Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime and is quickly pigeonholed by outsiders because of her living situation. However, the criminal environment doesn't say much about the person.

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second S...

What was cinema in the past? What is cinema today? Hamburg filmmaker Dennis Albrecht asked himself t...

The story of women's struggle against sexual discrimination and for inclusion in the democratic proc...

PROJEKT A is a documentary that resists the common clichés about anarchism to instead show anarchist...

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling f...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...

In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery wom...

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...

In Man Made, Sunny tries to find out what society's ideas regarding masculinity entails. Does testos...

The film follows the career of detective inspector Marianne Atzeroth-Freier through the Hamburg poli...

In today's climate debate, there is only one factor that cannot be calculated in climate models - hu...

"TDS, derrière l'écran des travailleuses du sexe" is a deep dive into the lives of Betty, Anaïs, Noo...

Two men, the hint of a sofa corner and a pile of letters. Using minimalist means, the film tells the...

Yu Xiuhua was raised to hope for little from her life in the rural Chinese province of Hubei. At 19,...