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The K-Pop phenomenon is shaking up the pop world. For the first time ever, there is a serious challenge to the west’s domination of the global music industry. Leading the way is the biggest boy band in the world, BTS. But how has this happened? Music journalist James Ballardie travels to South Korea to uncover the secrets behind this worldwide success story and to find out how, in just 20 short years, the music industry in the country came from obscurity to become a major player on the world stage. In the summer of 2019, BTS played two sold-out performance at the UK’s most icon venue, Wembley Stadium. Their catchy pop songs, bombastic beats, good looks and natty dance moves have captivated young pop fans worldwide, and sent them to the top of the charts in the US and beyond. Can K-Pop seriously challenge the west's domination of the global music industry? Music journalist James Ballardie travels to Seoul to meet Soo-Man Lee, the Svengali-like figure behind the phenomenon.

A young man’s unrequited love for his best friend, with stunning imagery.

Mozart's "Idomeneo" is a work about love, hate, jealousy, war and destruction. It shows in a disturbing way the musical genius of the Salzburg composer. Each figure is characterized individually without losing sight of the musical whole. In a way, "Idomeneo" anticipates Wagnerian techniques in composition. The direction of this production at Madrid's Teatro Real was in the proven hands of Robert Carsen, who brings the work to the stage in a contemporary, modern and very disturbing way. Under the sovereign direction of Ivor Bolton, Eric Cutler, David Portillo, Anett Fritsch and Eleonora Buratto are among the singers.

Mathieu comes back from Alberta after his elder brother's death in order to dig out memories from the town where they grew up.

Sophie awakes from a frightening dream, haunted with visions of a creature that is slowly finding it's way to her. Telling her boyfriend David the pair soon find themselves in a nightmare they can't wake up from. It's outside.

A violent street brawl between their rival families is the prelude to Romeo’s first encounter with Juliet. Despite this, and the fact that Juliet has been promised to another man in marriage, they fall in love. But any plans for their future happiness are cruelly destroyed by renewed violence between the two families – and while the adults remain almost comically preoccupied with their own affairs, among their children a hidden tragedy begins to unfold.

Lost and Found provides an in-depth focus into the Myanmar military’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and violence perpetrated against the Rohingya, and one man’s life mission to reunite separated Rohingya children with their parents.

The old-turned-scientist tells in the form of his Vlog about the frightening development of his self-built AI. In the end, the prospect emerges that it may even have developed its own consciousness.

Teslem, Dehba and Jadija work in a fish farm in the Saharawi refugee camps. Where? In Algeria, in the middle of the desert, far away from their land. They no longer have sea, but they have fish.

For the first time since her husband's death, Ute visits their former FKK-club. Curiously she enters this familiar place and immediately receives a warm welcome. However, she painfully has to realise that in the eyes of her old friends she primarily has become the widow. Unintentionally she finds herself involved in a group game in which you have to make your teammates laugh by saying one simple sentence.

When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the Safariland Group, one of the world’s major manufacturers of so-called ‘less-lethal munitions’. The Safariland Group is owned by Warren B. Kanders, the vice chair of the board of trustees of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Our linguistic diversity is fading, the dynamic force of transmission has dwindled, and dominant languages have gained even more ground. Every week one language is lost to the world. Of the 7000 languages known to experts today, half will be lost to mankind before the end of the century. Lena Herzog focused on the subject for "Last Whispers", an immersive oratorio for a high-tech audio and video installation.

A lone dancer in an urban housing estate performs the pedestrian choreography of an inflight safety demonstration.

This documentary explores Life and Art of Queen bassist John Deacon.

Andrea visits deceased painter Arganti's house to investigate his cursed pantings of the crying kids, among them The Crying Boy.

A young man hires a film crew to record him as he pursues his dream of becoming a serial killer.

Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a Somerset transformed into a coloured, mist-enveloped island in an oily ocean with a cave basking in a subterranean glow. Time seems to stand still there. After Slow Action and Urth, this is the final part of a trilogy developed with American SF author Mark von Schlegell.

Something just happened, a disturbing horn breaks the quiet of the town.

‘Something deeply hypnotised me the first time I saw the images contained in the tapes that had been abandoned on my grandparents' shelves for decades. Although the quality of the digitisation was quite poor, those moments, recorded by my grandfather's trembling hands and starring my mother, gave off something heartbreaking.'

The movie 'Rocío. Todo empezó una mañana' collects the moments experienced during the celebration of the Centennial of the Canonical Coronation of the Virgen del Rocío.

Two altar boys that live in a small church in the middle of the jungle. They grew under the tutelage of Father Roberto, an elderly priest who was their mentor. Now, at the end of his life, they must protect and take care of him. Eustaquio pretends to be in command of the church and Heriberto only thinks about Maria, a beautiful young woman that barely pays attention to him. These young men face their frst existential crisis that leads them to launch a risky plan, a heavenly plan

The powerful story of a land preserved in time, yet poised on the cusp of dramatic change. The nation’s vibrant culture, meticulously maintained colonial architecture, and pristine ecosystems provide a vivid window into the island’s history and spirit. Audiences are transported across breathtaking landscapes, under the ocean surface to iridescent reefs, and into streets throbbing with music and dance in the heart of Havana. Through the eyes of Cuban artists, historians, and scientists, the film provides an intimate look this vivacious island nation.

After the suicide of her best friend, Amparo secludes herself in a mourning pervaded by doubts and memories. Daring to continue her friend’s unfinished work proves to be the only way to move on.

Finding inspiration in Kafka’s short text The Silence of the Sirens, in which he reinterprets Homer’s deadly songstresses as silent apparitions, Diana Vidrascu has created the mesmerising portrait of Céline, a young actress from Martinique living in Paris and struggling to find her place in the world. As she returns to her roots in order to explore her identity, we take the trip with her in this intimate story of origins and destinations.

Facebook has suffered a series of deepening scandals and intense media scrutiny. This film goes behind the scenes and follows the teams inside Facebook. It tackles difficult questions, like how our data is used and what content should and shouldn't be on the site. The film also shows how Facebook works and what the teams are doing to secure it.

Joan Baez, the folk legend who was once Dylan’s lover, has called her final tour Fare Thee Well – perhaps because, like so many singers, she’s finding that goodbye is too hard a word.

The blurring border between real and digital worlds, while chronicling the intense relationship between a young father and daughter

After centuries of Bonnie Boats speeding Over the Sea to Skye, in 1995 a new bridge was built between the island and the mainland. Privately funded, this was to be a toll bridge. Not only that, it turned out to be the most expensive toll bridge in Europe.

The only novel written by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (Il Gattopardo, 1958), just like its screen adaptation by Luchino Visconti, is considered a masterpiece. This film tells about the life of Tomasi and his German-Baltic wife Alexandra von Wolff-Stomersee – their unusual love story. The chaos of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and World War II forced Alexandra to leave St. Petersburg and later on – the family's castle in Stāmeriena, Latvia. During the war, in 1943, she fled to her husband in Palermo, where she would live until the day she died.

Fiona Phillips goes behind the scenes at Sainsbury's.

Tom, 20 and his friend Max, have opposing views on how to best approach a girl. At the gym, they come across Lucie. And so the match begins…

Considered to be Bec's magnum opus, I'll Be Bec features meticulous writing revealing a complexly crafted dystopian future as well as a remarkable futuristic outfit and an incredible high production finale. We'd hate to spoil it by saying too much, but this special, filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe, is not one to miss.

Katie Puckrik explores the 1970s American music phenomenon of Yacht Rock, a halcyon period of Los Angeles studio craft that married R&B with themes of longing, aspiration and melancholy, before going on to explore how the genre adapted to the musical times of the 1980s.

The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.

A couple in love meets to eat every afternoon. Miscommunication and displeasure begin to be the main ingredients of their menu, and the dishes they eat are the slow warning of inevitable decay. Every desire transforms in the time it takes for dinner to be ready. All that remains is to taste a frantic and exhausting dessert.

On the outskirts of Jerusalem, only a few kilometers from the separation wall, stands the huge hospital complex, Hadassah Ein Kerem. Here, there is no place for politics or religion. There is only one enemy: disease. In this hospital, Israeli doctors work side by side with Palestinian doctors to save the lives of children.

Everything was fine in Camille’s life until his parents accidentally discovered his homosexuality. How will Claudine and Maxime react? Turnarounds, an inimitable sense of dialogue make this comedy the feeling of back to school. How easy it is to be tolerant when you are not involved yourself! Because when Claudine and Maxime, an open-minded couple, who even demonstrated for marriage for all, come across, by leafing through a celebrity newspaper, on a photo of their son in the company of a man, the sky plummets them. the head. Claudine, more benevolent, tries to reason with her husband, but he finds it difficult to digest the news. Each in turn, the mother and father will question themselves, question themselves, and try to face this revelation, which cannot alter the love they have for their child.

My mother recalls her parents' uniquely long relationship -- one made strong by their daily habit of playing cribbage together.

A very curious alien tells us about his experience on planet Earth.

Diva and Hollywood star Zsa Zsa Gabor experienced everything Hollywood had to offer: attention, glamour, and media success. But the Hungarian-born actress (1917-2016) paid a high price for it. Her acting career was thwarted, she experienced domestic violence, and she had to learn to adapt to the Hollywood system.

Three minutes is the time Riccardo Ghilardi usually has to shoot a portrait during the main film festivals around the world. The docu-movie tells us how to shoot the world most famous faces trying to capture the moment.

During World War II, the Italian submarine Macalle was shipwrecked in the Red Sea, near the coast of Sudan. 45 crew members ended up on a deserted island. NCO Carlo Acefalo died on the island, being buried by his mates there. Nearly 80 years later, a team arrives at the site and rescues Carlo's remains, taking them back to his home village, Castiglione Falletto, for a funeral ceremony attended by almost the entire village.

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical career, featuring past live perfomances by himself and cover versions of his songs by contemporary artists.

Trying to find a non-existent house number, a pizza delivery boy finds himself dealing with a demon to pay a money debt in alternative ways to get rid of a strange curse.

Toby Hadoke delves into the life of director Lennie Mayne

A young pastry chef struggles to save the family shop in post-war Rome, as Hanukkah approaches.

Comedian Jack Rooke narrates his first sexual encounters as a gay man.