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05:02
A boy counts down to environmental crisis in Brazil, reading nature’s signals as Earth transforms
06:58
The Orthodox healers of Podlasie, Poland, protecting the fading ritual tradition of Slavic folklore
02:44
Unpack the outsider experience and find free expression through dance at Brooklyn’s Myrtle Broadway
14:56
A man is asked to cut off a stag's antlers in front of his kids at a deer farm
08:16
Inside Kyoto University’s self-governed Yoshida Dorm student residence and its radical philosophy
07:01
At Toma House in Nara, Japan, a historic Shinto priest house becomes an art space built on memory
04:47
Architect Suzuko Yamada’s gorilla-inspired steel Tokyo home establishes rhythms its towering garden
04:45
On a fantastical trip across Southeast Asia, magic and invisible forces linger beneath the surface
04:31
British Portrait sculptor Rufus Martin translates intensity, intimacy and humanity into clay forms
04:45
Greek tradition, island architecture and symbols ground the Point Supreme Architects’ Athens home
00:36
COMING SOON! 🎥 In Residence returns!
06:17
Dancers take over the Brooklyn Museum, exploring the tension between individuality and belonging
05:21
Salsa DJ & Canton Mambo Girl Gia Fu celebrates hybrid cultures in a music video for “Lotus”
04:27
Children find a voice for freedom through movement from a Brutalist playground in Paris’ suburbs
09:14
In a cave on the island of Socotra, Abdullah the Caveman lives off nature’s rhythms and online fame
21:02
In Sydney’s Chinatown, romance blooms between a bored shop worker and a charismatic street performer
04:13
Tension surges between a performer and his audience in a two-channel film confronting creative doubt
05:18
At the Akhtala spa in Georgia, an ancient mud volcano bubbles with healing rituals and folklore
01:46
A Super8 journey into masculinity and identity through poetry and the cowboys of Northern Brazil
03:58
An apocalyptic romance unfolds in an animated medieval world, where real life enters virtual reality
05:01
From his outdoor studio on Ile de Ré, French artist Richard Texier lets light, wind and sea steer
03:40
Herrana Addisu and Black Archives retell a Trinidadian family’s history in New York through photos
04:43
The Istanbul drag artist defying exclusion through community and resistance on the city's streets
09:53
The tension and boredom of a family holiday becomes an off-kilter dream told through visual symbols
04:00
Preparing the traditional Moldovan dessert as a symbol of culinary tradition and collective memory
12:25
Ex-dancer Louise Kramer on transitioning in the ‘80s against an iconic era in London’s club scene
02:27
Zhang Ziyi answers a mystery phone call, entering a tense, surreal journey to an alternate reality
07:52
At Hotel Corazón, Mallorca, cacti and diverse farmland feed Kate Bellm & Edgar Lopez’ artistic haven
17:43
Questioning what makes romance turn cold through five messy, imperfect relationships in Zurich
06:17
In Palestine and Greece, movement echoes memories to dissolve the barriers of as body and landscape
05:20
The Somerset valley home to landscape designer Dan Pearson’s biodiverse meadows and kitchen garden
10:06
Alone in Cyprus, take a comedic trip through art, queerness and open relationships in the sun
03:53
In Madagascar’s vanilla capital, farmer Mickaël shares the human story behind vanilla production
06:24
Video game creator Hideo Kojima merges visual effects and world-building with the Tokyo landscape
09:43
Moving house in Brooklyn, a young Iranian-American woman finds home in a Persian family recipe
07:38
Musician Yeek's debut short film explores three stories of loneliness and connection in LA
02:32
Ambrosia Fortuna and Gabriele Esposito spend a hazy summer on Ischia, as love and friendship blur
06:07
In Okinawa, 87 year old Shimei Nakaoji defies age by running daily in a reach towards eternal youth
04:32
At Villa Magnan in Biarritz, choreographer Sulian Rios splits a woman’s identity across two bodies
03:49
London sculptor Alice Channer distorts natural and everyday forms in collaboration with machines
15:26
Bolivia’s Cholita skaters ImillaSkate fight for gender equality and indigenous pride with clothing
05:29
A dance film celebrating bodies as they are despite rigid Asian beauty norms
09:30
In New York City, love, longing and heartache conjure memories of a past romance in the present
05:53
Siblings lock heads over a strange dilemma in an eerie comedy exploring children’s imaginations
05:21
Marrakech taxi driver Ibrahim honors the vintage Mercedes taxi as an icon of Morocco, now in decline
02:16
Photographer Abdulhamid Kircher reconciles his heritage and family relationships in Los Angeles
06:42
Get up close with the textures and sounds of the pizza-making process at Berlin pizzeria Gazzo
02:37
Manon Bouquet rebuilds relationship memories as dance, capturing the emotions of human connection
03:46
Bodybuilding veterans defy ageing to compete at the IBFA British Bodybuilding Finals in Gateshead
05:32
Leaving Tokyo for the ocean, Hiroki Ryo lives through the Japanese concept of beauty in minimalism
05:54
As V&A East Storehouse opens, Saul Nash, John Glacier and more talk symbolic personal objects
01:56
Dancer Matthew McCreary navigates his neurodivergence from Ivry-Sur-Seine’s Brutalist architecture
04:46
At Modena’s Casa Maria Luigia, chef and collector Massimo Bottura blurs food, art, and philosophy
02:21
In Dakar, the Atlantic’s rhythms fuel youth, community and friendship, with fashion by Wales Bonner
13:29
Four eccentric characters in a desolate Melbourne reckon with their loneliness
05:08
In her Berlin studio, visual artist Katharina Grosse follows her own philosophy through painting
03:05
Dancer Jamal Sterrett turns defeat to defiance, finding self-acceptance through charged movement
10:00
In surreal docufiction, an elderly couple awaits a mysterious surgery between the routine of ageing
15:00
A blind child sings on the streets of Bangkok to free himself from a controlling gang
07:40
The female artisans preserving Sardinia’s textile heritage through the traditional art of weaving