IT IS A SOUL: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia

Beatrice Vio has been fencing since she was five; she used to do it standing and now she does it sitting. When she was twelve, she had her four limbs amputated due to complications from meningitis, which didn't stop her pursuing the sport she loves and becoming a world champion at the age of nineteen. With the implacable support of her family, she has defied all limitations and expectations. This short documentary is a window into the extraordinary, that becomes ordinary, of Beatrice's life.

When Ena returns to Venezuela, after spending several years abroad, she discovers a postcard in her father's bookshop and sets off in search of a forgotten writer.

In a Brooklyn studio, acclaimed Pakistani-born artist Salman Toor is at work on a new figurative painting that’s going to be shown alongside canvases by art historical heroes like Johannes Vermeer at the Frick Madison in New York City.