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From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use.

A Greek girl meets a French woman in Constantinople.

A love story with unpredictable twists and turns between perception and reality, love and its complications and the faults of human nature, Apo Erota (Lovestruck) is a romantic tale with a twist.

Lamonas, a shepherd, discovers a baby boy nursing from a goat and takes him in as his own, naming him Dafnis. Around the same time, another shepherd, Dryantas, finds a little girl and names her Chloe.

The love of two young people from Crete brings to the fore an old story of a vendetta that separates their families.

A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea.

As Kostas returns from Paris to his hometown of Mytilene after nearly two long decades of absence, the familiar but changed island evokes dear memories. But, what drove him away? Can he face the truth and the pale ghosts of the past?

With a PhD in papyrology, Margaret Mountford goes in search of the truth behind the legend of Sappho, the most controversial writer of the ancient world and the first authentic woman's voice in western history. The sensational discovery of a lost papyrus containing the words to songs unheard for 1700 years sends Margaret on a journey of exploration. From the fragmentary documents, ruined temple architecture and surviving oriental jewellery, the programme conjures the real world of the woman, whose erotic writings gave us the words 'sapphic' and 'lesbian', after the island of Lesbos the place of her birth. Was she indeed the first lesbian, a priestess, prostitute, a stern schoolmistress or an aristocratic lady of leisure as readers over the centuries have variously alleged. Plus how each generation's view of the archetypal liberated woman of letters tells us as much about us and our fears and concerns as it does about her.

A personal encounter with the world of the refugees currently detained on the Greek island of Lesvos.

The Seven Wisest Men of Ancient Greece did not include Socrates, Plato or Aristotle. However, even the Seven Sages would choose only One as the Wisest of All.

"To Kyma. A rescue in the Aegean sea" tells the story of a great feat achieved by a group of Spanish volunteers lifeguards who have moved to the Greek island of Lesbos on the wake of the current refugees crisis. Their full vocation of service, altruism and professionalism have made them beloved heroes in the island and even abroad. They are on a mission: with very small means, they challenge the sea to save the lives of another kind of heroes, those thousands of economic migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece every day by precarious dinghies. It is a dangerous and sorrowful journey, but they finally step European land.

Brita Zackari and Kalle Zackari Wahlström have a hard time getting the puzzle of life in Stockholm. So they go out to Sweden and scold people who have chosen to live differently.

A short documentary following British ex-pat Eric Kempson and his family who live on the Greek island of Lesbos. For months they struggled to give the most basic of humanitarian assistance to thousands of desperate Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan refugees arriving in boats from Turkey. A portrait of ordinary volunteers struggling to cope in the absence of aid agencies with the biggest migration in Europe since World War II.

Religious studies plugs into computer science when experts from different worlds collaborate to build an enlightening new technology that explains religion.

Illegal smuggling in the Mediterranean: arms, drugs, toxic waste, migrants.

Filip and Goedele finally settle the question: which gender is the strongest? In this active game-show two teams of Flemish TV-personalities, on team male - the other female, challenge each other int a true battle of the sexes. Which gender has the best orientation, is the smartest, has the best team-spirit, - ? Filmed in Lesbos, one of the biggest Greek islands, still untouched by tourists. Nature, small villages en the traditional lifestyle make for the ideal setting for this game show. Bruno hosts the show as Goedele and Filip are team captains for their gender's team.

The 18 year old student Peter Martin Kappel travelled to the Greek island of Lesbos to understand the refugee crisis everybody in talking about. Who are the people coming to Europe, what do they want, where are they going and how? During his visit he meets young refugees full of hope and volunteers from all over the world to help the thousands of people arriving everyday at the island. Back home in Danmark one of the refugees contacts Peter on Facebook, and finally Peter travels to Berlin to get the finish the full story of refugees in Europe. From the arrival on the beach at Lesbos to a new life downtown Berlin.

In the autumn of 2015, Finnish-Iranian Ali Jahangiri wanted to personally experience the reality faced by refugees in Europe. Ali travelled across Europe to Finland with refugees who had landed in Greece. Unknown refugee is an authentic documentary of encounters that are not covered by the news.