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In a Buenos Aires’ hairdressing salon, clients, dancers and reggaeton singers find their community.

Reminiscing an 80’s childhood spent pirating Bollywood VHS’s in Wolverhampton, Dawinder Bansal’s plucky narration speaks lovingly of her Asian community and the films that united them.

As her daughter Ward plays, a Sudanese henna painter prepares an Egyptian bride for her wedding. As she paints, complicity is replaced by blame and suspicion.

A troubled teen visits a local shaman in search of spiritual healing. Set against the Mongolian plains, this an intimate portrait of a young woman’s catharsis.

Through the power of vogueing, a group of young dancers in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, try to find their way in the world in this pulsating documentary.

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.