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Europa, divorcio a la italiana

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The anti-establishment Five Star movement and the far-right Northern League won the last election in Italy and now form a coalition government. This choice seems to reveal a deep resentment towards European institutions. Why does a founding member of the European Union appear to be distancing itself from common European ideals? A debate chaired by Annette Gerlach.

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<p>The anti-establishment Five Star movement and the far-right Northern League won the last election in Italy and now form a coalition government. This choice seems to reveal a deep resentment towards European institutions. Why does a founding member of the European Union appear to be distancing itself from common European ideals? A debate chaired by Annette Gerlach.</p>

Why does Italy appear to be distancing itself from common European ideals? A debate chaired by Annette Gerlach.

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In the late 1990s, Julia "Butterfly" Hill impressed the world with her extraordinary tenacity in the service of a great cause: For 738 days, the 23-year-old activist camped at the top of a Californian sequoia tree, without coming down, to prevent the destruction of a thousand-year-old patch of forest. Her victory against deforestation has become a source of inspiration for generations of radical young women, outraged by the climate crisis.
 In the wake of the climate strikes launched by Greta Thunberg in 2018, campaigns that are spreading around the world are often led by young women: Anuna De Wever and Adélaïde Charlier in Belgium, Léna Lazare in France, Luisa Neubauer in Germany, Mitzi Jonelle Tan in the Philippines and Leah Namugerwa in Uganda. Environmental activism is also a form of feminism for them.

Inspired by the struggles of Greta Thunberg and Julia 'Butterfly' Hill, young women are speaking out against climate change.

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Artist Cláudia Varejão invites the viewer to discover couples of many kinds: Twin sisters, a dog and its master, lovers who look amazingly alike…in a film that sheds light on the fragile balance that connects living beings.

The Fatality of Love

Artist Cláudia Varejão invites the viewer to discover couples of many kinds in a sensitive film about love

Amor Fati

At the end of the world, three men face the Southern Ocean and its dangers. They leave their families behind and brave the cold and storms to join the isolated fishermen who live on the inhospitable islands around Cape Horn off the southern tip of Chile.

By Benjamin Colaux

At the end of the world, three men face the Southern Ocean and its dangers. 

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Only a small portion of the plastic we throw into our recycling bins is actually recycled. Water bottles, for example, can only be recycled three or four times before they become unusable. Thankfully research is progressing, and a French company is on the trail of an enzyme that could recycle water bottles an infinite amount of times.  
 This documentary series by France.tv is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Only a small portion of the plastic we throw into our recycling bins is actually recycled. So where does it all go?

The dark side of recycling

Two men of the silver screen: Jean-Luc Godard and the Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan begin a long-distance dialogue. An extraordinary correspondence, captured in this delicate and pensive film by Iranian filmmaker, Mitra Farahani.

A Documentary by Mitra Farahani

Jean-Luc Godard and the Iranian filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan begin a long-distance dialogue. An extraordinary correspondence, captured in this delicate and pensive film 

See You Friday, Robinson

Arguably the country best equipped to face a nuclear disaster, Switzerland could shelter up to 9 million people in its public and private underground bunkers. Although the infrastructure may seem positive and far-sighted today with the war in Ukraine on the horizon, the initiative was largely criticised when first launched during World War II.

This programme of the Swiss channel SRG SSR is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Nuclear bunkers in Switzerland could provide shelter for 9 million people. But is this initiative a wise choice or an exaggeration?

Nuclear bunkers for all

After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is now suffering from Alzheimer’s. From Brussels to Tangiers, this is a family journey marked by exile—evoked through discretion and confession, pain, separation, grief, and joy.

By Karima Saïdi

After years of separation, the filmmaker renews her relationship with her mother, Aïcha, who is now suffering from Alzheimer’s.

A Way Home

Before his famous concert at the Salle Pleyel in 1969, Thelonious Monk recorded a programme for French television. The rushes, edited by Alain Gomis (Félicité), reveal the man in rare private moments, trying to escape the media through silence and music.

December '69. Thelonious Monk, in Paris for his European tour, grants an interview with an unexpected outcome...

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Europeans are tightening the purse strings as inflation grips Europe, with many protesting for higher wages. The European Space Agency announces ambitious plans to get ahead in the space race. In the week’s cultural pick, we look at one man’s mission to preserve Caribbean music heritage.

Inflation / Space / Caribbean music

Europeans call for higher wages to match soaring inflation, and Europe decides it won’t be left behind in the space race.

ARTE Europe Weekly

A journey into the heart of the Andes to discover its landscapes and unique wildlife: salt deserts, high grasslands and prehistoric forests are populated by impressive animals like bears, pumas and condors.

Extreme Nature

The Andes

In the summer of 1953, 17-year-old Françoise Sagan set to work writing Bonjour Tristesse, after failing her university entrance exams. Just a few months later she's a published author and France is shocked by her frank account of young female sexuality. The novel tells the story of 17-year-old Cécile, on holiday with her attractive father Raymond, and Elsa, one of many in a long line of girlfriends. It's there that Cécile experiences her sexual awakening, losing her virginity to the handsome young Cyril.

The Raunchy Book That Shocked France

Françoise Sagan was just 17 when she wrote Bonjour Tristesse. Its account of young female sexuality shocked France.

Bonjour Tristesse, Hello Scandal

In the Netherlands, drug trafficking gangs force farmers to give them access to their barns. The buildings are turned into illegal ecstasy and methamphetamine laboratories, pumping out drugs to sell on the European market. The waste from these labs often ends up just being dumped into the countryside, causing widespread ecological damage. The gangs are powerful and at times brazen. Police and local authorities know that cracking down on the trade puts them in the traffickers' crosshairs.

Dutch Drug Gangs

Drug gangs in the Netherlands are powerful and at times brazen, with one rural town hall even getting bombed. 

Re: Ecstasy for Europe

Over the centuries this famous island, floating between sea and sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how did this architectural wonder come to be built?

The Enigmatic Labyrinth

Over the centuries this famous island has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison.

Mont Saint Michel

French author Raymond Radiguet was just 20 when he died from typhoid fever, cementing him as a tragic, scandalous figure in French literary lore. His novel The Devil in the Flesh is the shocking story of Marthe, whose husband had gone to the front to fight in World War One. She embarks on a torrid love affair with a 15 year old boy with terrible consequences. Published just five years after the Great War; it shocked and outraged France.

The Romance that Scandalised a Nation

The Devil in the Flesh is the shocking story of Marthe, who betrays her husband on the front with a 15 year old boy.

The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet

Wexford Festival Opera presents the first modern staging of French composer Fromental Halévy's adaptation of Shakespeare's late masterpiece The Tempest. Conducted by Francesco Cilluffo and directed by Roberto Catalano.

Wexford Festival Opera 2022

A forgotten opera by Fromental Halévy, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, at Wexford Festival Opera.

Fromental Halévy: La Tempesta

Indre, an ambitious young psychologist, reluctantly agrees to transport two patients from one psychiatric ward to another in exchange for research privileges at her clinic. As they travel along the coastline, what looks like a carefree summer road trip becomes the start of a journey to recovery, for Indre as well as the two patients in tow.

A psychologist agrees to take two patients to a psychiatric ward and ends up embarking on a therapeutic journey along the coast.

Summer Survivors

A professor and a group of illegal construction workers, left without money and deprived of basic rights, band together to try and fight their employers by any means available. What started as a simple construction job becomes a fight for survival.

A group of construction workers fight their bosses by any means available.

Working Class Heroes

The Bangladesh cultural scene is dynamic, creative and on the up. With fashion designer Bibi Russell, art patron Nadia Samdani, the Britto Arts Trust and photographers Shahidul Alam and Munem Wasif.

The Bangladesh cultural scene is dynamic, creative and on the up. 

Booming Bangladesh

Located east of the island of Antigua in the Caribbean, the small nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis has beautiful landscapes and a history and heritage marked by colonialism.

A train ride through the small Caribbean nation of Saint Kitts includes beautiful landscapes and colonial history.

St Kitts by Train

The host of the World Cup this year is a tiny state with huge ambitions: Qatar, in little over a generation, has become one of the richest countries in the world. A focus on how the gulf state plans to reach new heights.

Qatar, in little over a generation, has become one of the richest countries in the world. A focus on how the gulf state plans to reach new heights.

Qatar - Conquering the World

In 1912 a German archaeologist discovered the bust of Nefertiti, wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, when he uncovered the workshop of an ancient artist at Amarna. The discovery of this beautiful sculpture caused a sensation at the time and chimed with contemporary ideals of feminine beauty

The Nefertiti Bust: The Birth of an Icon

In 1912 a German archaeologist discovered the bust of Nefertiti, wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, when he uncovered the workshop of an ancient artist at Amarna. 

Making History

Is it possible to write a history of our own reflection? Historian Philippe Artières, reflects on the mirror as an object and the action of observing oneself that for ordinary citizens only dates back to the nineteenth century.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Is it possible to write a history of our own reflection? Historian Philippe Artières, reflects on the mirror as an object.

In the collective imagination, classical dance is about grace and lightness. But dancing is physically demanding and requires thousands of hours of training. By the time dancers reach their forties, they are close to retirement, but they have often reached the height of their artistic powers. Maturity holds great artistic potential, which increasingly calls into question the glorification of youth in dance.

Pushing the Limit

Professional dancers usually retire after the age of 40 but are often at the height of their artistic powers at this age. Should they dance on?

Dance On!

70 years of career in front of and behind the camera and still active at 90, Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend. A look back at his unique career through a portrait that explores the complexity of the Eastwood myth.

The Last Legend

70 years of career in front of and behind the camera and still active at 90, Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood legend.

Clint Eastwood

"Heavy Metal Dancers" is a documentary about accepting one’s imperfections while striving for perfection on stage. The pole dancers may all be from Finland, but their stories are universal. Their passion for this unusual sport has allowed them to come to terms with their bodies, their lives and sometimes their difficult pasts.

A film about reclaiming one's body and accepting one's own imperfections through pole dancing.

Heavy Metal Dancers

An unexpected interaction on Twitter leads Luisa, a young actress, to meet Antonio, an author and journalist who conceals his identity by using the pseudonym Rasputin. Their online relationship becomes central to their lives and one day, they finally decide to meet. But Antonio has an accident along the way.

A story of love affairs that aren’t what they seem, of consequences, and of fate’s inevitable interferences.

Crooked Lines

World Cup teams dropped plans to wear the OneLove armband to protest Qatar’s laws against homosexuality after FIFA threatened players with sporting sanctions. Meanwhile, France mulls a ban on bullfighting, and Banksy’s art in Ukraine divides opinions.
 

World Cup / Bullfighting / Banksy

Energy from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas made modern life possible in the first place; but that modern way of life is now in danger from the climate crisis and temperature extremes. Can we find an energy source that provides just as much energy as fossil fuels, but is still clean and easily available - a kind of perfect energy?

The Perfect Energy Source

Can we find an energy source that provides just as much energy as fossil fuels, but is still clean and easily available - a kind of perfect energy?

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