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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

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

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

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'. 


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.

Tracks East

Humanity is addicted to lighting up the night, and that comes at a huge energy cost, and a cost to wildlife. Twist meets artists inspired by the nocturnal world: photographer Oskar Schlechter, musician Pascal Schumacher and light sculptor Giny Vos. Finally, visual artist Anne Imhof grants us an exclusive interview.

The Power of Darkness

Twist meets artists inspired by the nocturnal world.

Twist

Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love and our search for it. Can love exist between two people, or between three? And what of our love for ourselves, or indeed the unconditional love we hold for our pets?

Love! But how?

Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love.

Streetphilosophy

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

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.

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? 

 In war it is often the children who suffer the most. Their stable home lives are destroyed and they have to flee. According to Ukrainian sources, 12,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia, the Kremlin says they have been ‘brought home’.

Children of War

How is the war in Ukraine affecting children? According to Ukrainian sources, 12,000 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia, the Kremlin says they have been ‘brought home’.

Ancient Greek statues are white, pure and classical, just like the marble they are carved from. False. These statues were painted in fabulous bright colours. Archaeologists and art academics have known this for centuries so why does the white myth endure?

Ancient Greek Statues Were Not White

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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

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

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

The loss of biodiversity is highly alarming: our planet is currently experiencing the greatest extinction since the age of the dinosaurs. This film documents the extinction of species currently happening around the world. But it also highlights hopeful initiatives as committed men and women on every continent fight to save endangered species and work towards improving biodiversity.

Mankind's Greatest Challenge

Biodiversity or Extinction

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

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

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

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.

ARTE Reportage

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.

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

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

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.

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

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols have fathered around one hundred children over the last ten years. Their sperm is smuggled out of prison to be used in IVF with their partners.

Israel-Palestine: Secret Babies of the Intifada

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli gaols have fathered around one hundred children over the last ten years.

The Greek government is under intense pressure to explain how February’s tragic train accident happened. The crash has sparked widespread anti-government protests. We take a broad view of the state of gender equality across Europe and find out about a pioneering law to help menopausal women in Spain.

Greece train crash / Gender equality / Photography

Massive protests engulf Greece after a deadly train crash, with the public pointing fingers at the government.

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

From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life. Street-photography captured Parisians from all walks of life and conveyed the optimism and elegance of the period.

From an incredibly varied selection of 19th century postcards, the Paris of the Belle Epoque (1871 – 1914) comes to life.

Paris in the Belle Epoque

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

Cosmetic surgery is becoming more popular in Europe and the world. We talk about the plastic surgery craze with French plastic surgeons Mauricio de Maio and Oren Marco and philosopher Heather Widdows.

We talk about the plastic surgery craze with French plastic surgeons Mauricio de Maio and Oren Marco and philosopher Heather Widdows.

Crazy for Plastic Surgery

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.

Cannes, the Moment Before

Cannes, the Moment Before

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Cannes, the Moment Before

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Cannes, the Moment Before

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Cannes, the Moment Before

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Cannes, the Moment Before

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Cannes, the Moment Before

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