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Is a new cold war really happening online? From the first attacks by Chinese hackers on US websites in the 2000s to the recent theft of European diplomatic documents and the 5G rollout by Chinese tech giant Huawei, an in-depth investigation into China's increasing tech might and aggressive cyberwarfare.

Is a new cold war really happening online? An in-depth investigation into China's increasingly aggressive cyberwarfare.

Chinese Cyberwarfare

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Pension reforms in France is causing social strife with strikes and demonstrations. A focus on students in Europe and student hardship in Italy, and our cultural pick of the week is an Austrian writer who finds inspiration in recycling bins.

Pensions / Student Hardship / Recycling Literature

This week: Strikes and demos in France, student hardship in Europe and upcycled Austrian literature.

ARTE Europe Weekly

This winter, a wave of strikes has swept across Britain as workers in numerous sectors call for pay rises in line with inflation. A focus on union activity in the United Kingdom.

This winter, a wave of strikes has swept across Britain as workers in numerous sectors call for pay rises in line with inflation.

Trade Unionism in the UK

Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers are Wet Leg, a rock duo from the Isle of Wight who became successful in 2021 with their brassy first single, Chaise Longue.
Live from the Route du Rock festival in St Malo, France.

Grammy Awards Winners

Winner of the best alternative album at this year's Grammy Awards, live from the Route du Rock festival: Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers are rock duo Wet Leg.

Wet Leg

After the end of the Cold War, the Baltic was viewed almost as a quiet backwater. A nice place to visit to see charming Hanseatic cities and sandy beaches. But since the war in Ukraine the Baltic sea, bordered by eight European Union countries as well as Russia, has become a hot spot of world geopolitics. And tensions are high.

Russia, Europe and NATO

Since the war in Ukraine the Baltic sea has become a hot spot of world geopolitics. And tensions are high.

Panic in the Baltic

In Amsterdam, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm and director Calixto Bieito take on Handel’s famous Giulio Cesare.

At the Dutch National Opera

Handel’s opera conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm and directed by Calixto Bieito in Amsterdam.

Georg Friedrich Handel: Giulio Cesare

Whilst in most of Europe violent crime is decreasing, in Sweden gun violence is on the rise. The cause: Gangs of young men from difficult neighbourhoods.

Re: Gang Warfare in Sweden

In Peru, every year, the people who live in remote mountain villages gather to build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka, a traditional structure of woven grass, and the last of its kind. This ancestral know-how inherited from the Incas, and the enduring spirit of community, enables the villagers to pull off a stunning feat of engineering, time and again.

In Peru, every year, villagers build the Inca bridge of Q'eswachaka from woven grass, and the last of its kind.

The Inca Grass Bridge of Q'eswachaka

The Paris Opera offers its musical director, Gustavo Dudamel, carte blanche with the Paris Opera Orchestra and artists from the Academy. A programme inspired by the rhythms and colours of Spain and South America in the magnificent setting of the Palais Garnier opera house.

With Gustavo Dudamel

A programme inspired by the rhythms and colours of Spain and South America in the magnificent setting of the Palais Garnier opera house.

Artists of the Paris Opera Academy

"I didn't look for the mandolin: it found me." By chance, as a child, Avi Avital discovered a passion for this modest stringed instrument, traditionally associated with popular music and amateur performances. His first teacher, a violinist by profession, inspired him to defy the limits of genre and learn to play classical music. The Israeli musician has now become the mandolin's greatest ambassador, performing sensitive arrangements of baroque pieces the world over. 

The Israeli musician champions the humble mandolin, a typically forgotten or looked down upon instrument in classical music circles.

Avi Avital and his Mandolin

Since the Elysée Treaty of friendship was signed between France and Germany in January 1962, the two countries have built ever closer ties. In this intimate documentary, individual Germans from both east and west share their experiences of French culture in the post-war era.

In this intimate documentary, individual Germans from both east and west share their experiences of French culture in the post-war era.

How the Germans Learned to Love France

Human beings evolved in the warm climate of Africa before striking out to live in colder parts of the world. It is testament to our ingenuity as a species that we can now survive in hostile climates. But what if the cold was actually good for us? This documentary explores the science of cold with elite Finnish cold swimmer Elina as she attempts the Polar Ice Mile in arctic Svalbard.

What if the cold was good for us? Exploring the science of cold with Finnish cold water swimmer Elina.

Into the Cold

An icon of French taste, free and eccentric, Andrée Putman (1925–2013) imposed her unique style and shaped a generation of architects. With archival images and personal testimonials, this documentary is a beautiful tribute to one of the leading ladies of interior design.

Discover one of the leading ladies of interior design.

Andrée Putman: A Juggernaut of Design

The Western Balkans Youth Orchestra is 31 young musicians from six Western Balkan countries. The brainchild of Desar Sulejmani, their aim is to bring peace and cooperation to the region through musical collaboration. We join them on their international summer tour…

The Balkan Orchestra

The Western Balkans Youth Orchestra aims is to bring peace and cooperation to the region through musical collaboration. We join them on their international summer tour…

Re: Playing for Peace

Who really were The Who? From the anonymous suburbs of London to worldwide fame, The Who were perhaps the most versatile of British bands during the 1960s. This is the story of Pete Townshend (guitar); Roger Daltrey (voice), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums) and the extraordinary creativity they unleashed onto the world of pop.

One Band's Explosive Story

From the anonymous London suburbs to worldwide fame, The Who were perhaps the most versatile of British bands during the 1960s.

The Who

Is Circle of Live a collective or a record label? Headed by Sebastian Mullaert, this Swedish project invites the cream of electro music to its concerts and places improvisation at the heart of live performances. Filmed at the Melun Villaroche aerodrome.

Passengers

Swedish collective Circle of Live invites the cream of electro music to its performances.

Circle of Live: Neel, Sebastian Mullaert, Vril

A fervent supporter of Scottish independence, musician Neil Mackay is organising large-scale demonstrations for an exit from the United Kingdom. With high inflation, Scotland, like the rest of the United Kingdom Is going through a hard winter. But will a second independence referendum be the solution? The question divides Scottish society.

Leaving the UK?

With high inflation, Scotland, like the rest of the United Kingdom Is going through a hard winter. But will a second independence referendum be the solution?

Re: Scotland in Crisis

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.

The Indigenous Trans Women of the Andes

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

360° Reportage

A man of many facets: A novelist and figurehead of the anti-fascist movement in 1930s France. A close ally of De Gaulle who became French culture minister in the post-war era. An explorer claiming to have located the Queen of Sheba’s palace on the Arabian peninsula. Portrait of a man that greatly influenced cultural life in 20th century France.

A man of many facets: A novelist and figurehead of the anti-fascist movement in 1930s France. A close ally of De Gaulle who became French culture minister in the post-war era.

André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer

Could psychedelics treat depression? Banned substances such as LSD and psilocybin are now being tested for various afflictions. Several studies are ongoing with one of the largest being conducted by the Charité hospital in Berlin and the Central Institute for Mental Health in Mannheim, Germany. Since the risks and side effects of the substances have not yet been fully researched, their use for therapeutic purposes remains highly controversial.

Could Psychedelics Treat Depression?

Several studies are researching how psychedelic substances could treat mental illnesses, but their medicinal use remains controversial.

Drugs that Heal

Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier start the year off in style at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden to celebrate 25 years of the emblematic institution. The star tenor and baritone perform famous arias and duets from operas by Verdi, Puccini and Ponchielli accompanied by the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie.

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Two opera stars perform famous arias and duets from operas by Verdi, Puccini and Ponchielli, accompanied by the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie.

Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier

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During the Second World War, two separate resistance networks, one based in Brussels and then Paris, and the other in Berlin, provided inteligence to the Soviets. This in-depth documentary tells their story and how the Third Reich tried to hunt them down.

The story of the underground resistance networks that provided intelligence to the Soviets during WW2.

The Red Orchestra

What planet will we leave to future generations and what can we do today to make sure that our legacy is a good one? Six scientists and philosophers offer their visions of the present and the future in a thought-provoking film essay.

What Future Generations Will Think of Us

What planet will we leave behind us and how will future generations look back on us?

Who We Were

The prix de Lausanne was created to identify; promote and support the most promising young dance talent with some of the world’s most prestigious schools associated with the event.

Full coverage of the prestigious dance prize all this week on ARTE.tv.

Prix de Lausanne

The island of Hawaii, also called "Big Island", is the largest of the archipelago of the same name. It is home to the very active Kilauea volcano. Around the crater, a few rare walkers enjoy the grandiose landscapes, like the New Yorker Jade Chen.

A journey through the different islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, the most isolated collection of islands on earth.

Hawaii

Before losing his left arm in combat in 2015, Hallo Ramshty, an engineer by trade, was one of the best deminers in the Peshmerga, the Iraqi Kurdish army that fought ISIS. But post-war society has no regard for the sacrifices of its soldiers, and Hallo, who cannot even afford a prosthesis, has had to learn to adapt on his own. As ingenious as he is obstinate, and despite the nightmares that stalk his sleep, he hustles hard to stay afloat, by turns taxi driver, construction worker, and mechanic. When an intermediary offers to pay him a high fee for TNT, he hits on a dangerous idea: the mine fields outside of the city are full of explosives. A gripping docu-fiction. 

Before losing his left arm in combat in 2015, Hallo Ramshty, an engineer by trade, was one of the best deminers in the Peshmerga.

Dirty Lands

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.

Pioneer and master baker Roland Schüren thinks big - he has not only converted his company to green energy, he's developed his own fleet of EVs. But he says regulations slow him down. In the Netherlands, the world's first commercial self-charging luxury car is ready to roll out on to the roads. Lisa Bohm, a Youtuber and consultant who preaches the power of going electric, is on a mission to prove electric cars are for everybody.

One German baker believes he's got the recipe to solving the climate crisis.

Re: Electronic Cars for Everyone

Junk foods’ effects on the body are well documented. But what are their effects on the brain? This documentary draws on the latest research looking at how different diets effect our mood, our memory, and our brain matter, a fascinating journey into neuro-nutrition.

Junk foods’ effects on the body are well documented. But what are their effects on the brain? This documentary is a fascinating journey into neuro-nutrition.

Eat Yourself Smart and Happy

Hortense is an art history professor like no other: irreverent, subversive, and determined to reveal the hidden erotic power in European art.

New season

Hortense is an art history professor like no other: irreverent and subversive and here to reveal the hidden meaning in European art.

Look But Don't Touch

In 1983 legendary London gay-club Heaven was the setting for a memorable performance by Eurhythmics. The band had recently broken through into the mainstream and Annie Lennox had just become a global pop icon.  

In 1983 legendary London gay-club Heaven was the setting for a memorable performance by newly-famous pop duo, Eurhythmics.

Eurythmics Live from Heaven

Johnny Depp started off as a punk band guitarist, turning to acting to help pay the bills. But his dabbling catapulted him to global fame and there was no going back. Throughout his career, Depp has had fame and infamy in equal measure. His roles are often that of the isolated anti-hero: Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Brasco, Raoul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. His poetic outsider characters reveal a critical view of American society.

Portrait of the American actor whose roles are often that of the isolated anti-hero.

Johnny Depp: The Love of the Bizarre

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Slovenian conductor Martina Batič and the Radio France Choir offers an eclectic programme combining Wagner, Debussy, Fauré and Poulenc. The choir is accompanied by eight cellists from the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio de France.
Programme:
Francis Poulenc - Liberté, extract from Figure humaine (transcription for eight cellos by Renaud Guieu)
Richard Wagner - M.W. after Tristan (adaptation by Franck Krawczyk of the Wesendonck Lieder)
Claude Debussy - Nocturnes: Nuages - Fêtes (transcriptions for eight cellos by Renaud Guieu)
Gabriel Fauré - Pavane (for choir and cellos)
Eluard lit Eluard - Liberté (sound recording of the poem Liberté read by Paul Eluard)
Richard Wagner - Lohengrin: prelude (transcription for eight cellos by Renaud Guieu)
Francis Poulenc - Figure humaine

Poulenc, Wagner, Debussy &Fauré

Slovenian conductor Martina Batič and the Radio France Choir offers an eclectic programme combining Wagner, Debussy, Fauré and Poulenc. 

Radio France Choir and Orchestra

Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan conducts and sings with the French Radio Orchestra in a sensual programme celebrating the city of lights: gay Paris.
Mezzo-soprano Julia Dawson, tenor Ziad Nehme and bass-baritone Douglas Williams also perform.
Programme
Igor Stravinski – Pulcinella
 Kurt Weill – Youkali
 Jacques Offenbach - La Gaîté parisienne

Barbara Hannigan conducts and sings with the French Radio Orchestra in a sensual programme celebrating Paris, the city of lights.

Barbara Hannigan Conducts Weber, Stravinsky, Weill

French conductor and contralto Nathalie Stutzmann, the pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the Orchestre de Paris bring the Paris Philharmonie to life with a treat of a programme.

Verdi, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky

Nathalie Stutzmann & Alexandre Tharaud

Marie Jacquot conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice and Kurt Weill's Symphony No. 2.  Victor Julien-Laferrière completes the programme as soloist in cello concertos by Honegger and Korngold.

FRS & Victor Julien-Laferrière

Marie Jacquot conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice and Kurt Weill's Symphony No. 2.

Marie Jacquot conducts Weill, Dukas and Korngold

À Amsterdam, la cheffe d’orchestre Emmanuelle Haïm s’empare du célèbre Giulio Cesare de Händel. Une intrigue antique autour de Jules César et Cléopâtre malmenés par Ptolémée, dans la course au trône d'Egypte. Une mise en scène pleine de malice et d’humour signée Calixto Bieito.

Handel’s opera Giulio Cesare, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm and directed by Calixto Bieito in Amsterdam.

Maestras, not maestros, are taking the lead.

Women Conductors

In March 2021, Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a police officer on her way home in south London. Women across Britain were horrified. It sparked a national debate on how unsafe women feel in public spaces, and how women can be better protected in future.

Sarah Everard's murder in March 2021 sparked a national debate on how unsafe women feel in public spaces.

Re: Scared of Walking Home Alone

Sixty years after the signing of the Élysée Treaty, which opened an unprecedented era of cooperation between the two countries, how is the Franco-German partnership faring? An in-depth look at the central relationship in the European Union as the war in Ukraine disrupts the world order.

An in-depth look at the central relationship in the European Union as the war in Ukraine disrupts the world order.

France - Germany: It's Complicated

On the island of Leyte, in the Philippines, the inhabitants of a remote village earn their living from gold panning. They dive into the sea every day to search for the precious nuggets, often risking their lives.

Villagers in the Philippines risk their lives every day diving for gold, with improper kit and little training.

Gold Divers of the Philippines

Russians long considered Armenia an unimportant vassal that could easily be brought back into line if the Kremlin choose to do so. In an ironic twist of fate, it is now this little neighbour that many Russians now turn to for asylum. Russia's youth and well-off middle-class rejects Moscow's politics and fear being drafted into fighting a war they don't believe in. 

Armenia: Russian Refuge

Russia always looked down on Armenia, but now Russian asylum-seekers are turning to Yerevan for help.

ARTE Reportage

In his memoirs, the founding father of the European project, Jean Monnet, wrote: "Europe will be forged by the crises it faces, and will become the sum of the solutions it finds during those crises." A prescient sentence that has never been more apt than during the Covid-19 pandemic and Ukraine war. During the bad times, Europe has closed ranks and is more unified than it has been in years.

The EU and Crises

During the bad times, Europe has closed ranks.

Mapping the World

Gay people in Russia are increasingly under attack from violent groups that seem to operate with impunity. Although "promoting non-traditional sexual relations" has been condemned by law since 2013 by Moscow, the situation for the LGBT+ community in Russia has got worse since the Russian invasion of Ukraine as Russian attacks the enemy within.

LGBTQ+ Community under Attack

Gay people in Russia are increasingly under attack from violent groups that seem to operate with impunity. 

Russia's Enemy within

Thirty years after the war that tore Yugoslavia apart, could the three main states that emerged, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, build closer relations? And could the Franco-German  example serve as a model?

Former Yugoslavia: Reconciliation in sight?

Thirty years after the war that tore Yugoslavia apart, could Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia build closer relations?

Beijing finally gave in to protests: As Chinese people wanted to regain their freedom all restrictions have been lifted and life has returned to normal. But now a massive wave of COVID-19 infections has swept through China.

China: Lockdown to Chaos

With restrictions lifted in China, a massive wave of covid has swept through the country.

Thousands of young people join McDonald’s “big family” of employees each year, which the company claims has led it to become France’s leading recruiter. But from behind the scenes of its kitchens, the veil is being lifted. Employees are starting to speak out about the deplorable working conditions, high pressure environment and impossible targets they face.
This documentary series by France.tv Slash is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

A journalist goes undercover in McDonald’s kitchens to lift the veil on the working conditions of France’s leading recruiter.

My job at McDonald’s

Many Germans have possessions passed down in their families that originally belonged to Jewish people, dispossessed during the Nazi period. Today, the Berlin-based foundation Stiftung Zurückgeben tries to track down the rightful owners.

Germans Search for Rightful Owners

Many Germans have possessions passed down in their families that originally belonged to Jewish people, dispossessed during the Nazi period.

Re: Returning Jewish Property

Incisive investigative documentaries and reportage

In Depth

Bodybuilding challenges traditional notions of gender. Are bodybuilders on the podium highly sexualised or asexual instead?

Getting Ripped (3-10)

Bodybuilding challenges traditional notions of gender. Are bodybuilders on the podium highly sexualised, or asexual instead?

Gender and Muscle

Sven Philipp and Martin Rheinländer run workshops called  “Strengthening Masculinity” to teach men about women, flirting and sex. But critics like Christoph May and Susanne Kaiser warn against these types of workshops, which they say promote toxic male values and old-fashioned ideas. Christoph became so bored and annoyed by his male-dominated environment that he now avoids all-male groups as much as possible. As a researcher, he often gives public lectures, urging men to rethink critically their role in society.

Being a Man in the Modern World

What does it mean to be a man today? Many men are asking themselves this question.

Male Identity Crisis

This is the story of how women have fought their way into the world of sport, an arena jealously guarded by men.

Train Like a Girl

Women who play men's roles while singing high notes may seem suprising but in opera, it's tradition. Handel, Mozart, and Bellini all wrote roles for men, to be played by women. So how does the opera deal with questions of gender?

Does the Voice Have a Gender?

Handel, Mozart, and Bellini all wrote roles for men, to be played by women

Gymnastics

A picture of two champions sharing an emotional moment. Federer has just played the last match of his career. His eternal rival, Rafael Nadal, is sitting next to him. Both are mourning the Swiss player's retirement, holding hands. An analysis of this cult photo.

Federer and Nadal: Tears of Champions

An analysis of a striking photo of two champions sharing an emotional moment. 

The World in Images

He likes to wear makeup but could never go outside wearing it. Over the years, photographer Yasaman Dehmyani has followed one of his friends and his gradual drift away from a society that depises him. Though the new generation has a new mentality, concrete change is slow to come.

He likes to wear makeup but could never go outside wearing it in conservative Iran.

Yasaman Dehmyani: A Question of Gender

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.