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Generation Africa

As a young man, Ike Nnaebue left his native Nigeria to try to reach Europe. More than two decades later he travels again the route from Lagos to Tangier. On the way he meets people who are making the same desperate and hopeful journey and finds out what motivates them to undertake such a dangerous trip.

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Stories of Migration

<p>As a young man, Ike Nnaebue left his native Nigeria to try to reach Europe. More than two decades later he travels again the route from Lagos to Tangier. On the way he meets people who are making the same desperate and hopeful journey and finds out what motivates them to undertake such a dangerous trip.</p>

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As a young man, Ike Nnaebue left his native Nigeria to try to reach Europe. More than two decades later he travels again the route from Lagos to Tangier. .

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In South Sudan, Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior is now known as the "mother of the nation" for her political commitment to her people. Independent since 2011, the country has known almost nothing but war in its short existence. Rebecca Nyandeng refuses to accept that her husband John Garang, leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Army and later the country's first vice-president, died in vain. After years of exile in Kenya, and with a fragile peace agreement installed in 2019, she has decided to return to her homeland, where she is preparing to join the government. Her greatest hope is that her children will also return and build a life for themselves, including her daughter Akuol, who directed this film.
Born in Cuba and raised in Kenya before embarking on a career abroad, Akuol de Mabior is dealing with a split identity. What does it mean to be South Sudanese, to feel at home? For her first feature-length documentary, the young woman decided to focus her mother and her sister, taking a very personal look at the recent history of South Sudan.

No Simple Way Home

In South Sudan, Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior is now known as the "mother of the nation" for her political commitment to her people. Independent since 2011, the country has known almost nothing but war in its short existence.

Transactions tells a story of Zimbabwean migration through a family divided by the circumstances of a failed economy. Three siblings, Frank, Miles and Portia, sustain their family through remittances while longing for the country and family they left behind. While the fourth sibling, Chrysthle, who is still in Zimbabwe, is frustrated by her inability to help financially, even though she has a full-time job. Their mother, MaMlilo, is a conduit of all the family’s challenges in hyper-inflationary Zimbabwe. Everyone who needs money comes to her in the hopes that she can help them financially. With each monetary transaction, expectations are raised on both sides.

Transactions

Transactions tells a story of Zimbabwean migration through a family divided by the circumstances of a failed economy.

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

Fati didn't want to go to Europe, it was her husband's dream. Unemployed, the TV repairman left their village in Ghana to try to make it to Europe, but didn't make it any further than Libya. He was arrested in Tripoli, and asked Fati to join him. She went, and when she fell pregnant, the couple decided to make one last bid at reaching the West. They made it to Italy and were sent to a migrant camp. It was there that Fati broke. She asked to be repatriated. But she paid a heavy price: her husband divorced her, and her community considers her a failure.

Fati's Choice

After several months in Italy in a migrant camp, a young Ghanaian mother decided to return home

Mary Monday is a journalist for a Ugandan radio station. With only her cell phone and a portable solar-powered charger, she records, edits and reports on the life stories of the refugees in Uganda's largest camp.

Mary works for a Ugandan radio station. She reports on the life of the refugees in the largest camp in Uganda.

Mary Monday's Radio

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

"I was 5. I was 13. I was 16." Originally from Fana, Mali, Mariam was sexually abused by a neighbour, then by her brother-in-law, and first cousin. During the last attack she tried to fight off her abuser, and her shoulder was injured. Dancing awakens the old pain in her shoulder and reminds her of the assault: but dancing is also how she reclaims her body for herself. Pregnant with her first child, she takes part in a workshop during which, with the support of the supervising choreographer and the other dancers, she reckons with her painful past.

Stay Upright

How an abuse survivor in Burkina Faso uses dance to heal herself

In Valencia, Spain, Ouloulou, Baldé and Doucouré, three young migrants from West Africa, speak daily to their marabout, who tells them the rituals to follow to obtain legal residency status. Meanwhile, in Mali, Bakary is preparing for the second time to reach Europe, also following the recommendations of his marabout.

In Valencia, Spain, three young migrants from West Africa talk daily to their marabout.

Taamaden

Paabi, 23, returned from Libya after his second attempt to make it to Europe. He's now trying to get 1,000 euros from a local NGO to invest in his own business - but by eschewing the rules. 

Paabi, 23, returned from Libya after trying to make it to Europe for the second time.

The Price to Stay

"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

Every year, over a hundred of the best law students from all over Africa meet in a different capital city to take part in the renowned African human rights competition "Plädoyer". For a week, these young aspiring lawyers play the roles of prosecution and defense in a fictional human rights case, with each hoping to take home the trophy.

Law students from across Africa play the roles of prosecution and defense in a fictional human rights case.

The Mooting Competition

Mahad was born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, known for its Little Mogadishu, in the Eastleigh district. This colorful district is actually the second largest Somali city in the world. Mahad and his friends are called “Somali Sijui”, literally “the Somalis who don't know”. They are Somalis who are as much Kenyan as they are Somali, in search of their roots and identity in the cultural melting pot of Nairobi.

Almost Somali

In Nairobi, a popular social media content creator is working on films about the Somali identity

In southeast Nigeria, Mercy hopes to join her fiancé, who lives in Dubai. But the marriage negotiations between the two families over how big her dowry should be create tensions and put her dream future with her fiancé in Dubai on the line. 

In southeast Nigeria, Mercy hopes to join her fiancé, who lives in Dubai.

Ime Ego, The Bride Price

Adama and Awa, twin sisters, are trying to track down their father, a Burkinabè who left them in Senegal when they were children. Their journey takes them to Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso, in search of the other families he abandoned along the way.

Twin sisters Adama and Awa are trying to track down their father, who left them when they were small.

Footsteps of a Migrant

In central Benin, during the dry season, which is becoming increasingly harsh due to climate change, herders migrate en masse with their livestock. As this period approaches, herder Boube, worries about conflicts with farmers over water and space.

Leave to Live

Generation Africa - Stories of Migration

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The history of Europe since the end of the Second World War cannot be properly understood without taking into account immigration. Within countries, between European countries as well as from outside Europe, immigration has always been a hot topic.

A History of Immigration in Europe

Mapping the World

Martin Ritter is a German organic farmer, with land in both Germany and Ukraine. All of a sudden, his livelihood is located in a war zone. With the help of the municipality of Ostheim, he decides to send aid to Ukraine and to welcome refugees.

Martin Ritter is a German organic farmer, with land in both Germany and Ukraine. When war broke out, everything changed.

Re: Farming in a War Zone

Planting trees against climate change: Ireland is reforesting its territory by growing spruces. But it's not just about being green, it's about profit. Wood is a big business... much to the displeasure of local environmental activists who want Ireland's forestry policy changed. 

Growing trees to be harvested for wood is big business - but what are the environmental ramifications? 

Re: Money Grows on Trees

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

ARTE Reportage

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.

Many Taiwanese are realising that if Ukraine can stand up to Russia, they might just be able to pull off the impossible, and stand up to China. Inspired by Ukraine's surprisingly successful resistance, some civilians are studying the basics of civil defense, others are taking urban warfare courses, and some are considering how to renovate old bomb shelters.

Taiwan: Learning from Ukraine

Many Taiwanese are realising that if Ukraine can stand up to Russia, they might just be able to pull off the impossible, and stand up to China.

Even in Germany, forest fires represent a risk: due to the climate change, they are of extreme intensity and capable of reducing immense areas to ash. Are German firefighters equipped to deal with increasingly frequent fires? What are the appropriate fire fighting strategies?

When Germany Burns

Are German firefighters equipped to deal with increasingly frequent forest fires?

Re: Wildfires

The Tigray region has been cut off from the rest of Ethiopia because of the civil war. Supplies are low and people are starving. Because of the fighting, crops could not be sowed and there is no harvest this year? It is the youngest that are the first to die in what is a major humanitarian crisis.

Ethiopia: Tigray Humanitarian Crisis

The Tigray region has been cut off from the rest of Ethiopia because of the civil war. Supplies are low and people are starving.

Five years ago in the in the Cabo Delgado region of northern Mozambique, jihadist violence broke out. One areas of the poorest in the country, its people already had enough to deal with, but things have gone from bad to worse. Islamist militias such as Al-Shabab, an offshoot of the Islamic State, have driven 800,000 people out of their villages and towns.

Mozambique: No Way Home

Islamist militias such as Al-Shabab, an offshoot of the Islamic State, have driven away 800,000 people

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One hundred years ago, on February 2nd 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses was published by Sylvia Beach in a small bookshop in Paris. The book, which consumed 7 years of Joyce’s life, years in which his family’s circumstances were very difficult, would have a profound and unprecedented impact on the literature and culture of the century to follow. 

Though Ulysses was banned initially in the US and UK, Joyce’s epic was soon celebrated as a masterpiece of modernism.

100 Years of Ulysses

Kitschy trash or misunderstood genius? Italo disco was the euro sound of the 1980s that many loved and many hated. This documentary looks at how big names of the genre like Sabrina Salerno and duo Righeira conquered the charts.

The Sparkling Sound of the 1980s

Kitschy trash or misunderstood genius? Italo disco was the euro sound of the 1980s that many loved and many hated

Italo Disco

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

Israeli choreographers Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar present their show Chapter 3: The Brutal Journey of the Heart at Nuits de Fourvière.

Nuits de Fourvière

The Brutal Journey of the Heart by Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar

Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was the most densely populated area on Earth. 33,000 people settled on 2.5 hectares of land that was disputed between Chinese and British - meaning neither country asserted its authority there. This vertical slum was a hotbed of crime, but also full of factories, cheap shops and a strong community. This is a case for Crazy Borders. 

Kowloon: The Lawless Super City

This vertical slum was a hotbed of crime, but also full of factories, cheap shops and a strong community.

Crazy Borders

How can you misplace 80km2 of territory? In Mexico, the island of Bermeja had been on maps for generations. But when it came to actually finding the island... it seemed as if it had disappeared into thin air. And with the loss of Bermeja, Mexico lost a huge windfall of oil revenue in the Gulf of Mexico. This is a case for Crazy Borders. 

The Lost Island of Bermeja

The sea absorbs our carbon emissions, gives us plentiful food, and regulates our climate. A healthy sea is a healthy planet. But we can't stop stripping the sea of resources. Whether through overfishing or deep sea mining, humanity is destroying an ecosystem it can't live without.

Whether through overfishing or deep sea mining, humanity is destroying an ecosystem it can't live without.

Overexploited Oceans

The prisoner of a promise made to Neptune, King Idomeneus is faced with a cruel dilemma... From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, the most romantic of Mozart’s operas, directed by Satoshi Miyagi and conducted by Raphaël Pichon, with soprano Sabine Devieilhe, promises to be the operatic event of the 2022 Aix festival season.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2022

The most romantic of Mozart’s operas, conducted by Raphaël Pichon, with soprano Sabine Devieilhe.

Mozart: Idomeneus, King of Crete

Did you know that the Middle Ages is only a few kilometers off the French coast? A lord and his vassals live peacefully on the island of Sark where cars are not allowed. This is a case for Crazy Borders! 

Sark: A Modern Day Feudal Island

A lord and his vassals live peacefully on the island of Sark where cars are not allowed.

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be? For France, of course, the baby would be French. But not for Italy! The quarrel has been going on since 1860, when the divison of territory at the top of the mountain was unclearly defined... leaving each country to interpret the boundary more or less as they saw fit. This really is a case for Crazy Borders!

Mont Blanc: A High Altitude Dispute

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be?

Did you know that the last war between France and Spain took place in the 1970s? It was the war of the stop signs in Llívia, a Spanish town - but in France, in the Pyrenees. This bizarre quirk is due to a treaty signed centuries ago. This really is a case for Crazy Borders! 

Llivia, Between France and Spain

Did you know that the last war between France and Spain took place in the 1970s?

In the town of Baarle, a body of a woman was discovered in a house... but before police could intervene, first authorities had to call a surveyor. Baarle is crisscrossed over with a winding frontier between the Netherlands and Belgium, and police needed to know which country was responsible for investigating the killing. One half of the house was Dutch, the other half was Belgian. This is a case for Crazy Borders! 

Baarle, a Town of Two Nations

A city divided between Belgium and the Netherlands, and scene of a murder? Welcome to Baarle.

Can a state in the EU prohibit women from accessing its territory? In the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos women are not allowed in - even tourists - and any woman who enters could be arrested by police. It's a peninsula from another, bygone world and yet benefits from taxpayer funding (including female taxpayers, presumably...).

Mount Athos: Off Limits for Women

Can a state in the EU prohibit women from accessing its territory?

Bulgarian DJ and techno producer KiNK is adored for his dynamic and spontaneous sets. Both playful and experimental, his sets brilliantly alternate house, techno and acid, peppered with jazzy improvisations. Electro sounds that evoke the characteristic frenzy of a rave.

Stone Techno 2022

Bulgarian DJ and techno producer KiNK is adored for his dynamic and spontaneous sets.

KiNK live

The former military base Camp Zeist in the Netherlands was once lent to Scotland. It was where the two men accused of orchestrating the Lockerbie bombings were put on trial. Libyans saw them as unfair victims. Meanwhile bereaved families demanded justice.

A Scottish Court in the Netherlands

The former military base Camp Zeist in the Netherlands was once lent to Scotland for the Lockerbie bombing trial

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.

No U-Turn

Generation Africa - Stories of Migration