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A film still of a man in a black suit airborne above a white staircase under bright stage lights against a dark background.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Directed by Anushka Naanayakkara

A man sitting on a chair in a lush garden with blooming flowers, a cobbled path, and a red garden shed in the background.

PLEASURES AND PASTIMES

A club for ‘dull men’ may just inspire you to see the unremarkable anew

Directed by Andy Oxley

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

MEANING AND THE GOOD LIFE

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

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.

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

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

Directed by Samantha Moore

A woman with her hair up looking out of a train window, resting her chin on her hand. The outside view is white and indistinct.

‘It pulls you in’: the staff seduced by the rhythms of the Trans-Siberian railway

Directed by Anastasia Kirillova

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.

An English teacher asks his class: ‘What’s the opposite of a gun?’

Directed by Anna Samo and Lisa LaBracio

Black-and-white photo of two judokas; one is throwing the other who is airborne with legs up, set against a wooden background.

SPORTS AND GAMES

Softness controls hardness – a fighter’s gentle approach to life

Directed by Josef Reeve

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

Exquisite subaquatic choreography stretches the limits of mind and body

Directed by Julie Gautier

Two people in a worn-out room with an old TV, a mirror reflecting more people, and various items on countertops and shelves.

ARTISTS AND ART HISTORY

One Kandinsky, one viewer and one guard, in a Moscow power station

Directed by Nastia Korkia