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In 1998, the village of Keur Simbara, was among the first communities in Senegal to publicly abandon female genital cutting (FGC) and child marriage, traditions that had been practiced for centuries.

Rinzin Jurmey grew up in the small mountain village of Sakteng and, at the age of 11, made the independent choice to leave the life of a mountain shepherd behind and move to a monastery to become a Buddhist monk.

Native American teen activist 17-year-old Daunnette Moniz-Reyome shares her family’s journey to retain the sacred rituals and values of their culture in the wake of centuries of loss due to disease, war and government policies.

L’CHAIM, a BYkids film about the resurgence of Jewish life in Berlin, is directed by 19-year-old Semon Shabaev, whose parents emigrated to Germany from Russia in the 1990s. Semon’s film dives into the question of identity, of feeling both German and Jewish, and addresses the historic burden and guilt of the Holocaust carried by his adoptive country.

In this BYkids short documentary, 18-year-old Rinzin Jurmey from Bhutan explores his life as a monk while navigating modern culture and preserving tradition.

In this BYkids short documentary, 17-year-old Native American activist Daunnette Moniz-Reyome explores her family’s journey to preserve Winnebago Ho-Chunk traditions while navigating modern life.