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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

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

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

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.

Ennio Morricone

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

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

Cannes, the moment before

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'. 


Meet Olivier Latry, the organist of the famous Notre-Dame in Paris: one of the most prestigious organist gigs in the world. Join him on an exciting musical and historical journey to the heart of the organ.

Meet Olivier Latry, the organist of the famous Notre-Dame in Paris

The Organ of Notre Dame

In Ukraine, long-distance love is the new normal. Indie pop icon Ingret Kostenko had a meteoric rise to fame until the Russian invasion forced her to flee to Germany. The man she loved was a soldier at the front and she went home regularly to see him. This separation is the inspiration for Ingret’s music.

Love in Wartime

Ukrainian Indie pop icon Ingret Kostenko is in a long-distance relationship with a soldier, the inspiration for her music.

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We tie knots every day without a second thought, but it's all about context. Tying your shoelaces is nothing special, but that very same movement becomes charged with meaning when it is practised as part of Shibari. This Japanese art of tying someone into a tightly woven mesh of intricate knots and bindings started off as a form of punishment. But it is now a sexual fetish, and a craft, full of precision.

Bondage: The Ties That Free

The tradition of Shibari started off as a form of punishment. But it is now a sexual fetish, and a craft, full of precision.

Gymnastics

It will soon be a year since Russia invaded their country, but Ukrainians remain optimistic: 88% of them are convinced that within ten years their country will be a member of the European Union and will enjoy prosperity. And many Ukrainian artists, singers, inventors and entrepreneurs believe that their country should not be reduced to the role of victim. Musician Olga Osinnya meets people in Kyiv who are looking towards the future with hope.

The Day After Tomorrow

Tracks East meets people in Kyiv who are looking towards the future with hope.

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

Ayn Rand was a survivor of Communism, and as a result, her writings fiercely advocate uncompromising individualism. Her high profile fans include Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Angelina Jolie.

Ayn Rand, Capitalism Guru

Ayn Rand was a survivor of Communism, and as a result, her writings fiercely advocate uncompromising individualism

Should artists and musicians be active cultural warriors in the war in Ukraine? Or should art provide solace from the brutality of war? Tracks East focuses on artists from countries devastated by war and how they are received in the west.

Culture Warriors: Art in Wartime

Should artists and musicians be active cultural warriors in the war in Ukraine? Or should art provide solace from the brutality of conflict? 

La Nouvelle Vague is the cinephile movement for cinephiles. If you missed the boat: at the turn of the 1950s, Truffaut, Chabrol, Godard, Rivette, Rohmer and others revolutionised French cinema. 

La Nouvelle Vague

La Nouvelle Vague is the cinephile movement for cinephiles

Reggae emerged in the 1960s and in 1985 Wayne Smith's Under Mi Sleng Teng revolutionised the genre. But the riddim of this famous song didn't come from the island - it was written by a Japanese woman, Okuda Hiroko, an employee at Casio.

Japanese Regqae

The riddim of the revolutionary song Under Mi Sleng Teng was created by a Casio employee from Japan. 

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At once seductive and dangerous, historical myth and male fantasy, the femme fatale represents both erotic promise and a death trap to the male observer. Conceived at the end of the 19th century in the works of Gustave Moreau, Franz von Stuck and Lovis Corinth, the femme fatale was completely reinvented in the 20th century by many female artists.

Seductive and dangerous, the figure of the femme fatale in art was completely reinvented in the 20th century.

The Femme Fatale in Art

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

Highly influential indie rockers from Boston, famous for such tracks as Debaser and Where is my mind perform in Paris as part of a European tour for their latest album Doggerel.

Legendary and highly influential indie rockers perform in Paris as part of their European tour.

Pixies - Live at the Paris Olympia

Many governments and organisations are wary of their employers using the social media TikTok. Does the Chinese company really serve Xi Jinping’s regime?

TikTok: A Chinese Threat?

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The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants and changed the course of European history.

The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants. 

The Defenestration of Prague

At first glance, it's an image of innocence. A motherly milkmaid pouring out the milk in a kitchen, preparing snacks from our childhoods. But there's actually far more to her than meets the eye.

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

A famous image that at first glance looks totally innocent, but is in actual fact full of innuendo

Look but Don't Touch

Eclectic American singer-songwriter Ben Harper performs from his latest album, 2022’s Bloodline Maintenance. Filmed at Ground Control in Paris.

Ground Control

Eclectic American singer-songwriter Ben Harper performs from his latest album, 2022’s Bloodline Maintenance.

Ben Harper

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating over the breakaway region of Transnistria, an investigation on how prepared Europe is for another summer of wildfires, and a report from the Dissident Club in Paris.

Tensions in Moldova / WildFires in Europe

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating with street protests and controversy over Russian secret documents.

ARTE Europe Weekly

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 2,500 documents were leaked from Prigozhin’s servers by anti-Putin hackers, shedding light on this secretive group of mercenaries, a key element in the war in Ukraine.

Data Sources

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 

The Prigozhin Papers

Lyubov, which means love in Russian, is 80 years old and lives alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. She bears witness to this wonder of nature and possesses and unbreakable bond with the world’s deepest lake in Siberia. Her life here is hard, especially in winter, but she would not live anywhere else.

On the shores of Lake Baikal, an old woman lives alone in a beautiful place that is dear to her heart.

The Old Woman and the Lake

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.

Good News From Our Planet

Working her way out of poverty as a sex worker all while supporting her family in Romania. That’s Andrada’s goal. She speaks confidently and openly about her work in a red-light district in Germany’s Ruhr region.  
This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Portrait of a sex worker in the Ruhr region, Germany.  

Hard Life – I sell sex for money

Music director of the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cristian Măcelaru takes his musicians on a tour of his homeland, Romania. A tour stopping in Timişoara, his hometown. On the programme: The Piano Concerto No. 2 by Johannes Brahms with soloist Simon Trpčeski.

Concert from the European Capital of Culture 2023

Conductor Cristian Măcelaru and the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne perform Brahms and Klaus Lang in Romania.

Cristian Mācelaru in Timişoara

In El Salvador, gangs have terrorised the country for decades. But when Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, becoming the youngest head of state in Latin America, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

El Salvador: The coolest dictator in the world?

When Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

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France’s President Emmanuel Macron forced through an unpopular reform of the country’s pension system – and the French aren’t having it. We travel to Romania to find out about a possible law to ban gambling adverts, and look at how to protect Europeans from addictions.

France’s pension reform / Gambling / Photography

Protests erupt across France in response to the government’s pension reform bill, and we explore gambling across Europe.

The literary source for Richard Strauss’s opera immortalizing the degeneracy of Herodes Antipas, King of Judea, and his step-daughter Salome, was supplied by Oscar Wilde. It tells of Herodes, who is keeping the prophet Jochanaan captive inside a cistern. Salome tries to seduce him and on being rebuffed, forces her stepfather to serve her the prophet’s head on a silver platter.

Directed by Christof Loy in Helsinki

Rejected by the prophet Jochanaan, Salome forces her abusive stepfather to exact revenge.

Richard Strauss: Salome

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot show another side of Israel. One with high-levels of social deprivation and strong support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s controversial judicial reforms.

Sderot - The Other Israel

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot is a different Israel with strong support for Netanjahu and high levels of social deprivation.

With all the religious wars, the 17th century was a tense time in Europe. And in art one theme caught everyone’s imagination: the Virgin Mary.

Assumption of the Virgin - Nicolas Poussin

Look But Don't Touch

During the Franco dictatorship and afterwards, around 300,000 babies were stolen from the mothers, sold to childless couples using forged documentation. The Catholic Church is implicated in these terrible crimes.

Franco's Spain and the Catholic Church

During the Franco dictatorship and afterwards, around 300,000 babies were stolen from the mothers, sold to childless couples using forged documentation

Stolen Babies

One aspect of the war in Ukraine is being played out in the shadows. Our reporter met partisans in the Kherson region, which was occupied by Russian forces until last November. These Ukrainian civilians have set up resistance networks in Russian-occupied territories.

Ukraine: Resistance in Occupied Territories

Our reporters met partisans in the Kherson region, which was occupied by Russian forces until last November. Ukrainian civilians there have set up resistance networks in Russian-occupied territories.

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