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.

Two men, the hint of a sofa corner and a pile of letters. Using minimalist means, the film tells the...
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The saga of fitness, which exploded in the 1980s and contributed, in its own way, to liberating wome...

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

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

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

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

In Bundelkhand, India, a revolution is in the making among the poorest of the poor, as the fiery wom...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...