Ashlee Family Films: The Beginner, Bexley (1960s)

Dark comic short riffing on Cold War paranoia and pre-empting social media arguments filmed by Bexley amateur.

Dolls, trains, a tricycle and new toothbrush are among the booty opened by one London toddler on Christmas Day in 1950s.

Two schoolchildren give the family car a very thorough wash after first feeding the rabbits.

Lovely scenes of a school summer sports day in 1964, beginning with fancy dress and including numerous obstacle races.

Family time in 1970s London, featuring baby bathtime, garden games and a small army of rabbits.

Kew Garden in the 1950s and the cobbled streets around Norwich cathedral feature alongside garden play and birthday parties in these home movies.

Actor and writer Joanna Scanlan talks to Mia Bays, director of the BFI's Filmmaking Fund, about her career in film and television.

Horace Ové's striking portrait of the American writer James Baldwin at his sharp-witted best addressing a group of radical West Indian students in 1960s London.

An emotional stand-off takes flight, as teen best friends Ronit and Brennan come to terms with navigating that fuzzy feeling in their stomachs, all whilst learning to skateboard.

While visiting the adoptive family of her eight-year-old biological son, Tara relays advice she gathered from growing up as a queer outcast.

In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil from a Talib shopkeeper and face a new future.

Banished in a dilapidated village hut during her menstruation, a young girl waits to elope with her lover.