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Architecture
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From modernist architect, to a life off-grid, a creative life well-lived
Directed by Ryan Malloy
Poetry
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Irish hills, folk music and David Whyte’s poetry form a fleeting, meditative moment
Directed by Andrew Hinton
Folk art
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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
Artists and movements
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One Kandinsky, one viewer and one guard, in a Moscow power station
Directed by Nastia Korkia
Travel
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‘It pulls you in’: the staff seduced by the rhythms of the Trans-Siberian railway
Directed by Anastasia Kirillova
Rituals and symbols
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Rituals and memories animate a day in the serene life of an Italian grandmother
Directed by Maria Piva
Spirituality and religion
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When his faith crumbles, an ‘Amish atheist’ rebuilds his world from scratch
Directed by Lance Edmands
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
Music
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La vida flamenca – why art and daily life are inseparable for a flamenco guitarist
Directed by Pedro Kos and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Values and beliefs
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A sacred dream sends one man on the perilous trail of toxic honey in Nepal
Directed by Ben Knight
Music
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Faith, struggle and song intertwine in this classic film on Appalachian music
Directed by John Cohen
Ageing and death
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At India’s ‘death hotels’, devout Hindus seek liberation from cycles of rebirth
Directed by Dan Braga Ulvestad