed, relationships and eating pistachios.

26 July 2009

A whimsical, colourful Jacques Tati-esque comedy about a couple of teachers on holiday.

A moving and thought-provoking range of factual works made from both personal experiences and keen interests.

Longer shorts: a showcase for fictional work under 30 minutes.

A whimsical, colourful Jacques Tati-esque comedy about a couple of teachers on holiday.

Hollywood's adaptation of Shakespeare's play, with an all-star cast.

August's BFM screening: a cautionary tale of friendship, greed and redemption.

Two friends tour their Number 1 dance track through the international gay party scene: a documentary with some of the most stunning club footage we've ever seen.

The story of how Harmony Korine, Shepherd Fairey and their gang tranformed 1990s pop culture with their skate/punk/hip-hop/graffiti art.

Michael Almereyda's portrait of Eggleston the musician, draftsman and videographer.

Errol Flynn swashbuckles his way through Sherwood Forest in green tights.

Essential, exciting documentary about LA's Ferus gallery which nurtured the talents of Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman and more.

A detailed and exciting look at the life and work of the man who reinvented portraiture.

Director John Boorman's stylistically radical revenge-thriller, starring Lee Marvin as an unstoppable force back to settle scores.

Portrait of the extraordinary Sam Wagstaff, Robert Mapplethorpe's lover and patron.

Technicolor adventure on the high seas with Errol Flynn and Flora Robson.

Antonioni's wild road-trip through the 1960s American dream.

Doc about the cartoony genius, as told by Warhol, Madonna and an array of 80s faces.

Fred Astaire is the washed-up film star trying his luck on Broadway.

A personal inquiry into the 1966 disappearance of Danny Williams, Andy Warhol's lover and a promising young film-maker.

Andrei Tarkovsky's semi-autobiographical masterpiece, a mysterious but accessible film poem.

A fascinating, expansive documentary about nonagenarian sculptor and multimedia artist Louise Bourgeois.

Follow Tarkovsky's seekers into the ominous 'Zone' in this puzzle-box of a film.

Gene Kelly gets his ballet shoes on for Vincente Minnelli's classic musical.

A fascinating documentary that follows the career of photographer Robert King, tracing his work from his start in Bosnia, through his time in Chechnya to his struggles in Iraq.

We pick up Yukihiko Tsutsumi's manga epic in 2015 with Friend in power, and our heroes in jail...

A high-spirited Minnelli musical which finds Judy Garland mistaking Gene Kelly for a pirate of the Caribbean.

Denis' delicately constructed drama about changes and developments in a father-and-daughter relationship.

23 August 2009

A free preview for ICA members: this gripping documentary tells of how a photo of Che Guevara became the most reproduced portrait of the 20th century.

Dance the hootchie cootchie with Judy and Margaret in possibly the greatest, strangest, loveliest musical ever made. (And with the best outfits.)

The first part of Wajda's War trilogy tells the story of a man who falls for the leader of the resistance in 1942 Poland.

Set in September 1944, the second part of Wajda's trilogy follows the final days of the Warsaw uprising.

The conclusion of Wajda's trilogy is perhaps the best known, with its iconic lead performance by Zbigniew Cybulski.

A fractured, challenging thriller from first-time British director Simon Welsford that has prompted comparisons with Christopher Nolan's Memento.

In one of the great romantic comedies of all time, James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan are the bickering, letter-writing lovers.