La Méditerranée révélée

Fragile Schönheit Mittelmeer

Fragile and Beautiful Mediterranean

La frágil belleza del Mediterráneo

Kruche piękno Morza Śródziemnego

Mediterraneo, una bellezza fragile

<p>The waters of the Strait of Messina, which separates the Italian peninsula from Sicily, are virtually unexplored due to the powerful currents generated by the meeting of the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas, currents which also supports an exceptional biodiversity.</p>

The Strait of Messina

The waters of the Strait of Messina are virtually unexplored due to its powerful currents.

Long beaches, spectacular cliffs, lonely mountains: from Rosslare in the southeast via Dublin to Howth runs probably the most beautiful train route in the Republic of Ireland. The area was shaped by Normans, Vikings and the turbulent history with England.

From Rosslare in the southeast via Dublin to Howth runs probably the most beautiful train route in the Republic of Ireland. 

Ireland's East Coast by Train

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Chile’s Ruta de los Parques is a chain of 17 national parks stretching across 2400km of Pristine wilderness.  Instrumental in creating these reserves was American philanthropist Douglas Tompkins who bought large tracts of land that he then gifted to the Chilean nation on the condition that they remain protected.

Chile: Ruta de los Parques

National Parks of the Future

A trip through Hungary from west to east by rail taking in the famous Lake Balaton, the country’s most important music festival and the largest herd of buffalo in Hungary.

Hungary by Train

The vast sea - a symbol of boundlessness. But is it really so? Who does the sea actually belong to? In the past, it was simple: as far as the cannons could shoot, that much sea belonged to the land. Nowadays, the distribution is more complicated, also because we use the sea in diverse and intensive ways. But can the sea and its treasures be distributed fairly at all?

Who Owns the Sea?

Can the sea and its treasures be distributed fairly?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Naples is rough, and ready, but beautiful despite itself. Artists are drawn to its sharp contrasts. A spectacular urban landscape with a harbour and Vesuvius looming in the background, it's a city full of classic, contemporary, and downright bizarre art. Its culture scene is being reshaped by private initiatives such as the group "La Paranza", which is constantly creating new exhibition spaces in the Sanità district.

A City of the Arts

Naples is rough, and ready, but beautiful despite itself. Artists are drawn to its sharp contrasts.

Naples

Did you know that people from Cyprus can cross the border into the UK every day? The British have a sort of autonomous state on the island: the Sovereign Base Areas. This is a case for Crazy Borders.

Dhekelia: Divided Between Cyprus and Britain

Did you know that people from Cyprus can cross the border into the UK every day?

Crazy Borders

For nearly one hundred years the Salvation Islands in French Guiana was the site of a dreaded prison known as Devil’s Island. Today only ruins remain as the area has become a holiday destination. It is also used as a launching pad for the European Space Agency’s rockets.

Kourou: Palm Trees, Prisons and Rockets

ARTE 360° Reportage

Argentina is a country of horses, but also of polo. Traditionally a male sport, more and more women are taking to the saddle and the field. Clarita Cassino is one of the country's best female players. Can she and her teammates reach the final of the Palermo Open again?

Women's Polo in Argentina

Argentina is a country of horses, but also of polo. Traditionally a male sport, more and more women are taking to the saddle and the field.

Just off the coast from the French Riviera, Port-Cros is the smallest of the Hyères islands. Since 1963, its 7 square kilometres have formed the heart of Europe's oldest national park on both land and sea. In this living laboratory, conservationists and researchers from all over the world come to study this spectacular untouched ecosystems.

The Island of Port-Cros

Just off the coast from the French Riviera, the island of Port-Cros forms the heart of Europe's oldest national park on both land and sea.

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From his gilded youth in Europe to the bloody repression of the Arab Spring, this is the engrossing story of Muammar Gaddafi's second son who, despite arrest warrants for crimes against humanity, is running for election in Libya.

Saif Al Islam Gaddafi's Comeback

Son of a Dictator

In September 2022 the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody set off nationwide protests in Iran. One year on from this civil unrest, Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Iranian Women Resist

Tracks East meets the ultra-connected younger generation who demonstrate their opposition to the government through art and music.

Tracks East

Helen Mirren, the most versatile of British actresses, has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career, from sexually charged Shakespearian roles to secret agents to Queen Elizabeth II. This documentary paints a portrait of a strong woman, guided by her feminist convictions as a performer and in her private life

The most versatile of British actresses has played diverse roles in her long and distinguished career including royalty.

Helen Mirren - Queen of Actresses

Puerto Rico is an "unincorporated territory" of the US, its residents live between two cultures, and not all Boricuas, as the islanders call themselves, necessarily identify as Americans. They enjoy life in their own way and do their best to confront life's challenges.

A look at life and art on the smallest island in the Greater Antilles.

Puerto Rico: The Rhythm of the Caribbean

How is it possible for one of the world’s poorest countries to develop nuclear weapons? 

North Korea: Kim's Men

ARTE Reportage

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

Spain’s historic win in the Women’s World Cup was overshadowed by scandal after Luis Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss of striker Jenni Hermoso. It’s had a ripple effect across sport in Europe, shining a light on deep-rooted inequality, from pay gaps to poor work conditions and cases of sexual assault.

Football’s #MeToo moment highlights sexism in European sport

Luis Rubiales’ forced kiss on Spain player Jenni Hermoso has sparked a reckoning over sexism in sport.

ARTE Europe Weekly

On the largest lake in Southeast Asia, the enormous Tonle Sap, thousands of people live in harmony with the seasons, adapted to the cycle of the lake's nature. They permanently reside in houseboats on the water. Entire villages have adjusted their lives to the highly fluctuating water levels of Tonle Sap. The rhythm of the seasons requires them to move repeatedly - everything and everyone must go.

Cambodia's Floating Villages

Entire villages have adjusted their lives to the highly fluctuating water levels of Tonle Sap.

Geo Reportage

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless. To celebrate their latest album, 
Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, TAPE revisits the history of a music group that became a global movement. 

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless

TAPE: Metallica

With the war in Ukraine, the spectre of a new food crisis is haunting Africa. Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. Ukrainian farmers working the land today are coming under Russian machine-gun fire. Finally, we head for Nairobi, where the distant war is weighing heavily on local people’s wallets.

Food: A Weapon of War

Tracks East witnesses an artistic performance that revives the trauma of the great famine that decimated Ukraine in the 1930s. 

In October 2022, residents of the pretty French mountain town of Rumilly were shocked to discover that their drinking water was contaminated with forever chemicals. The supply lines for the town's 16,000 residents were closed. Mayor Christian Heison had never heard of these toxic PFAS before, but for months - maybe years - he and his community had been unwittingly drinking them.

The pretty French mountain town of Rumilly is a forever chemical hotspot.

Re: Forever Chemicals in French Drinking Water

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn and many are no longer in control of their lives due to their sexual disorder. The problem is a taboo subject. But sex sells, especially on the internet: In Germany alone, online porn providers turn over an estimated 4.5 billion euros a year.

When Pleasure turns into Pain

About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn with severe consequences for their lives and relationships.

Re: Porn Addiction

The earthquake that hit Morocco, has aroused strong emotions, particularly in France, which is home to the largest Moroccan diaspora. Yet France was not among the first countries asked by Morocco to provide aid: Rabat chose Spain, the United Kingdom, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. How can this choice be explained?

Morocco: Geopolitics of an Earthquake

France was not one of the first countries asked by Rabat to provide emergency aid after the terrible earthquake. Why?

Mapping the World Essentials

Performing under a dome with exceptional acoustics, inexhaustible showman Jamie Cullum gives a spellbinding solo concert, mixing up genres from jazz to rock and pop.

Piano solo in Versailles

Jamie Cullum gives a spellbinding concert alone at the piano, mixing up jazz, rock and pop sounds.

Jamie Cullum

Ten years after Gaddafi's fall, what state is Libya in? There's the official government based in Tripoli that is recognised by the international community, and rival forces controlled by General Khalifa Haftar.

Libya: A Global Power Struggle

Ten years after Gaddafi's fall, what state is Libya in?

Mapping the World

Apple launched its streaming service in 2015, and to celebrate, the company made their customers an offer they couldn't refuse: three months free subscription. The problem: during these three months, the artists streamed will not receive a penny. But that was without reckoning for Taylor Swift, who published an open letter to the firm on her Tumblr detailing why refusing to pay artists for their work was unacceptable. Apple backtracked. 

Taylor Swift

TAPE

In Athens and Elefsina, European Capital of Culture 2023, Twist talks to artists, musicians and creative people. How has the financial crisis and draconian austerity measures impacted their work? Since the parliamentary elections, what is the mood on the Greek cultural scene?

Greek Artists Take Stock

In Athens and Elefsina, European Capital of Culture 2023, Twist talks to artists, musicians and creative people

Twist

August 19, 2014. Nicki Minaj releases the music video for Anaconda. The message is clear: down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech. Provocative? Maybe. Feminist? Definitely.

Nicki Minaj

Nicki Minaj says down with the dictatorship of skinny pop stars, and make way for XXL shapes and XXX speech

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society. His videos and stage shows were designed to provoke and force the USA to face its cultural contradictions.

In the 1990s Marilyn Manson got a kick out of upsetting American society.

TAPE: Marilyn Manson

Under conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi, a remarkable performance from Ensemble Matheus performing the music of Mozart at Lyon's Trinity Chapel. A concert dominated by the great composer's superb Great Mass in C minor.

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