Year of release: 2004
South Wales, the present. Teenage single mother Leigh-Anne Williams lives in a council flat with her baby Rebecca. Her brother Gavin and their friends Stephen and Robbie store stolen goods there. She is not popular with her neighbours, especially the Turkish-born Hassan Osman, who lives with his daughter Julie.
Filed under: Black British | Crime | Mothers
Year of release: 1998
Anita is a 'babymother', raising two children with the help of her mother Edith on a rundown estate in north-west London. Byron, her babies' father and a local reggae star, casually invites her to perform in his show, but doesn't follow up the offer. Frustrated, Anita sets up her own act with friends Sharon and Yvette. When Byron turns up to apologise, she rebuffs him. Anita's first performance at a party goes well until Byron arrives with Anita's rival Dionne, who fights with Anita.
Filed under: Black British | Daughters | Mothers | Secrets
Year of release: 2004
Referred to as British Boyz N The Hood, compared to Juice and Ratcatcher, inspired by Ken Loach's Kes, Saul Dibb's feature film debut Bullet Boy is the story of a futile attempt to break out of a criminal milieu that ends with the protagonist's killing.
Filed under: Black British | Coming of age | Crime | Mothers | Sons
Year of release: 2005
The film parallels two inter-racial relationships, one between the British Pakistani teenage girl Naseema, from a strict Muslim family. and the white working class boy Adam, from a working class racist family, and that of Naseema's brother Yousif and the white girl Michelle.
Filed under: Black British | Inter-ethnic romance