Institute of Contemporary Arts

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The last in Yoji Yamada's elegant samurai trilogy.

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Announced as a finalist in the 2009 Academy Awards for Best Documentary.

A brilliant depiction of resilience, courage and humour in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Free screening: the Better Things director's first short, a dark tale of bored children in an unwelcoming rural area.

The mumblecore massive comes to the ICA with the latest low-low-budget indie flick about awkward hipsters (awksters?).

Ring director Hideo Nakata directs this spin-off from the Death Note series, with genius detective L racing to stop environmental extremists causing global catastrophe.

A raucous selection of shorts as Darryl's Hard Liquor & Porn film festival returns to the ICA.

This drama recreates the final chapter in the life of Sophie Scholl, the 21-year-old student from Munich who became an anti-Nazi icon during World War II. Archive screening, free to members.

This powerful and disturbing documentary hears the stories of some of the gay men and women who survived the concentration camps.

An Oscar-winning, deeply moving documentary that takes as its starting point the memorial quilt started in 1987 to commemorate victims of Aids.

The previous feature from Hannah Takes the Stairs director Joe Swanberg: a painful tale of three young men stumbling into grown-up relationships.

A fascinating, fast-paced and often funny trip through representations of homosexuality in mainstream American cinema.

The landmark Oscar-winning 1984 documentary about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to political office in California.

Young film-makers Michael Pearce, Ian Clarke and Esther May Campbell join representatives from the UK Film Council to discuss the future of UK indie cinema.

Special preview: Sean Penn gives a remarkable performance as Harvey Milk in this brilliant biopic from one of our greatest indie directors.

Free screening: the Better Things director's second short, an honest examination of first love.

LSFF premieres an eclectic programme of shorts completed thanks to funding from the UK Film Council.

An eerie South Korean take on the nasty fairy-tale - a new release exclusive to the ICA.

Jean Cocteau's haunting and romantic version of the classic fairy-tale, to complement Hansel & Gretel.

Revisiting seminsal works by women artists using the female form. Jayne Parker's Almost Out is a statement with fragments of dialogue between a mother, daughter and a cameraman.

New feminist films plus the Club des Femmes award for best woman character.

A programme of ground-breaking works, including films by Martha Rosler, Marina Abramovich. Mona Hatoum and Jayne Parker.

An adrenaline-fuelled selection of short films for midnight movie lovers everywhere. Includes the Under The Influence award.

Frank Sinatra is drug-frazzled musician Frankie Machine in Otto Preminger's gripping tale of addiction - introduced by psychoanalysts Andrea Sabbadini and Earl Hopper.

A collection of innovative, abstract new films, plus the Wallflower Press Award for best experimental film.

The quietly formidable debut feature from Duane Hopkins: an oblique drama about the struggle to live, day to day, for four characters in the Cotswolds.

Horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa tries a new genre with great success: this is an acutely observed, blackly funny drama about family secrets.