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<p>On his wedding day, Zsolt, a somewhat neurotic interior decorator, begins to have doubts about his decision to get married. He takes refuge in the flat of Anni, a friend of Klári, his future wife, for whom he seems to feel more than affection. Meanwhile, Klári is enjoying the party too much to worry about her husband's absence.</p>

Un homme sur le point de se marier se rend compte qu’il est en fait amoureux de l’amie de sa fiancée.

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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At first glance, nothing connects Lil Wayne to Donald Trump: one is an African-American rapper from the poor neighborhoods of New Orleans, the other a rich white heir turned President of the United States. And yet without Donald Trump, Lil Wayne could have gone to prison for up to a decade. TAPE tells you all about this surprising relationship.

Lil Wayne

Without Donald Trump, Lil Wayne could have gone to prison for over a decade

It is banned in the European Union and yet Burmese teak is still imported. How is that possible? Data Sources goes on the trail of the illegal trade in teak from Myanmar.

Traffic in Burmese Teak

It is banned in the European Union and yet Burmese teak is still imported. How is that possible? 

Data Sources

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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.

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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

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

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

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

Two years after the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh? We report on the disputed territory, a militarised zone that is now under Azerbaijan's control, and on the displaced people of Karabakh in Baku.

Back to Karabakh

Two years after the ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan, what is happening in Nagorno-Karabakh? 

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

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

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

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 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.

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