S1.E3 ∙ Michelle Somers

"Bellman Forever" - about Sweden's foremost national poet and performer from the eighteenth century: Carl Michael Bellman. Despite the fact that he died 220 years ago, he is still making researchers fight about who he was and what he meant with his lyrics. In the programme, several of Sweden's most famous artists and researchers give their contribution to our understanding of this productive genius that died poor and forgotten.

Three brothers meet up for an evening in the home they grew up in and where two of them still live. The time spent together reveals the broken relationship between them, as a consequence of over-technologization, consumerism, and easy access to any form of entertainment.

In support of Roshni, an NGO dedicated to fighting the stigma attached to mental illness in Indian society. Shilpa Reddy as the brand ambassador of the NGO and Dr.Aruna Bhikshu, Associate Professor at Dance University of Hyderabad are creating a dance-theater production to help raise awareness.

A Filipino transgendered prostitute speaks of her work, her relationship to her family and her childhood memories of wanting to become a woman. Now in Tokyo she reveals aspects of her life as she transits the streets of Roppongi and claims to have succeeded at incarnating her dream.

ATENTAMENTE is a film that, through the sensation of the time passing by and the presence of the death that wanders into a nursing home, allows us to feel the life through the illusion that love brings along. Libardo and Alba, a couple of elders who met each other at the nursing home where they live, they fall for, they become boyfriends and start to struggle in order to find fifty thousand pesos to rent a room for one night at a hotel so they can have a privacy moment, since at the nursing home where they live is not possible to have that. While struggling they must face each other, face their fears, their limitations, their pains, their time as well as their fragility so they can construct that moment in which they meet love. A struggle that seems to be easy, but for them is an odyssey against time, against their limitations and their own ghosts.

Constructing the pathway to happiness, 'TINANJALI, a song of life' as a song album, the book, and a musical documentary feature film is an outcome of various discussions between a husband and wife who are on their own journeys to solve mysteries of being human and is based on true events.