An Everyday Act

Two kids chasing chickens and playing football in the backstreets of Accra make friends with a rich guy.

Nia is missing her mother and dreams of escape from the depths of the Welsh countryside.

13-year-old Maya is taking care of 10-year-old Guy, who is diagnosed with Asperger’s.

Bittu is a fiercely independent little girl who loves showing off, even though she always gets herself in trouble.

Young Barbara’s mother has just been overcharged at the local supermarket and it’s up to her to go there and sort it out.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.