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News & Opportunities Round-Up: June 2025
Posted on June 27, 2025

Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society, and industry highlights from the UK and beyond.
Still from RENOIR. A woman and a girl hold hands in a train carriage.
Cannes 2025: Ones to Watch
Posted on June 6, 2025

The ICO team shares some of their highlights from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, including new work from Shih-Ching Tsou, Valery Carnoy, and Lynne Ramsay.
News & Opportunities Round-Up: May 2025
Posted on May 23, 2025

Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society, and industry highlights from the UK and beyond.
Caveh Zahedi projected on screen at an event from the Creative Non-Fiction Weekender team.
The Screening About the Screening: The value of interactive screenings of controversial work
Posted on May 14, 2025

In this blog, Orla Smith and Kimia Ipakchi, the curators behind Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend, share the unusual and impactful ways they created space for discourse during a recent tour with filmmaker Caveh Zahedi.
Meet Our New Board Members
Posted on May 8, 2025

The ICO is delighted to welcome three new members onto our Board of Trustees, each bringing a range of skills and experience which will help support our work.
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News & Opportunities Round-Up: April 2025
Posted on April 25, 2025

Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society, and industry highlights from the UK and beyond.
A black and white photo from inside a cinema screen.
48 Hours in Paris: Reflections on the FIAF Programming Winter School
Posted on April 17, 2025

In this blog, freelance screen heritage facilitator Louise Conway reports on her time and takeaways from the FIAF Programming Winter School, a two-day course focused on programming film heritage.
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The Independent Cinema Office welcomes the report on British Film and High-End Television
Posted on April 11, 2025

ICO director Catharine Des Forges responds to the report from the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s Inquiry on British Film and High-End Television.
Two people mid-conversation at Spring Screening Days
Conversation, case studies and centring audiences: Showroom Cinema at Audience Development Day
Posted on April 3, 2025

In this blog, hear from the team at Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, about their experiences and takeaways from our recent Audience Development Day.
News & Opportunities Round-Up: March 2025
Posted on March 27, 2025

Welcome back to your monthly round-up from the ICO, featuring the latest opportunities for your cinema, festival or film society, and industry highlights from the UK and beyond.

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