Jambo Cinema

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

This heart-warming documentary focuses on Asho, a cheerful young shepherd, who loves film, dreams of being an actor and one day marrying Jodie Foster.

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.

Daniel Kokotajlo talks to Nia Childs about Starve Acre, his folk horror about a couple digging deep into grief in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.

Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and lead actor Faraz Ayub talk to Tomisin Adepeju about their magic realist drama.

Documentary exploring the BFI National Archive’s role in rediscovering and remastering the early films of Michael Powell.

Bryony Dixon, curator of silent film at the BFI national archive, explores the origins of a series of comic travelogues, and Michael Powell's involvement in making them.

Discover why Dan George of Northumbria University believes everyone should experience Oldboy at least once.

Trixie Parkin-Christie of Northumbria University offers fresh insight into why Wings of Desire remains essential viewing.