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