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.

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

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

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

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

Two men, the hint of a sofa corner and a pile of letters. Using minimalist means, the film tells the...
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

A documentary about the history of Hamburg-Ottensen.

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

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

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

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...
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...

A portrait of the Hamburg ticket manufacturing company Beckerbillett.

Three filmmakers dive deep into the storied and complex legacy of Ms. magazine through the lens of s...
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.