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White skin, blonde hair, Barbie has travelled the world making her the most popular doll ever. In fact, she’s so popular that many children of colour prefer her appearance to their own using her as a measuring stick for their own self-image.

A Doll Like Me looks at the world of children who do not look like Barbie and yet Barbie features are what the world around them celebrates.

Into the Shaolin is an immersive journey inside China’s legendary Shaolin Temple. Situated deep in the Songshan mountain range, the iconic temple is considered to be the birthplace of Shaolin Kungfu. Today the Temple is a UNESCO World Heritage site but it is more widely known for its martial arts tradition and Shaolin culture which has traveled the world in the famous Kung Fu movies and the touring performances made by the monks.

 

Carving the Divine delves into the world of Busshi—a community of Japanese sculptors who create intricate wooden replicas of Buddhas and bodhisattvas.Theirs is a practice of sculpture that has been handed down master to student for almost 1,400 years.

Beyond the Arctic Circle in a valley of the Verkhoyansk Mountains, autumn is in full display.  Here far away from civilization, two people have been living for 30 years. He is Even, she is Russian.

On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying more than 500 migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. Most of the people on board were men, women and children from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana. Adal Neguse living in Sweden who himself had made this trip across the Mediterranean fears his brother may be on that boat.

Speed of Happiness let’s us discover the meaning of true happiness through 봇카  ‘botcah’  the traditional carriers who  bring luggage to the lodges in ‘Oze’, a vast marshland of Japan where nature’s untouched beauty lives and breathes.

Sámi artist Britta Marakatt-Labba  has become one of Sweden’s most internationally recognized artists. Her medium is fabric her instruments are a needle and thread. Through these tools the the history, struggles and culture of the Sami people come to life. Today their struggle is their greatest yet.

The Ben Youssef family of Morocco migrates every year from the desert-like landscape of Nkob to the green pastures of Igourdane. Each summer with their 800 goats, donkeys, mules, camels and dogs, they embark on a formidable journey on foot.

Devastated by drought, the pastoral Oulad Boukais of the Atlas Mountains set up a tiny school to prepare their children for a new future.

In the remote highlands of Albania, an 18-year-old girl is shot dead in a bitter family feud. While the Kanun—an age-old tribal code that was partly revived in this region after the fall of Communism—permits violent retribution, it also offers an alternative route. The bishop and the chair of the NGO Committee of Nationwide Reconciliation both urge the grieving father to take the second option.