Originating in Japanese manga culture from the 1980s, Cosplay has gone global in the decades since

Many people dream of the South Pacific, but few visit the islands of Kiribati, Niue, Wallis and Futuna

Tracks East approaches issues of identity and conflict in the (mostly) post-socialist world from new vantage points.

Tracks East went north to meet Greenlanders to talk about their culture and sense of identity.

How is Jewish identity lived in times of war in Ukraine, Germany and Poland?

Branded clothes and the latest smartphones have become status symbols capable of enhancing children’s image with peers or a source of exclusion.

1985. In an atmosphere of rising homophobia and moral panic around AIDS, French rock group sing about non-binary identities.

In 2014 Conchita Wurst became the first bearded drag queen to win the Eurovision Song Contest with an affirming anthem of queer identity.

Has the wall between East and West really come down? Tracks East focuses on Eastern European culture.

A hunter, an activist and a tattoo artist:Three Greenlandic women talk about their pride in belonging to the Inuit people.

Does make-up and masks transform us into the best version of ourselves?

Discover the unique artistic world of Madrid-based La Cendejas, a rising star of Spanish pop.

A trip to Naples to discover the centuries’ old Feminielli; a unique queer identity. 

Three generations of women are confronted with the upheaval of war in a film about shifting identities in Ukraine.

The owners of Palermo’s historic palazzos are trying to save their unique heritage, in spite of the heavy costs.

In Ireland a new generation of musicians and artists are reinventing folk traditions. 

It is thought around 20,000 Ukrainian children living in the occupied regions have been taken to Russia. 

Masha Borzunova meets a Russian deserter who tells how he went from being a war hero to an ostracised traitor of his country.

Strikes, protests and occupied universities: Serbia is boiling over with indignation against endemic corruption and growing authoritarianism.

Trangressive art from the incomparable Fever Ray for this special Passengers session in an abandoned factory.