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The following selection of films will be available with audio description for blind and partially sighted audiences to enjoy for the duration of Alchemy 11. Each of these films is available on-demand 29 April – 3 May, for free worldwide.

More information about maximising your enjoyment of this year’s festival can be found on our How to Access page.

A man sits in a chair holding a plastic mask of Charlie Chaplin to his face. The mask includes a black bowler hat and Charlie Chaplin's famous mustache, shorter than the mask's mouth.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN LIVED HERE
Louise S. Milne, Seán Martin – 39’03 – Scotland – 2021

In 1960s London, Bill Douglas and Charlie Chaplin nearly meet… From our Spotlight programme.

Close-up of a tree branch stretching horizontally across the frame.

FIELD NOTES ON LOVE
Sam Firth – 7’15 – Scotland – 2020

A short, essayistic documentary about human relationships and woodland ecology that charts a female filmmaker’s relationship with a woodland ecologist.

A plant's veins are superimposed over a woman's face, her nose pierced.

IN VIVO
Karel Doing – 61′ – UK – 2021

A new film on love, extinction and destruction… From our Features programme.

A black woman with short hair stands in a hallway holding a child.

LEAVE THE EDGES
Baff Akoto – 39’28 – UK – 2020

A meditative dreamscape exploring the complexities of African diasporic spirituality and cultural expression through dance, poetry, and music. From our Focus programme.

A Black man and woman stand behind a wicker chair and in front of a satellite dish, wearing plain clothes - the man in all white and the woman in all black.

MASS
Nadeem Din-Gabisi – 13’27 – UK – 2020

As we follow The Seeker, who moves between the city and the sanctuary, MASS carves out the intimate communal spaces and intangible signals that characterise the contemporary Black experience.

A snail sits on light grey clay marked with thin grooved patterns..

ORBITAL SQUARES
Moojin Brothers – 18′ – Republic of Korea – 2020

The obsessive and inefficient eyes of technology: threads tangled around a person, horses galloping on a racing track, a snail slowly crawling along a sculpture engraved with complex mazes.

A close-up of hands holding a rock.

SUBLUNARY
Mariangela Ciccarello, Philip Cartelli – Italy – 2019

A young woman investigates an island’s geologic specificity, discovering hidden strata where history and memory meet barely submerged narratives of displacement and imaginaries of possible futures.

A Black woman and White man dance in a dimly lit room.

TEETH
Jennifer Martin – 18’15 – UK – 2020

An eager couple interrogated by UK Home Office agents endures a series of assessments that become progressively performative to evidence their relationship’s legitimacy.

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