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In the land of onomatopoeia, "Gacha Gacha" is the sound of surprise you make after trying your luck at Gachappon, a plastic capsule dispenser. Turns out, Japan is full of surprises...

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Darío Aguirre is from Ecuador, living in Germany with his wife. When the city of Hamburg unexpectedly invited him to become a German citizen, Darío revisits his rocky path to building a life for himself in Europe and wonders about who he has become. This film is about arriving and living abroad in a time when xenophobia is suddenly acceptable again in Germany, and society is struggling to find the right way to integrate new citizens.

What it's like to live in Germany as a foreigner when xenophobia is suddenly socially acceptable again.

How I Became German

Star violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and composer JohnWilliams have long been something of a dream team. The 89-year-old American has composed a new violin concerto especially for the German violin virtuoso. Together with works by Jessie Montgomery, Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky, this world premiere is the highlight of the Tanglewood Festival 2021. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is conducted by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons and John Williams.

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Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
John Williams: Violin concerto No. 2 (World Premiere)
John Williams: New arrangements of film themes “Across the Stars“
Aaron Copland: Quiet City
Igor Stravinsky: Suite from “The Firebird“ (1919 Edition)

Tanglewood Festival 2021

Anne-Sophie Mutter performs the world premiere of John Williams new violin concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Anne-Sophie Mutter - John Williams

For decades, the middle classes were what held post-war Europe together. Confidence in the Republic and its values was a given for the French middle classes who saw the state as a force for good and believed in social mobility. That all changed with the Yellow Vest movement (2018-2019) which saw angry protests against the government. This documentary follows participants in this movement.

For decades, the middle classes were what held post-war France together.  But that all changed with the Yellow Vest movement (2018-2019) which saw angry protests against the government. 

The Working Poor in Revolt

German producer and composer Pantha du Prince, exquisite blender of electronic and organic sounds, unveils his Conference of Trees album which takes us on a sonic journey into the heart of the forest. Live from the Nuits Sonores electronic music festival in Lyon.

Nuits Sonores 2021

The German producer unveils his Conference of Trees album at the Nuits Sonores electronic music festival in Lyon.

Pantha du Prince

 French swimmer Florent Manaudou, German pentathlete Marvin Dogue and French sabre fencer Cécilia Berder all trained hard for the Tokyo Olympics, but the most important part of their training they say is in the mind. Mental conditioning is a growing science designed to get the best out of sports champions at a time when they could crumble under the pressure. At the beginning of World War Two, American airforce pilots struggled to face off against the Japanese fleet. Cue Bud Winter: in peace time, a sports coach, and in war, a mental conditioner who taught the pilots how to keep their head in the game even in life-or-death situations. Gradually, the idea that sportsmen and women were as much mind as they were muscle took hold. 

 How athletes get the best out of themselves by training not their bodies, but their minds.

Inside the Heads of Champions

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From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock leads a fine vocal ensemble that includes soprano Julie Fuchs, baritone Andrè Schuen and mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021

Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities of the Aix-en-Provence opera festival.

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

What is the vocal alchemy that propels pop singers to the pinnacle of success, decade after decade? While many of them, like Freddy Mercury or Alicia Keys, display impeccable power and technique, these assets are not always what counts. Can we identify common characteristics in the immense diversity of voices from pop music, past and present? With interviews from musicians such as Damn Albarn, DJ Koze, Joy Denalane and Joan as Police Woman, the first part of this two-part documentary explores the very essence of the pop voice.

Exploring the very essence of the pop singing voice, with interviews from musicians Damon Albarn, DJ Koze, and Joan as Police Woman.

The Magic Voices of Pop 

In France, the bungalow evokes holidays in the sun. In the UK, they are humble everyday dwellings for grandparents. But in Germany or the United States, they take on a very different form: they are a bourgeois luxury, a single-storey villa with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking nature. Inspired by the "bangalo", a traditional one-storey Bengal house open to the outside, this style was also a staple of colonial architecture. 

In the US and Germany, bungalows are a bourgeois luxury

Bungalow

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped him as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

Lionel (Alex Descas), a widower, has raised his daughter, Josephine (Mati Diop), on his own since she was young. The two are used to living alone, depending solely on one another. But, now that Josephine is older, Lionel is beginning to realize they cannot stay isolated forever.

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Lionel is widowed and has raised his daughter Josephine on his own. But now their life together begins to resemble that of a couple.

35 Shots of Rum

Watani - My Homeland is the story of one family's struggle to survive the Syrian Civil War. Having lost her husband, the mother makes the heart achingly painful decision to leave her homeland, in search of safety and a brighter future for her children. Filmed over three years, this film chronicles the family's journey from the front-line in Aleppo, to the little town of Goslar in Germany. Escaping the chaos and terror of their war torn homeland becomes a catalyst for a different kind of struggle; the struggle to understand your past and accept your present, to adapt to a new life, to hold on to hope, and the idea of belonging to a homeland.

Watani - My Homeland is the story of one family's struggle to survive the Syrian Civil War. 

Watani: My Homeland

In June 2020 Montpellier Danse should have celebrated its 40th anniversary. Founded in 1981 by the city's mayor Georges Frêche, choreographer Dominique Bagouet and director since 1983, Jean-Paul Montanari, the festival has become in four decades a major event in the international dance calendar. But the coronavirus pandemic forced the festival to reschedule to a reduced festival in the autumn.
With rehearsal, interviews and archive footage this documentary places the present festival in dialogue with forty years of performance.

With rehearsal, interviews and archive footage this documentary places the present festival in dialogue with forty years of performance.

40 Years of Montpellier Danse

Millions of people worldwide suffer from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), an extreme and persistent exhaustion for which there is no cure. An investigation into a little known illness focusing on the experiences of three individuals suffering from CFS: Ralf, Sonja and Aileen.

ME/CFS A Misunderstood Illness

 An investigation into little understood illness focusing on the experiences of three individuals suffering from CFS: Ralf, Sonja and Aileen.

Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

A history of camping and caravanning from their origins in British high society at the turn of the 20th century to their democratisation in later decades, taking in the hippy movement’s attachment to life on the road as well as high end glamping.

The History of a Passion

A history of camping and caravanning from their origins in British high society at the turn of the 20th century to their democratisation in later decades.

Camping and Caravanning

Both sacred and secular music were omnipresent in the Greek, Egyptian and Roman civilisations of the classical world. But the songs, rhythms and melodies have been forgotten. What might have the music of antiquity sounded like? This film follows the musicologists and researchers who painstakingly piece together clues to build a picture of the music performed and enjoyed thousands of years ago. Through their work, musical instruments come back to life and surviving scores are deciphered to give a glimpse of a sound world thought to have disappeared forever.

This film follows the musicologists and researchers who painstakingly piece together clues to build a picture of the music performed and enjoyed thousands of years ago.

In Search of the Music of Ancient Times

A graduate of Yale University's drama school, Meryl Streep started her career in New York City on Broadway. Even early on, her incredible versatility shone through and continues to be one of Hollywood's most beloved stars. 

Mystery and Metamorphosis

Portrait of one of the most versatile and successful American actors of her generation.

Meryl Streep

There are two million neurones in our stomachs, approximately the same amount as in a dog’s brain. If man’s best friend is an intelligent animal, are our stomachs also clever? A documentary on how the belly links to the brain, and how it influence our emotional and physical well-being.

There are two million neurones in our stomachs, approximately the same amount as in a dog’s brain. If man’s best friend is an intelligent animal, are our stomachs also clever?

The Stomach: Our Second Brain

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In Japan, the “washlet” combines Western toilets with Japanese hygiene standards. A clever combination of comfort and cleanliness, they're considered a basic essential for people in Japan, although visitors may be left baffled as to how to use them. They have dozens of functionalities.

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Japanese toilets make the bathroom experience a high tech luxury

Toilets, Perfected

Eating ramen in Japan is a unique sensory and auditory experience. Here, the noodles are noisily slurped up. Considered rude in the West, in Japan this every day gesture is imbued with meaning.

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In Japan, far from being rude, slurping is all about appreciating ramen's unique palette of flavours

Zuru Zuru: The Sound of Street Food

In Tokyo, sounds blair at you from all sides: the traffic lights that sound like chirping birds, the beep that signals when you enter a shop, and most of all, the delicate and detailed train station jingles. Every station has its own aural identity, crafted by a dedicated composer who has been writing train jingles for decades. 

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 Every station has its own aural identity, crafted by composer who has been writing train jingles for decades

Eki-Melody: Japan's Train Jingles

Almost every public place in Tokyo is spotless, rubbed and polished clean by government workers. But there are places even their hard-working hands don't quite reach: grimy neighbourhoods full of character and down-in-the-heel charm. And in those streets, roams an elderly ramen seller making his living feeding drunks in the middle of the night.

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In grimy neighbourhoods full of character, an elderly ramen seller ekes out a living feeding drunks

The Old Ramen Seller

In Japan politeness is deeply codified depending on your place in the hierarchy. Where you stand in the lift, how you get into a taxi, and especially how you greet others, depends on your social standing. The concept of Ojigi is instilled in every Japanese child, and adults go on to hire consultants to make sure they get the nuances just right. But if it sounds deeply constraining, it is supposed to provide balance and stability.

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In Japan where you stand in the lift, how you get into a taxi, and especially how you greet others, depends on your social standing

Ojigi, The Art of Deference

Daruma is doll that is supposed to grant wishes. Derived from Buddhism, Daruma is steeped in Shinto tradition. Once a year, at the Jindai-ji temple near Tokyo, a fete full of food, prayer and wishes in dedicated to him. It's a chance for believers to make their wishes for the year ahead. 

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Once a year, at the Jindai-ji temple near Tokyo, a fete full of food, prayer and wishes in dedicated to Daruma

Daruma, A Nation's Lucky Charm

In Japan, finger pointing is a technique that standardises security checks. This practice is a choreography of gestures that keeps trains running safely and on time. Pointing the finger in Japan, far from denoting blame, focuses the mind.

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Pointing the finger in Japan, far from denoting blame, focuses the mind

Yubisashi Kakunin: It's Polite to Point

It can be hard to make new friends as an adult, but sometimes catching up with old friends can feel more like keeping up with the Joneses. But the Cheerful cheerleading group is different. They are all about discipline, energy, and mutual support. 

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How a disparate group of women bonded over their shared love of cheerleading

The Cheerful Squad

In a city as crowded as Tokyo, even the rooftop space isn't wasted, but converted instead into golf courses, or football pitches. But it's not just a place to decompress. For some, it's compulsory. 

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Professional Golf, Tokyo Style

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In France 173 people were killed by abusive partners in 2019.  84% of these victims were women. In the press and on social media the list of femicides grows longer every week and yet we know little about these women who have become statistics. This documentary focuses on domestic violence and femicide, a crisis going on behind closed doors.

This documentary focuses on domestic violence and femicide, a crisis going on behind closed doors.

To the Bitter End

A taboo subject until very recently, Canada’s Indian Residential Schools took away generations of indigenous children from their parents. In an attempt by Canada to educate and evangelise these people viewed as savages, indigenous people were brutally separated from their culture and often abused. A documentary on the traumatic experiences of Canada’s First Nations people and their fight for recognition and justice.

Canada’s Indian Residential Schools took away generations of indigenous children from their parents. A documentary on the traumatic experiences of First Nations people and their fight for justice.

Killing the Indian in the Child

When a group of investigative journalists discovered far-reaching corruption involving Jacob Zuma, then President of South Africa, a pernicious disinformation campaign was mounted against them.. Then one day the journalists received the smoking gun—a huge data leak, dubbed the "Gupta Leaks", that laid bare the entire modus operandi behind the capture of the South African state by private individuals, the Gupta family, with the help of governing politicians.

Corruption in South Africa

The "Gupta Leaks" exposed the entire modus operandi behind the capture of the South African state by private individuals.

How to Steal a Country

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

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Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

On 4 January 2021, a London court denied the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the United States - where he faces up to 175 years in prison, accused of publishing hundreds of thousands of confidential documents. But the judicial battle continues: the US government has appealed, while Assange remains in Belmarsh maximum security prison.
Continuing from ARTE’s five-year investigation into the Assange affair, this report delves once again into the complicated case.

Continuing from ARTE’s five-year investigation into the Assange affair, this report delves once again into the complicated case.

The Extradition of Julian Assange

Conducted over two years in five different countries, this unprecedented in-depth investigation shows that sexual violence in sport does not only affect isolated, exceptional cases, but that abuses are frequent and appear throughout the system.

With 1 in 7 minors preyed on, why is sexual abuse so prevalent in sport world?

Sexual Abuse in Sport

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The Shanghai Cooperation was created in 1996 by the Chinese and Russian governments. Little known in the West, who is a member of the intergovernmental organisation and what exactly is it for?

Mapping the World

The Shanghai Cooperation was created in 1996 by the Chinese and Russian governments. Who are the members of this intergovernmental organisation and what exactly is it for?

China, Russia and the Enigmatic SCO

Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets by their families. There, they desperately try to earn enough to live by going through rubbish dumps. They are easy targets for predators, and sexual abuse is an every day occurrence.

Children in Nigeria who are accused of being witches are cast out into the streets, where they are easy targets for predators

Nigeria: The Plight of the Witch Children

In Russia, elite gymnasts and ballet dancers are trained in special schools where a lucky chosen few are rigorously trained for their future careers. But having to sacrifice their childhood and family life, is it all worth it?  

Life in Elite Russian Sports Schools

In Russia, elite gymnasts and ballet dancers are trained in special schools where a lucky chosen few are rigorously trained for their future careers. But at what cost?

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

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Cesaria Evora made the music of the Cape Verde islands famous throughout the world in the early 1990s. This film is an introduction to the culture, music and zest for life of the Cape Verdean people.

The Music of Cape Verde

Looking for Cesária Évora

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than him. German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who died in 2016 at the age of 54, made his mark in advertising with his irreverent aesthetic and punk sensibility. It was his spontaneous, imperfect images shot for an MTV campaign in 1994 that first made him famous.

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn.

DJ Punk - The Photographer Daniel Josefsohn

A philosopher of complexity, a sociologist of cultural practices and one of the first to address ecological issues, Edgar Morin has been a major intellectual figure in France from the post-war period up to the present day. Through extensive archive footage, this documentary, coming in the year of the philosopher's 100th birthday, tells the story of a fruitful life dedicated to humanist thought .

Coming in the year of the philosopher's 100th birthday, this documentary tells the story of a fruitful life dedicated to humanist thought .

Edgar Morin - Journal of a Life

With his Stetson on his head and a cigarette in his mouth, Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997), was a singer-songwriter of incandescent, beautifully despairing country songs. He was an artist plagued by demons, often under the influence of alcohol and drugs, but he nevertheless wrote some of the masterpieces of American song, including "If I Needed You" and "To Live is to Fly", and managed to climb to the top of the charts in spite of himself with the song "Pancho and Lefty", first popularised by Emmylou Harris and then covered by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. His song 'Kathleen' was recently covered by Tindersticks.
 Troubled Troubadour
Through concert footage, film archives and interviews, this remarkable documentary sensitively traces Townes Van Zandt's formative experiences and existential and artistic ups and downs - from the beginning of his musical career, inspired by early Bob Dylan records and legendary blues bard Lightnin' Hopkins, to his untimely death. His managers, his children, his three wives and numerous musician friends shed light on his personality and reveal the affection they had for this troubled troubadour.

Portait of troubled Texan folk singer Townes van Zandt (1944-1997) who wrote beautiful and despairing country songs.

Townes Van Zandt: Be Here to Love Me

Portrait of the art historian and archaeologist Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768), influential writer and precursor of neo-classicism in Europe.

Portrait of the art historian and archaeologist Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768), 

Johann Winckelmann - The Love of Art

A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess, the so-called "Persian Picasso," whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures were all the rage in pre-revolutionary Iran.

Bahman Mohassess - Iran's Irreverent Artist

Fifi Howls from Happiness

The Soča river valley in Slovenia saw bloody battles during the first world war. Witness to this violence was a young Ernest Hemingway whose experiences informed his novel A Farewell to Arms.

Slovenia: Hemingway's Farewell to Arms

Once upon a time, there were strange little creatures, somewhere between trolls and hippos, that inhabited a quiet green valley in Finland. The Moomins, created by the writer Tove Jansson, remain in the hearts of people the world over as an ode to family and childhood.

Once upon a time, there were strange little creatures, somewhere between trolls and hippos, that inhabited a quiet green valley in Finland...

Tove Jansson and the Moomins

Modernist designer and architect Charlotte Perriand created furniture that has stood the test of time and influenced architects, designers and artists the world over. Eight of her most treasured designs are introduced by the creative people they have inspired.

Modernist designer and architect Charlotte Perriand created furniture that has stood the test of time and influenced architects, designers and artists the world over.

Designed by Charlotte Perriand

The elusive and enigmatic nature of Prague is captured in Milan Kundera’s cult novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The Czech writer explores the philosophical vertigo of the difficult quest for freedom in human existence.

City Country Culture

The elusive and enigmatic nature of Prague is captured in Milan Kundera’s cult novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being. 

Kundera's Prague

At 21 years old, Aurore Dupin visited the Pyrenees where she discovered a love of nature. It was the push she needed to emancipate herself and to become George Sand.

At 21 years old Aurore Dupin visited the Pyrenees where she found love and a love of nature. In was the push she needed to emancipate herself and to become George Sand.

George Sand in the Pyrenees

Major personalities from the worlds of arts and culture.

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Romania's largest international film festival is back for another edition. We're proud partners.

TIFF Festival 2021

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Melody Gardot performs her new album Sunset in the Blue, from the Radio France studios accompanied by a trio of musicians and 40 instrumentalists from the in-house orchestra.

From Paris With Love

Melody Gardot

With the arrival of voice-changing technology, pop music entered a new era of expressive possibility. This second part follows the evolution of pop voices in the digital age from Kraftwerk to hip hop, from disco to Daft Punk, and from Cher's mega hit "Believe" to the pop singers of the present day. In the age of virtual reality and Tinder, can pop voices still manage to ignite our passion?

This second part follows the evolution of pop voices in the digital age from Kraftwerk to hip hop, from disco to Daft Punk, and from Cher's mega hit "Believe" to the pop singers of the present day. 

The Magic Voices of Pop - part 2

After four years of waiting London Grammar have finally released a new album. To celebrate ,the British trio are invited onto the Ground Control set and ,as usual with London Grammar, the result is beautiful.

Ground Control

After four years of waiting London Grammar have finally released a new album. To celebrate ,the British trio are invited onto the Ground Control set to perform.

London Grammar

In a special session recorded in a vast empty studio in Paris, the perfect accompaniment to the New York band’s moody, dark sound, Interpol give an assured performance.

Interpol give an assured performance in a special session in a vast empty studio in Paris, the perfect place for the New York band’s moody, dark sound.

Interpol - The Ghost Session

A celebration of the human voices in all its power and beauty.