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Emberá Chamí live in the Andes Mountains, a region famous for its high quality coffee. Ostracised by conservative Colombian society, the trans women of this ethnic group find refuge on a coffee plantation that enables them to earn a living. among a community of like-minded peers.

360° Reportage

Ostracised by conservative Colombian society, a group of trans women find refuge on a coffee plantation.

Trans Women of the Andes

Current Highlights

The cruise industry is booming as more cruise ships are docking in European ports than ever before. But cruises also increasingly controversial: Bad for the environment at sea, contributing to pollution in ports, and potentially unsafe. Can these dream ships reinvent themselves for a new generation of holidaymakers?

How Can the Industry Reinvent Itself?

The cruise industry is increasingly controversial. How can tourism at sea be reinvented for a greener, safer future?

Cruiseline Comeback

A land of fire and ice, Iceland has a dynamic economy which provides for its population of only 340,000 people. Mapping the World takes a look at this country of volcanoes, fishing and geothermal energy.

Mapping the World

A land of fire and ice, Iceland has a dynamic economy which provides for its population of only 340,000 people.

Iceland: 100% Green

Getting into space has never been easier and the resources of our solar system are highly coveted. But with the legal framework of space exploration and the exploitation of its resources still unclear, is space being stolen from us?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

With the legal framework of space exploration and the exploitation of its resources still unclear, is space being stolen from us?

Is Space Being Stolen From Us?

Nikita likes techno and dreams of going to Berlin and visiting Berghain, the legendary club there. But Irena, his abusive mother, has confiscated his passport. Their different perspectives  come to a head in a final confrontation.

European Short Film Award 2022

Nikita likes techno and dreams of going to Berlin and visiting Berghain, the legendary club there. But Irena, his abusive mother, has confiscated his passport. 

Techno Mama

Morocco has long been one of the world's largest producers of cannabis resin, but it's a trade that was illicit and unregulated. For decades, authorities cracked down on the hashish trade, one of the few industries open to the impoverished people of the Rif. But now, restrictions around cannabis have been relaxed for medicinal, cosmetic, and industrial uses – opening the way for a whole new growth industry.

Morocco: The Kings of Rif

Loosening restrictions around cannabis in Morocco could be a gamechanger for the impoverished people of the Rif.

ARTE Reportage

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plunged Europe into economic turmoil, but also revealed European solidarity. Countries across Europe try to get a handle on colossal food waste. Lastly, we hit the road with an unlikely pair – a woman and her 100-year-old grandmother.

War in Ukraine / Food waste / Travel

A look back at how the war in Ukraine changed the course of 2022. Europe grapples with its food waste problem.

ARTE Europe Weekly

Italian director Enrique Mazzola conducts the French National Orchestra, soprano Patricia Petibon and tenor Cyrille Dubois, with a New Year programme dedicated to the music of Jacques Offenbach.

The French National Orchestra

Say goodbye to 2022 in style, with the French National Orchestra!

New Year Concert

Over the centuries this famous island, floating between sea and sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how did this architectural wonder come to be built?

The Enigmatic Labyrinth

Over the centuries this famous world heritage site has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison.

Mont Saint Michel

Portugal is a popular holiday destination. And more and more people are choosing to stay with wealthy Americans settling there in large numbers. The downside? Property prices are soaring and many locals are being pushed out of popular neighbourhoods.

Gentrification in Portugal

As tourism booms and wealthy Americans move to Portugal, many locals are finding rising rents difficult to pay.

Re: Sold-Out Lisbon

A world in constant restless motion: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, artistic director at the Geneva Grand Théâtre choreographs Ukiyo-e - a meditation on impermanence and our capacity for resilience.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Grand Théâtre of Geneva

A world in constant restless motion: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's work is a meditation on impermanence and our capacity for resilience.

Ukiyo-e: Images of a Floating World

At the Berlin State Opera, “Twilight of the Gods” marks the end of “The Ring of the Nibelung” – an extremely ambitious undertaking for any opera house. A musical triumph for all the singers and the conductor Christian Thielemann.

The final part of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

In Khartoum an anonymous protester dressed as Spiderman has joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protesting against the military coup of October 2021, becoming an icon of the protest movement in Sudan.

Sudan: Spiderman - Hero of the Resistance

An anonymous protester dressed as Spiderman has joined demonstrators protesting against the military coup of October 2021 in Khartoum.

Perseverance is the latest rover designed by NASA to explore Mars. A marvel of technology that is hoped will lead to new discoveries and help prepare for a future manned mission to the Red Planet in the 21st century.

Perseverance is the latest rover to explore Mars that could help prepare for a future manned mission to the Red Planet.

Perseverance: A Year on Mars

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland. Once German East Prussia, it is now home to 1 million Russian citizens. What is life like in this small territory now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began?

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland and is now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began.

Kaliningrad: Putin's Enclave

When bombs are raining down all around, when freedom of expression is removed, does this make you laugh? Tracks East looks at how humour is used as a weapon in testing times in Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria. (And how dictators don’t have a very developed sense of humour.)

Humour as a Weapon

Tracks East looks at how humour is used as a weapon in testing times in Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria. (And how dictators don’t have a very developed sense of humour.)

Tracks East

In a special Christmas edition, violinist Daniel Hope and guests perform a varied and atmospheric repertoire including traditional Christmas songs in new arrangements, classical works and the hit song "Fields of Gold".
Daniel Hope's guests are British musician, composer, and living-legend, Sting, Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition, South African soprano Golda Schultz, Argentinian-British guitarist Dominic Miller, Brazilian pianit Sylvia Thereza, the up-and-coming Leonkoro Quartet, cellist Nicola Mosca and percussionist Michael Metzler. 

Daniel Hope, Sting and Guests

Violinist Daniel Hope invites star performers into his Berlin home for Christmas including, Sting, Golda Schultz and Dominic Miller.

Christmas@Home 2022

Total is one of the five big oil multinationals with over 1,000 subsidiaries producing oil and gas in 130 countries. In 2021, they rebranded themselves as TotalEnergies and claim to want to become a serious player in renewable energy. But can oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

Anatomy of an Energy Multinational

Can the oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

The Total System

A journey into the youth of a grandmother illustrates the status of Slovenian women in the early 20th century, when strict catholic doctrine ruled.

European Short Film Award 2022 Winner

Granny's Sexual Life

It's back to school for Oscar, Maxime, Johan, Camille, Kenza and the 23 other students in their third year at the prestigious Conservatoire in Paris. Whether trained in classical or contemporary dance, all of them are working on a performance of Trisha Brown's choreography. Her fluid, free but precise style is a tall order for dancers used to the straight, long lines of ballet. After intense rehearsals, the students also have to contend with stage fright.

At The Paris Conservatory


An academic year at the elite Paris dance school. Demanding training schedules, exam stress and fear of injury are offset by the joy of being on stage

A Dancer's Life

MC Solaar, perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.
Programme
Lune solaire
Qui sème le vent
La fin justifie les moyens
Sequelles
Obsolete
Quand le soleil devient froid
Gangster moderne
A temps partiels
Victimes de la mode
In god we trust
Inch'allah
La concubine de l'hémoglobine
Nouveau western
Armand est mort
La devise
Bouge de là
Bouge de là (reprise)
Les boys bandent
La musique adoucit les mœurs
Caroline

France’s most famous rapper revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

MC Solaar

Secondary highlights

Art history remembers Mondrian, Malevitch and Kandinsky as founders of abstract art and forgets about Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957). Born in Bohemia, the Czech artist was nevertheless the first to exhibit a non-figurative work as early as 1912.

The Czech artist Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) was the first to exhibit an abstract work as early as 1912.

Kupka – Pioneer of Abstract Art

Religion has played a major role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill supports the war - Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is sending Muslim soldiers to Ukraine in a "holy war". We meet the Ukrainian muslim bloggers. Artist Masha Maroz takes us on a journey through the ancestral rites of Polesia and Mihaela Drăgan invokes Roma superstitions about witches.

Myth, Religion and War

Religion has played a key role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Leaving the studio to go out and capture real life: that was the impressionist aesthetic. Claude Monet was its most famous proponent and artist. This documentary reveals the places that inspired the painter during his lifetime.

Leaving the studio to go out and capture real life: that was the impressionist aesthetic. This documentary reveals the places that inspired Claude Monet during his lifetime.

Claude Monet - Capturing a Moment

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's new science show. In a nod to Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", where the figure 42 is the ultimate answer to all questions, 42 tries to provide the answers.

What would we be without mucus? Can we live on water? How much does life weigh? Finding out the answers is the aim of ARTE's science show.

42 – The Answer to Almost Everything

From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life. Street-photography captured Parisians from all walks of life and conveyed the optimism and elegance of the period.

From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life.

Late Nineteenth Century Paris

Telling the story of Archimedes, one of thousands of refugees who left Greece for Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1940s, as the Greek civil war meant many communist fighters sought refuge in communist countries.
Told through the eyes of Archimedes’ grown-up nephew Aris, who recalls how his uncle's life changed when he escaped from Greece to Czechoslovakia with the naive dream of a rosy future under a socialist regime. But all was not as it seemed.

Telling the story of Archimedes, one of thousands of refugees who left Greece for Czechoslovakia at the end of the 1940s.

My Uncle Archimedes

A journey into the heart of the Andes to discover its landscapes and unique wildlife: salt deserts, high grasslands and prehistoric forests are populated by impressive animals like bears, pumas and condors.

Extreme Nature

A journey into the heart of the Andes to discover its landscapes and unique wildlife.

The Andes

The Grand Palais during renovation work, a perfect setting for Berlin electronic supergroup Moderat to perform.

Passengers

Moderat at the Grand Palais

A fable for our times about the rise of streaming. What was just fun at first, has now taken over our lives and contributes significantly to carbon emissions.

The Devouring Monster

We’ve created a monster, and now it’s coming for us: The story of streaming is a fable for our times.

Frankenstream

Profoundly in love with life, Fellini went through his existence always seeking its meaning. This documentary investigates in depth his passion for what he defined as "mystery", the esoteric, the unseen world in a relentless pursuit of other possibilities, other dimensions, and of the things that can make spirit and mind fly.

Profoundly in love with life, the Italian director went through his existence always seeking its meaning.

Fellini of the Spirits

What awaits us after death? Death is everywhere in our world. How we deal with it shapes religious belief, culture and social relations. A history of death from ancient times to the modern day.

A History of Death

How we deal with death shapes religious belief, culture and social relations. A history of death from ancient times to the modern day.

This Mortal Coil

The beloved film E.T. is now forty years old. This masterpiece by the young Steven Spielberg was released in 1982 and was a blockbuster hit. It was one of the highest-grossing films of all time. The story of a friendly alien and his lonely human friend was in fact about the director's own profound sense of loss in the wake of his parent's divorce.Thanks to extensive archive material, including contemporary interviews with the man himself, we get a no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at the making of this classic.

An emotional blockbuster

A no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at the making of beloved classic E.T. - 40 years on from its release!

E.T.

Favourites

Whatever music you’re into ARTE Concert invites you into the world of dance.

Dance, Dance, Dance

The musical event of the ARTE Opera Season! Richard Wagner's monumental "Ring" under the baton of Christian Thielemann, in a daring staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov, available in full on ARTE Concert! This cycle of four operas - Rheingold, Walküre, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung - inspired by Nordic and Germanic mythology was recorded at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin with the prestigious Staatskapelle orchestra and internationally renowned singers.

The ultimate opera binge-watch

Wagner's monumental cycle of four operas directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov, conducted by Christian Thielemann.

Richard Wagner: The Ring Cycle

Zone Event - Ring

“The world has lost its love for democracy. The world has become disappointed with the power elite. The world has begun to turn to dictatorship” So said Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the Moscow opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. While Belarus and Russia are striking examples of dictatorships,  Tracks East also looks at the situation in Iran.

Dictators: Control over Mind and Body

Dictatorships want to control your mind and body. Tracks looks at the situation in Russia, Belarus and Iran.

Tracks East interviews Ukrainians who refuse to take up arms and Russian men who have been living in fear of being called up since the call for partial mobilisation.

Tracks East - Mobilisation

In this tenth and final part of Tracks East, Central and Eastern Europeans - journalists, artists, a male model and a former sex worker - hold up a mirror to Western Europeans.

The West Seen from the East

Most Ukrainian refugees are women. Just like much of the visible resistance in Russia. With the men at the front, the women find themselves taking on new responsibilities. On more than one level. They fight, save their families, reinvent themselves. What role do they play in this war? And how has this conflict affected them?

Women in War

Most Ukrainian refugees are women. Just like much of the visible resistance in Russia. With the men at the front, the women find themselves taking on new responsibilities.

If the truth is the first victim of war, many voices are trying to defend it in Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere. Alternative 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. On the programme: propaganda and counter-propaganda in times of conflict.

Propaganda and Truth

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

A Polish cyber elf, a Ukrainian DJ on the front line, a militant Russian grandmother, and Belarusian hackers... On the face of it, they have little in common. And yet they are all resisting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fighting back on different fronts.

Resistance

A Polish cyber elf, a Ukrainian DJ on the front line, a militant Russian grandmother, and Belarusian hackers...They are all resisting the Russian invasion of Ukraine on different fronts.

Whether they have fled, been banished or deported, some exiles find themselves alone, while others form communities in their host countries. But all feel nostalgia and even homesickness. Tracks East goes in search of the exile experience.

Exile

Tracks East goes in search of the exile experience of those who have fled, been banished or deported.

Can identities be forced, discarded, changed or revived? In the USSR, national identities were a political instrument. Millions of people were resettled, deported, and Russified. Today, the multi-ethnic social fabric of post-soviet nations harbours explosive tensions and the Ukraine war is opening up old wounds. What does identity mean for the next generation?

Identity

The multi-ethnic social fabric of post-soviet nations harbours explosive tensions and the Ukraine war is opening up old wounds. What does identity mean for the next generation?

Tracks East highlights the multiplicity of creative and surprising expressions of solidarity with Ukraine by artists in Ukraine and elsewhere.

Solidarity

At the cusp of adulthood, an entire generation is now facing an unprecedented crisis. Between escape and resistance, Gen East shares its vision of tomorrow with us.

New Generation

Between escape and resistance, Gen East shares its vision of tomorrow with us.

In 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed, giving rise to the Russian Federation and fifteen other independent states. Today, Vladimir Putin does not respect the sovereignty of these independent nations, particularly Ukraine. How is a nation defined? Are borders the only constituent element? A focus on the renewed patriotism in the post-Soviet world.

The New Patriotism

More than 30 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. What remains today of what was the largest federation of states in the world? As the Ukraine war shows, the ghosts of the USSR still linger. Nowhere is safe for critics of the Kremlin: they could be denounced to the authorities by their own families and neighbours.

Soviet Heritage

Nowhere is safe for critics of the Kremlin: they could be denounced to the authorities by their own families and neighbours.

Russian artists have two choices: silence, or exile. There's been a mass creative exodus in recent weeks, including Russian rap stars like Face and Oxxxymiron. Art rockers IC3PEAK post protest videos that would get them arrested in Russia. TikTok star Nikita Sass bravely continues to post his opinion and stays. Few dare to do that.

Russian Artists Against the War

Russian artists have two choices: silence, or exile

Tracks

As much of Western Europe worries about having enough gas for the winter, Tracks East looks at how people in Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine are facing the energy crisis and a cold winter ahead.

Winter of War

Tracks East looks at how people in Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine are facing the energy crisis and a cold winter ahead.

Suddenly it's back - the fear of nuclear Armageddon. Tracks East explores this highly explosive topic in this latest episode. Ukrainian writer Mitya Churikov recalls the Chernobyl disaster and ask whether Zaporizhzhya will be the trauma of the next generation. Tracks East also meets bestselling Russian author Dmitry Gukhowsky, whose novel Metro 2033 imagines a post-apocalyptic Moscow after a nuclear war.

Going Nuclear

Suddenly it's back - the fear of nuclear Armageddon. Tracks East explores this highly explosive topic in this latest episode.

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Since the military coup and the withdrawal of French troops, Mali has become more and more unstable. Armed terrorist groups are gradually taking over the positions occupied for years by the French operation Barkhane. The operation is wrapping up, and the last French military personnel are preparing to leave.

Since the military coup and the withdrawal of French troops, Mali has become more and more unstable.

Mali: The Last Soliders of Barkhane

Karlovy Vary, the beautiful Czech spa resort previously known as Karlsbad, is a popular tourism destination for wealthy Russian, many of which have bought property in the Bohemian town. But with the war in Ukraine in sanctions the Russians have gone and Karlovy Vary is suffering from their absence.

The Czech spa resort is very popular with Russian tourists, but with no Russians in sight, the town is worried for the future.

Re: Karlovy Vary without Russians

Sister Hatune dreams of single-handedly bringing her deserted village back to life to make her father's deathbed wish come true. A Syrian Orthodox nun, Hatune Dogan was born in 1970 in the village of İzbırak, in southeastern Turkey. 270 Christian families lived there, but when fighting broke out between Kurdish PKK militias and the Turkish army in the 1990s, they were stuck in the middle and the entire community fled.

Sister Hatune is single-handedly bringing her deserted village back to life to make her father's deathbed wish come true.

Re: Christians in Turkey

Less than 40 kilometres separate the French coast from England at Calais. The crossing seems easy to many, although in reality it is highly dangerous. Smugglers have recently been launching more and more small boats from the French beaches crammed with young people in the hope of a better life.

Smugglers have been launching more and more small boats from the French beaches crammed with young people in the hope of a better life in England.

Children of Calais

Their names are Ibrahima, Coumba and Bakary. Born in France to Senegalese parents, they have decided to make the same journey as their parents, but in the opposite direction and they are making a difference in Africa.

These French-Senegalese have decided to make the same journey as their parents, but in the opposite direction.

Senegal: Paris to Dakar

An Iranian boxer in France and an activist in Germany cannot return home because how they live is forbidden by the regime. But with the protest movement in Iran and abroad, they are hopeful that change can come to Iran.

Revolution in Exile

With the protest movement in Iran, many Iranians in exile are hopeful that change can come to their country.

Re: For a New Iran

Russia views the former Soviet republics as its ‘near abroad’ and a strategic sphere of Russian influence. Mapping the World focuses on the former Soviet space and the Kremlin’s efforts to hold sway in these nations.

Mapping the World focuses on the former Soviet space and the Kremlin’s efforts to hold sway in these nations.

Putin: Nostalgia for Empire

Are we on the brink of a space war? Power play, espionage, harassment - tensions between space-faring nations are growing and the arms race is in full swing. This documentary provides a deep insight into the geostrategic challenges of military spaceflight.

Space: A New Battlefield

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage