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Dance

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How the acrobat and choreographer Yoann Bourgeois plays with gravity and time

Directed by Raphael Wertheimer

Close-up of an older man in a flat cap and scarf, looking out over a misty rural landscape with blurred farmland in the background.

Poetry

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Irish hills, folk music and David Whyte’s poetry form a fleeting, meditative moment

Directed by Andrew Hinton

Photo of a woman submerged to the neck in a natural hot spring, with mountains and mist in the background, creating a serene atmospheric scene.

Photography

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One photo per day for more than a year, exploring how rituals affect memory

Directed by Scott Thrift

A night scene with a warmly lit cabin in the woods. An elderly person is inside, visible through large glass windows.

Architecture

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From modernist architect, to a life off-grid, a creative life well-lived

Directed by Ryan Malloy

Abstract watercolour painting of figures walking in different directions on a white background.

Play

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An Oscar-nominated animation that celebrates walking with humans

Directed by Ryan Larkin

Close-up of a colourful, abstract wool sculpture resembling a face with various textures and fibres extending outward.

Love

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Making love strange to imagine it anew – a startling, award-winning animation

Directed by Anushka Naanayakkara

A sailboat on a calm lake at dusk with snow-capped mountains in the background under a cloudy sky.

Meaning and the good life

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A boatbuilder above the Arctic Circle works hard at his epicurean life

Directed by Vern Cummins & Jamie Gallant

Colourful pointillistic painting of four figures in patterned clothing on a landscape with trees, likely representing rural life.

Traditional arts

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A joyously animated myth retells why painting is prayer to India’s Bhil people

A film by Nina Sabnani and Sher Singh Bhil

A young person dancing with arms extended and hair flying, seen from below, with sky background. Two other excited people watch.

Dance

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A street dance born amid poverty and violence offers a radical form of self-care

Directed by Maceo Frost

A knitted grey toy mouse holds a needle and repairs its own dress. Three balls of yarn lie nearby, alongside a small blue open book.

Pleasures and pastimes

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A whimsical ode to the reparative power of knitting, rendered in wool

Directed by Samantha Moore

Open book with sketches of a handgun on the left page and a peach with geometric lines on the right page, on a dark surface.

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

A woman in a black swimsuit is submerged underwater, with her head down and hair floating gently around her.

Dance

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Exquisite subaquatic choreography stretches the limits of mind and body

Directed by Julie Gautier