Europa a orillas del Danubio

Rewriting Europe Along the Danube

Europa an der Donau erleben

Réécrire l'Europe à vélo

Emmanuel Ruben in bici lungo il Danubio

Poznaj Europę nad Dunajem

French writer Emmanuel Ruben is a bicycle enthusiast. Writing about his cycle from west to east following Europe’s longest river, the Danube, Ruben reflects on Europe and migration.

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<p>French writer Emmanuel Ruben is a bicycle enthusiast. Writing about his cycle from west to east following Europe’s longest river, the Danube, Ruben reflects on Europe and migration.</p>

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In his latest show, ‘I Am Europe’, German theatre director Falk Richter focuses on the question of European identity in an era of rising nationalism. Using individual experience as a starting point, eight performers from diverse backgrounds asks what Europe is and where it is going. Created at the Strasbourg National Theatre, 'I Am Europe' tours Europe until May 2020.

In his latest show, ‘I Am Europe’, German theatre director Falk Richter focuses on the question of European identity in an era of rising nationalism. 

Falk Richter and European Identity

Italian director Nanni Moretti’s new film tells how the Italian embassy In Chile helped opponents to the Pinochet dictatorship in 1973 and supported democratic ideals.

Nanni Moretti's New Film: Santiago, Italia

The European flag, 12 yellow stars on a blue background, is a potent symbol of the European Union. Paris-based fashion brand Etudes Studio includes the European flag in their designs.

European Flag in Fashion

Mariusz would never have become the artist he is now if Poland had not joined the European Union. He now creates striking murals in cities all over the world.

Mariusz would never have become the artist he is now if Poland had not joined the European Union.

Mariusz Waras, Street Artist

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The exhibition The Ordinary Lives of Women brings together work by various artists that interpret the value of everyday women and their contribution to humanity. Showing at the Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta, Malta, until the 13th of March.

Exhibition in Valletta - Malta

The exhibition The Ordinary Lives of Women brings together work by various artists that interpret the value of everyday women and their contribution to humanity.

The Ordinary Lives of Women

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

Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish perform at Hellfest 2022.

Hellfest 2022

Nightwish

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

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

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Young Korean musicians have been taking the world of classical music by storm. A new generation are winning the big prizes and pursuing successful careers in Europe and around the world. What makes these Korean classical artists so good? A documentary following the rising stars of K-Classic

The Korean Musical Mystery

Generation K-Classics

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

Sheffield natives Bring Me The Horizon bring their heterogeneous metal sound to Hellfest 2022.

Bring Me The Horizon

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.

ARTE Reportage

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

English post-punk duo Sleaford Mods tear up the Tempelhof stage with their visceral and poetic creations full of raw indignation.

Sleaford Mods

The Days Off festival invites former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker to revisit classic French pop songs from the 1960s, tracks immortalised in the Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch.
Live from the Philharmonie de Paris, 2 July 2022.

Days Off 2022

Former Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker revisits classic French pop songs from the 1960s, tracks immortalised in the Wes Anderson film, The French Dispatch.
Live from the Philharmonie de Paris, 2 July 2022.

Jarvis Cocker

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. 

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

Folk, americana, country, rock - the music of The Lumineers is the sound of America. But with III, they take a darker turn as they explore the issue of addiction in three acts, and prove that they are so much more than Ho Hey.

The Lumineers, performing live in Paris, take a darker turn with their record III, which explores the issue of addiction in three acts

The Lumineers at the Zenith in Paris

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

Epica

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an exception in the Muslim world: The French-Algerian imam is openly gay. For the past ten year he has led a progressive and inclusive movement promoting an Islam that respects the LGBT+ community, women’s right, and interfaith dialogue.

A Gay Imam

Ludovic-Mohamed-Zahed is an exception in the Muslim world: The French-Algerian imam is openly gay.

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

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

Mixing punk and old-school metal, Welsh band BFMV are set up to tear up Hellfest 2022.

Bullet For My Valentine

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.

Europe of Artists

Europe of Artists

Falk Richter and European Identity

Falk Richter and European Identity

Europe of Artists

Nanni Moretti's New Film: Santiago, Italia

Nanni Moretti's New Film: Santiago, Italia

Europe of Artists

European Flag in Fashion

European Flag in Fashion

Europe of Artists