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Abdul fled Afghanistan six years ago and found asylum in France. In the course of his journey during which he crossed twelve countries over two years, he developed a passion for photography. In Calais he is documenting the desperate lives of people trying to cross the English Channel to Britain, in the hope of a better life.

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In Calais Abdul documents the desperate lives of people trying to cross the English Channel in hope of a better life.

An Afghan Refugee in Calais

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Sting appears at the Reeperbahn Festival opening gala in Hamburg performing "Rushing Water", a track from his forthcoming album "The Bridge", due for release on 19 November. Discover the track exclusively! As a bonus, one of the Police's biggest hits "Every Breath You Take".

Reeperbahn Festival 2021

Sting appears at the Reeperbahn Festival opening gala in Hamburg performing "Rushing Water", a track from his forthcoming album "The Bridge", due for release on 19 November. 

Sting - 'Rushing Water'

After the fall of the USSR, the industrial city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine was overrun with poverty and drug addiction. But that didn't put off Pastor Gennadiy Mokhenko, who opened up a children's home with the hope of offering his charges a better life.

Pastor Gennadiy Mokhenko opened up a children's home, with the hope of offering his charges a better life

Re: The Activist Pastor in Ukraine

In southern Thailand, the Koh Panyee village sits on stilts and even has a floating football field, built in the 1990s by a group of children. But over time, the ad hoc field has fallen into disrepair. But now the village is about to hold its first tournament in years and the field needs a major overhaul.

GEO Reportage

The village of Koh Panyee sits on stilts and its football field is a floating island.

Thailand's Football Mad Island

Angela Merkel’s leaving office will not just affect the Germans. The longest-serving European leader has shaped politics in Europe and the world. What do European citizens think of Merkel after 16 years in power?

Angela Merkel’s retirement won't just affect Germans. What do Europeans think of her after 16 years in power?

Bye bye Merkel

Algeria is the largest country in Africa and has immense natural resources. But the continent’s second largest military power seems isolated and ignored on the international scene. While president Bouteflika's regime has fallen and the popular protest movement has shown that the people are ready to enter a more modern and democratic era, the country still appears to be stuck.
This film looks at Algeria’s turbulent history since independence featuring interviews with Algerian ministers, ambassadors and generals, as well as international heads of state, financial experts and advisors.

A Film by Malek Bensmaïl

Algeria is the largest country in Africa and has immense natural resources. But the continent’s second largest military power seems a non-starter on the international scene. 

Algeria and the World

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According to Extinction Rebellion, the textile industry is responsible for 20% of the world's wastewater, 10% of carbon emissions from transport and 22.5% of pesticides, applied mainly to cotton fields. Will the elite world of fashion one day disappear, buried by the climate crisis and the covid pandemic? Or will the industry take the opportunity to reinvent itself?
A documentary on the accusations raining down on the fashion world: Overproduction, environmentally harmful practices, racism and a lack of diversity.

A documentary on the accusations raining down on the fashion world: Overproduction, environmentally harmful practices, racism and a lack of diversity.

Is Fashion Finished?

In less than two centuries submarines have undergone a technological revolution. Used both for exploration and military means. This first part traces out the early development of underwater vessels in the 19th century up to the outbreak of World War II.

In less than two centuries submarines have undergone a technological revolution, used for both scientific exploration and for warfare. 

Submarines: Underwater Myths

With its grand churches, palaces and ruins, the Eternal City has a majestic architectural heritage that bears witness to its past grandeur. This subtle charm, which captivates millions of tourists from all over the world every year, is nevertheless a challenge for city planners and conservationists.
Can Rome become a modern metropolis while keeping hold of its glorious past?

Can Rome become a modern metropolis while keeping hold of its glorious past?

Enchanting Rome

For some people a bicycle is just a mode of transport, however for many it is a passion and a way of life.  

Biking Boom

Stanislaw Lem is Poland's most famous sci-fi writer who predicted smartphones and virtual reality decades in advance. Yet his life is shrouded in mystery and full of paradoxes. How did he manage to survive the Holocaust? What were his true feelings towards communism? How did he manage to keep up with international science and technology with such outstanding accuracy - whilst living on the outskirts of Krakow, behind the Iron Curtain? And why did he write for the Catholic weekly “Tygodnik Powszechny”, while being openly atheist?

Author of Solaris

Poland's most famous sci-fi writer predicted smartphones and virtual reality decades in advance. Yet his life is shrouded in mystery and paradox. Who was he really?

Stanisław Lem

25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey’s Black Sea region. Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area. Rejected by her fellow villagers, she relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest, sparking off fears and fantasies among the village women. There she crosses path with a fugitive. Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her.

25-year-old Sibel relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest.

Sibel

There are an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth and in the 20th century, 437 of them erupted in places like the United States, Russia, Indonesia and Japan. Both a blessing and a curse, they have shaped our world on land and at the sea.

Mapping the World

There are an estimated 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth and in the 20th century, 437 of them erupted. Both a blessing and a curse, they have shaped our world on land and at the sea.

A World of Volcanoes

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

After eight years of restauration, one of the greatest works of art ever made looks once again as its creators intended. The monumental tableau that is the Ghent Altarpiece, also known as the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, captures the viewer with its intense realism and complicated symbolism. A full immersion into this revolutionary work that looked forward to the modern world.

The monumental tableau that is the Ghent Altarpiece captures the viewer with its intense realism and complicated symbolism.

Secrets of the Ghent Altarpiece

Domino Effect tells the stories of four people in Germany, France and the West Bank, whose lives suddenly turn upside down when they go viral on social media. Their moment of fame – or infamy – sparks debated about terrorism, violence against women, freedom of expression and activism.

Domino Effect tells the stories of four people whose lives suddenly turn upside down when they go viral on social media.

Domino Effect

1974: ABBA’s victory at the Eurovision Song Contest was a taste of things to come. But a year later, when it was up to Sweden to host the Eurovision, the counterculture mobilised big time. On Channel 1 was the Eurovision and on Channel 2, a rival, parody version of the competition designed to mock ABBA and mainstream music as hopelessly capitalist and try hard.

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When it was up to Sweden to host the Eurovision, the counterculture mobilised big time in a bid to take down ABBA

"The Hare and the Tortoise" or "The Ant and the Cricket" - who has not heard of the fables of La Fontaine? 400 years later, the allegorical stories of the French court poet have lost none of their entertaining qualities and modernity. This elegant documentary looks at the life and work of the famous French fabulist, a source of inspiration for illustrators across the centuries.

A look at the life and work of the famous French fabulist, a source of inspiration for illustrators across the centuries.

Jean de la Fontaine and his Fables

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The bioeconomy claims to solve our time’s biggest problems: Climate change, species extinction, pesticides and depleted soils. But what does the term "bioeconomy" even mean?  And can it really solve these problems? This documentary takes a critical look at the green promises of science, industry and politics.

Bioeconomy: The Green Revolution

A look at innovative green energy solutions around the world: Geothermal waters in Iceland, wind power and hydropower in Madeira, community-owned wind turbines on the Danish island of Samso and wave power is being harnessed on Orkney.

Good News From Our Planet

How Green Energy Can Work

Earth's drinking water resources are dwindling and to avoid shortages, scientists will have to come to the rescue.

Earth's drinking water resources are dwindling

Drinking Water in Danger

A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Water

 A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

How can we preserve the natural environment whilst still benefiting from natural resources? In the Republic of the Congo a logging company is committed to sustainable resource management in order to preserve the biodiverse tropical rainforest, home to gorillas and other primates.

How to Preserve Nature

Climate Change: the Global Challenge

There Is No Planet B

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August 15 2021: The Taliban take Kabul. As the international coalition leaves after 20 years of intervention, there is chaos at the airport with Afghans trying desperately to get out. ARTE follows four Afghan civilians in the last few days before the fall of Kabul as their worst nightmares become reality.

Afghan Civilians in Danger

ARTE follows four Afghan civilians in the last few days before the fall of Kabul as their worst nightmares become reality.

Re: The Taliban in Kabul

Welcome to Afghanistan, the land of the magnificent mountains of the Hindu Kush and a country of great ethnic diversity. Its complex history is characterised by an almost permanent state of war.

Afghanistan - A Troubled Country

By negotiating with the Taliban after 19 years of conflict, the Americans are leaving Afghanistan still largely controlled by the fundamentalist organisation. After a conflict which claimed 250,000 civilian lives, and with the Afghan people abandoned by the West, what has this war actually achieved?

Afghans - Victims of Peace

Twenty years after the fall of the Taliban regime, the last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan. But without them, Afghan security forces fear they'll struggle to contain the advance of the insurgents. Terror attacks are on the rise, and the group is said to already control nearly half the country. The return to power of the fundamentalists seems inevitable.

The last foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan, leading to fears of a Taliban resurgence

Afghanistan: The Land of the Taliban

In May 2020 armed men stormed a maternity clinic in Kabul, killing indiscriminately. Midwives, pregnant women and new-borns were killed and injured. The tragedy shocked the nation. Whilst the Afghan government negotiates with the Taliban, babies seem to have become targets in a never-ending war.

 Whilst the Afghan government negotiates with the Taliban, babies seem to have become targets in a never-ending war.

Afghanistan: Babies as Targets

Zarifa Ghafari is the mayor of the conservative provincial city of Maidan Shar. When she first became mayor there were protests by men trying to bar her from entering the town hall. She has big dreams for the future of her country and her city, but as the youngest and first ever female mayor in Wardak province, the odds are stacked against her. 

Zarifa, aged just 27, is her city's first female mayor. An achievement anywhere, but in Afghanistan, it's a miracle

A Female Mayor in Afghanistan

18 years after American troops first arrived in Afghanistan, the United States has announced their withdrawal. Can the Afghan forces keep the Taliban at bay without help from NATO?

Afghanistan: After the American Withdrawal

Mini Circus for Children helps children in Kabul to build a future without violence. The school teaches children circus arts such as juggling, unicycling and clowning and practices a policy of bringing together different ethnic communities.

Mini Circus for Children helps children in Kabul to build a future without violence, bringing together different ethnic communities.

Afghanistan: Acrobats for Reconciliation

With the withdrawal of NATO troops, the Taliban has taken back control of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: Taliban Land

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Second or third children born illegally during China’s One Child Policy are banned from marrying, having children or simply boarding a train. Condemned to a non-life, these ghost children do not officially exist according to the Chinese state. ARTE Reportage goes in search of these ‘Haihaizi’,  those children who should not have been born.

Arte Reportage

Second or third children born illegally during China’s One Child Policy are banned from marrying, having children or simply boarding a train. 

China's Ghost Children

The great earthquake of 1999 which caused 18,000 deaths still haunts the memory of the people of Istanbul. The Turkish city of some 15 million souls lies over an active fault line which seismologists believe is due for another earthquake. Is the city on the Bosphorus prepared?

Predicting Earthquakes on the Bosphorus

The great earthquake of 1999 caused 18,000 deaths and still haunts the memory of the people of Istanbul. The  city lies over an active fault line which seismologists believe is due for another tremble.

Trembling Istanbul

BASE jumpers and other extreme sport practitioners put themselves in mortal danger time and again. They are looking for the flow, a feeling of intense positive emotion that comes from their experience of jumping off mountains or tall buildings. But the price is high in BASE jumping where one in 60 jumps ends in death.

Why BASE Jumpers Risk Their Lives

Extreme sport practitioners put themselves in mortal danger time and again. But the price is particularly high in BASE jumping where one in 60 jumps ends in death.

The Thrill of Danger

In half a century, Greenpeace has become a key figure in the fight against climate change. Its shock tactics have hammered home its green message and made headlines. But in the era of social media, should this major international charity reinvent itself?

Greenpeace has been fighting to protect the environment for fifty years. We look back at the charity's impact

Fifty Years of Greenpeace

284 Russian soldiers are still missing in Afghanistan from the Soviet-Afghan War, a conflict that ended in 1989. ARTE Reportage goes in search of these lost red army soldiers

Afghanistan: Lost Soldiers of the Red Army

This documentary, co-written with the chairman of the parliamentary commission of inquiry, Georges Fenech, looks back on how lives could have been saved if decisions made at the head of French police and the government had been different.

On the horrific night of 13th November 2015, French bureaucracy contributed to the terrible death toll

Bataclan: The Paris Attacks

The historian Herodotus in the fifth century BC said that Egypt was "a gift from the Nile", and from the pharaohs to Nasser, the Nile has played a vital role in Egypt's fortunes. But Ethiopia now intends to remind leaders in Cairo that the Nile is not just an Egyptian river.

Ethiopia wants to remind Egypt that the Nile is not just Egyptian

Geopolitics of the Nile

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 2016, Colombia the country signed a historic peace treaty with the FARC rebels. This was intended to mend the deep rift in Colombian society, which has long been divided into two extreme camps: on the one hand the Marxist revolutionary guerrilla, on the other the ultra-conservative right and paramilitary militias. But the violence that has shaped the recent history of the country is far from over.

Colombia is still struggling to control violence from extreme groups and drug cartels

Colombia: A Nation in Revolt

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

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

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The highlight of the Holland Festival 2021 is a rediscovery from composer Rudi Stephan (1887–1915). The opera Die ersten Menschen (The First Humans) is about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and humanity’s ur-conflicts. Spanish director Calixto Bieito brings it to the stage and François-Xavier Roth makes his debut as conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

An erotic mystery at the Dutch National Opera

Adam and Eve after the Fall: François-Xavier Roth conducts Rudi Stephan’s opera at the Holland Festival 2021.

The First Humans

This telling of the Bluebeard story features a libretto by Maeterlinck inspired by Perrault’s famous fairy tale. It is an opera that gives pride of place to female characters and beguiles audiences with the evocative music of Paul Dukas.

From the Lyon Opera

Featuring a libretto by Maeterlinck inspired by Perrault’s famous fairy tale, an opera that gives pride of place to female characters and beguiles audiences with the evocative music of Paul Dukas.

Paul Dukas: Ariane et Barbe-Bleue

Serial lover Don Giovanni is on a quest to conquer all women... In this near-live broadcast, Romeo Castellucci stages the most irreverent of Mozart’s operas in Salzburg’s Great Festival Hall.

Salzburg Festival 2021

Romeo Castellucci stages Mozart’s most irreverent opera at the Salzburg Festival.

Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

As Puccini’s last work, “Turandot” is a veritable musical testament. In this opera, we can hear everything that goes to make up the Italian maestro’s charm: a moving heroine, expressive and contrasting melodies ... all carried forward by the timeless themes of love and death.

From Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona

As Puccini’s last work, “Turandot” is a veritable musical testament. 

Puccini's Turandot

On his return from Troy, King Agamemnon is assassinated by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is then consumed with the need to avenge his death. With this piece, Richard Strauss probes the psychology of a woman on the verge of madness. This first opera, in which the composer uses a libretto by the playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, marks the beginning of a collaboration that will last until Hofmannsthal's death.

Salzburg Festival 2020

Richard Strauss probes the psychology of a woman on the verge of madness in a musically rich and intense work.

Elektra

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

The opening concert of the virtual Wexford Festival Opera 2020 is dedicated to the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe solonnelle is to be performed in its original version at the National Opera House in Wexford with Kenneth Montgomery at the rostrum and the soloists Claudia Boyle, Tara Erraught, Pietro Adaíni and John Molloy.

From the Wexford Festival Opera 2020

The 2020 virtual edition of the opera festival in Wexford is to open with Rossini’s Petite Messe solonnelle.

Rossini’s "Petite Messe solennelle"

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In Kabul, Masomah Alizada was part of the women's cycling team. Threatened by the Taliban, her family had to leave Afghanistan and have been living as refugees in France for four years. But her cycling dreams aren't over.

Masomah Alizada had to flee Afghanistan after she was threatened by the Taliban for being part of a women's cycling team

Afghanistan: The Olympic Dream

Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, has become one giant shanty town. When Covid struck, those living in the camp felt abandoned as things turned from bad to worse.
Maurice Joyeux, from the Jesuit Refugee Service, and his friend Mortaza Behboudi chose this very moment to return to Lesbos, to find the forgotten people of the pandemic, surviving in this squalid and unsanitary camp.

Moria, Europe's largest refugee camp, has become one giant shanty town. When Covid struck, those living in the camp felt abandoned as things turned from bad to worse.

Greece: Moria - A Living Hell

Latvia has lost 13% of its population in the last 20 years. Due to the pandemic, there's been an upsurge in the number of young people deciding to return home. Brexit is also fuelling the trend: a third of the Latvian diaspora currently still live in Great Britain. But after a shrinking population for so long, is it too late to turn the tide?

Latvia has lost 13% of its population in recent decades. Due to the pandemic, there's been an upsurge in the number of people returning home

Latvia: Brain Drain

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

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

Repeatedly bombarded, attacked from all sides and besieged by the military, the inhabitants of Jebel Marra live cut off from the world. They rely on the mountains for their survival, drinking mountain water and eating fruits that grow in the area, while their cattle graze on the abundant grass.

Repeatedly bombarded, attacked from all sides and besieged by the military, the inhabitants of Jebel Marra live cut off from the world

Sudan: The Last Rebels of Darfur

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back potential asylum seekers towards Turkish waters. That's despite the fact that once in Europe, these people have a right to apply for asylum and to have that application processed. But while this tactic is against EU human rights law, the Greek government have a promise to keep to its electorate: reducing the flow of migrants.

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back asylum seekers into Turkish waters, in violation of EU law