Previously at the ICA - Seasons

BFI London Film Festival 2018

10 Oct 201821 Oct 2018

  • The Queen of Fear

    The Queen of Fear

    10 Oct 2018

    An actor negotiates a new play, a friend’s illness and a tricky home situation in this amusing tale where Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown meets Opening Night.

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  • Asako I & II

    Asako I & II

    10 Oct 2018

    Do we ever really get over our first love? Asako is about to find out, in this quirky romantic drama with a dash of the uncanny.

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  • Freedom Fields

    Freedom Fields

    11 Oct 2018

    Charting six years of Libya’s nascent women’s football scene – a journey never short of obstacles – Freedom Fields celebrates the determination of an incredible team.

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  • Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence

    Namdev Bhau in Search of Silence

    11 Oct 2018

    In this endearing black comedy, a 65-year-old who can’t take noisy Mumbai anymore sets off on a thwarted quest for Himalayan silence.

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  • Experimenta Debate: Representation and Praxis

    Experimenta Debate: Representation and Praxis

    12 Oct 2018

    not/nowhere invites artists working with the moving image to discuss their positions on representation in visual culture.

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  • Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind

    Shock Waves – Diary of My Mind

    12 Oct 2018

    This true crime drama from Ursula Meier is a searingly complex moral maze that lingers long in the mind.

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  • An Impossible Love

    An Impossible Love

    12 Oct 2018

    Rising star Virginie Efira headlines Catherine Corsini’s powerful, moving drama about how the torments of love are carried on from generation to generation.

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  • Ash Is Purest White

    Ash Is Purest White

    13 Oct 2018

    Heartbreak and resilience fuel this quietly epic saga, in which one woman’s fortitude and knack for crime carry her through a rapidly changing China.

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  • I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

    I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

    13 Oct 2018

    Radu Jude, the celebrated director of Aferim!, Scarred Hearts and The Dead Nation, returns with another controversial and illuminating foray into the darker side of Romania’s history.

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  • Nancy

    Nancy

    13 Oct 2018

    Andrea Riseborough is extraordinary in this disquieting drama about a woman convinced that she was kidnapped as a child and might have found her real parents.

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  • The Load

    The Load

    13 Oct 2018

    Vlada is employed to drive an unidentified cargo to Belgrade, but is forced to use back roads on his journey into a heart of darkness.

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  • Miriam Lies

    Miriam Lies

    14 Oct 2018

    A quinceañera celebration is nothing but nerve-racking for teenage Miriam, in this nuanced film that tackles race and class tensions in the Dominican Republic.

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  • The Plan That Came from the Bottom Up

    The Plan That Came from the Bottom Up

    14 Oct 2018

    A plan to avoid job losses at a factory in 1976 becomes the starting point for an incisive account of our current and future economic situation.

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  • Theatre of War

    Theatre of War

    14 Oct 2018

    Six veterans from the Falklands/Malvinas conflict grapple with how to present a difficult past in this debut hybrid film from Argentine writer, musician and director Lola Arias.

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  • Young and Alive

    Young and Alive

    14 Oct 2018

    A young and politicised generation share their beliefs and worries in this galvanizing fresco set on the streets of Paris at night.

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  • Summer (Leto)

    Summer (Leto)

    15 Oct 2018

    Surreal at times, but always sincere, Russian provocateur Kirill Serebrennikov’s latest is a journey into the heart of the Soviet counterculture of the late 1980s.

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  • The Flower - Part 1

    The Flower - Part 1

    15 Oct 2018

    A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic scale structured across three parts and six very different narrative episodes.

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  • Winter Flies

    Winter Flies

    15 Oct 2018

    Two teenagers embark on a quixotic journey in a stolen car across the Czech Republic in Olmo Omerzu’s bittersweet take on the road movie genre.

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  • The Flower - Part 2

    The Flower - Part 2

    16 Oct 2018

    A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic scale structured across three parts and six very different narrative episodes.

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  • Touch Me Not

    Touch Me Not

    16 Oct 2018

    Romanian director Adina Pintilie’s Berlin Golden Bear winner is a bold, quietly provocative drama about one woman struggling with her fear of intimacy.

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  • Twenty-Two Hours

    Twenty-Two Hours

    16 Oct 2018

    Bouchra Khalili’s meditation on revolutionary histories considers the poet Jean Genet’s secret 1970 visit to the United States at the invitation of the Black Panther Party.

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  • Bisbee '17

    Bisbee '17

    17 Oct 2018

    A small US town relives a trauma from the past in a dazzling new documentary by acclaimed Kate Plays Christine director Robert Greene.

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  • Madeline’s Madeline

    Madeline’s Madeline

    17 Oct 2018

    The third feature from acclaimed director Josephine Decker is a jazz-infused fever dream that tackles head-first the thorny themes of cultural production and appropriation.

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  • The Flower - Part 3

    The Flower - Part 3

    17 Oct 2018

    A bold and beguiling cinematic adventure on a truly epic scale structured across three parts and six very different narrative episodes.

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  • Keep It in the Family - Shorts Programme

    Keep It in the Family - Shorts Programme

    18 Oct 2018

    These shorts explore what is acceptable behaviour within the domestic, family space.

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  • Chained for Life

    Chained for Life

    18 Oct 2018

    Made by and starring disfigured people, Aaron Schimberg’s dextrous, darkly comedic film-within-a-film makes you think about cinematic representation without offering simple resolutions.

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  • Dream Away

    Dream Away

    18 Oct 2018

    Stunning and surreal, this hybrid documentary finds a group of hotel staff reflecting on their life, hopes and dreams in a deserted Egyptian holiday resort.

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  • May the Devil Take You

    May the Devil Take You

    18 Oct 2018

    Join Timo Tjahjanto, one of Indonesian cinema’s rising genre filmmakers, for a hair-raising journey into the heart of the supernatural.

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  • Shut Up and Play the Piano

    Shut Up and Play the Piano

    18 Oct 2018

    Self-proclaimed musical genius Chilly Gonzales is charismatic, complicated, conflicted and bursting with talent in this invigorating documentary.

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  • Diamantino

    Diamantino

    19 Oct 2018

    Throwing fascism, colonialism and gender into a cinematic blender, Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt serve up a candyfloss farce that’s an absurdist delight.

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  • Ladyworld

    Ladyworld

    19 Oct 2018

    Welcome to Ladyworld, a shadowy dwelling where tensions run high and nothing is ever quite what it seems.

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  • Ray & Liz

    Ray & Liz

    19 Oct 2018

    In this astonishingly personal film, Richard Billingham delves into his Black Country upbringing to recreate visceral family memories and desperate living in Thatcher’s Britain.

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  • Too Late to Die Young

    Too Late to Die Young

    19 Oct 2018

    After Pinochet’s fall, three youngsters drive up to a woodland commune below the Andes. The trip finds them questioning their life in this woozily gorgeous evocation of a Chilean summer.

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  • John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

    John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection

    20 Oct 2018

    Mastery, showmanship and the art of filming tennis are laid bare in an entertaining, innovative archive documentary that’s like no sports film you’ve seen.

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  • Of Love & Law

    Of Love & Law

    20 Oct 2018

    Hikaru Toda’s involving documentary reveals the hidden side of Japanese society, highlighting the diverse human-rights work done by the country’s first LGBT law firm.

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  • Museum

    Museum

    20 Oct 2018

    Gael García Bernal stars in this dazzlingly enjoyable heist thriller about an ambitious plan to loot one of the World’s most famous museums.

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  • Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

    Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

    20 Oct 2018

    If the cinematic canon is dominated by male directors, how can we respond to it? With an epic series comprised of brilliant films by female filmmakers.

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  • Dovlatov

    Dovlatov

    21 Oct 2018

    In this powerful account of the struggles of banned writer Sergei Dovlatov, Aleksey German Jr. provides an unusual insight into the literary world of Soviet Russia.

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  • The Chambermaid

    21 Oct 2018

    Actor-turned-director Lila Avilés provides an engaging, behind-closed-doors look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels.

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