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  • TURKEY UNDER THE AKP

    TURKEY UNDER THE AKP

    Since the failed coup in 2016, Turkey has changed at an unprecedented pace. Under Erdogan’s leadership, the AKP has transformed the country more radically than any other party before. An investigative documentary about the rise of the AKP and Erdogan’s vision of a “new Turkey”.

  • A Pro-Erdogan supporter holds a portrait of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen during a rally against the military coup on Taksim square in Istanbul on July 25, 2016.
Turkey detained seven fugitive soldiers on July 25 on suspicion of taking part in an attack on the hotel where President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was staying when the failed coup kicked off.  / AFP / OZAN KOSE        (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)

    THE GÜLEN MOVEMENT

    President Erdogan believes the Gülen movement is responsible for the attempted coup in Turkey in July 2016. In the West, it was long valued as a moderate Islamic educational institution. But recent insights are gradually changing this view. An investigative inquiry into the background of the controversial movement.

  • SIDELINE

    SIDELINE

    At the end of his own football career, former premier league international from Nigeria Moses Adams becomes a players’ agent, luring young African talents to Europe with promises of fame and success. A look at the darker sides of the international football business.

  • MISSING WOMEN AND THE BACHELOR TIME BOMB

    MISSING WOMEN AND THE BACHELOR TIME BOMB

    As a result of politically motivated population control policies imposed by the West more than 30 years ago, Asia is today “missing” 170 million women – because parents are choosing to give birth to boys and aborting daughters. Millions of men are unable to find wives and more than ever women are being traded like commodities. Zoning in on personal stories from South Korea, China, India and Vietnam, we explore the regional and global consequences of this gender imbalance.

  • BREAKING THE SILENCE

    BREAKING THE SILENCE

  • SEX AND LOVE 3.0

    SEX AND LOVE 3.0

    What do love and partnership mean in the digital age when entire industries are working to generate desire, bring people together and improve relationships? What does the future hold? Will sex robots be the better partners? A stimulating scientific review of the most interpersonal of all relationships.

  • FAREWELL YELLOW SEA

    FAREWELL YELLOW SEA

  • METAL POLITICS TAIWAN

    METAL POLITICS TAIWAN

    From rock star to politician: Freddy Lim is Taiwan’s most political heavy metal singer, progressing from passionate stage performer to active member of parliament. We follow him during the early days of his political career and show him campaigning tirelessly for a democratic Taiwan.

  • THE ART OF MOVING

    THE ART OF MOVING

    Four Syrian friends have set up the collective Daya Al-Taseh. They produce and publish satirical anti-IS videos in Gaziantep, south-east Turkey. But unexpected events in the increasingly unsafe country put the friends and their work under pressure.

  • ON PUTIN’S BLACKLIST

    ON PUTIN’S BLACKLIST

    We present the reality of how an adoption ban of Russian orphans to US citizens came about and how it was the first step in Russia’s new Cold War with America. Soon enough this adoption ban was expanded to all countries that allow same-sex unions. Finally, it spiraled into a crusade to vilify all opposition leaders as puppets of Western governments.

  • TALKING MONEY

    TALKING MONEY

    A look behind the scenes of modern banking: from Bolivia to Pakistan, Benin to Switzerland, we focus on 15 confidential meetings between bank customers and consultants. Filmed entirely from the bank’s side of the consultation table, the film highlights the conflicting interests of both parties.

  • THE MICROSOFT DILEMMA

    THE MICROSOFT DILEMMA

    In Europe the information technology of every state administration and its institutions – military, police, fiscal authorities etc. – is based on Microsoft programmes. This dependence exposes us to a high technical and political security risk. Is our digital sovereignty at stake? An investigative study.