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A teenage girl rediscovers the feeling of love towards her father when he is in the midst of an existential crisis.

A Gonzo-style exploration that goes beyond everything you thought you knew about the dangers, and promise, of the Darknet. Hackers, Cypherpunks and crypto-anarchists guide us ever deeper down this rabbit hole, uncovering the hidden light at the bottom of the deep, dark web.

The interactive Web series documentary "Havana/Miami" examines life on both sides of the US-Cuba border by exploring the lives of 12 individuals in Havana and Miami.

What would you do with free money with no strings attached? In six episodes around the world, Earn a Living follows experiments in basic income, interrogating our relationship to work and money in the 21st century.

This Web series documents human resilience by capturing stories from neighboring cities Gaza and Sderot, each on different sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In Game is a documentary series exploring the world of e-sports through the portraits of two League of Legend players. Paul "sOAZ" Boyer is a pro-gamer, and already has several years of career. We follow his daily life in a "gaming house" in Berlin, where he lives and trains with Origen, one of the best teams in Europe. Their goal is to earn a spot at the World Championships. Lenny lives with his parents near Bordeaux. A big fan of LoL, this teenager spends his free time in e-sports bars with his friends. Together, they formed an amateur team and are making their debut in a regional lan at the Bordeaux Geek Festival. While Lenny dreams of becoming a pro-gamer, sOAZ and his teammates, xPeke, Alvar and Amazing experience the anguish of poor results: for them e-sports is not a game anymore, it's a demanding - and sometimes cruel - discipline. The story is told in six episodes of approx. 8 minutes each. The series shows the game and how it works, but focuses mostly on the humanity of these gamers, their professionalism, far from the clichés that reduce them to antisocial geeks, devoid of talent.

Since 1997, every member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has received an equal share of the revenue from the casino on their reservation. What might the tribe's 20 year-old "per cap" program tell us about the long-term effects of a basic income?

When Kona Shiomachi anonymously published her manga You Should Quit Your Job Before You Die on Twitter it quickly went viral in Japan. What if, far from being an anomaly, the Japanese phenomenon of karoshi, or death by overwork, is a sign that we all need to rethink our work-life balance?

A small village in Western Kenya is home to a radical experiment - every month for the next 10 years every resident will receive a $22 cash transfer courtesy of Silicon Valley-backed NGO GiveDirectly. What happens when you give someone more money than they've ever had in their lives, no strings attached and no questions asked?

On a small farming community in Israel's Arava desert, residents' basic needs are covered regardless of whether or not they work. But after 42 years of existence, the community's founding principle of "absolute independence and absolute personal responsibility" is being pushed to its limits. Can a basic income work even when we don't completely trust our neighbors?

On the banks of a quiet canal in Amsterdam, Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof lays the foundations of a new nation - Bitnation. The founder of this so-called "virtual state," Tarkowski Tempelhof and her merry band of libertarian programmers hope to make governments "redundant" and gamify social welfare. Is their vision a utopia in-the-making, or a nightmare?

In France, 19 regional governments have banded together in order to launch an ambitious basic income experiment. Can basic income reverse the trends of poverty in the country, especially among the youth? And what will those who receive the money be expected to give back in return?