Syrian musicians in exile

Arte Reportage. April 15, 2017.

22 minutes. A report by Marie Dubois and Rémi Mazet.

Since 2015, dozens of Syrian musicians have been performing as the Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra, known as the SEPO.

Karam, Hivron, and Modar live in France, Germany, and the Netherlands respectively. They were professional musicians in Damascus and Aleppo, but …

Ecuador: the rush for oil in Yasuni national park

Revisited. March 26, 2017.

15 minutes. A report by Antoine Boddaert.

Located in eastern Ecuador, the Yasuni Park is a unique ecosystem. Thousands of species of plants and wildlife are concentrated in this part of the Amazon rainforest. But the park and its treasures are directly threatened by drilling for oil……

My life on a bike

Reportages. March 19, 2017.

60 minutes. A report by Guillaume Jeannin and Hélène Bossy.

120 000 French people ride a bike to go on vacation each year. Cycling is a way to get off the beaten track, to meet people, to travel at a different pace. Ecological, the bike can also turn into a working …

Abkhazia, the country that (almost) doesn’t exist

Revisited, October 2, 2016.

15 minutes. A report by Pierre Lascar and Ilioné Schultz.

To the outside world, it’s a country that doesn’t exist. Or almost. Although Abkhazia seceded from Georgia and declared independence almost a quarter of a century ago, only a handful of countries recognise its existence, among them its powerful neighbour Russia. …

USA: Love in black and white

Arte Reportage. February 25, 2016.

26 minutes. A report by Anne Loussouarn and Emmanuel Bach.

In 2014, a young Afro-American was killed in Ferguson by a white policeman. This event upset the whole American society. Seven years after Barack Obama’s election, what is the state of the relations between Black and White communities?

Ashlyn and …

Khady and Massamba: caste struggle

Arte Reportage, February 13, 2016.

26 minutes. A report by Anne Loussouarn and James de Caupenne.

Khady and Massamba live together in Senegal’s capital city Dakar. He is a geer, a nobleman. She is from a family of griot, the storytellers of Western Africa. Because she is a commoner, the young man’s family …

Myanmar: the incredible fate of the Htoo brothers

Arte Reportage, Novembre 7, 2015.

24 minutes. A report by Steve and Am Sandford.

When they were kids, Johnny and Luther Htoo were invincible. This is at least what believed “God’s Army” soldiers, a Karen guerilla group led by the 12 years old twin brothers.

Today, Johnny and Luther are 27 years old. Their past …

God is laugh

L’effet papillon, june 6, 2015.

8 minutes. A report by Feurat Alani.

Since 9/11, islamophobia and extremism are both raising in the United States. Ahmed Ahmed, an american muslim comedian, decided to fight against them with his own weapon, comedy, throughout the Middle-East and the United States.…

Romeo and Juliet in Jordan

Arte Reportage, April 25, 2015.

22 minutes. A report by François-Xavier Tregan and Julien Alric.

Shakespeare shows up between Homs and Amman: a Syrian Romeo, living as a refugee in Jordan, declares his love to a Juliet locked in the besieged Syrian city of Homs….

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Syria: wresting control of Kobani from IS group

Reporters, January 30, 2015. 

12 minutes. A report by Massoud Ahmad, Michael Sztanke and Olivier Marzin.

After long months of fierce fighting in Northern Syria, the Kurdish town of Kobani has been recaptured from Islamic State group jihadists. Here are the final hours of the siege of Kobani.…