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A spotlight on Spanish cinema with Pedro Almodóvar, his muse Penelope Cruz and their illustrious predecessor Luis Buñuel. An opportunity to get to know lesser known gems like the works of Fernando Trueba and the many versions of Don Quixote.

Cinekino: Spain

Not all nipples are the same. On Instagram or Facebook female breasts are censured whereas the bare male torso is allowed. Some artists are challenging this double standard. 

All Nipples are Not Equal

Gymnastics

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CineKino: España

CinéKino: Hiszpania

CineKino: Spagna

A spotlight on Spanish cinema with Pedro Almodóvar, Penelope Cruz and their illustrious predecessor Luis Buñuel. 

Not all nipples are the same. On Instagram or Facebook female breasts are censured whereas the bare male torso is not. Some artists are challenging this double standard. 

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An exhibition, a retrospective, a piece of art... We accompany a different contemporary artist each episode to deepen our understanding of their creative process.

 We accompany a different contemporary artist each episode to deepen our understanding of their creative process

Atelier A: Yan-Pei Ming

Jann is among Poland's fastest-rising pop stars. Having won the hearts of his compatriots, the singer now turns to Europe with this flamboyant performance at the Eurosonic festival.

Eurosonic 2024

Polish pop revelation Jann on the ESNS festival stage.

Jann

Hailing from Stuttgart, this duo's nonchalant indie pop with electro overtones is enhanced by their lyrics sung in English. For Zimmer90, songwriting should be intuitive - a vision that translates into collecting sound sketches that are then developed in relaxed jam sessions.

Reeperbahn Festival 2024

The comfort of a delicious black coffee sipped quietly on a Sunday morning: That's the effect of Zimmer90's music.

Zimmer90

Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love and our search for it. Can love exist between two people, or between three? And what of our love for ourselves, or indeed the unconditional love we hold for our pets?

Love! But how?

Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love.

Streetphilosophy

Who am I? Where do I come from? Where do I belong? What actually determines our identity? How do theatre director Ersan Mondtag, Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková and anti-racism activist and writer Mirrianne Mahn reflect on these questions in their work? This episode of culture magazine show Twist looks at questions of identity and diversity.

The Beauty of Diversity

Who am I and where do I belong? Twist looks questions of identity and diversity.

Twist

Barcelona-native Marine Herlop charms the Eurosonic festival audience with the strange beauty of her third album, Pripyat.

Eurosonic Noorderslag 2023

Marina Herlop

Still relatively unknown, this young singer has already been making a name for herself with her unique visual and sonic universe. With its hyperpop accents, frantic vocoder and bubblegum aesthetic, her first single ‘Skirt On Pants’ shows that Kässy is firmly rooted in her time.

A girly energy and a modern sound with familiar accents: A newcomer on the international scene.

Kässy

Hair and nails, glitter and gloss, short skirts... Generation Z is reclaiming long-discredited stereotypes and reinventing women's fashion- It’s a new wave that includes the queer community and questions traditional ideals of beauty. Tracks investigates hyperfemininity and asks whether this reinterpretation can be subversive and empowering.

Hyperfemininity: Fashion is Politics

Hair and nails, glitter and gloss, short skirts... Generation Z is reclaiming long-discredited stereotypes and reinventing women's fashion

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Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

ARTE Reportage

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

Entire generations have learned about sex through mainstream porn, blurring the lines between personal desires and platform-driven fantasies. But if our sexuality is shaped by algorithms, can’t we take back some control? The post-porn movement is doing exactly that. Aimed at creating pornography that reflects honest, consensual sex – its creators are making waves online.

Can Post-porn Awaken Our True Desires?

What if porn reflected our true desires? Post-porn aims to be more ethical, more honest and more revolutionary.

When it comes to defence, Europe is dependent on the US. But now Donald Trump will be returning to the White House in 2025, and he’s threatened to pull out of NATO in the past. Meanwhile, the military threat from Russia is growing. Can Europe learn to defend itself without America?

Can Europe defend itself alone?

After Trump's election victory, Europe is increasingly worried about being left to fend for itself against Russia.

ARTE Europe Weekly

More and more city dwellers are getting a taste for foraging for food in the concrete jungle. They harvest herbs by the roadside and pick wild vegetables from cracks in the asphalt. From Brighton to Berlin, we meet the urban foragers who are making tasty and nutritious meals out of what they find in the streets and parks of major cities.

 From Brighton to Berlin, we meet the urban foragers who are making tasty and nutritious meals out of what they find in the streets.

Re: Urban Foraging

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

Horses have long played an essential role for the nomadic peoples of Mongolia, but as Mongolians have adopted a sedentary way of life, they now breed horses primarily for their meat. This has had disastrous consequences, including animal abuse, overgrazing and obesity in large swathes of the population.
Naranbadrakh Batkhuu wants to revive the age-old relationship between Mongolians and their horses for the good of the people and the natural world.

Mongolia: The Man Who Loved Horses

Naranbadrakh Batkhuu wants to revive the age-old relationship between Mongolians and their horses.

360° Reportage

Pre-Christmas discount shopping season is here. Black Friday has turned into a month-long shopping spree, combining with Singles Day and Cyber Monday to become an entire Black November. Europe’s frenzy of overconsumption damages the environment and often rips off buyers, but is also an opportunity to save money. Why are we so sucked in by shopping deals? Is Black Friday just one big fraud day?

Black Friday: A good deal or a rip-off?

The US holiday has taken over Europe – but it might not be as good a bargain as it seems.

During his term in office, President Trump overturned the principles of American foreign policy and implemented his America first" doctrine whereas President Biden sought to restore traditional American multilateralism. Which foreign policy will prevail after the US Elections?

US Foreign Policy under Biden and Trump

A comparison of Donald Trump's and Joe Biden's approach to international relations.

Mapping the World

There have never been more opportunities to meet new sexual partners in our liberated world of dating apps, sex parties and queer liberation. But how come we are having less sex today than in the past?

Why Do We Have Less Sex?

There have never been more opportunities for sex in our liberated world. But how come we havz less sex today than in the past?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Allegations against R. Kelly have dogged the R’n’B star for decades. With alleged sexual abuse and child pornography, can we still listen to R. Kelly songs?

R. Kelly

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In eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus, the Bialowieza Forest is at the heart of an intense migratory and geopolitical crisis. Despite the change of government last year, the whole area and its inhabitants are in turmoil as the Polish authorities try to militarise the border and stop migrant crossings.

In eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus, the Bialowieza Forest is at the heart of an intense migratory and geopolitical crisis. 

Re: Migration Crisis on the Polish Border

Why is Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, still viewed as a Machiavellian manipulator? By marrying into the family her father wanted to forge an alliance with, she became forever associated with the worst scandals of Renaissance Italy.

Lucrezia Borgia vs Pope Alexander VI

Why is Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, still viewed as a Machiavellian manipulator? 

Duels of History

Electro mastermind Moby celebrates the 25th anniversary of his cult album Play with a European tour. Here playing at the Antwerp Sportpaleis arena.

Sportpaleis Antwerp

Electro genius Moby celebrates the 25th anniversary of his cult album ‘Play’ with a European tour.

Moby: 25 Years of Play

Cécile McLorin Salvant has been described as ‘the heiress of Billie Holiday’. When she sings, it's as if time and space disappear, with a modern-day voice reviving the soul of ‘Lady Day’. Winning award after award, this Franco-American singer is now one of the leading figures in jazz today.

Leverkusener Jazztage 2024

A singer who has won three Grammy Awards and whose critics are full of praise for what they describe as a 'jewel.'

Cécile McLorin Salvant

All in their mid-twenties, models Vivian, Lisa, and Tanja chase personal fulfillment and career triumphs. As they grapple with societal pressures, their friendship turns into rivalry, their bodies becoming battlegrounds in a relentless pursuit of beauty, love, and success.

Three models juggle the pressures of love, career, and self-image in a seemingly glamorous world.

Models

In 1972, in Germersheim, West Germany, the second edition of the British Rock Meeting saw some of the most prestigious bands of the day take to the stage, including Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Rory Gallagher and Status Quo at an enormous gathering of the hippie generation.

The 1972 British Rock Meeting was an important cultural event for the hippie generation in Germany.

The German Woodstock - Germersheim '72

It’s the sound from South Africa that went global during lockdown: Amapiano mixes deep house with traditional music to create a sound that is spiritual and celebratory, and for some its a way of life. Tracks went to find out more about it.

Amapiano: The Sound of South Africa

House music was born in Chicago but South Africa has given the genre its own spin: Amapiano.

How did a simple tennis match between a woman, tennis star Billie Jean King, and a man, ex-player Bobby Riggs, become a television phenomenon and change the face of women's sport?

Billie Jean King vs Bobby Riggs

AIR perform their iconic album Moon Safari at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Return to the tail end of the 1990s with this exceptional concert, when the "French Touch" scene was conquering hearts and minds from the European continent to Hollywood.

Royal Albert Hall

Air bring their totemic French Touch founding album to London's Royal Albert Hall.

Air play "Moon Safari"

Two thousand years after the fact, can we really say that Messalina and Agrippina, two empresses of Roman antiquity, were the criminals and depraved women described by chroniclers of the time?

Messalina vs Agrippina

Were the two empresses of Roman antiquity really the criminals and depraved women described by chroniclers of the time?