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.
Yu Xiuhua was raised to hope for little from her life in the rural Chinese province of Hubei. At 19,...
On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second S...
Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
"Die Unbeugsamen" ("The Indomitable") is the story of women's struggle against sexual discriminatio...
Three working-class teenage girls in a port city in Bangladesh escape daily hardships and stifling f...
The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...
Leah and Purity are rangers in the Kenyan bushland. They roam around Amboseli National Park every da...
In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery wom...
PROJEKT A is a documentary that resists the common clichés about anarchism to instead show anarchist...
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...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...
Focusing on five of them, this documentary pays tribute to the wealthy women who, under the Ancien R...
A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical ...