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Desert with a blurred yellow road sign and distant hills under a blue sky.

Altered states

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Ride along on a road trip suffused with LSD, petty theft and true love

Directed by Aric Allen

A Nigerian ballerina in a white tutu dancing atop yellow minibuses in a crowded urban setting.

Dance

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Nigeria’s first ballet school brings tutus and joy to the streets of Lagos

Directed by Jacob Krupnick

A Chinese middle-aged woman tending plants on a rooftop garden with residential buildings and a blue sky in the background.

Sex and sexuality

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Shuli’s mother has known he was gay for years. Can they finally talk about it?

A film by Shuli Huang

Two silhouetted people stand against a dramatic orange and purple sunset sky.

Freedom and choice

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In the outback, a town of two awaits visitors to their emergency airport

Directed by Yannick Jamey

A child in a yellow shirt and red shorts pushing a tire uphill on a steep, gravelly incline against a clear sky backdrop.

Play

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A cobalt mine becomes an unlikely playground for children in Congo

A film by Francis Alÿs

Abstract blue and white line drawing of multiple nude female figures, seen from various angles, arranged in a pattern.

Artists and art history

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A minotaur shifts shapes and sexes in this ferociously original animation

A film by Chaerin Im

A young man with a serious expression wearing a grey hoodie outdoors at dusk, with a blurred landscape and lights in the background.

Depression

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Why Darius is testing mind and body to run 100 miles in the cold

Directed by Amar Chebib

A photo of an artist in a cap and paint-splattered trousers sitting next to a large painting of a man holding his face in his hands.

Painting and sculpture

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A rural Namibian artist reflects on authenticity in work and in life

Directed by Niklas von Klitzing and Leo Stolz

Animated scene of a woman comforting a man at a kitchen table, with one hand resting of his back.

Love

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Caregiving is the highest form of love in this powerful family portrait

Directed by William D Caballero

Sketch of a bathroom with a vanity unit and mirror. An illustrated nude woman stands in the centre, reflected in the mirror.

Altered states

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A woman summons a stoic calm after accidentally trapping herself in a shower

A film by Tom Schroeder

A smiling shirtless man with the outline of a child, as if cut out by scissors, sitting on his shoulders.

Parenting and families

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No kidding! Inside one childless comedian’s choice to get a vasectomy

A film by Jordan Temple

Illustration of a young woman with a bob haircut, red skin and two different coloured eyes. She holds her hands up to her cheeks.

Mental health

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Fixating on her body, a woman grapples with strange distortions of the self

Directed by Chenghua Yang