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DCA Big Film Quiz

Get your team together for a big screen edition of our legendary quiz.

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Media Studies Day

This year we will once again offer a day of behind-the-scenes access in the film industry and are planning a day of film-related activity for students…
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Discovery Family Film Club: Phantom Boy

Léo, an 11-year-old boy with a serious illness has a secret. He can transform into a phantom boy, able to leave his body and fly and pass through walls…
A crowd of singers on stage in a scene from Andrea Chenier

Live from the Met: Andrea Chénier

Priority booking for passes opens for DCA Members from Sat 31 May. Please note that you'll need to log in to access priority booking.Tickets…
An animation still shows a young boy flying through a busy street in New York

Relaxed: Phantom Boy

Léo, an 11-year-old boy with a serious illness has a secret. He can transform into a phantom boy, able to leave his body and fly and pass through walls…
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Drop in and Play x DARE Academy

Drop in and Play is back for August 2025!Try out a range of new games and meet the creatives behind them at this free, drop-in event in partnership with…
An older man sits at a wooden desk with many books behind him.

Ciné Sunday: The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
A man wearing a suit and a woman in a red dress hold hands and smile on a city street.

The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
A man sitting on a park bench shakes hands with another man standing on the road.

Bring a Baby: The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
A man wearing a suit and glasses stands outside of a theatre with bright lights.

Senior Citizen Kane: The Life of Chuck

Winner of the Audience Award at Toronto International Film Festival. The life-affirming, genre-bending adaptation of Stephen King’s novella explores…
A man wearing a suit and hat, with the word 'LOVE' tattooed on his fingers, leans on a bannister.

Dundead: The Night of the Hunter (70th Anniversary)

There are those films which are not just exemplars of their specific genre or mood or era, but bonafide classics of cinema in general. Films which are…
Two men argue with one another, while another man looks on

Funny Games (35mm)

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. – Michael HanekeJoin us this August for Complicit:…
An angel speaks to a saint in an oil painting by Caravaggio

Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio

Five years in production, this is the most extensive film ever made about one of the greatest artists of all time – Caravaggio. Featuring masterpiece…
Two hands holding a black and white film strip

Black and White Photography: Darkroom for Beginners

Sat 20 & Sun 21 September
A photograph of Frida Kahlo wearing a blue dress, gold jewlerry and a red ribbon in her hair.

Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo

First screened in 2020 to restricted audiences because of the pandemic, Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo is back by popular demand with an exciting new…
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Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation,…
A woman with red lipstick smokes a cigarette in a dark room.

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

An actress and new mother (played by Zita Hanrot) is haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire.In…
A black and white photo shows a group of children in 1900s dresses walking down a dirt path.

The White Ribbon

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. – Michael HanekeJoin us this August for Complicit:…
A woman dressed in a flapper outfit smokes a pipe, next to a man in a suit and white bowtie.

The Pleasure Garden (100th Anniversary) + Live Score

Join us in celebrating the centenary of Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature film, which will be introduced by Matthew Jarron, Curator of the University of…
Parents and a young girl sit on the floor of an empty apartment eating breakfast quietly.

The Seventh Continent

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. – Michael HanekeJoin us this August for Complicit:…
A claymation still shows two children and a monkey sitting on a tree in a jungle together.

Savages (Subtitled)

These screenings of Savages are in French with English subtitles - we're also showing the film dubbed in English.Claude Barras’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated…
A man stands in the street, looking angry and gesturing with his arm. Two people stand next to each other.

Caché

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. – Michael HanekeJoin us this August for Complicit:…
A man plays the piano in front of a small audience.

The Piano Teacher

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth. – Michael HanekeJoin us this August for Complicit:…
A group of people with mullets wearing leopard print clothes rock out while playing guitars

This is Spinal Tap

With Spinal Tap II: The End Continues being released in September, we’re bringing the 1984 cult classic mockumentary back to the big screen. Undoubtedly…
A soldier walks through a forest of dead trees at dawn.

2000 Meters to Andriivka

2000 Meters to Andriivka is the second feature film from the Oscar-winning team behind 20 Days in Mariupol — Ukrainian filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning…
A blonde woman in a white dress and green skinned woman wearing a witch's hat an holding a broom stick stare at each other.

Wicked: For Good

And now whatever way our stories end, I know you have rewritten mine by being my friend…Last year’s global cinematic cultural sensation, which became…
A man and a woman sit in a restaurant booth together. The woman holds the man's martini glass.

Ciné Sunday: Materialists

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex in this new romantic comedy from director…
A nurse in a blue uniform stands in a lift with a patient lying on a bed.

Ciné Sunday: Late Shift

Starring Leonie Benesch (The Teacher’s Lounge, September 5), Late Shift is a propulsive and gripping medical drama set over a single night on a hospital…
A woman and a girl sit on a bed together. The girl scrolls on her phone.

Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams

The Oslo Stories Trilogy (Dreams, Love, Sex) is an ambitious set of films from novelist-turned-filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud, contemplating romance, intimacy,…
Dakota Johnson in a blue cocktail dress, smiles at a man in a scene from Materialists

Senior Citizen Kane: Materialists

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex in this new romantic comedy from director…
An animation still shows a group of different animals wearing suits walking through a tunnel

The Bad Guys 2

In the new action-packed chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed comedy smash about a crackerjack crew of animal outlaws, our now-reformed Bad Guys…
A nurse in a blue uniform walks down a corridor talking on the phone.

Senior Citizen Kane: Late Shift

Starring Leonie Benesch (The Teacher’s Lounge, September 5), Late Shift is a propulsive and gripping medical drama set over a single night on a hospital…
A woman with blonde hair wearing a regency dress stands outside smiling at a man.

Sense and Sensibility (30th Anniversary)

Ang Lee’s Academy-Award winning Jane Austen adaptation returns to cinemas to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Sense and Sensibility is the story of…
A man and woman sit on a park bench together, next to flowers in a plastic bag, smiling.

Bring a Baby: Materialists

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex in this new romantic comedy from director…
A man in a suit and a woman in a blue dress smile and dance together closely

Materialists

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex in this new romantic comedy from director…
A Constable painting shows a river scene with a house on a riverbank and a group of people.

Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable

The incredible story of Britain’s greatest landscape artists and their fierce rivalry, made in close collaboration with Tate Britain to celebrate the…
A clay animation boy shares a single bed with a small monkey.

Bring a Baby: Savages (English Dub)

Claude Barras’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated My Life as a Courgette is another vivid, gorgeously realised stop-motion animation. At the edge of…
A claymation still shows two children and a monkey sitting on rocks together holding leaves over their heads.

Savages (English Dub)

These screenings are dubbed in English - we're also showing Savages in French with English subtitles.Claude Barras’ follow-up to his Oscar-nominated My…
Children run down a dark street with their arms stretched out

Weapons

From Zach Cregger, the wholly original mind behind Barbarian, comes a new horror-thriller: Weapons.When all but one child from the same class mysteriously…
A group of villagers try to put out a burning barn using a water wheel.

Harvest

From Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk…
A nurse in a blue uniform stands in front of a hospital bed looking nervous

Late Shift

Starring Leonie Benesch (The Teacher’s Lounge, September 5), Late Shift is a propulsive and gripping medical drama set over a single night on a hospital…
A man and woman stand next to each other, covered in blood and sweat. The man is tied to a chair.

Together

Michael Shanks makes his directorial debut with this supernatural body horror starring real-life married actors Dave Franco and Alison Brie.Years into…
An anime still shows a woman and two small children look at a field of flowers together

Wolf Children (4K) (English Dub)

This screening is dubbed in English - we're also showing Wolf Children in Japanese with English subtitles.For more stunning animation from director Mamoru…
An anime still shows a woman and two small children look at a field of flowers together

Wolf Children (4K) (Subtitled)

This screening is in Japanese with English subtitles - we're also showing Wolf Children dubbed in English.For more stunning animation from director Mamoru…
A man with a cowboy hat argues with another man on an empty town street.

Eddington

Acclaimed filmmaker Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar) returns to the director's seat with a modern Western set in the fictional town of Eddington, New…
Dundead programmer introduces a Dundead screening to an audience in DCA Cinema 1

Dundead

Dundee's dedicated horror film festival
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Discovery Film Festival

Sat 25 October – Sun 2 November 2025
School pupils attend Discovery Film Festival

Celebrating 20 years of Discovery Film Festival

We take a look back at the last two decades.
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Discover more at Dundead 2025

We've made some additions to the line-up
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Discovery Film Festival 2024 Schools Programme Out Now!

Get excited for the 21st edition of Discovery Film Festival from Sat 19 October to Sun 3 November! We're thrilled to announce that this year's Schools…

Cannes Film Festival 2025

David Nixon, DCA's Head of Cinema, shares this year's must-see films
Projectionist adjusts a vintage projector in DCA projection booth

The magic of 35mm film

We talked to our cinema team about what makes seeing a film on film so special
A cute cartoon monster and a fish friend from Discovery Short Films collection

Discovery Film Festival Short Films

Book handpicked short films to show in your venue
Animation still – two boys looking around a garden – one of the boys is glowing from within, his skin lit up warmly

Discovery Film Festival 2024

Sat 19 October – Sun 3 November
School pupils holding their hands up in DCA Cinema

Schools Programme

Bring your class to Discovery Film Festival
Two children painting in Create Space

Resources

Free resources to download and print
Small cut out figures of a sound person, camera person and actor

Activity Sheets Inspired by Michelle Williams Gamaker

Explore film characters and create your own film set
Audience on stage at Dundead 2025

Haunted by Dundead

A look back our our 2025 Dundead horror film festival.
Cinema 1. The chairs are blue and there is a cinema screen at the front.

Discovery Young Programmers 2025

Age 15–19 and interested in film? Apply to join our exciting summer programme!
An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture
A large projector silhouetted against a blue sky.

Celebration of Celluloid

Join us for a mini-season celebrating the magic of celluloid film
Two men in 19th century American clothes stand in an abandoned cottage.

The best films from 1999

DCA Cinema team share their top film picks from 25 years ago
People eat at dining tables, surrounded by large, surreal eyes.

Surrealism on Film

Enjoy our season of Surrealist films by Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock and many more
Dundead screenprints featuring an eye in blue

Designing Dundead 2025

Q&A with Dundead 2025 illustrator Katriona Gillon
Hand coming out of the ground holding a can of Dundead IPA by Holy Goat

Introducing Dundead IPA with Holy Goat

We've partnered with local brewery Holy Goat for a limited-edition beer.
Installation documentation of gallery two, showing a two channel film projected across two big screens positioned at an angle to each other. The gallery is dark.

Douglas Gordon

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Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 Dundee Contemporary Arts Shortlisted. See all five venues with a National Art Pass #MuseumOfTheYear

We’ve been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024 🎉

We’re thrilled to let you know that DCA has been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024, the world’s largest museum prize. The news has just…
Installation view of gallery 1. On the left can be seen a diptych. To the centre is a gridded window which lets light fall to the centre of the floor where there is a wooden seating bench. To the right a painting hangs on the white wall showing a young child in a swimming pool, the water is vivid blue.

Manuel Solano

The Top of Each Ripple
Photograph of gallery two, showing a large installation, in the centre of the space. On a big red carpet, a freestanding inflatable insect-like form towers over a geodesic dome containing video and ceramic elements.

Rae-Yen Song

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A photograph of a two channel video installation, with two screens leaned on the floor against a dark orange wall. On the screens can be seen a close up of some rough red rocks. To the left of the image, a black 1980s style radio sits on a white shelf at waist level.

Tako Taal

At the shore, everything touches

Privacy Policy

Last updated Thu 21 September 2023We at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) are committed to maintaining your privacy and looking after the personal information…
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Cinema

Bringing you new releases, vintage favourites and indie gems from around the world
A cinema-goer enjoys DCA Cinema.

Vouchers and gift memberships

A DCA voucher is the perfect gift for the film fan, artist or creative in your life. Alternatively, a DCA Gift Membership provides discounts, offers and…
A wide shot of DCA Gallery with Katy Dove's exhibition. The gallery is dimly lit, with two, large bright projections showing abstract, round patterns in multiple colours.

Katy Dove

A memorial exhibition
Image shows visitors watching a film in the gallery projected over large screens to the left and centre of the photograph. The film shows a landscape with a green glowing swamp and trees.

Kelly Richardson

The Weather Makers
Heather Phillipson's exhibition - a large pink circular structure sits in DCA Galleries. It is sitting on a floor covered in green paint, and there are green paint splotches on the walls. Behind the structure, is a large printed photograph of a blue sky with a green field. There is a cut-out photograph of a green tree with red flowers in front of the pink structure, and two large cut-out photographs of worms.

Heather Phillipson

sub-fusc love-feast
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Films we're looking forward to in 2025

We asked the DCA Cinema team about the most intriguing films to watch out for this year…
From George Barber's exhibition at DCA. A screen displays a psychedelic, pink, orange and blue pattern with a kite-like red shape on it.

Discovery Exhibition: The Long Commute / Arcade

George Barber and Jaygo Bloom
A large mural in beige, white, black and red as part of Hideyuki Katsumata's exhibition. The mural is of a man, who is massive and is wearing a strange costume made up of eyes and faces.

Hideyuki Katsumata

USO de HONTOU
DCA Galleries during Peacocks Among The Ruins exhibition. Black shadows of birds are painted on the walls. Painted strips of wallpaper lean against the walls. There are lampshades with intricate patterns on the inside.

Peacocks Among The Ruins

Co-curated by Timorous Beasties
A woman looks at a child with a bald head through a window.

Get ready for summer scares

Band-new horror and vintage terror coming to our screen this August.

Terms and Conditions

Tickets for screenings, courses and workshopsTickets cannot be refunded after purchase except in the case of a cancelled screening or event. In the event…
A chalk drawing - a black background, with a large white sailboat drawn on it with chalk.

Tacita Dean

'The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an Island'

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About our captioned screenings

More information about our approach to captioned screenings.
Margaret Salmon's exhibition Hole shows a large, smashed hole in the gallery wall. The foyer of DCA can be seen through the hole.

Margaret Salmon

Hole
Children attend Discovery Film Festival

Schools at DCA

Welcoming pupils and teachers to see, think, make and do
The DCA building from the outside.

Accessible events this August at DCA

Captioned screenings, audio description and more.
From the Ellipsis exhibition. A row of 14 televisions each display blurry black-and-white images.

Ellipsis

Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie and Francesca Woodman

The DCA building from the outside.

Accessible events this July at DCA

Captioned screenings, audio description and more.
Director Bong Joon Ho stands on a snowy set near a camera, directing his crew

Why we love… director Bong Joon-ho

Get excited for Mickey 17 at DCA!
A television suspended on scaffolding shows a van pulling a mobile home. From Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead.

Mike Kelley

Mobile Homestead
An installation image of gallery two showing a green structure like a building with a corrugated roof and a pink trim, as though it is sinking into the floor.

Alberta Whittle

How Flexible Can We Make the Mouth

From Thomas & Craighead's exhibition. A screen shows a pixelated but colourful pattern in pink, orange, yellow and green.

Thomson & Craighead

Maps DNA and Spam
From Killing Time at DCA Galleries. Four people have a picnic on fake gras in the galleries in front of a large fabric sheet with a photograph of a house on it. There is a real wooden shed next to the people.

Killing Time

Graham Fagen & Graham Eatough
Images from Marine Hugonnier's exhibition at DCA. The central image is a large white pot of drooping yellow roses and lilies. In the other images, the flowers can be seen from a distance on a white stand, and there is a black canvas in the background.

Marine Hugonnier

Marine Hugonnier
From Roderick Buchanan's exhibition, a film still of a person rollerblading in Dundee behind the multi-story flats.

Roderick Buchanan

Players
Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mountains Are Painted On Glass at the South London Gallery, 2023. Installation photography by Jo Underhill.

Michelle Williams Gamaker

Our Mountains are Painted on Glass
a white gallery space with colourful tuftings on the wall and bright mural in the centre

Claudia Martínez Garay

Every seed is awakened
An animated still shows a black cat sitting on the end of a boat, going through a narrow city canal.

Oscars 2025 – can you predict the winners?

Enter our competition and win a year's DCA Membership
Works by Matthew Buckingham - a golden, sparkling chandelier reflected in a mirror, a black plinth, and the same chandelier again, this time in a room with a woman in early 20th-century clothing on.

Matthew Buckingham

Play the Story
Selected images from The Eye of the Beholder. A photograph of a person smiling, then a blurry picture of a palm tree, and then a photograph of a red flower with a harsh shadow.

The Eye of the Beholder

Polly Apfelbaum, Atilla Csörgö, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoshihiro Suda, Vibeke Tandberg

DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.

Trauma

Martin Boyce, Willie Doherty, Kendell Geers, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Johan Grimonprez, Guillermo Kuitca, Maria Lindberg, Tracey Moffatt, Lucia Nogueira,…
a pink gallery space with paintings prints and photos on the rear wall. In the foreground a small girls uniform and a silk banner

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood 

Curated by Hettie Judah with Hayward Gallery Touring
DCA Galleries during exhibitions from 25 years ago.

Glimpses into the past: digitising DCA's archives

We catch up with placement student Matilda Mitchell, who has undertaken a new project to digitise DCA's exhibition archives.
Text reading 'see, think, make, do' on a blue background surrounded by colourful shapes

Learn about our Learning team

See what the team get up to
Zineb Sedira working on a silk screen in DCA Print Studio

Experimenting with Print: Zineb Sedira in DCA Print Studio

Exhibiting artist Zineb Sedira returns to DCA

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Relaxed Screenings at DCA

More information about our approach to Relaxed screenings.
A girl and a man, dressed in Japanese period clothes, stand in a forest.

Tornado at DCA Cinema

Director John Maclean tells us about his historical thriller
Paper with coloured in objects that can be found in the kitchen

Activity Sheets Inspired by Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

Create portraits, fill your kitchen table and share a powerful message.
Children and their carers sit in DCA Cinema to watch a film

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during August and download our Family Activity Calendar
John Singer Sargent painting shows two small girls painting paper lanterns, surrounded by pink roses and lilies.

Art films at DCA Cinema

See the world's greatest art from the comfort of your cinema seat
DCA Building from the front

Getting around the building

Explore our acclaimed, welcoming civic space
An installation view of the exhibition, showing the film on a screen in front of the red seating area. The gallery walls are mottled green.

Saoirse Amira Anis

symphony for a fraying body

Three large freestanding photographs of rock formations displayed in the gallery.

Zineb Sedira

Can't You See the Sea Changing?
A close-up shot of 3 t-shirts which hang on a rack in DCA Galleries as part of 'Spring / Summer 2015' exhibition. They are neon and have pictures of Maripol on them.

Maripol, Clare Stephenson and Zoe Williams

Spring / Summer 2015