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Claymation of two females

Discovery Family Film Club: Living Large

12-year-old Ben has just hit puberty and suddenly his weight's a problem - for him and for everyone else. The other kids bully him, his divorced parents don't know…
Animated still shows three children playing together in a room.

Discovery Family Film Club: Lola and the Sound Piano + shorts celebrating diversity

Enjoy one of the most beloved films of Discovery Film Festival 2025 together with other beautiful short films celebrating diversity and cooperation. This…
Three people jog up a mountain range as the sun rises

Scottish Outdoor and Adventure Film Tour

The Scottish Outdoor and Adventure Film Tour is back.Join us for an uplifting evening that showcases the very best of the Scottish outdoors, adventure,…
A little girl looks at a large dragon from Chinese mythology

Discovery Family Film Club: Dragonkeeper

It's a dark time in the ancient Chinese empire. Dragons, once friends and wise allies of men, have been hunted down for years and thrown into ironclad…
A bearded man looks at camera while writing on the blackboard and a small boy throws a paper aeroplane

Jump! - Schools Screening

Age 8+. A buddy film with sci-fi touches that will touch young hearts

Person doing mezzotint printing in DCA Print Studio

Mezzotint

Sat 31 January 2026
Two women sit at a table together laughing, with one woman leaning her head on the other's shoulder

I Am What I Am

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A young man wearing glasses smiles while talking on an old-fashioned phone

Marty Supreme

Marty Supreme is the highly acclaimed new comedy-drama from director Josh Safdie (Uncut Gems). Timothée Chalamet is expected to be Oscar nominated for…
stop motion of a school classroom

Living Large - Schools Screening

Age 10+. A film that conveys the beautiful message of accepting yourself.
a girl looks out at the horizon in rural Kenya

Media Studies Day 2025

Join us for a day of film related activities for students currently studying film and/or media at upper secondary level.
A cardboard cut out of a blonde girl lifting the head off an alien costumer

Maya, Give me a Title! - Schools Screening

Age 7+. Made mostly with paper cut animations, this delightful film from Michel Gondry will make everyone laugh
Claymation of two females

Relaxed: Living Large

12-year-old Ben has just hit puberty and suddenly his weight's a problem - for him and for everyone else. The other kids bully him, his divorced parents don't know…
A green forest space in the centre a group of children sit around a table

Future Council - Schools Screening

Age 8+. An urgent and positive film that will get your class inspired to change the world.

A girl looks intently at the camera fists raised in a punching motion

La Suprema - Schools Screening

Age 12+. A film about the importance of community, cultural identity and following your dreams.
A man stands outside a building holding a plant above his head

No Other Choice

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.Acclaimed director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy,…
A group of people in seventies-style clothing answer questions from the paparazzi.

GFF Preview: Dead Man's Wire

Be amongst the first to see Gus Van Sant’s latest film at our special Glasgow Film Festival preview of Dead Man’s Wire, which stars Starring Bill…
A thin outline of a young girl sitting on a bed in a black-and-white image

Molly vs the Machines + Recorded Debate

This is a nationwide premiere screening in partnership with Glasgow Film Festival and features a pre-recorded discussion with Marc Silver (director),…
Two dark-haired men in 1940s clothing laugh together at a piano

The History of Sound

Paul Mescal (Hamnet) is back to break our hearts all over again in The History of Sound, a tender romantic drama from filmmaker Oliver Hermanus (Living).…
Two men in 1940s clothing sit together on a bench in a train station

Senior Citizen Kane: The History of Sound

Paul Mescal (Hamnet) is back to break our hearts all over again in The History of Sound, a tender romantic drama from filmmaker Oliver Hermanus (Living).…
A painted image of two animated girls lying on forearms drawing pictures

Shorts for Wee Ones 2025

Age 3+. A collection of seven short films for our youngest viewers is sure to delight and amuse.

Shorts for Wee Ones 2025

These magical tales will delight children age 3+
Animated still shows three children playing together in a room.

Relaxed: Lola and the Sound Piano + shorts celebrating diversity

Enjoy one of the most beloved films of Discovery Film Festival 2025 together with other beautiful short films celebrating diversity and cooperation. This…
A group of women wearing dirndls stand and sit in a green field, with one man in a suit standing in the middle of them

The Cat Has Nine Lives

See Women in Berlin and The Cat Has Nine Lives for the special price of £15 when booked at the same time. The third film in our FOKUS: Films from Germany…
A woman in a baggy green suit holds a man by his tie and looks him in the eye.

The Hotel of My Dream

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A black and white photo of the cast of Tod Browning's Freaks

Artist's Choice Screening: Dundead presents Freaks

Andrew Gannon has selected Freaks as his Artist's Choice Screening for We Contain Multitudes, showing as February's Dundead screening. Gannon says - Tod…
An amateur pen drawing of a woman

Women in Berlin

See Women in Berlin and The Cat Has Nine Lives for the special price of £15 when booked at the same time. The third film in our FOKUS: Films from Germany…
An elderly man and two women sit in a traditional Japanese house

Teki Cometh

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A black and white photograph shows a distressed man standing next to a burning building

Conflagration

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A young man and an older man look at one another intensely, both are sweating

The Final Piece

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A group of school ages girls in sports uniforms raise hands in the air joyfully

Winners - Schools Screening

Age 10+. A young refugee is selected for the girls' football team at school, but finds it hard to fit in with the other players.
Person holding up photographic negatives

Black and White Photography: Darkroom for Beginners

Sat 21 & Sun 22 March 2026
A woman in a white shirt and blue skirt stands up to testify while a group of people in 1960s clothes watch her

Blue Boy Trial

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A small felt mushroom cutting a slice of cake

Shorts for Tinies 2025 - Schools Screening

Age 0+. We can offer a selection of a few of the titles from our Shorts for Wee Ones collection for very young children
A black-and-white film still shows two men and a woman, all dressed in 1960s clothing, sitting on a bed.

Ciné Sunday: Nouvelle Vague

The compelling story of Jean-Luc Godard making Breathless, told by American director Richard Linklater in the form and spirit of the times. Styled as…
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…
A woman wearing a cardigan and a skirt stands in a storage department holds a magical glowijg book which shows two tiny people standing on top embracing.

The Ordinaries

Screening as part of our FOKUS: Films from Germany season in partnership with Goethe-Institut.In this satirical science fiction film, director Sophie…
A group of people standing in a village wearing colourful clothes look up.

Grow

Grow is an exuberant and thoroughly entertaining family film which fuses twisted humour and wild imagination with a stirring story of family healing,…
A black-and-white folm stil;l shows three men walking down a Parisian street, with 1960s cars in the background

Nouvelle Vague

To celebrate the release of Nouvelle Vague, we’re also screening Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless - see both features for the…
Three women with curly 80s style hair

Artist's Choice Screening: Safe

Selected by Daisy LaFarge as her Artist's Choice Screening for We Contain Multitudes Todd Haynes’ 1995 psychodrama starring Julianne Moore is a disquieting…
An anime still shows a man lying on his side looking at red flowers

The Last Blossom

Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
A pair of silver slippers on a ruby red carpet

Francis Dosoo: Portrait of Dorothy Gale

Francis Dosoo will fill DCA’s gallery 1 with a new installation work which uses the 1978 film The Wiz, a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, as a point of…
A pair of silver slippers on a ruby red carpet

Francis Dosoo: Portrait of Dorothy Gale

Francis Dosoo will fill DCA’s gallery 1 with a new installation work which uses the 1978 film The Wiz, a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, as a point of…
A man and a woman wearing 1800s funeral attire stand on a misty moor.

Ciné Sunday: Wuthering Heights

Oscar-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) takes on one of the greatest romances of all time, giving this epic…
A serious woman in a wedding dress with a veil blowing in the wind stands in a field

Senior Citizen Kane: Wuthering Heights

Oscar-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) takes on one of the greatest romances of all time, giving this epic…
A woman in a swimming costume stands at dawn looking at a body of water

Preview: The Chronology of Water

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.Be amongst the first to see Kristen Stewart’s…
A man performs at a comedy club

Is This Thing On?

Loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John Bishop, Is This Thing On? is an endearing romantic comedy directed by Bradley Cooper (A Star is…
A man sits outside a shoe shop with two young boys

My Father's Shadow

Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, My Father’s Shadow follows a father and his two young sons as they journey into and around…
A black-and-white film still shows a nervous man holding a woman's arm

Strongroom

Taut as a drum, Vernon Sewell’s rediscovered and remastered 1962 suspense thriller is an outstanding example of the lean British ‘B’ film, and counts…
A woman in a swimming costume stands at dawn looking at a body of water

The Chronology of Water

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.A journey through the sensuous and the sensual, Kristen Stewart’s…
a blonde woman with her hair tied back looks up, a man with brown hair looks at her. They both wear formal clothes

Artist's Choice Screening: Gattaca

Selected by Jo Longhurst as her Artist's Choice Screening as part of We Contain Multitudes The directorial debut of Andrew Niccol (who would go on…
A man and a woman embrace on a stormy moor

Wuthering Heights

Oscar-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) takes on one of the greatest romances of all time, giving this epic…
A man performs at a comedy club

Bring a Baby: Is This Thing On?

Loosely inspired by the life of British comedian John Bishop, Is This Thing On? is an endearing romantic comedy directed by Bradley Cooper (A Star is…
Two girls dance in a woodland area

Jahia’s Summer - Schools Screening

Age 12+ A sensitive story about friendship.
A solemn Victorian child in a black dress stands amongst women in black dresses

Sound of Falling

Four adolescent girls – Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka – each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades,…
A family and a dog walk down a hill in windy weather

The Love That Remains

Godland director Hlynur Pálmason’s inventive fourth feature is a witty yet tender portrait of a year in the life of a family whose parents are navigating…
A man in a roman helmet looks to the side.

The Odyssey

Christopher Nolan’s next film, The Odyssey, is a mythic adventure on a huge scale, based on the legendary Greek epic. This visually stunning tale…
An animated scene of a tree house in the background. In the foreground a man pushing a wheelbarrow and three children

Tales from the Magic Garden - Schools Screening

Age 7+. This heartwarming animation shows how storytelling can heal, inspire, and bring us closer to the people we cherish.
Two horses pull a fuel tanker on a track in a rainforest

Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins

In Gallery 2, Ecuadorian artist Adrián Balseca will present a major new sculptural installation:In the Forest Ruins.The exhibition will develop…
A little girl looks at a large dragon from Chinese mythology

Relaxed: Dragonkeeper

It's a dark time in the ancient Chinese empire. Dragons, once friends and wise allies of men, have been hunted down for years and thrown into ironclad…
A girl in traditional Kenyan dress stares intently at the camera

Nawi: Dear Future Me - Schools Screening

Age 13+. The powerful story of a determined girl growing up in rural Kenya.
A skier jumps from a rocky crag.

Warren Miller’s Sno-Ciety

From the Scottish Highlands to the streets of Finland, the back bowls of Whitewater BC to a local hill-turned-terrain park in downtown Denver, Warren…
A man wearing a suit stands next to a Japanese paper lantern with flowers beneath it.

Ciné Sunday: Rental Family

Brendan Fraser (The Whale) returns to our screens in this charming comedy-drama from Japanese filmmaker Hikari.  In contemporary Tokyo, an American…
A woman smiles while holding a hawk

Ciné Sunday: H is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk is a powerful, emotionally resonant adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir, starring Claire Foy in a transformative performance.Foy…
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 man and a woman dressed in sparkly 70s outfits sing on stage together and play keyboard

Song Sung Blue

Song Sung Blue is an inspiring drama based on a true story, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson, who has been Oscar nominated for her career-best performance.Down-on-their-luck…
A man and a woman in medieval clothing talk to each other in a forest clearing

Hamnet

Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece,…
A man and a little girl sit next to each other on a busy train

Rental Family

Brendan Fraser (The Whale) returns to our screens in this charming comedy-drama from Japanese filmmaker Hikari.  In contemporary Tokyo, an American…
A man and a little girl sit next to each other on a busy train

Bring a Baby: Rental Family

Brendan Fraser (The Whale) returns to our screens in this charming comedy-drama from Japanese filmmaker Hikari.  In contemporary Tokyo, an American…
Two men sit together in the steam room

Saipan

Saipan details the explosive clash between soccer star Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy before the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Their feud, rooted in clashing…
A man and a little girl stand on a bridge looking at one another, while cherry blossom blooms in the background

Senior Citizen Kane: Rental Family

Brendan Fraser (The Whale) returns to our screens in this charming comedy-drama from Japanese filmmaker Hikari.  In contemporary Tokyo, an American…
The acropolis in Greece photographed from above

The Marbles + Q&A

Join us for a post-screening Q&A with Neil Curtis, hosted by Dr Lisa McDonald (Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies, University of St Andrews). The…
A woman stands outside in a field on a winter's evening with a hawk

H is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk is a powerful, emotionally resonant adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir, starring Claire Foy in a transformative performance.Foy…
A woman holds a hawk while looking out at a distant view

Bring a Baby: H is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk is a powerful, emotionally resonant adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir, starring Claire Foy in a transformative performance.Foy…
An older man and his daughter look at a book together

Senior Citizen Kane: H is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk is a powerful, emotionally resonant adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling memoir, starring Claire Foy in a transformative performance.Foy…
A man and woman in sixties clothing embrace on a city street

Breathless

To celebrate the release of Nouvelle Vague, we’re screening Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless - see both features for the special…
An illustration of a girl with a black bob staring at phone while being followed by a pack of friendly dogs

Shorts for Middle Ones 2025 - Schools Screening

Age 7+. Bring your class to enjoy this collection of colourful and imaginative short films.
Dundead programmer introduces a Dundead screening to an audience in DCA Cinema 1

Dundead

Celebrating horror, cult and weird cinema
A DCA tutor showing three children images on two spinning zoetropes

Discovery Film Festival

Sat 25 October – Sun 2 November 2025
Animated still of a boy with a magical beast

Discovery Film Festival 2025

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

Celebrating 20 years of Discovery Film Festival

We take a look back at the last two decades.
Close up of peosons face with a man in the background holding two cocktails

Discover more at Dundead 2025

We've made some additions to the line-up
Animated still of a boy with a magical beast

Discovery Film Festival 2025

See what's coming up for all ages at this year's festival
A group of children and their teacher walking into DCA building.

A fantastic year for schools at Discovery Film Festival

Over 3,600 pupils visited our 2025 festival to experience films and creative workshops
DCA staff member holding up an ipad infront of a classroom of primary pupils

Raising Climate Awareness with Discovery Film Festival

Taking short film workshops to Dundee primary schools
school group raising their hands in DCA cinema seats

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 black-and-white woman's head with pink tears emerges from a martini glass, against a pink and red background.

Too Much: Melodrama on Film

Sun 9 November
Animation still – a girl riding a giant otter through a beautiful forest.

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
Four cool characters from Living Large animation.

Living Large on tour

Book the hit Discovery Film Festival animation for your venue
Audience on stage at Dundead 2025

Haunted by Dundead

A look back our our 2025 Dundead horror film festival.
School pupils holding their hands up in DCA Cinema

Schools Programme

Free screenings to enhance your classroom learning.

A woman in a baggy green suit holds a man by his tie and looks him in the eye.

Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026

Delve into the world of Japanese cinema with this exciting film programme
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
Dundead screenprints featuring an eye in blue

Designing Dundead 2025

Q&A with Dundead 2025 illustrator Katriona Gillon
An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture
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!
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
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
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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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
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…
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…

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…
colourful seats in DCA cinema

Cinema

Bringing you new releases, vintage favourites and indie gems from around the world
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
A gallery space with sculpture hanging from the ceiling and three blue boxes

This autumn in Dundee

We’re excited to be part of a huge autumn for culture in Dundee
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
colourful seats in DCA cinema

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…
A crowd of medieval people wearing medieval clothing stand in a theatre. A woman wearing a red dress in the centre of the image puts her elbows on the stage and clasps her hands.

Films to watch in 2026

We asked the DCA Cinema team about the most intriguing films to look out for this year…
Two children painting in Create Space

Resources

Download our free classroom resources!
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
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
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
Person holding a I SUVIVED DUNDEAD 2025 badge

2025 in review: Dundead

It's been a record-breaking year for horror, cult and weird cinema at DCA
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

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…
Filming a model polar bear with and iPad

Highlighting climate change with Options in Life

We share more about our partnership project with Options in Life to mark Climate Week 2025.
A young girl and her family enjoying a film at DCA

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during February and download our Family Activity Calendar
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'

colourful seats in DCA cinema

About our captioned screenings

More information about our approach to captioned screenings.
Woman emerging from an underground pool covered in red

Brilliantly Claustrophobic: Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson discusses The Descent

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Descent at Dundead Halloween
Photo of Ben Wheatley

Why we love… director Ben Wheatley

We take a look at the director's exciting and varied filmography and DCA staff share some of their favourites
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
From the Ellipsis exhibition. A row of 14 televisions each display blurry black-and-white images.

Ellipsis

Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie and Francesca Woodman

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 July at DCA

Captioned screenings, audio description and more.
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.
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
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

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

colourful seats in DCA cinema

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.
Child and adult signing prints at Family Art Lab

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during January and download our Family Activity Calendar
colourful seats in DCA cinema

2025 in Review: Cinema

A year packed with fantastic new titles and must-see vintage classics.
A man in a long tartan dressing gown stands in the middle of a road holding a gun.

Oscars 2026 – can you predict the winners?

Enter our competition and win a year's DCA Membership
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 television suspended on scaffolding shows a van pulling a mobile home. From Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead.

Mike Kelley

Mobile Homestead
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
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
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
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
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,…
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
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