Mother

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.

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.

In this mini video essay, BFI contributor Maha Al-Badrawi explains why Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls is a rhinestoned, stilettoed Western.

Filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman and curator Matthew Barrington discuss Frederick Wiseman’s High School with Sandra Hebron.

A haunting with words is the lure between life and death for a young Cornish poet.

Rose is desperate to celebrate her 60th birthday in style, but her daughter Genevieve is struggling to ignore some recent tragic news about her mum.

Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.