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Friday 7 March

SPECIAL EVENT: BRING A BABY

BRIXTON RITZY PICTUREHOUSE 11AM

Special programme of the best, most exciting shorts of the festival — for parents with babies and buggies.


SPECIAL EVENT: MEET THE FILMMAKERS

ICA BAR 4PM to 6PM FREE

Meet the filmmakers with tea, cake and some jolly good chatter.


SPECIAL EVENT: ARTPROJX PRESENTS OPERA

TATE BRITAIN 6.30PM FREE

Filmmaker + visual artist + composer = OPERA, a fascinating screening of films by eleven artists exploring the world of contemporary classical music. Hosted at Late at Tate Britain.


DOCS: LAKSHMI AND ME + MIGRATION + Q&A

ICA CINEMA 1 6.30PM
UK PREMIERE

Filmmaker Jain explores the affable yet complex relationship with her ‘servant’ Lakshmi. Set in the mega-metropolis Mumbai, this film is thoughtful in its questioning of friendship, identity and caste. Director Q&A TBC


FILM: THE LAST MISTRESS / UNE VIEILLE MAITRESSE

ICA CINEMA 2 6.30PM

France 1835: in order to take the hand of a beautiful, young aristocrat, Ryno de Marigny must first disentangle himself from the grip of his ten-year love affair with devilish seductress Vellini.


RETROSPECTIVE: MY BEST GIRL + Elysian Quartet live

BFI SOUTHBANK NFT 3 6.30PM

Maggie falls in love with Joe, her new colleague in the stock room, unaware that he is the son of the department store owner, working undercover to prove his business skills. Stars Mary Pickford.


WORKSHOP: BUILDING BRICKS — A DIRECTING MASTERCLASS WITH SARAH GAVRON

ICA BRANDON ROOM 6.30PM to 8PM £10

Sarah Gavron, BAFTA-winning director, gives the inside scoop on adapting best sellers (Monica Ali’s Brick Lane) and talks about the grassroots experience of shooting in London.


FILM: ANTONIA

ICA CINEMA 1 9PM

A feel good film about a Brazilian girlband and their various struggles living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.


DOCS: 4 ELEMENTS

ICA CINEMA 2 9PM

A visually stunning film in four parts which captures the fundamental elements — earth, fire, water and air — and the people who pit themselves against them on a daily basis.

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