In rural Ireland, an inquisitive boy forms a beautiful friendship with an ebullient Ukrainian girl taking refuge in his home.

In a fishermen's village of the Bay of Bengal, a group of young Burmese kids live their happy-go-lucky life with a unique obsession: surfing. They are the first, the only ones. Meanwhile in Yangon, a determined craftsman begins to shape the very first teakwood surfboard; a symbol for the future g...

This short documentary made in an orphanage in India, shows with great humanity how eight children carry within them the seeds of "everyday superheroes".

When three lions are born into one of Bulgaria’s worst zoo’s, an international team pledge to give them a new fate. But with the government against them, can this mission be pulled off in time?

In a world where dolphins are living behind bars, a team of marine conservationists have a mission, to give these majestic mammals a home back in the wild.

The surprising success story of a Seoul-based wedding agency that matchmakes South-Korean men with North-Korean women.

Inspired by the song 'Land Matters' Lee Love and his partner Rooh Star strive to empower themselves by remaining connected to their environment. Whether this means living in a handmade 'barrel home' or travelling in a makeshift cart, their unique, self-sustainable lifestyle offers an new percepti...

Boys are invited to play football with their dads. Girls aren't. Boys are invited into boardrooms, given advice and confidence, given access to where the decisions are made. Girls, on the other hand, must bring themselves into play. Why?

In Brazil, the Spiritist movement is growing at a phenomenal rate. Followers believe that direct contact can be made with dead loved ones. In this film, we see the work of one of Spiritsm's proponents, Fernando Ben, as he claims to receive messages from a deceased man. Grief stricken relatives cl...

The bird-singing contest in Rio, which showcases the talents of curiós – birds that are on the list of endangered species. We follow the preparations of a bird and its elderly owner in the lead-up to a competition.

Nearly all maternal deaths could be prevented, if women had access to essential maternal and healthcare services. This animated film explores maternal and newborn health through the mind of a baby girl called Ami.

In Bangladesh, climate change means increased flooding every year. Rather than watching her crops fail and her family starve, Janahara bought some ducks… This is a film about having to adjust to a warming planet, and the role women are playing at the forefront of this.

Loo'. 'Crapper'. 'WC'. Whatever you want to call it, fewer than one in three people worldwide have access to a proper, sanitary toilet. For women, this has particularly damaging repercussions.

Rio Brazil is a city where racism and inequality are alive and well despite much of its population having ancestral connections to slaves and a 53% of its population identifying itself as 'brown'. Today, women of colour such as Ludmilla must fight to empower themselves in the face of judgment and...

With abortion illegal in the majority of the developing world, unplanned pregnancies have dangerous consequences. Without contraception, women are denied choice over how their own families, forced to face often fatal consequences.

Where you're born makes a radical difference to the healthcare you can expect. The disparity between different countries is stark.

Filmmaker Khalo Matabane has a disturbing recurrent dream, where he sees his body in a coffin in the ground. To try and explore the meaning behind it, he enlists the help of a psychologist, and a traditional South African sangoma.

Though apartheid in South-Africa was abolished in 1994 some of its institutions, such as townships, remain. Initially constructed to house black citizens as part of segregationist policy these are still home to underprivileged, largely-black communities. Experience life in the townships through i...

62 million girls worldwide do not attend school. Just one extra year of education, however, can alter everything from infant mortality rates to the likelihood of democratic governance.

Paulie White swaggers through the streets showing us a snapshot of his life sleeping rough in Slough. Formerly a popular MC, his struggles with alcoholism and violence have rendered him homeless and isolated from general society. He says drink transforms him from the charming and charismatic Paul...

For women, sexuality can be a fraught issue. Subject to harassment, persecution and abuse, expected to repress desire or accept advances they don't want, female sexuality is continually being regulated. Yet every women has the right to be supported in sexual empowerment.

This film imagines a world in which women and men were treated the same in the workplace – paid the same, given the same employment rights, expected to share domestic labour and childcare. The impact would be profound.

Michael Douglas lives an outwardly ordinary existence with his doting wife, Sharon. However, beneath his strikingly normal, masculine façade lurks the other him – Plymouth’s most entertaining and flamboyant Neil Diamond impersonator touring local pubs for his middle aged female fans.

The five-part animated series explores the rise of political insanity through the sociology of madness. Using animation and archival footage, these humorous films unpack complex ideas by using an original mix of satire and science. Each episode tackles a different aspect of the madness epidemic b...