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Discovery Family Film Club: London International Animation Festival Shorts

The London International Animation Festival presents Amazing Animated Shorts for Kids screening at Discovery Family Film Club.Like childhood, animation…
An animated man holds a paper hat above his head.

Relaxed: London International Animation Festival Shorts

The London International Animation Festival presents Amazing Animated Shorts for Kids screening at Discovery Family Film Club.Like childhood, animation…
Still from a colourful animation sees a girl complain to her mother, who is crouching to listen

Chicken for Linda! – Schools Screening

This vibrant animation is an invigorating blend of slapstick comedy, musical, and family drama, for ages 7+
Animation still – two boys looking around a garden – one of the boys is glowing from within, his skin lit up warmly

Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light – Schools Screening

Eleven-year-old Tony was born with a unique ability – he glows! This Czech animation will charm film fans ages 7+.
Animation still – a girl sits in a forest and talks to a hedgehog

Nina and the Hedgehog's Secret – Schools Screening

For children aged 7+, an enchanting French-language film about a brave young girl and a new friend.

Shorts for Middle Ones 2024 – Schools Screening

Bring your class to enjoy this collection of colourful short films for children aged 8+.
A colourful still shows a stop-animation landscape

Shorts for Wee Ones 2024 – Schools Screening

Fun for little film fans! Children aged 3+ will love this collection of short animated films.

Stop motion charachter kneeling on thefloor looking at a shoe

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Scottish Premiere) + Street of Crocodiles

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Dundead 2025 logo with an illustration of a person reflected in an eye

Dundead Film Quiz

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Person holding a scary silver mask to their face

Demons (40th Anniversary 4K Restoration)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Black and white image of hands holding a woman's face while someone puts a mask on her

Black Sunday

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Woman sitting on a park bench with a figure beside her

Darkest Miriam (UK Premiere)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Woman lying in bed loking sad

The Wailing (Scottish Premiere)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Woman wearing a red top with a worried expresion

The Gesuidouz (Scottish Premiere)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Woman holding a doll hanging from a noose

Deep Red (50th Anniversary)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Woman sitting a gainst a bedroom wall looking scared

Somnium (Scottish Premiere)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Zombies walking through a wooded area

Zombie Flesh Eaters

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Woman swimming in water

A Bay of Blood

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Boy sitting on some rocks

For Night Will Come (UK Premiere)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
Woman holding a weapon and looking frightened

Suspiria (4K Restoration)

Dundead Film Festival 2025
A boy sits in a remote mountain playground, reading a magazine, his white alpaca stands nearby

Through Rocks and Clouds – Schools Screening

A boy searches for his best friend, an alpaca, in this drama set in Peru, for viewers aged 7+.

A girl in a beret walks in a dark, spooky forest

Nelly Rapp and the Black Forest – Schools Screening

A monster-packed, humour-filled film for Halloween, perfect for those aged 8+.
A pre-teen girl and a boy walk along a street in Norway

Lars is Lol – Schools Screening

Children aged 8+ will enjoy discussing this story about friendship, bullying and celebrating differences.
A group of teens pose for a selfie with a guitar and drumsticks

Okthanksbye – Schools Screening

This feelgood story follows two girls navigating friendship, the Deaf community, and the hearing world. For ages 10+.
A huge puppet girl walks at sunset, surrounded by puppet birds

The Walk – Schools Screening

For ages 10+, a documentary telling the story of Amal, the 12-foot-tall puppet who travelled across Europe in 2021.
Teen girl with blonde hair and a beanie hat sits on a log in the forest

Once Upon a Time in a Forest – Schools Screening

Viewers aged 12+ will be inspired by this documentary about teen activists in Finland.
A girl with dark hair wears a swimsuit in the sun but looks troubled

Alemania – Schools Screening

A girl who leaves her home in Argentina to study in Germany in this powerful Spanish-language drama, suitable for ages 12+
Three teen girls talk seriously in a school yard

Sisterhood – Schools Screening

A teenage girl seeks justice after being harassed by her brother's best friend in this gritty French drama, suitable for ages 15+.
A group of animated anthropomorphic creatures stand together - a penguin, warthog, owl, fox and rabbit.

Discovery Family Film Club: Fox and Hare Save the Forest

In a large forest clearing, Beaver, a short furry animal with a big ego, inaugurates his masterpiece: a giant dam. With the help of two Rats, he blocks…
A group of animated anthropomorphic creatures stand together - a penguin, warthog, owl, fox and rabbit.

Relaxed: Fox and Hare Save the Forest

In a large forest clearing, Beaver, a short furry animal with a big ego, inaugurates his masterpiece: a giant dam. With the help of two Rats, he blocks…
Bjork sings on stage in an avant-garde costume

Björk: Cornucopia

Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences…
A group of people of all ages watch children playing games at Drop in and Play 2024.

Drop in and Play

Drop in and Play is back for May 2025! Try out a range of new games and meet the creatives behind them at this free, drop-in event in partnership with…
Teen girl with blonde hair and a beanie hat sits on a log in the forest

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…
Flourish Calendar pages including May with butterfly and jar design, June with landscape deisgn and July with fire works and ice lollies

Flourish group embrace 2024 by creating their own calendar

As part of our long-term partnership with Dundee International Women’s Centre (DIWC), their Flourish parenting group created their very own Riso printed…
Dundead programmer introduces a Dundead screening to an audience in DCA Cinema 1

Dundead

Dundee's dedicated horror film festival
Eye illustration with Dundead Logo

Dundead Film Festival 2025

Dundee's horror and cult film festival returns for its thirteenth edition
A DCA tutor showing three children images on two spinning zoetropes

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.

Sharing stories through animation with ST/ART

We're delighted to share a selection of stories with you, created by participants of our spring ST/ART programme.
Dunning Primary pupils test out new animation technologies.

Dunning Primary test drive new Animating Science resources

As our Animating Science project with University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences comes to an end, Dunning Primary test out new teaching resources…
Dundead 2025 logo with an illustration of a person reflected in an eye

Book your Dundead Film Festival Pass

Ease yourself in with a Half Pass or brave it all with a Full Pass
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…
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
Our Infant Changing Space, decorated with paintings of flowers and green walls.

A new look for our infant feeding and changing space

We're excited to share the new look for our infant feeding area, designed in collaboration with Dundee International Women’s Centre.
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
An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture
a white gallery space with colourful tuftings on the wall and bright mural in the centre

Claudia Martínez Garay

Every seed is awakened
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 billboard image with a black background. Ib a red wiggle shape at the centre, in mostly yellow text reads: Are there more naked women than women artists in UK museums?. In smaller great text underneath in a stencil font reads: Visit your favourite museum, count 'em up & let the Guerrilla Girls know!. The rest of the image consists of framed art historical paintings as though in a salon hang, highly packed close together in different sizes and formats. They all show naked women. To the left is the kneeling marble sculpture of a woman, with the figures head collaged as a gorilla mask.

Art Night: Guerrilla Girls

The Male Graze
DCA Galleries during Trisha Baga's exhibition. An apparently chaotic landscape, bathed in blue light, using objects found in charity shops and household goods.

Trisha Baga

Holiday

Delivery and Returns

Online Shop Delivery and ReturnsAll our Online Shop deliveries are sent by either tracked courier or Royal Mail. When the shipment is ready we will contact…
A wide shot of DCA Galleries during Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere. Canvases are hanging on the wall.

Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere

Collections sans Frontières III

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
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.
Images from David Shrigley's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A small statue of a man, and a headless cat. On the walls, there are canvases with graffiti slogans written on them.

David Shrigley

David Shrigley
A hanging artwork on the right hand side of the image has watercolour figures and writing. To the left of the image can be seen another hanging work strung across the gallery. On a small wooden plinth to the left hand side of the image is a textile work.

Emma Talbot

Ghost Calls
From IC-98' exhibition. A projection shows a monochrome, hand-drawn image of a ruined building with Greek columns. The building is surrounded by trees.

IC-98

Drawn into Tomorrow
DCA Team infront of Art Fun Museum of the Year Background

Art Fund Museum of the Year 2024

We share more about our experience as a finalist for the largest museum prize in the world
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
For Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen's exhibition at DCA, seats face a projection. On the projection, a video plays of a child. The child says in subtitles 'Me, I fear nothing'.

Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen

From the Edge
DCA Galleries during Beyond / Photographs - there are white, geometric cubes and shapes on the gallery floors. There is a large brown mural on the white walls.

Beyond / Photographs

Lolly Batty, Luke Fowler, Robert Orchardson, Toby Paterson, Clare Stephenson and Clare Woods / Sophy Rickett
From Martin Boyce's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A triangular, black light feature hangs in the centre of the room. One of the walls is red.

Martin Boyce

No Reflections
A black and white image of sheets of paper lying on the floor. In front, in red text, it say 'The Associates'

The Associates

Steven Cairns, Raydale Dower, Katy Dove, Luke Fowler, Fiona Jardine, Kevin Hutcheson, Graham Little, Lucy McKenzie, Duncan Marquiss, The Lonely Piper…

Vote for our Community Greenspace

Dundee Climate Fund 3.0 is here and we'd love for you to vote for our project
Eddo Stern's exhibition in DCA Galleries. Two large projectors show a painted image of clouds and mountains. An illuminated sculpture of a deck of cards is in front of the projector.

Eddo Stern

Small Wars
DCA Galleries during Ahlam Shibli's exhibition. The gallery is brightly lit, and medium-sized black-and-white photographs are on the walls. There is a bench in the middle of the room.

Ahlam Shibli

Ahlam Shibli
Three image from Plunder at DCA. The first is a television screen showing an explosion. The second is a mural made out of LP records, with crying eyes in the middle. The third is an abstract painting with the word 'Bacon' written on it.

Plunder

Various artists
A selection of images from Ill Communication at DCA. A large, square structure is made out of wood and black plastic. An installation is made out of white balloons. A large, run-on, nonsensical sentence is typed on the gallery walls.

Ill Communication

Jeremy Deller, Chris Evans, Liam Gillick, Jenny Holzer, Laura Horelli, Alan Kane, On Kawara, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Aleksandra Mir, Philippe Parreno

Exhibitions programme 2024-25

Explore our 2024-25 programme.
A gallery full of dark blue light, with a film projected on a wall showing a figure lying on its back with a cloud of insects above it.

Gallery

Contemporary art exhibitions in our two beautiful gallery spaces
Two customers browse in DCA Shop.

Shop

Open Mon-Sun, 10:00-17:30
DCA Gallerie during Pale Carnage. There are eclectic statues and painting - a silhouette of a head on a plinth, a little drummer boy model, and black graffiti on the walls.

Pale Carnage

Nobuyoshi Araki, Athanasios Argianas, Ulla von Brandenburg, Tom Burr, Gillian Carnegie, Steven Claydon, Cerith Wyn Evans, Lothar Hempel, Mark Leckey,…
DCA Galleries during Christine Borland's exhibition - the galleries are dark, with large screens with blue projections of jellyfish on them.

Christine Borland

What makes for the fullness and perfection of life, for beauty and happiness, is good...
In DCA Galleries, there are two metallic, rocket shaped objects sitting in the middle of the room.

Olafur Eliasson

Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned
An audience of people clap

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Postcard size illustrations on a white wall show the storyboard from Theresa Duncan's video game 'Chop Suey'. The drawings are colourful and drawn with a computer.

Theresa Duncan

CD-ROMS
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 boy plays a seagull game at Drop in and Play

Games Wanted for Drop in and Play at DCA

We're looking for new and unreleased games to showcase at Drop in and Play! Apply by Fri 25 April.
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

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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
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
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
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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…
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 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

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