Wells of Despair

A teenage girl navigates friendship groups, social awkwardness and boys in this sharp coming of age drama.

Eli, a young teenager torn between two worlds, tries to balance fitting in with finding his true identity after he moves to a provincial town.

Acknowledging archaeology’s colonial, extractive register, this work imagines artefacts’ experience as they are displaced from Syria to a Berlin museum.

This poetic film documents the experiences of queer Nigerians, expanding our contemporary understanding of how queerness is expressed.

An unlikely creative partnership is formed between a young deaf man and an embittered busker on the streets of Edinburgh.

Demonic forces possess human and land bodies alike. Ukraine, Syria and Belarus are infected by Russian imperialism, resources extracted parasitically.

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.