Often drawn to unusual characters, Nicolas Cage has boldly blazed his own trail in Hollywood for the last four decades.

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

Tracks East plunges into Trump’s MAGA world where diversity is shunned and artistic freedom is challenged. 

Film director Jean Boullet was obsessed with Dracula, even getting surgery to look like him

lternative culture programme "Tracks" goes east to meet journalists and artists from Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia who have a different perspective on the war in Ukraine

What did Russian propagandists make of this historic meeting on (Russian) American soil?

They are Roma, rappers, and feminists, fighting male domination within their community and without through rap.

Unreal, hypersexualised, mutant bodies... In VRChat, desire is embodied in 3D, sex becomes a performance and fantasy a (virtual) reality. 

Afour-day festival out in the desert next to the dried-up Aral Sea, attracts locals and foreigners alike to this party in the desert.

Drag, pain and glitter meet political activism in the wrestling shows of the American Choke Hole crew.