Square Artist: Jim Rakete

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The photographer Jim Rakete is given carte blanche. He has chosen to focus on the Californian artist Joe Ramirez-Dalton. For decades, he restored frescoes in churches, in Italy. Now he is dedicated to his magnum opus: "Somnium (the dream)", a project inspired by a 1620 text by Johannes Kepler on lunar astronomy.

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<p>The photographer Jim Rakete is given carte blanche. He has chosen to focus on the Californian artist Joe Ramirez-Dalton. For decades, he restored frescoes in churches, in Italy. Now he is dedicated to his magnum opus: "Somnium (the dream)", a project inspired by a 1620 text by Johannes Kepler on lunar astronomy.</p>

Photographer Jim Rakete is given c arte blanche

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Countertenor Andreas Scholl is a baroque specialist who produced this episode of Square Artist. He chose to focus on the life and work of Eva Fricke, a talented and promising young winemaker.

Andreas Scholl, professional singer, takes us to meet Eva Fricke, a talented and promising young winemaker

Square Artist: Andreas Scholl, Countertenor

The filmmaker Regis Wargnier has chosen to portray Xavier Le Bris and his high-flying balancing act in the South Brittany.

Xavier Le Bris and his high-flying balancing act in the South Brittany

Carte Blanche to Régis Wargnier

In 2007, Franco-Afghan filmmaker Barmak Akram directed Kabuli Kid, a film telling the story of a taxi driver who discovers an abandoned baby in the back of his vehicle. Massi was then only six months old; today he is nine. Barmak Akram goes back to meet the budding actor, at his home in Kabul.

In 2007, Franco-Afghan filmmaker Barmak Akram directed Kabuli Kid, a film about an abandoned baby. That baby actor is now nine. Akram goes back to Kabul to meet him 

Square Artist: Barmak Akram

The great chef from Aveyron, Michel Bras, makes the most of his episode of Square by shining the spotlight on the life of André Valadier, a local farmer who has fought all his life to save his land from the trap of a industrialised agriculture.

The great chef from Aveyron, Michel Bras, makes the most of his episode of Square by shining the spotlight on the life of André Valadier, a local farmer

Square Artist: Michel Bras

Portuguese actress and director Maria de Medeiros produces a documentary on the Spanish journalist and activist Richard Mateos. Blind from birth, he defends the right of disabled people in Bolivia to live with dignity.

Blind from birth, Richard defends the right of disabled people in Bolivia to live with dignity

SQUARE Artist: Maria de Medeiros

We give Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter, carte blanche. He takes us to Toulon, where he grew up and where he heads the Freedom Theatre. In a bus, he meets Dominique, who drives the line 1. The actor and director traces the story of this woman battered by life, but animated by an irrepressible energy. A tender and funny portrait.

Charles Berling

We give Charles Berling, French actor, director and screenwriter, carte blanche

Blixa Bargeld, singer of the German rock band Einstürzenden Neubauten is an underground icon. For Square Artist, he shot a portrait of Dror Feiler, musician, composer and Israeli activist who lives in Stockholm.

Carte Blanche to Blixa Bargeld

Blixa Bargeld, singer of the German rock band Einstürzenden Neubauten is an underground icon

Square Artiste: Bargeld

The German novelist David Safier profiles Daniel Magel, an 'everyday hero'. Born in Kazakhstan, he emigrated with his parents to Bremen. Alcohol, drugs and violence shaped his adolescence. But sport saved him. And now he works with youths and prisoners to show them its transformative power.

Sport saved him. And now he works with youths and prisoners to show them its transformative power

Square Artist: David Safier

Before, it was simple: there was selfishness or altruism. Either we got rich or we helped others. But now these binary divisions are fading. A supporter of effective altruism, the young philosopher William MacAskill proposes to go even further with "arithmetic altruism". This is, applying the concept of profitability to charitable contributions.

Earth of Women helps women and girls to escape the vicious cycle of poverty, forced marriage and prostitution

Square Artist: Sibel Kekilli

Fukushima, Mon Amour is the latest film by Doris Dörrie, released in March in German cinemas. For Square Artist, the director - very popular in Germany - has chosen to paint an intimate portrait of Butoh dancer Tadashi Endo.

Director Doris Dörrie paints an intimate portrait of Butoh dancer Tadashi Endo.

Square Artist: Doris Dörrie

We pay homage to Jean Rochefort, who passed away Monday 9th October 2017, with this episode of Square Artiste. We had given him carte blanche to film whatever he wanted, and he led us on a meandering, introspective path between reality and fiction. 

Why Not? Carte Blanche With Jean Rochefort

We pay homage to Jean Rochefort, who passed away Monday 9th October 2017

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In 2017, Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev was living and working from the separatist region of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. Critical of the self-proclaimed republic, he used pseudonyms to protect his identity. But one day he was exposed which led to his imprisonment and torture in the notorious Izolyatsia prison

The story of Ukrainian journalist Stanislav Aseyev who was imprisonment and tortured in the separatist region of Donbas.

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European Expats in France and Germany

Karambolage

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Katanga Nation

A struggling community on the brink of extinction

Manuela is smart and enthusiastic at school, but sad at home. She's eleven years old and preparing her first school certificate. She lives in Edéa, Cameroon, with her grandparents who do not understand why their granddaughter is unhappy when she wants for almost nothing. Except for her parents. They left when she was just four years old, to go work in Italy. Even if she understands it was for the sake of her future, Manuela still keenly feels their abandonment.

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Manuela's parents left her behind to find jobs in Europe, and the 11 year old is heartbroken by their absence

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"People tell stories, but when it comes to theirs, they either lose their memory or decide to shut up." Born in 1994 in the Democratic Republic of Congo,  Akili Nadege had to leave her homeland for Rwanda, and then Burundi. She's suffered prison, torture, a murdered father and a torn homeland, and suffered isolation and loneliness. In this intimate documentary essay, the director Claudine Ndimbira had the young woman tell her testimony through a group of readers. These men and women who know neither Akili nor her past, but they will develop with her, over the course of reading her story, a deep bond of empathy.

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Hellfest 2022

Dropkick Murphys

As soon as weightlessness sets in in Earth orbit, everything floats, including bodily fluids. Most astronauts suffer from space sickness – similar to seasickness. You get sick, your eyes go crazy, your face swells up, your legs get longer and after a few sleepless nights (there is no day or night in space) many astronauts get severe back pain. Space researchers are trying to understand how the human body reacts without gravity. Could we need it to live?

Are We Ready for Mars?

What would happen to our bodies if we were all suddenly exposed to weightlessness in space?

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The Offspring

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Sepultura

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Be a Man! - But How?

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Watain

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Jinjer

According to the myth, the Greeks managed to enter the city of Troy by building a wooden horse in which was hidden Greek soldiers. How much of this story is based on actual historical events? And if the story is true, was it even a horse?

The Mystery of the Trojan Horse

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.

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Suicidal Tendencies

The ‘Operation Hotel’ revelations back in 2018 revealed that the Ecuadorian government was spying on Julian Assange, taking refuge in their London embassy at the time. But recent evidence from Spanish authorities suggests that it was in fact American intelligence that sponsored the surveillance. With the USA currently trying to extradite Assange from his London prison to be tried for the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of top-secret documents on WikiLeaks, the global Assange story, murkier than ever, is ongoing.

Global Assange

The WikiLeaks founder is currently fighting extradition to the US where he faces charges that could result in a 175 year prison sentence

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The Last Internationale

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Scientists have long been convinced that the use of psychedelics can sometimes be beneficial.

The trio led by Matthew Bellamy is one of the most explosive and creative forces in rock music over the past two decades. There is no one else quite like Muse. Be impressed by their committed performance at Berlin’s Tempelhof Sounds Festival.

Tempelhof Sounds 2022

 There is no one else quite like Muse. Be impressed by their committed performance at Berlin’s Tempelhof Sounds Festival.

Muse

In Jordan, on the site of one of the world's first settlements, archaeologists have unearthed treasures including a sumptuous pearl necklace for a little girl. An object that provides clues about life in the Neolithic period.

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In Jordan, on the site of one of the world's first settlements, archaeologists have unearthed treasures including a sumptuous pearl necklace for a little girl. 

The Mysterious Stone Age Village

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Megadeth

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Anti-Flag

The Staatsoper Hamburg’s new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s opera buffa "Don Pasquale" is directed by David Bösch.The plot of this turbulent comedy turns on the title character and his nemesis sung by Italian baritone Ambrogio Maestri and Australian soprano Danielle de Niese respectively.The Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg will be conducted by Matteo Beltrami.

From the Staatsoper Hamburg

David Bösch stages Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera "Don Pasquale".

Gaetano Donizetti: Don Pasquale

Fisherman Darren Kenyon is from Grimsby in north-east England. Like 70% of the people in the area, he voted for Brexit in the hope for a better deal for the fishing sector. But so far nothing has improved for the industry and the wider region. Former Boris Johnson supporters feel cheated.

Fisherman Darren Kenyon is from Grimsby in north-east England. He voted for Brexit in the hope for a better deal for the fishing sector. But so far nothing has improved.

Re: British Fishermen and Brexit

It has its own currency, flag and government. Yet the state of Transnistria is not recognised by the international community. Wedged between Ukraine and Moldova, 450 kilometres long and a few dozen kilometres wide, it claimed independence in 1990.

Transnistria: Back to the USSR

It has its own currency, flag and government. Yet the state of Transnistria is not recognised by the international community.

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Square Artist: Andreas Scholl, Countertenor

Square Artist: Andreas Scholl, Countertenor

Carte Blanche to Régis Wargnier

Carte Blanche to Régis Wargnier

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Square Artist: Barmak Akram

Square Artist: Barmak Akram

Square Artist: Michel Bras

Square Artist: Michel Bras

SQUARE Artist: Maria de Medeiros

SQUARE Artist: Maria de Medeiros

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Charles Berling