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With Estonia celebrating 30 years of independence this year, TWIST goes to Tallinn to discover the city’s cultural scene. Featuring writer Sofi Oksanen, artists Flo Kasearu and Timo Toots, the Estonian Voices ensemble and rapper Tommy Cash

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With Estonia celebrating 30 years of independence this year, TWIST goes to Tallinn to discover the city’s cultural scene.

Estonia: Young, Digital, Provocative

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In August 2020 1,500 individuals attempted to cross the straits of Dover, all looking to start a new life in Britain. Paying extortionate prices to people traffickers or going it alone in tiny dinghies, it’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

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It’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

Calais: Migrants Crossing the Channel

A new substance is taking Europe by storm: cannabidiol (or CBD) from the hemp plant. Available as an oil, herbal tea, spray or cream, it is said to have soothing properties and can relieve chronic stress, without making the user high. But what are the real powers of this molecule?

A new substance is taking Europe by storm: cannabidiol (or CBD) from the hemp plant. Available as an oil, herbal tea, spray or cream, it is said to have soothing properties and can relieve stress.

The CBD Revolution

Freddie Mercury and Queen brought Queer culture into the family home in a series of audacious music videos and live performances shown on TV at a time when homosexuality was still taboo in the media.

Freddie Mercury Queering up British Society

In Mosul, Baghdad and Basra, Iraqi youth are responding to the chaos of war and conservatism by bringing to new forms of art to the country.

In Mosul, Baghdad and Basra, Iraqi youth are responding to the chaos of war and conservatism by bringing new forms of art to the country.

Iraq: The Power of Art

Portugal’s most famous singer of the twentieth century and Queen of Fado, Amália Rodrigues passed away in 1999. Beloved by all Portuguese people rich and poor, she became an ambassador for the Portuguese art of Fado, this music that expresses the unique Portuguese melancholic yearning that is  Saudade.

Portugal’s most famous singer of the twentieth century, Amália Rodrigues was beloved by all Portuguese people rich and poor and became an ambassador for the Portuguese art of Fado.

Amália Rodrigues and the World of Fado

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Math is an exotic and confusing country. We speak a bizarre language, full of homeomorphisms, differential varieties, transfinite numbers. But we also find epic landscapes, dizzying ideas and even, sometimes, useful things!

Math is an exotic and confusing country...

Journey into Maths Country

At the beginning of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, "Satoshi Nakamoto" put Bitcoin into circulation. He created the first decentralised and reliable cryptocurrency. In 2011 he disappeared. The Mystery of Satoshi tells the exciting history of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, from the perspective of its mysterious creator.

The Story of Bitcoin

The exciting story of the cryptocurrency from the perspective of its secretive creator.

Satoshi

The Ambulance Wish Foundation, based in Rotterdam, fulfils last wishes of terminally ill patients. 270 medically trained volunteers take patients by ambulance to the zoo, on boat cruises and to important family occasions.

Medically trained volunteers take patients by ambulance to the zoo, on boat cruises and to important family occasions to fulfill their last wishes.

The Dutch Ambulance Wish Foundation

What if our lives were governed by the supernatural? Why do so many people feel the urge to connect with gods, angels and energies? The occult doesn't have a great reputation, but how bad is it really? In this episode, Jan searches for answers to his metaphysical doubts.

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What if our lives were governed by otherwordly forces?

Is the Supernatural a Natural Part of Life?

24 short films by 24 female writers, performed by 24 women actors, all based on women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment and violence. A diversity of female voices and talent from across Europe come together for a series that tackles head on the everyday brutality experienced by women. Conceived by Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urrea.

24 Hours, 24 Women, 24 Stories

24 short films inspired by women’s real life experiences of sexism, harassment, abuse and violence in everyday life.

Jamie Cullum, Britain’s best-selling jazz artist, natural showman and fearless performer, made his mark with covers of Rihanna’s “Don't Stop the Music” and “Frontin'” by Pharrell Williams. This special live performance comes from Versailles’s old royal hospital, the Espace Richaud.

Jamie Cullum, Britain’s best-selling jazz artist, natural showman and fearless performer, live from Versailles’s old royal hospital, the Espace Richaud.

Jamie Cullum: piano solo

From South Africa to Morocco, Algeria to Nigeria, the breakdancing scenes of Africa is dynamic, alive and always changing.   

Bboys & Bgirls Africa

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death. The veterinarian, whose specialty was caring for cattle, had found his vocation: he opened a hedgehog refuge, now a local institution partly run by volunteers.

When Massimo Vacchetta discovered little Ninna, he immediately adopted her and saved her from certain death

360° Geo: A Hedgehog Shelter in Italy

In the middle of the desert, Malika has been running a tiny refreshment bar for about thirty years, where she offers tea, coffee, soft drinks, cigarettes and sometimes an omelette to passing travellers along the National Highway 1, the longest road on the African continent, linking Algiers to Tamanrasset. Alone in this cement shack, with her dog, her cat and her radio, she describes herself as the sentry of this almost uninhabited plateau. Sage or recluse, Malika lives in her own kingdom.

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In the middle of the desert, Malika runs a tiny refreshment bar for passing travellers next to the the longest road on the African continent.

The Kingdom of Malika

From the late 1990s, Rødhåd laid the foundations for his DJ career. His perfectionist mixes of dub techno and percussive grooves earned him widespread recognition and since 2010, he has been a resident of Berlin's Berghain.
At the same time, Vril took the techno scene by storm, almost out of nowhere. As a producer, he pursues a timeless sound aesthetic that serves no trend in the genre. With his energetic live sets, he has impressed audiences across the world.
The techno giants perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum. 

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Techno giants Rødhåd and Vril perform from the post-industrial space of the Ruhr Museum.

Vril & Rødhåd: "Out Of Place Artefacts"

The Berlin Palace, home of the Prussian royal family for centuries and an imposing presence on the Berlin skyline, was badly damaged by bombing in 1945. After the war the East German authorities demolished the ruins and built the Palace of the Republic, the seat of the parliament of the GDR.
After German reunification this communist-era edifice was torn down to make way for a replica of the baroque palace, finally completed and reopened to the public in June 2021. The controversial building houses the Humboldt Forum, a museum of non-European art, itself controversial in an age where the debate is raging over the restitution of art and artefacts from former European colonies.

The Humboldt Forum

Berlin controversial new (old) palace houses a controversial museum, the Humboldt Forum with its collection of non-European art.

A New Palace for Berlin

Italy is a leading nation when it comes to training rescue dogs. The courageous animals are able to leap from helicopters or boats to save people at sea. Ferruccio Pilenga’s training school was founded with an understanding of the potential of our four-legged friends to help save lives.

Italy is a leading nation when it comes to training rescue dogs. The courageous animals are able to leap from helicopters or boats to save people at sea. It's canine baywatch.

Baywatch for Dogs

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A look at German Jewish people who have settled in the occupied West Bank. In international law these Israeli settlements are illegal and yet the settlers feel they have a right to the land. What attracted these Europeans here? And how do they see life living amongst Palestinians?

German Jewish Settlers in the West Bank

A look at German Jewish people who have settled in the occupied West Bank.

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Viktoria and Zoltan are in love. They live in Budapest but Viktoria is moving to Berlin for a chance of a better life. Will Zoltan be able to follow her there? The Hungarian couple are one of many that have left Hungary in the last decade.

Hungarians Leaving Home

Viktoria and Zoltan are in love. They live in Budapest but Viktoria is moving to Berlin for a chance of a better life. Will Zoltan be able to follow her there?

Re: One Way Ticket to Berlin

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Sasha Nazar wants to save a crumbling synagogue in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, one of the last in the city. Where once a thriving Jewish community lived, now only a small community is present.

Re: Saving a Ukrainian Synagogue

The high waters that flooded Venice in November 2019 were the worst since the terrible floods of 1966 and damage to Venice's rich cultural heritage was considerable. With sea levels rising due to climate change, many are pessimistic about the vulnerable lagoon city's prospects. Can Venice survive?

Re: Can Venice Be Saved from the Waves?

Sexual education and sexuality deeply divides Poland. A younger generation wants access to liberal sex education and acceptance of sexual minorities whereas a conservative older generation, influenced by the catholic church, rejects these moves towards a liberal society.

Re: Sexual Education in Poland

Since the fall of communism, Romania’s forests have been devastated, even in national parks where logging is illegal. A mix of private interests and state corruption are to blame for the deforestation which threatens biodiversity in the Carpathians.

Re: Illegal Logging in Romania

From India, Pakistan and Thailand, thousands of Asian workers toil in the plantations of southwestern Portugal. They do hard, poorly paid work, far from their families and their country, in hopes of getting Portuguese nationality. It's their passport to a better life, elsewhere in Europe.

Hoping for an EU passport

Thousands of Asian workers toil in plantations in Portugal, in hopes of getting Portuguese nationality

Re: Asian Workers in Portugal

The world economy covets Greenland’s rich deposits of raw materials, until now unexploited. Uranium mining could provide much needed employment for indigenous peoples as well as tax revenue. But the environmental cost could be heavy.

A Solution for the Future?

Re: Mining in Greenland

For a new generation of designers, "fast fashion" and disposable clothing is over! Their motto: "less is more". They are making a radical change in the fashion world by using timeless designs to produce clothing that is sustainable, and fair trade.

For a new generation of designers, "fast fashion" and disposable clothing is over! 

Fashion Rebels

Patrycja and Eryc don't dare tell anyone beyond a close circle of friends that they're Jewish for fear of reprisals. Poland used to be a hub of Jewish culture, but the Holocaust devastated the community and it never recovered. Though the young couple rarely goes to the synagogue, they feel Jewish at heart. They say there is no place for them in Poland and they want to move to Israel.

Patrycja and Eryc don't dare tell anyone beyond a close circle of friends that they're Jewish for fear of reprisals

Re: Shalom, Poland

In Northern Ireland tensions are high as the realities of Brexit and the Northern Ireland protocol become apparent. ARTE meets members of the loyalist community leading up to 12 July, Orangemen’s Day.

Tensions in Northern Ireland

Re: A Brexit Powder Keg

Re: Baywatch for Dogs

Nine-year-old Predag attends school in his home village of Temska in Serbia. But not for much longer, as the school is due to close in two years. It used to have almost 1,000 pupils; now there are only 18. A focus on the consequences of the rural exodus on Serbian society.

Re: School Closures in Serbia

All her life, Loredana Rossi from Naples has only ever wanted one thing: to be recognised as a woman. She has fought so hard against transphobia because her experiences as a transgender person in Italy has been marked by stigmatisation, intolerance and ostracism.

Re: Loredana's Fight Against Transphobia

Amsterdam’s famous red-light district attracts hordes of noisy tourists making the neighbourhood unliveable for many of its residents. With the city authorities considering measures to push sex workers out of the area, does this spell the end for the historic trade in the city centre?

Amsterdam’s famous red-light district attracts hordes of noisy tourists making the neighbourhood unliveable for many of its residents.

Re: Mass Tourism in Amsterdam's Red Light District

In Northern Ireland alcohol consumption is particularly widespread among pregnant women - with devastating consequences for the children. A lack of education and support for affected families has inspired one mother to campaign for change.

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

In Northern Ireland alcohol consumption is particularly widespread among pregnant women - with devastating consequences for the children. 

Re: Drunk in the Womb

A desert is growing in the southwest Romanian region of Oltenia. Extreme heat and drought are making it bigger every year with sandstorms reaching Bucharest. But a group of ecologists are trying to keep it at bay by replanting trees in the region.

Climate Change in Romania

Re: Desert on the Danube?

Report from a dogs’ home that specialises in unmanageable and dangerous hounds. Dog trainer Vanessa Bokr knows better than most how aggressive some breeds of dog can be. She works tirelessly to retrain unwanted dangerous dogs in the hope that they can find new homes rather than be put down.

Abused Dogs Learn to Love

Report from a dogs’ home that specialises in unmanageable and dangerous hounds.

Re: Hellhounds

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A diverse selection of documentary film focusing on pointing the complex world around us.

ARTE Documentary Film Festival 2021

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The exciting story of Bitcoin, from the perspective of its secretive creator.

Satoshi - The Bitcoin Story

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Many countries in the Middle East do not allow civil marriage which means that mixed-faith couples cannot easily marry. But just 30 minutes’ flight from Lebanon and Israel lies Cyprus where foreigners can easily tie the knot.

Where mixed-faith couples from the Middle East come to tie the knot.

Cyprus: Forbidden Love Island

In the state of Michoacan, in central-western Mexico, one of the regions hardest hit by violence linked to drug trafficking, Patricia, Teresa and Indalecio, are on a heartbroken search for their loved ones.

Patricia, Teresa, and Indalecio are on a heartbroken search for their loved ones

Mexico: The Lost Children

This documentary is a patchwork of material that gives insight into the mind of filmmaker, poet, and writer Thomas Brasch, who died twenty years ago. Material from his personal video diary, spliced with filmed interviews and archive footage of his plays, add up to a portrait of a Brasch who is strange, creative, and challenging.

This documentary is a patchwork of material that gives insight into the mind of filmmaker Thomas Brasch

BRASCH: Fear and Desire

The Brazilian president is criticised for many policies: Gun control, Amazon deforestation, policies against minorities, as well as his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A focus on Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a divided country.

A focus on Bolsonaro’s Brazil, a divided country.

Bolsonaro's Brazil

Warfare has evolved with the professionalisation of armies, the refusal of public opinion to see their soldiers sacrifice their lives in distant lands, and the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, robots and other drones.

Mapping the World

21st Century Warfare

One year on from the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, the families of the victims are struggling to find out the truth and seek justice. The Lebanese government had promised an urgent investigation, but the official version of events satisfies no one: According to the authorities, the ammonium nitrate that caused the blast entered the port by mistake after a ship was damaged off the Lebanese coast and an accident in a warehouse caused the explosion.

One year on from the devastating explosion in the port of Beirut, the families of the victims are struggling to find out the truth and seek justice.

Lebanon: Whose Fault Was the Beirut Explosion?

Every year Russia celebrates Victory day on 9 May to mark the end of the Second World War with great pomp and ceremony. The story of a steadfast Soviet Union defeating the forces of fascism looms large in the Russian imagination, a story that Vladimir Putin uses to his own ends.

 The story of a steadfast Soviet Union defeating the forces of fascism with looms large in the Russian imagination, a story that Vladimir Putin uses to his own ends.

Russia: Putin's World View

With sea levels rising due to climate change, many are pessimistic about the vulnerable lagoon city's prospects. Can Venice survive?

Russian opposition leader Alexeï Navalny has been in prison since his return to Moscow in January 2021. But in his wake a new generation of politically active followers are making themselves heard.

Navalny: Russia's Most Famous Prisoner

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

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Who are we? And how do we want to live? Streetphilosophy looks for answers to life's big question on the streets of Berlin.

Twist is the cultural magazine show that visits a different European metropolis in each episode to take the pulse of its artistic scene.

Twist is the cultural magazine show that visits a European metropolis in each episode to take the pulse of the city’s artistic scene.

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 new science show.

42 – The Answer to Nearly Everything

Then complex world of geopolitics broken down into ten minute, bite-sized chunks. You'll never sound uninformed at the dinner table ever again.

Tracks reports on geek culture, current music, film and emerging artistic forms

Alternative & Underground Culture

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The best way to discover a new place is to see it through the eyes of artists who've been inspired by it, to go off the beaten track, or to ask a local. With City Country Culture, we do all three.

Discovering new places through the eyes of artists who've been inspired by it, by getting of the beaten track, and by asking the locals.

City Country Culture

Documentaries on important issues around the world, from human rights to the outcomes of elections

Stories From Around the World

Philosophical conversations hosted by Raphaël Enthoven. A different topic is debated with two experts each episode

For people who think

Philosophy

Discover Europe in all its diversity of viewpoints

Discover European society in all its diversity.

European Stories

Historians explain the fascinating history of objects: Documents, materials, devices or clothes, everything has a tale to tell.

Historians reveal the fascinating history of objects: Documents, materials, devices or clothes, everything has a tale to tell.

Making History

The series that quenches your curiosity and puts the cult back into culture. From classical sculptures to video games, memes to Mafiosi, Gymnastics stretches the intellect by linking things that seem to have little in common.

Cultural Brain Stretching

Gymnastics

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The greatest turning points in history often came down to one seemingly insignificant event. But what if it never happened?

Turning Points

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Tbilisi has successfully preserved its cultural heritage, but the city is also a hotbed of design and art. It's a place of both past and future, full of renewal and change. 

Tbilisi has successfully preserved its cultural heritage, but the city is also a hotbed of design and art

Georgia's Culture Scene

With globalisation and its effects on production, distribution and consumption, fashion is undergoing a massive makeover. As both a commercial product and art, it can also be a vehicle for social commentary on major events such as terrorist attacks or the refugee crisis.

With globalisation and its effects on production, distribution and consumption, fashion is undergoing a massive makeover