Choosing Europe

Europe makes films, music, books, podcasts and good everyday things. We enjoy them and want more people to find them. One pick every weekday.

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Over 40,000 oil paintings, brought to life frame by frame. The Peasants comes from the team behind Loving Vincent. https://t.co/FcdknRgy78

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Three months in Brighton, long walks, quiet mornings. Then her brother turns up. 📖 Hey Hafni by Helle Helle, from Denmark.

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A Kafka film that opens with a haircut, and a burger restaurant named after him. 🍔 Franz is not a usual biography. https://t.co/703XqnAKJC

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Streaming that treats music like art? Qobuz, from Paris, offers Hi-Res sound and was the first to have its payout per stream audited. https://t.co/z2Nxt4gHpS

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A mountain brand that started with rope for Swiss farmers in 1862. Mammut's Eiger Extreme line is developed with alpinists on the real north face. https://t.co/KPtHUwBBsH

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An office suite with no ads, no telemetry and no generative AI? 🤓 LibreOffice 26.8 says exactly that, and 155 of its 206 makers are volunteers. https://t.co/Y84BymCorn

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Karl Lagerfeld without the famous hair? Daniel Brühl plays him in French, and he was born in Barcelona. 🎬 https://t.co/jxdTjkAzy9

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Elevation map of Europe.

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We got the Focus Academy URL wrong. It's not .nl, but https://t.co/lWlQu4DZP4 @Mark_Tigchelaar #focusonoff

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Blaming your phone for lost focus? A Dutch book says the phone is the last thing to fix, not the first. 📱
https://t.co/VwOCj5O2kE

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A phone built to be used less. Mudita, from Poland, swaps the glowing screen for E Ink and the battery lasts almost a week. https://t.co/dqNxyLyZSx

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Divorced, three months in Brighton, and a brother who turns up uninvited. Hey Hafni by Helle Helle is a funny, quiet wander of a novel 📖
https://t.co/ZtwZ0eD4Pr

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A sheep that looks like it wears glasses keeps a South Tyrol brand rooted in its valley. Meet Salewa.
https://t.co/LiRlQB7hzP

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Who wrote "Loving Is Easy" with Rex Orange County? A Dutch dad who just renovated a house and made an album about it 🏡 https://t.co/MW0fk3pSUg

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@youthvalleyband We have been listening to this album and it is really good. Youth Valley will be on Choosing Europe in the next few days. 🙌

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Every working day we pick one good thing made in Europe: a film, a series, an album, a book or a product. No ads, no algorithm, just recommendations. If you like the idea, join our list: https://t.co/BCeZz8O0qQ

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At eleven, she hugged a statue of Stalin. Then the statues fell. A funny, painful memoir from Albania 📖 https://t.co/osEvkdG1mf

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Choosing Europe is a simple idea: one good thing made in Europe, every working day. A film, a song, a book, a product. There is no ad budget, only word of mouth.

Join the list: https://t.co/BCeZz8O0qQ

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Every German-speaking home knows Sisi from the 1950s Romy Schneider films. So how do you retell her story? Die Kaiserin starts with a teenage Elisabeth lost in a court she never chose.
https://t.co/y2yMFNTHdL

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Qobuz pays roughly \$0.0187 per stream (2024, independently audited). It is a French service, born in Paris in 2007, with Hi-Res sound and no free tier.
https://t.co/z2Nxt4gHpS