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North By Current

North By Current

Season 34 Episode 10
1:23:28
POV Shorts: Where I'm From

POV Shorts: Where I'm From

Season 34 Episode 401
53:47
POV Shorts: Dreaming Life

POV Shorts: Dreaming Life

Season 34 Episode 402
25:05
POV Shorts: Familial Healing

POV Shorts: Familial Healing

Season 34 Episode 403
24:51
POV Shorts: On Caregiving and Grace

POV Shorts: On Caregiving and Grace

Season 34 Episode 404
24:50
POV Shorts: Becoming Myself

POV Shorts: Becoming Myself

Season 34 Episode 405
23:57
POV Shorts: Le Frère

POV Shorts: Le Frère

Season 34 Episode 406
24:57
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Wuhan Wuhan

Season 35 Episode 1
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He's My Brother

He's My Brother

Season 35 Episode 4
52:15
Delikado

Delikado

Season 35 Episode 8
1:22:55
POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint

POV Shorts: Shut Up and Paint

Season 35 Episode 501
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The Song of the Butterflies

Season 34 Episode 6

Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter and one of the last surviving members of the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his Amazonian community to visit his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten.

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