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Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2021 round-up: loops and cycles in a world of stasis
The Scottish festival’s second online edition took inspiration from a year of disruption and dislocation for a programme that made good use of its online exhibition space.
By Ben Nicholson
Undergods searches a dystopian city for fragments of male ego
By Alex Ramon
Rhapsody in blue: Barry Jenkins on Moonlight
By Gaylene Gould
A Space in Time explores parental bonds and societal stigmas in a family living with disabilities
By Carmen Gray
The Nevers is a cynical attempt at steampunk fantasy coolness
By Hannah McGill
“The Human Voice came about as a caprice”: Pedro Almodóvar on his spellbinding lockdown project
By Mar Diestro-Dópido
Servants takes up the fight to separate church from Czechoslovak state
By Thomas Flew
Charlatan diagnoses fear and malady in post-war Czechoslavakia
By Carmen Gray
On beauties and their beasts
By Marina Warner
Zana explores a Kosovan town obsessed with a woman’s fertility
By Lisa Mullen
Cowboys rides all guns blazing into its transgender childhood story
By Alex Davidson
Barry Jenkins is rebuilding American history with The Underground Railroad
By Devika Girish
Antebellum is an unpleasantly brutal depiction of anti-Black racism
By Leila Latif
Apples is a memorably deadpan take on the will to forget
By Anton Bitel
Atlantis imagines mere glints of hope in a post-traumatic Ukraine
By Jessica Kiang
How do actors like Daniel Kaluuya and Daisy Edgar-Jones master new accents?
By Nicole Davis
The Flight Attendant is pandemic escapism at its finest
By Kate Stables
Violation twists the rape-revenge subgenre into anti-fantasy
By Katherine McLaughlin
Labyrinth of Cinema summons peace through frenetic cinephilia
By Tony Rayns
Identifying Features shines a light on Mexico’s disappeared as a mother searches for the truth
By Anjana Janardhan
The dewdrop on a blade of grass: Satyajit Ray in conversation
By Folke Isaksson
Between the Lines: the 90s British policier that trumps Line of Duty
By Robert Hanks
Exterminate All the Brutes tracks the march of genocide
By Paul Tickell
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation shows two great American writers as friends and rivals
By Ela Bittencourt
X&Y tests the intersections of art and gender
By Tara Judah
“Every movie is in some way a road movie”: Monte Hellman looks back
By Matthew Thrift
Nomadland finds beauty on the rugged, ruthless open road
By Beatrice Loayza
“Most adaptations are terrible…”: Colson Whitehead on entrusting The Underground Railroad to Barry Jenkins
“Most adaptations are terrible…”: Colson Whitehead on entrusting The Underground Railroad to Barry Jenkins