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.

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

A portrait of the Hamburg ticket manufacturing company Beckerbillett.
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical ...

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

Three filmmakers dive deep into the storied and complex legacy of Ms. magazine through the lens of s...

A study of the alienated people who frequent the Ballhaus Barmbek dance hall, including an obese El ...

Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every da...
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.

Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling f...

Amanda Montejo is a trans woman, make up artist, Guadalupana and a witch. This documentary portrait ...

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

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

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

A documentary about the history of Hamburg-Ottensen.

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