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.

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every da...

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

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

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

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...

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

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