When Sony stopped manufacturing replacement parts for its Aibo pet robot, owners scrambled to save the robot-dogs that had become part of their families. This film is part of a...
Matt McMullen is developing a sex robot that uses technology to create the illusion of sentience. But is it enough to generate real emotions in its user? This film is...
Les Baugh lost his arms as a teenager. Engineers at Johns Hopkins are trying to give them back, but better. Mr. Baugh is testing a robotic prosthetic that he can...
11-year-old Tayloni Mazyck in New York City was struck by a stray bullet and left paralyzed two years ago. A film directed, filmed and edited by Shiho Fukada.
El Salvador has been the second most murderous country in the world for a number of years. The two main gangs, or maras, facing off in the poor barrios of...
A film by Lana Slezic about Andy Barrie: Canadian radio presenter and barratoned speaker, and his expereince with Parkinsons.
Muhammed is one of the heroes fighting against the spread of Ebola. Working as a volunteer for the Red Cross in Freetown, Sierra Leone, once a month he assists with...
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a dangerous place for women, or ‘meri’ as they are called in Tok Pisin, the local language. Violence against women is seen as normal. According...
The consequences of some conflicts related to the Arab springs, such as the Libyan and Syrian wars triggered a massive wave of refugees. On 3 October 2013, 366 immigrants trying...
The House of Culture of the Blind in Yerevan has stood almost empty since the fall of the Soviet Union due to a lack of funding for disabled people in...
A three-part documentary based on Shiho Fukada’s portrait series, Japan’s Disposable Workers. The three sections are: Overworked to Suicide After the recession of the 1990s, Japan’s white collar salarymen increasingly...
High on a mountain, three shamans sit cross-legged on a great burial stone, gazing out across a moonlit valley. They are singing, a slow ululation that fades into the predawn...
Mercy Owiti is a palliative care nurse in Nyeri, Kenya. But caring for patients at the end of life often means more than just pain relief. That’s why the Kenya...
Russia is home to the world’s fastest-growing HIV epidemic. Driven by injection drug use, it is now becoming generalized. A zero-tolerance policy toward drug use in the country bans harm...
Uganda has a severe HIV epidemic. AIDS is the leading cause of death among adults. Widespread rights violations put some people at a greater risk of HIV—like widows, sex workers,...