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In 2018 the Royal Academy celebrates its 250th Summer Exhibition and artist Grayson Perry takes the helm to coordinate the world's longest running and largest open-submission show. Presented by Kirsty Wark and Jayson Mansaray the programme comes from the very glamorous private view and goes behind the scenes of the Academy as it prepares for its annual artistic extravaganza. Grayson in his role as chief coordinator celebrates the democracy of the exhibition with the theme of Art Made Now and creates a room of fun dedicated to pieces he finds amusing.

The story of Hengest.

A Teacher and her students discuss the questions asked in the structure of writing an essay

Detoxify oneself from accumulate images, being able to see again as after an electroshock. ἐκπύρωσις, ekpýrosis, “out of the fire”, in Greek philosophy is the universal conflagration or “great fire and end of the world”.

This film highlights the beauty and importance of Afro hair at every step of it's wash-to-style process.

After she discovers her father's declining health, April's reality blurs with that of her favorite bedtime stories to help her come to terms with the idea of him dying.

Five friends decide to establish a mafia network in their provincial town but encounter several obstacles, including personal greed, love and existing drug networks within the first weeks of their venture.

This experimental film is made with a fast cutting technique that’s often used for music videos. Strictly speaking, it is a video to a rap track mixed from a recorded monologue of an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor Janine and complemented with couplets by a young American rapper Kapoo. The symphony of life and memory, of rhythm and words, performed by means of radical montage, tells about a mysterious person by the name of Edek.

A group of youngsters are shocked to discover the dangerous intentions of a pizza delivery driver.

The femina accabadora was a woman who practiced an ancient form of euthanasia, a compassionate act towards the dying person, in order to alleviate her pains. Considered by many to be a legendary figure of the Sardinian tradition, in reality he acted until the 1960s, as our protagonists, eyewitnesses of the deeds of the ladies of the good death, tell. Together with them we cross the sunny landscapes of Sardinia and immerse ourselves in the shaded areas of a millenary culture still alive in the present.

Patricia lives in Kalongo, a small remote village in Acholi land, Northern Uganda. In the shadow of Mount Oret, which dominates the landscape of the village, Patricia is learning each day to accompany new mothers through the physical pain and the immense emotion of giving birth. 'Together with woman' is the meaning of her chosen vocation to love and serve with joy, this is what it means to be a midwife.

In the Portneuf region, an encounter between here and there is gradually unfolding, brought to life by the patience and small gestures of love of the Saint-Ubalde sponsorship committee, which is unconditionally pursuing its ultimate dream of welcoming a Syrian refugee family.

Throughout 2017, we were lucky enough to visit a variety of different standard gauge railways in England and Wales. The first railway to feature is the East Lancashire Railway, where we visited for the Spring Steam Gala, Spring Diesel Gala, Autumn Steam Gala and their DMU Gala. Second up is the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, where we visited for their Spring Steam Gala and their Flying Scotsman visit. Third up is the Llangollen Railway, where we visited for a day trip during our Summer holiday and their Autumn Steam Gala. The National Railway Museum was also on our visit list for 2017. Out on the mainline, we were lucky enough to catch 45690 Leander on the North Wales Coast Express at Llandudno Junction, Conwy Castle and Holyhead.

Sloth wants to buy an ice cream cone. Unfortunately, he is way too slow and sleepy.

Critics claim they're little more than 'torture camps', but for desperate parents, military-style boot camps are often seen as the last chance for their children to avoid the vicious cycle of delinquency and jail. We spent five months at the Discovery Challenge Academy, which welcomes 125 troubled adolescents every year. Who are these young people? What challenges will they have to overcome?

Your six-year-old daughter has been bitten by a zombie and now hungers for human flesh. What do you do? Do you double tap her in the brain? Or do you become the ultimate enabler and feed her human flesh? And where do you get human flesh from? This is the dilemma that Gareth and Jen face with their beautiful daughter Ana. What will they do? And how far will it go?

A documentary about London's legendary music street, Denmark Street.

A documentary that follows children in the town of Entrialgo, Asturias, Spain over a year as their language and way of life slowly disappears.

Although very self-confident, Marie-Pierre suffers from chronic, unwarranted jealousy. It has been months since she has been able to sexually satisfy her husband, Jean-Louis. He may seem docile, but she is convinced that he will end up cheating on her.

Inspired by Derek Jarman’s 1978 queer punk film Jubilee, Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 follows Ayn Rand and members of her Collective, including Alan Greenspan, on an acid trip in 1955.

"La Brigada" was made in collaboration with a group of shoe shiners in La Paz, the Capital of Bolivia. The men and women belonging to this fragile, stigmatised workforce, who cover their faces with ski masks to avoid being recognised, attract the attention of pedestrians by tapping on their colourful wooden shoe-shine boxes.

Essay film about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926).

Getting a free haircut has never been so twisted.

Damien is a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Back with his family, he no longer feels like he belongs...

Even though they don’t know each other very much, Inès (14) and Abdel (15) decide to have their first time together. The big day arrives and Inès is called to help out a neighbor to babysit her two kids Moussa (3) and Balla (5). Inès is determined to go through with their plan and asks Abdel to join her at her neighbor’s apartment. But the two children and their friends don’t stop to interrupt them in their pursuit. And so, they are forced to get to know each other in a different way.

In the desert, a man extracts stones from a mountain and breaks them. In his perpetual labour, he meditates upon life and death.

Star Wars meets Shakespeare in this timely nod to both the 40th celebration of Star Wars release and the recent 400th anniversary of the Bard's death. Hamlet's famous soliloquy is presented as the inner voice of a Stormtrooper, demonstrating the way Shakespeare's language still echoes down to us through the centuries and remains as relevant today as ever---not to mention as well in a galaxy far, far away...

Squaddies on the Frontline tells the story of the British Army's experience of the Northern Ireland conflict through the eyes of the ordinary men and women that soldiered here. For almost 40 years between 1969 and 2007, a total of over a quarter-of-a-million soldiers served on the streets of Northern Ireland in 'Operation Banner', the British Army's longest ever operation. These men and women were at the heart of the key events of the conflict, with over 700 soldiers killed and more than 6,000 injured, and a further 305 deaths attributed to them. Squaddies on the Frontline is their story, taking viewers into the heart of 'Operation Banner' and the day-to-day realities of life and work here as a soldier through some of the toughest years of the Troubles, looking at the impact that it had, and continues to have, on their lives and the lives of those around them, both in Northern Ireland and beyond.

A BBC Four Slow Christmas treat follows Norway’s Sami reindeer herds as they migrate across the mountainous region of Finnmark, far north of the Arctic Circle. The journey, a little over 160 miles, takes the herd a week, travelling north from the inland winter feeding grounds to their coastal summer pastures. The film travels with the Sara family and their herd around the clock as they cross the Arctic wilderness to reach the coastal island of Kvaloya Fala in time for the calves to be born. It is a journey fraught with hazardous weather conditions.

In a universe where history has been ravaged by time-travelling criminals, federal agent Zellion Hadrax IV travels to 1970s England, tasked with hunting them down.

Axel is a guy who decides to move to Mexico City to study philosophy but while that happens he decides to prostitute himself with men.

After 50 years, a former soldier returns to Tlatelolco square, where he participated in the massacre of dozens of students.

Aphra, a young woman in search of her sister's ghost, travels to an island to meet a witch, Aradia.

Based on the best-selling book of the same title written by Javier Martínez. Mateo likes Ramiro, and he is determined to get his attention.

Two best friends whose lives, friendships and mindsets are thrown into a whirlwind following an unexpected moment of romance.

How do the fortresses we build to protect ourselves affect the people we become? El Hara follows one man's break with the neighborhood of his youth, the Jewish quarter of Tunis, highlighting how such moments of rupture haunt us forever.