Rich kids now flock to exclusive favela parties, with tickets over $25 barring locals. From a bar on the tourist route, watch the stark divide between residents and these new visitors.

China’s top drama academy stages “Fame” as a Broadway collaboration and senior showcase. Over eight months, five single-child generation students grapple with parental pressure, corruption, and personal anxiety. Through the musical, they confront social realities and forge their own paths to succ...

Controversial Mayor Geng Yanbo demolished 140,000 homes in Datong to relocate half a million people, aiming to restore ancient walls and pivot to tourism. His radical vision sought to combat pollution and revive the economy through culture, outlining a complex blueprint for China's urban future.

Michael Douglas lives an ordinary life with his wife, Sharon. But in secret, he's Plymouth’s most flamboyant Neil Diamond impersonator, thrilling local pub audiences as his flamboyant alter-ego.

Girls are traded as goods, sold into marriage for school fees or heroin. From Mei in Vietnam to Mujgan in Afghanistan, this film tells their stories.

In Marc Isaacs’ film, diverse London arrivals seek better lives: an aspiring Irish singer, a lonely ex-builder, a Kashmiri hotel worker, a Jewish WWII refugee, and a retired German stewardess. Blending humour and heartbreak, it’s a deeply affecting, non-polemical study of immigration.

A year in a quiet Cumbrian village. As factories and fields turn with the seasons, nine-year-old Laura Anne and her cousin Steven, eleven, navigate the fragile end of childhood. A poignant, beautifully framed reflection on young love and lost innocence, evoking true nostalgia.

Award-winning filmmaker Daisy Asquith unlocks a long-buried family secret in Ireland. With her mother, she investigates her grandmother’s hidden pregnancy, a forced adoption by nuns, and a mysterious father. Their raw, emotional journey confronts centuries of Catholic shame, culminating in a powe...

Why choose balloon-folding and childish hecklers? Daisy Asquith profiles four party entertainers. Potty the Pirate loves the laughter; Tommy Tickle thinks kids are brats. From boozing to family illness, she uncovers their tragicomic, melancholy, and hilarious world.

Locked up at 13, forbidden to study, Salma wrote poems on hidden scraps. She smuggled them out, becoming a famed Tamil poet. Her words forged her freedom and challenged her village's strict traditions.

62 millions girls are out of school. One extra year of schooling can transform lives, reducing infant mortality and boosting democracy. Education changes everything.

Two students in Canada, Tarek & Hamid, return to Libya to fight Gaddafi in 2011. Neither is a soldier. The war changes them differently: Hamid thrives in the battle for Misrata; Tarek struggles with the danger. Their parallel journeys tell two of the conflict's millions of stories.

'First Contact' sequel follows Joe Leahy, son of explorer Michael. Between his European education and Papua New Guinean roots, he runs a coffee plantation. Filmmakers lived on its edge, documenting his strained ties with Indigenous neighbours and the clash of tribalism and capitalism.

"All White in Barking" reveals, with shocking humor and compassion, white residents' attitudes toward immigrant neighbors. Through unseen probing, Marc Isaacs questions prejudices, painting a vivid picture of perceptions in multicultural Britain.

What becomes of revolutionaries after victory? Jiovana Navias was chosen to represent Bolivia's unemployed single mothers. The film charts her journey from idealistic campaigner to facing corruption charges, showing the collision of far-left ideology with the realities of power.

If given only years to live, what would you do? So Much So Fast follows Stephen Heywood who, at 29, is diagnosed with ALS. He marries, has a son, and rebuilds homes. The film explores life's fragility, a family's fight against indifferent drug companies, and his brother's race to build a research...

Toilets – over 2 billion people lack safe, sanitary access. For women and girls, this crisis fuels disease, insecurity, and lost opportunity, holding back entire communities.

An 87-year-old actress, famed for playing ill-fated elderly roles, finally gets her first real holiday. Liz Smith sets sail for Venice. Can this cruise live up to a lifetime of waiting? A poignant celebrity travelogue about age and dreams.

Zimbabwean refugees in the UK, Josephine and Michael send hundreds home monthly, living in deprived Meadow Well. They see their poor British neighbors’ struggle through a lens of global relativity—their story, "The Queen of North Shields," explores poverty’s fluid identity across Tyneside and Afr...

In a haunting recurring dream, Khalo Matabane sees his own body in a coffin. To unravel its meaning, the filmmaker seeks answers from both a psychologist and a traditional South African sangoma, exploring the psyche across two worlds.

In 2012, Kochi, Kerala launched Asia’s biggest contemporary art show. Filmmaker Hattie Bowering follows artists battling no power, dengue, heat, and labor issues to open the historic Kochi-Muziris Biennale. A rare, refreshing look inside the artistic process. 

Paulie White, once a charismatic MC, now homeless in Slough. Alcoholism and violence have isolated him. Drink transforms him from charming Paulie White into the dangerous "Paulie F**king White," a stark snapshot of life sleeping rough.

Born with cystic fibrosis in 1972, she defied the odds. This footage, filmed before her March 2003 passing, captures the revered singer who never compromised her musical dreams.

"Men of the City" tracks London’s financial meltdown. Beyond brokers making money from money, it reveals a cleaner, a Bengali single father, and others striving for dignity amidst the crisis. Sensitive portraits of diverse lives.