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- China is playing an increasing role worldwide. Industrious Chinese are settling abroad in large numbers. China expert Ruben seeks them out. Who are they, what do they want to achieve and what impact does their presence have on society?
- In the four-part documentary series Staal, we follow steel plant Tata Steel and its neighbors in changing times. After a century of steel production in the dunes of Wijk aan Zee, IJmond residents are diametrically opposed. For many IJmonders, the factory is their life and their bread. They see the smoking colossus in the dunes as a natural part of the landscape. Other, often new, residents are deeply concerned about their health. Plans to go green may come too late. Because patience is running out and protests by local residents against Tata Steel are growing. Steel is about today's big question: how do you live together, when interests are so divergent?
- History buffs Jort Kelder and Pieter Jan Hagens explore the stories behind various Dutch war battles on land and on sea.
- Dutch photographer Ruben Terlou travels the banks of the Yangtze to examine how China's economic overhaul affected people's lives.
- Dutch psychologist Iva Bicanic, embarks on a journey to the former Yugoslavia to seek out the remnants of her parents' nation, once united under the grip of President Tito. What relics of the past still persist in the present day?
- Together with his camera, Dutch photographer Ruben Terlou criss-crosses China. The four episodes of this series focus on the dreams of the Chinese people, dreams about the future of their country, love, their children. Watching them shows how fast China has been developing under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, and how those developments affect the lives of the Chinese people. But also that dreams sometimes just don't come true. Chinese Dreams paints - especially in the times of trade wars and increasing distrust towards China - another surprisingly human picture of this often misunderstood world power.
- What happens during the seasons? The series The Seasons focuses on man and his behavior. Midas Dekkers observes and comments on man and his own peculiar behavior during the 4 seasons.
- A moving documentary about children suffering from cancer
- Wanting to run for president himself, dutch historian Maarten van Rossem travels to the United States in the months leading up to the re-election of Barack Obama. By doing so, he explores the country he has always been fascinated with.
- The world of art, pop-culture, sex and business in the Middle East. Cairo, Beirut and Dubai.
- Since Deng's reforms brought prosperity and some liberalization in the PR, raising children in China become harder and confusing. Ambitious parental expectations of Confucian piety and quasi-capitalist ambition conflict with the spoiled attitudes of many 'little emperors' from the one child policy period. Parents invest lots of time and money in tutors, private schools ..., but children suffer under the competitive pressure, especially in boarding programs. Some -especially teens don't accept the family's ambitions, sometimes even landing in private reformatories.
- Ruben visits the Yi people, with 10 million a large ethnic minority among the dominant Han Chinese, in the mountainous south. Their economy does badly, so an independent trucker tries to sell his truck and is ready to move wherever he can find a job to support his family. A schoolboy sheds some light on the cultural and ideological indoctrination, which is particularly intense, including the leader cult of president Xi. A tribal chief hastily retract all jocular critic, a shaman pretends the obvious ghost exorcism has nothing to do with traditional superstition anymore, while their is w whole alternative medicine in Yi language.
- Family and marital harmony isn't what it used to be in Confucian feudal days. In Chinqing, Ruben meets a mistress killer, a detective hired by cheated spouses to track down and seduce the partner's flame. In Shanghai he attends marriage counseling by a feminist therapist who tries or instill rather traditional values into women in classes and modern ones into men at couple sessions. Finally he attends a small town rural mobile court attempting to settle a divorce or alternative deal between rowing spouses.
- Ruben visits the Serbian mine town of Bor and its Chinese diaspora, which is employed by Chinese companies and investments that are realizing part of the New Silk Road, including the modernized copper mine. The former Yugoslav state has a historical bond with China, but especially younger generations have modern aspirations. Chinese laborers and their families grow apart from the locals, who try to defend their customs and worry for the endangered environment.
- Ruben visits the largest Chinese diaspora in the West, US, notably the vast Chinatown of L.A. during the Trump reelection campaign which many of them join, being industrious, wealthy Republicans, who abhor the 'positive discrimination' that favors less industrious minorities while Asian do better then average by their own efforts. While excelling in education and enterprise, they wrestle with a double identity, remaining very Chinese while proud of US citizenship, while their homeland families scold that as treason.
- Ruben is back is his Dutch home country. It also has a Chinese community, which is less invasive and better integrating when staying to do business, ambitiously, except the local-born generations tend to become more European than their ancestors like. Furthermore, the Chinese are prominent among the foreign students, often getting great grades, but eager to return home, feeling unwelcome and discriminated, despite adopting lots of Western culture.
- Parts of the Chinese diaspora form dominant colonies in foreign, under-developed towns. That applies to Sihanouk city, which doubles and evolves fast as ambitious Chinese immigrants become majoritarian, setting up their own businesses, developing real estate and employing mainly Chinese staff and subcontractors. Despite officials enforcing some respect for the Khmer language and culture, native Cambodians feel squeezed out, looked down upon, while prizes rise.