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The Italian composer Ennio Morricone, author of more than 400 original soundtracks, reflects on the film he felt was too beautiful to write a score for.

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Ennio Morricone

The Italian composer Ennio Morricone, author of more than 400 original soundtracks, on Cannes

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Juliette Binoche, who won the Best Actress in 2010 for her role in Certified Copy by Abbas Kiarostami, reflects upon what it's like to win an award at Cannes.

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche reflects upon what it's like to win an award at Cannes

Today, British director Ken Loach speaks of his experiences at the Cannes Film Festival. He received the Palme d'or in 2006 for his film The Wind That Shakes the Barley.

Ken Loach

Today, British director Ken Loach speaks of his experiences at the Cannes Film Festival

At chat with the duo Delépine and Kervern, the iconoclastic French filmmakers, whose film Le grand soir was rewarded with the special prize of the jury.

Delépine/Kervern

At chat with the duo Delépine and Kervern, the iconoclastic French filmmakers

Today, the director Bertrand Bonello, whose films Saint Laurent and L'Apollonide were selected in official competition, talks about his experience of Cannes. 

Bertrand Bonello

The director Bertrand Bonello, behind such films as Saint Laurent and L'Apollonide

Asia Argento reflects upon what it was like to be selected in 2014 in the category "Un Certain Regard" for her fourth film. The Italian actress, screenwriter and director is a regular at the festival.

Asia Argento

Asia Argento reflects upon what it was like to be selected in 2014 in the category "Un Certain Regard" for her fourth film

A chat with Emmanuelle Devos, who in 2002 won a Cesar for best actress for her role in Sur Mes Lèvres, by Jacques Audiard. In 2010, she won the best actress for her supporting role in Xavier Giannoli's film À L'Origine.

Emmanuelle Devos

A chat with Emmanuelle Devos, who in 2002 won a Cesar for best actress

German filmmaker Wim Wenders won the Palme d'or for Paris, Texas in 1984. He describes that it was like to win.

Wim Wenders

German filmmaker Wim Wenders won the Palme d'or for Paris, Texas in 1984

Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director, is often in the running against many other cinema greats at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, he presented Youth, with Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.

Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino, the Italian director, is often in the running against many other cinema greats at the Cannes Film Festival

Michael Haneke is one of the few filmmakers to have won the Palme d'Or twice, with "Le ribbon blanc" (2009) and "Amour" (2012).

Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke is one of the few filmmakers to have won the Palme d'Or twice

Mathieu Amalric, with his dual perspective as both actor and director, talks about being given the Jury Prize and the Prix Fipresci in 2010 for Tournée.

Mathieu Amalric

Mathieu Amalric, on being given the Jury Prize and the Prix Fipresci for Tournée

Thierry Frémaux is Director of the Institut Lumière de Lyon and general delegate at the Cannes Film Festival. He has become one of the strongest personalities in French cinema.

Thierry Frémaux

Thierry Frémaux is one of the strongest personalities in French cinema

During the Cannes Film Festival, great figures of cinema recount  their   memories of one of the most important moments of their lives. Today: the actress Léa Seydoux, who won the 2013 Palme d'Or for 'Blue Is the Warmest Colour', along with director Abdellatif Kechiche and the other lead, Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Léa Seydoux

Actress Léa Seydoux won the 2013 Palme d'Or for 'Blue Is the Warmest Colour'

A talk with Marjane Satrapi about what it's like to win one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry. After the worldwide success of his cartoon Persepolis, his film adaptation won the Jury Prize of the Festival de Cannes in 2007.

Marjane Satrapi

A talk with Marjane Satrapi about what it's like to win one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry

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During the Cannes Film Festival, great figures of cinema recount  their   memories of one of the most important moments of their lives. Today: the Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes won Grand Jury Prize in 2015 for 'The Son of Saul.'


Laszlo Nemes

The Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes won Grand Jury Prize in 2015 for 'The Son of Saul'


During the Cannes Film Festival, great figures of cinema recount their memories of one of the most important moments of their lives. This episode: Emir Kusturica, twice winner of the Palme d'Or for 'When Father Was Away on Business' and for 'Underground'.


Emir Kusturica

Emir Kusturica, twice winner of the Palme d'Or for 'When Father Was Away on Business' and for 'Underground'


During the Cannes Film Festival, great figures of cinema recount  their   memories of one of the most important moments of their lives. Today: Volker Schlöndorff, who won a Palme d'Or in 1979 for 'The Tin Drum'.


Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff won a Palme d'Or in 1979 for 'The Tin Drum'


During the Cannes Film Festival, great figures of cinema recount  their   memories of one of the most important moments of their lives. In this episode: the filmmaker Bruno Dumont, who was twice awarded the Grand Jury Prize, the first time for 'Humanity' (1999), and the second for 'Flanders' (2006), talks about his experience. This year, he's presenting 'Ma Loute'.


Bruno Dumont

The filmmaker Bruno Dumont was twice awarded the Grand Jury Prize


During the Cannes Film Festival, great figures of cinema recount their memories of one of the most important moments of their lives. In this episode : Emmanuelle Bercot, director of ' La Tête haute',  received the Best Actress award for her role in 'My King'. 


Emmanuelle Bercot

Today: Emmanuelle Bercot, director of ' La Tête haute', received the Best Actress award for her role in 'My King'. 


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Kitschy trash or misunderstood genius? Italo disco was the euro sound of the 1980s that many loved and many hated. This documentary looks at how big names of the genre like Sabrina Salerno and duo Righeira conquered the charts.

The Sparkling Sound of the 1980s

Kitschy trash or misunderstood genius? Italo disco was the euro sound of the 1980s that many loved and many hated

Italo Disco

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

Discover contemporary cycling culture in three European cities: Berlin, the unofficial capital of vintage racing bikes. London, where cycle-cafés also hold speed dating evenings and Amsterdam where cyclists stand out from the crowd with style.

Cycling as Lifestyle

Discover contemporary cycling culture in three European cities: Berlin, London and Amsterdam.

Biking Boom

Yetundey is originally from Leipzig and mixes styles and influences. Layla Boe wants to make the German language smoother in her music.

Germany

Girlhood - Women in Rap (1/4)

Since its invention in the 19th century, the bicycle has allowed Western women to move around independently. Today, it is the turn of women in Arab countries to discover its power. Though at first glance innocuous and common, the bicycle is unexpectedly feminist.

The Freedom to Cycle

Though at first glance innocuous and common, the bicycle is unexpectedly feminist

Gymnastics

Have you ever wondered why pop songs sometimes sound a little too familiar? Welcome to the world of pop-recycling where borrowing, sampling and interpolation are the order of the day. Featuring interviews with Placebo, Ed Sheeran, Charlie XCX and Lauv.

Pop Music: The Great Recycling Business

Have you ever wondered why pop songs sometimes sound a little too familiar? Welcome to the world of pop-recycling. Featuring interviews with Placebo, Ed Sheeran, Charlie XCX and Lauv.

Tracks: Songwriting Special

More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. In the United States, where the prison population has risen sharply in recent decades. Artists are sounding the alarm: Jay Z, Denzel Curry and Meek Mill are calling for judicial reform.

More than 10 million people in the world are behind bars with half of the world's prison population in Russian, Chinese or American jails. 

Tracks: Planet Prison

From California to Iran, from London to Berlin, the bicycle is a symbol of freedom. No other mode of transport has succeeded in liberating so many people.

Protest Culture on Two Wheels

From California to Iran, from London to Berlin, the bicycle is a symbol of freedom for diverse groups.

Biking Boom (3/3)

Why do the works of the Italian painter Caravaggio exude such violence? The answer is to be found in the eventful life of the artist, who just couldn't stay out of trouble and met a sticky end.

Caravaggio, Genius - and Killer?

Caravaggio just couldn't stay out of trouble and met a sticky end

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One hundred years ago, on February 2nd 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses was published by Sylvia Beach in a small bookshop in Paris. The book, which consumed 7 years of Joyce’s life, years in which his family’s circumstances were very difficult, would have a profound and unprecedented impact on the literature and culture of the century to follow. 

Though Ulysses was banned initially in the US and UK, Joyce’s epic was soon celebrated as a masterpiece of modernism.

100 Years of Ulysses

Israeli choreographers Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar present their show Chapter 3: The Brutal Journey of the Heart at Nuits de Fourvière.

Nuits de Fourvière

The Brutal Journey of the Heart by Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar

Young Korean musicians have been taking the world of classical music by storm. A new generation are winning the big prizes and pursuing successful careers in Europe and around the world. What makes these Korean classical artists so good? A documentary following the rising stars of K-Classic

The Korean Musical Mystery

Generation K-Classics

Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was the most densely populated area on Earth. 33,000 people settled on 2.5 hectares of land that was disputed between Chinese and British - meaning neither country asserted its authority there. This vertical slum was a hotbed of crime, but also full of factories, cheap shops and a strong community. This is a case for Crazy Borders. 

Kowloon: The Lawless Super City

This vertical slum was a hotbed of crime, but also full of factories, cheap shops and a strong community.

Crazy Borders

How can you misplace 80km2 of territory? In Mexico, the island of Bermeja had been on maps for generations. But when it came to actually finding the island... it seemed as if it had disappeared into thin air. And with the loss of Bermeja, Mexico lost a huge windfall of oil revenue in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a case for Crazy Borders. 

The Lost Island of Bermeja

The sea absorbs our carbon emissions, gives us plentiful food, and regulates our climate. A healthy sea is a healthy planet. But we can't stop stripping the sea of resources. Whether through overfishing or deep sea mining, humanity is destroying an ecosystem it can't live without.

Whether through overfishing or deep sea mining, humanity is destroying an ecosystem it can't live without.

Overexploited Oceans

Did you know that the Middle Ages is only a few kilometers off the French coast? A lord and his vassals live peacefully on the island of Sark where cars are not allowed. This is a case for Crazy Borders! 

Sark: A Modern Day Feudal Island

A lord and his vassals live peacefully on the island of Sark where cars are not allowed.

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be? For France, of course, the baby would be French. But not for Italy! The quarrel has been going on since 1860, when the divison of territory at the top of the mountain was unclearly defined... leaving each country to interpret the boundary more or less as they saw fit. This really is a case for Crazy Borders!

Mont Blanc: A High Altitude Dispute

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be?

Planting trees against climate change: Ireland is reforesting its territory by growing spruces. But it's not just about being green, it's about profit. Wood is a big business... much to the displeasure of local environmental activists who want Ireland's forestry policy changed. 

Growing trees to be harvested for wood is big business - but what are the environmental ramifications? 

Re: Money Grows on Trees

Peatlands contain more carbon than all the ground vegetation combined.
Melting permafrost peatlands can become a major source of greenhouse gas emissions,
and damaged bogs will speed up global warming. If the carbon in the peatlands is released into the atmosphere, it would be an ecological disaster. But if we harness the power of these carbon sinks, we could slow down climate change.

 If the carbon in the peatlands is released into the atmosphere, it would be an ecological disaster.

The Secrets of Bogs

Did you know that the last war between France and Spain took place in the 1970s? It was the war of the stop signs in Llívia, a Spanish town - but in France, in the Pyrenees. This bizarre quirk is due to a treaty signed centuries ago. This really is a case for Crazy Borders! 

Llivia, Between France and Spain

Did you know that the last war between France and Spain took place in the 1970s?

According to the latest calculations by the OECD, South Korean women could live to be over 92 years old on average in 2070, and men over 89. That would be a world record. What's the secret?

South Korea: An Obsession With Health

South Koreans are on track to be the longest-lived people in the world

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Can a state in the EU prohibit women from accessing its territory? In the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos women are not allowed in - even tourists - and any woman who enters could be arrested by police. It's a peninsula from another, bygone world and yet benefits from taxpayer funding (including female taxpayers, presumably...).

Mount Athos: Off Limits for Women

Can a state in the EU prohibit women from accessing its territory?

In the town of Baarle, a body of a woman was discovered in a house... but before police could intervene, first authorities had to call a surveyor. Baarle is crisscrossed over with a winding frontier between the Netherlands and Belgium, and police needed to know which country was responsible for investigating the killing. One half of the house was Dutch, the other half was Belgian. This is a case for Crazy Borders! 

Baarle, a Town of Two Nations

A city divided between Belgium and the Netherlands, and scene of a murder? Welcome to Baarle.

Martin Ritter is a German organic farmer, with land in both Germany and Ukraine. All of a sudden, his livelihood is located in a war zone. With the help of the municipality of Ostheim, he decides to send aid to Ukraine and to welcome refugees.

Martin Ritter is a German organic farmer, with land in both Germany and Ukraine. When war broke out, everything changed.

Re: Farming in a War Zone

The prisoner of a promise made to Neptune, King Idomeneus is faced with a cruel dilemma... From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, the most romantic of Mozart’s operas, directed by Satoshi Miyagi and conducted by Raphaël Pichon, with soprano Sabine Devieilhe, promises to be the operatic event of the 2022 Aix festival season.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2022

The most romantic of Mozart’s operas, conducted by Raphaël Pichon, with soprano Sabine Devieilhe.

Mozart: Idomeneus, King of Crete

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?

Kaliningrad: Putin's Enclave

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.

The former military base Camp Zeist in the Netherlands was once lent to Scotland. It was where the two men accused of orchestrating the Lockerbie bombings were put on trial. Libyans saw them as unfair victims. Meanwhile bereaved families demanded justice.

A Scottish Court in the Netherlands

The former military base Camp Zeist in the Netherlands was once lent to Scotland for the Lockerbie bombing trial

Did you know that people from Cyprus can cross the border into the UK every day? The British have a sort of autonomous state on the island: the Sovereign Base Areas. This is a case for Crazy Borders.

Dhekelia: Divided Between Cyprus and Britain

Did you know that people from Cyprus can cross the border into the UK every day?

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