Film

The most exciting works of the first online edition of the festival look at strategies of care and ways of refusing neoliberalism

Curtis’s new BBC series, Can’t Get You Out of My Head, depicts the repetitive bleakness of individualism, but how can we collectively envision an alternative?

Ahead of his 13th feature film, Saint Narcisse, the cult film director speaks with Michael Bullock about the importance of self-love and self-exposure 

A.S. Hamrah on the portrayal of ‘red America’ in Hillbilly Elegy, Rebuilding Paradise and Nomadland

Skaka King's film on the life and assassination of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton exceptionally examines the ever-present interplay between race and capital

A Sundance highlight, the director’s debut is a nuanced exploration of lives either side of the ‘colour line’

The artist’s first feature film depicts a mother-daughter pair of grifters trying to stay afloat through financial recession 

Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax 

As the iconic reality series airs its 20th and final season, and amongst rumours of ‘Kimye’s’ divorce, Alissa Bennett explores how the Kardashians changed American culture – and themselves

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year

The new documentary is packed with original footage and voice recordings from the late artist

Shiv Kotecha on the long career of playback singer Asha Bhosle 

Luca Guadagnino’s new HBO series treats identity like an Instagram filter

An exhibition in Edinburgh honouring Ray Harryhausen gives film historians the chance to see Medusa, the Kraken, dinosaurs and giant sea creatures

Tourmaline’s films speak a simple truth: Black, queer and trans people were always here and always will be

Shot in Cambridge, the artist’s latest film interlaces histories of laziness, from Johnny Mercer to Audre Lorde

At PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, the artist presents contrasting works on paper that recall Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of montage

During the turbulent summer of 2020, the filmmakers decided on decentring the human in their practice 

Primer (2004) asks what happens when history is always hanging in the balance

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence