Nick Helm’s deceptively ambitious short feels more like a rough draft for a full-length indie film rather than a TV sketch. Helm plays what looks like a cross between his real self and his character Andy in Uncle, wandering around the back streets of Brighton for a day with his friend played by co-writer Esther Smith. The fact that Smith plays the schoolteacher Andy has a thing for in Uncle adds to the whiff of deja vu, but once you've got over that this is an exceedingly cute little film. It reminded me of old lo-fi, low budget films by Jim Jarmusch. There isn’t really a deep, intricate plot, we just see two people bouncing off each other on the hoof and being delightfully quirky in cafes, vinyl record stores and junk shops.

They clearly fancy the pants off each other, but he’s too tentative, she's too shy. Maybe they are even falling in love. But will one of them make that leap from friendship to romance? In fairness Helm actually appears a lot more soft-hearted here than he is in Uncle as well as more clean-shaven. And despite the vintage clothes Smith is much more than mere manic pixie dream girl. In fact the result is all rather lovely. So lovely in fact I can even forgive the bit where she mimes to Toto’s Africa, which by any standards is a bloody awful song.

Watch Nick Helm: Elephant here.