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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.

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<p>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.</p>

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

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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

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.

Photographer Jim Rakete is given c arte blanche

Square Artist: Jim Rakete

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

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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On the French Caribbean island of Martinique , large-scale use of insecticides caused serious damage. But the earth is being revitalised by several initiatives inspired by age-old agricultural practices. 

A Documentary by Florence Lazar

Revitalising the Earth

Fati's Choice

Generation Africa

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.

The Bright Path

Leave to Live

Katanga is a bustling district of Addis Ababa where many locals dream of making it big in the capital. Enkehone, a street vendor from the countryside, lives in Amele Mamo's makeshift hostel. Both are part of this struggling community on the brink of extinction, as city developers edge ever closer to their derelict neighbourhood.

Katanga Nation

A struggling community on the brink of extinction

Almost Somali

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.

Njel and The Separation

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

"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.

Lend Me Your Voice

A choir of strangers tells the difficult testimony of a young Congolese refugee

With May the 9th Europe Day, Karambolage asks what Europeans living in France and Germany miss from their home countries.

European Expats in France and Germany

Karambolage

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Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish perform at Hellfest 2022.

Nightwish

Hellfest 2022

On 22 July 2016 a German high-school student David Sonboly killed nine people in a seemingly random attack in a Munich shopping-centre. Why do some young people become mass murderers? A look at radicalisation within extreme-right groups online.

Youth Violence Online

Why do some young people become mass murderers? A look at radicalisation within extreme-right groups online.

Like. Hate. Die

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? Brazil, especially, uses large quantities of harmful pesticides imported from Europe with terrible effects on the population’s health.

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? 

Pesticides: European Hypocrisy

Anglo-French guitarist Laura Cox presents the Scorpions, probably the most successful German rock band ever, headlining at Hellfest 2022. For more than five decades the German five-piece has been producing international hits and have sold more than 100 million records.

Anglo-French guitarist Laura Cox presents the Scorpions, probably the most successful German rock band ever, headlining at Hellfest 2022. 

Scorpions

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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In Europe, the last primary forests are found almost exclusively in the mountains in the east or south-east of the continent. These virgin forests have never been exploited or cut down, and have remained as they have always been. Few studies have been done on this forests, which are presumably havens of biodiversity. We go on a research trip to the Dinaric Alps in Albania.

The Green Lungs of Europe

We go on a research trip to the Dinaric Alps in Albania

Geo Reportage

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

As Lithuania stops Russia from transporting goods by train through its territory to Kaliningrad, a focus on the history of this singular Russian territory.

The Kaliningrad Affair

Mapping the World Essentials

Just a few weeks before the release of their new album, The Sick and the Dying… and the Dead! Thrash metal stars Megadeth perform at Hellfest 2022.

Megadeth

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

Dutch band Epica returns to Hellfest to present Omega, a new album showing off their inimitable symphonic heavy metal sound.

Epica

The philanthropic foundation set up by US billionaire Bill Gates quietly co-finances experiments with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in several African countries. In the age of philanthropic capitalism, billionaires "save the world" and make money in the process. But who is helped the most, ordinary Africans or the food industry?

 In the age of philanthropic capitalism, billionaires "save the world" and make money in the process. An investigation into GM experiments in Africa.

Africa, GMOs and Bill Gates

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent. The rapid decline affects all food chains: fish and birds can no longer find enough to eat and are becoming fewer and fewer. Studies show that neonicotinoids used in pesticides aren't just destroying the insect popualtion, but also affect human health.

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent

How Chemical Giants Destroyed our Ecosystem

In an historic turnaround, Sweden and Finland want to join NATO thus ending their decades-long neutrality. The war in Ukraine has reawakened fears of the Russian neighbour.

Finland and Sweden Opt for NATO

In an historic turnaround, Sweden and Finland want to join NATO thus ending their decades-long neutrality. 

Some six million people have already fled Ukraine. Among them, 730,000 Ukrainian refugees passed through humanitarian corridors that take them deep into enemy territory. Now they are huddled in isolated camps in the middle of the Russian countryside and many want to leave the country as quickly as possible.

Some 730,000 Ukrainian refugees are cooped up in isolated camps in the middle of the Russian countryside

Re: Ukrainian Refugees in Russia

Punk rock fans note: The Offspring have released a new album: The Californians perform tracks from their latest work at Hellfest, Let the Bad Times Roll.

The Offspring

Brazilian cult band Sepultura is back at Hellfest! They unleash their intense thrash metal in front of a white-hot audience.

Sepultura

Drockick Murphys are perhaps the most Irish of American bands. The Bostonians baptize their new album Turn Up That Dial at Hellfest 2022.

Dropkick Murphys

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

Hellfest invites a heavyweight of crossover and thrash metal: Los Angeles natives Suicidal Tendencies make the main stage tremble!

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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

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SQUARE Artist: Maria de Medeiros

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Square Artist: Jim Rakete

Square Artist: Jim Rakete

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Square Artiste: Bargeld

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