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From Friday: a wealthy American family begins to unravel in Rosebush Pruning, an international team of doctors breach the Gaza blockade in documentary Life Support, Sumitra Peries' ground-breaking film The Girls receives a stunning restoration, a renowned photographer and activist becomes the subject in Shoot the People and a shy university student finds two unlikely mentors in The Last One for the Road.

Don't miss Project a Black Planet: Film, our film season looking at how festivals, carnivals, museums, archives and collective gatherings have shaped traditions of resistance, solidarity and Black internationalism.

Book ahead: Creating Pan-African Cinema, a workshop with Jennifer Lauren Martin, where you will explore methods used across Pan-African cinema to activate your own personal materials and create a new film project.

Plus, Pedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas has joined our Outdoor Cinema line-up – and tickets for this special preview screening (with an introduction from Almodóvar himself!) are on sale Wednesday to Members and Thursday to the public.*

*Mastercard Priceless Ticket Packages are on sale now to Mastercard cardholders via priceless.com.

From Friday 📣

Rosebush Pruning

In an opulent villa beneath the Catalonian sun, four American siblings wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune, seeking love through each other and their latest designer clothes.

When Jack (Jamie Bell), the eldest brother and linchpin of this family, announces that he is moving in with his girlfriend Martha (Elle Fanning), blood ties are severed and Ed (Callum Turner) is forced to uncover the truth surrounding their mother's death, in this biting satire about the absurdity of the traditional patriarchal family.

From award-winning director Karim Aïnouz (The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão, Motel Destino), and written by Oscar-nominated writer Efthimis Filippou (The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer), Rosebush Pruning is absurd and funny in equal measure.

Life Support

A group of international doctors breached the blockade of Gaza. This unflinching documentary captures what they found.

This ground-breaking Sri Lankan film by Sumitra Peries, now beautifully restored, offers a tender and poignant story of first love and the dreams of youth.

The Last One for the Road

Two broke fifty-somethings obsessed with having one last drink meet a shy architecture student and turn his ideas of love and life upside down.

Shoot the People

This thought-provoking documentary follows one of the most widely shared visual storytellers of this age, as he chronicles grassroots movements around the world.

On now 🍿

Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde are an unhappily married couple in this tense and hilarious probe into the well-hidden insecurities that lie beneath seemingly smooth relationships.

My Father's Island

A haunted young man travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father and confront the traumatic experience they shared ten years prior.

Birds of War

Over thirteen years of revolution, war and exile, a Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist document their love story through text messages, voice notes and footage from the front lines.

Nirvanna: The Band – The Show – The Movie

Two hapless bandmates' perpetual effort in trying to book a gig in Toronto goes haywire, Back To The Future-style.

Sophy Romvari's astonishing debut traces a Hungarian immigrant family's turbulent new life in Canada through the eyes of its youngest child.

A Private Life

Jodie Foster stars as an American psychoanalyst in Paris who has taken it upon herself to investigate her client's death.

A24's horror sensation about an eerie world in the back of a furniture store, now screening in its Everything Must Go edition with 15 minutes of additional footage.

Join us from tomorrow 💫

Project a Black Planet: Film

8 Jul–6 Sep

Accompanying Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica, this film programme traces the circulation of Pan-African ideas through cinema, art and cultural practice.

Book for this creative workshop 🎥

Creating Pan-African Cinema
Pan-African filmmaking with Jennifer Lauren Martin

Wed 22 Jul, 7pm

What does filmmaking through Pan-Africanist frameworks look like? Work with materials from Stuart Hall's Constituting an Archive and The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive to create a new project.

From our friends 🌟

Off-Circuit: The Day She Returns (UK Premiere)

Fri 17 Jul, 6.30pm, ICA London

The latest film from Hong Sangsoo unfolds through a series of increasingly intimate conversations, continuing his exploration of the boundaries between lived experience and artistic creation.

Part of Off-Circuit, an ongoing series presenting this generation's landmark films.

More screenings from 18 July.

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