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Chinese-Belgian producer Bolis Pupul traces his Hong Kong roots in Letter To Yu, his first solo album, which he will be presenting at Paris' Ground Control.

Ground Control

Bolis Pupul

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 play "Moon Safari"

Chinese-Belgian producer Bolis Pupul traces his Hong Kong roots in <em>Letter To Yu</em>, his first solo album, which he will be presenting at Paris' Ground Control.

Bolis Pupul presents his Letter To Yu project to the Ground Control audience.

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

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Nils Frahm unleashes the full genius of his neoclassical universe for an ecstatic audience at the Philharmonie de Paris. A concert built around tracks from Day, his fifteenth album released in 2024.

Philharmonie de Paris

A concert filled with fervour from the neoclassical piano maestro.

Nils Frahm

Passengers invites Yann Tiersen under the steel canopy of Tempelhof Airport. An expansive setting for the windswept sound of album Kerber, an ode to the Breton island of Ushant.  

Passengers: Tempelhof Airport

Yann Tiersen brings windswept electronica to the dramatic architecture of Berlin's Tempelhof.

Yann Tiersen

A whimsical look at the rise of the French music duo, Air. 

A whimsical look at the rise of the French music duo, Air

TAPE: Air

Irène Drésel brings her electro-floral machines to the Roseraie du Val de Marne for Passengers. The perfect setting to immerse yourself in her album Rose Fluo, released in 2024.

Passengers

A magical performance by electro producer Irène Drésel.

Irène Drésel

Ellen Allien pours out her unique syncopated rhythms on Zurich's Street Parade. A leading figure on the electro scene, this famous DJ from Berlin has left her mark on techno and EDM, and has managed to unite an entire underground community around her.

Zurich Street Parade 2024

Ellen Allien embodies the techno spirit as an emblem of her generation: a unique visionary.

Ellen Allien

Yanamaste is an extraordinary personality. Irakli Danelia is capable of captivating audiences with his instantly recognisable soundscapes and infectious beats. Originally from Batumi, Georgia, Yanamaste began his musical odyssey at an early age, quickly finding his calling in techno.

Stone Techno 2024

The DJ captivates audiences with his instantly recognisable soundscapes and infectious beats.

Yanamaste

Oscar Mulero's prolific career mirrors the evolution of EDM. A key figure in this wave, the DJ has never stopped incorporating new trends. The result: since the late 1980s, he's always kept up with the times.

Oscar Mulero's prolific career mirrors the evolution of EDM.

Oscar Mulero

DJ and producer Richie Hawtin is one of the leading lights of electronic music, with a career spanning more than twenty-five years.  In his own words, "the whole art of techno is to make the machines disappear". This techno visionary is a regular at Barcelona's Sónar and returns this year with a new show, DEX EFX X0X.

Sónar 2024

This techno visionary is a regular fixture at Sónar, here returning in 2024 with his brand new show "DEX EFX X0X".

Richie Hawtin: DEX EFX X0X

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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.

Tracks

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

In the last 50 years, the proportion of asthma and allergy sufferers in industrialised countries has risen from five to 30 per cent. This is likely due to the lack of diversity of microbes in our increasingly germ-free environment. This documentary look at how microbes affect our health and how we can plan urban space to renew our contact with the natural world.

Could microbes hold the key to understanding the increase in a number of chronic conditions and allergies?

The Power of Microbes

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.

In recent years, works by photographers who lived in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall have been rediscovered and reappraised.  An exclusive look at a world that no longer exists.

Propaganda and Daily Life

An exclusive look at photography from the GDR, a world that no longer exists.

GDR Photo Shoot

Migrants intercepted at sea of the coast of Italy can now be taken to asylum centres in Albania, where their applications will be processed. The aim of this agreement between Rome and Tirana is clear: to dissuade migrants from attempting the Mediterranean. An issue at the heart of European political debate.

Migration: The Meloni Model

Italian Prime Minister Meloni has had two reception centres for asylum seekers set up in Albania. The aim: to deter migrants.

Mapping the World Essentials

More convicts than cells, Europe’s prisons are facing a crisis and it’s forcing big questions about the penal system and rehabilitation. This ARTE Europe weekly, we’re behind bars to find out the impact on inmates as well as solutions.

Are Europe's prisons at breaking point?

Europe’s prisons are hitting breaking point with overcrowding. But what does that mean for life behind bars?

ARTE Europe Weekly

Forty years ago, in June 1982, Israel invaded southern Lebanon, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee by the Israelis. A small guerrilla group came together in secret to resist this offensive. Formed and supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran, it officially declared itself in 1985 as Hezbollah: The Party of God.
Four decades later, this small group has grown to become one of the most important military and political forces in the Middle East. A party of resistance for some, a terrorist group for others, Hezbollah is admired as much as it is feared. But the organisation, practically a state within a state, is living through turbulent times as Lebanon is experiencing a major political and economic crisis.

As  Lebanon experiences an existential crisis, a focus on the history of militant group Hezbollah, a controversial organisation supported by Iran.

Lebanon: Inside Hezbollah

Yetundey is originally from Leipzig and mixes styles and influences. Layla Boe wants to make the German language smoother in her music.

Germany

Girlhood - Women in Rap (1/4)

The immune system is as vital to the human body as the heart or the lungs. It protects us from harm survival but can also turn against us. This documentary looks at the latest scientific discoveries around this complex and fascinating system, and how it can be strengthened.

The immune system is as vital to the human body as the heart or the lungs. It protects us from harm survival but can also turn against us. 

Our Immune System - A Powerful Guardian

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

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war. Their ideology is as ferociously anti-American and antisemitic, as it is pro-Palestine with young people indoctrinated into a strict religious view of the world that burns with anger.

Yemen: Houthi Fury

The Houthis rule a third of Yemen with an iron fist, after ten years of civil war.

Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni's far right is set to make access to Italian nationality easier. The country follows the example of Germany which also relaxed the requirements for acquiring citizenship in June. But with almost one million people having obtained the nationality of a European Union member state by 2022 - is a brighter and more diverse future ahead for the EU?

Has it become easier to obtain citizenship in Europe?

Italy is set to ease its stringent citizenship laws for foreigners. But where does the rest of Europe stand?

Climate change is making the weather increasingly unpredictable and volatile. Extreme weather events are on the increase: In a matter of minutes, hailstorms can destroy an entire year's harvests and flash floods can take lives and destroy homes. What are the causes of these extreme phenomena? And how bad could they become in future?

Thunderstorms, Hail and Heavy Rain

Hail, thunderstorms, flash floods: Why are these extreme weather events happening?

Extreme Weather Events

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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How are extremist Israeli settlers taking over land on the West Bank? Data Sources reveals the extent to which illegal outposts contribute to harassing and ultimately driving out the Palestinians from their homes. A strategy supported by the Israeli government.

Colonisation on the West Bank

How extremist Israeli settlers are using violence to seize the land from Palestinians on the West Bank.

Data Sources

At first celebrated by the music industry, Kate Nash broke with the commercial demands of major labels after her second album, choosing to manage everything herself. A decision proven wise in the intervening years. From her debut Made Of Bricks (2007) to the intimate and eclectic collection Yesterday Was Forever (2018), the British singer has established herself as one of the great names of international pop.

Reeperbahn Festival 2024

Over the last twenty years, this multi-talented Briton has seen her career rocked by a number of twists and turns. She has emerged stronger, both humanly and artistically.

Kate Nash

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.

In Paris and other French cities, a new wave of cabaret is renewing the artform. The glittering and glamourous shows are often queer, self-referential, political, and very funny. Tracks takes you into the liminal spaces of the new underground cabaret.

Punk, Glitter, Glamour: The New Underground Cabaret

Tracks takes you into the liminal spaces of the new underground cabaret in France which is often queer, political, and very funny.

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