Films
Folk art
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A trip to Gee’s Bend, Alabama, where masterpieces hang from clotheslines
Directed by Maris Curran
Virtues and vices
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A simple morality tale finds rich depth in the hands of a master animator
A film by Georges Schwizgebel
Wonder and the sublime
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The search for life beyond Earth is peculiar, from a parrot’s perspective
Directed by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
Spirituality and religion
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What happens when two people on life’s spiritual path find each other?
Directed by Lloyd Kramer and Scott Chestnut
Poetry
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An English teacher asks his class: ‘What’s the opposite of a gun?’
Directed by Anna Samo and Lisa LaBracio
Creativity
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To Aki Sasamoto, life is like melted glass – exciting and impossible to control
Directed by Rafael Salazar and Ava Wiland
Life stages
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To hold tight or to let go – will Sebastién retire from the trapeze?
A film by Jay Bedwani
Altered states
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What’s it like to meet aliens? A wild collage of surreal encounters
A film by Paul Vester
Transcendent experience
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We soar, we plunge, we labour: here is all peak human experience
Directed by Dylan Werkman
Parenting and families
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When a young woman leaves home, her parents’ world literally begins to unravel
A film by Dina Velikovskaya
Music
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A rapturous jazz meditation on truth in all its forms, from Kamasi Washington
Directed by AG Rojas
Folk art
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An Inuit artist reflects on the mysteries of artistic inspiration in this 1963 short
Directed by John Feeney