What was cinema in the past? What is cinema today? Hamburg filmmaker Dennis Albrecht asked himself these questions as he sifted through material he had been collecting since a project idea in 2008. Since then, he has repeatedly taken cameras into cinemas that no longer exist. He shot commercials, short films or events at the Grindel-Kino, Streit's, Rialto and Savoy and many other Hamburg movie theaters. In these personal perspectives, we see many cultural places that have disappeared.

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

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second S...
Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime a...

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

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

Nobody captured the atmosphere of 1990s Berlin better than German photographer Daniel Josefsohn, who...
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...
A group of punks is observed and interviewed on a square in Hamburg-Ottensen. In close-ups, characte...

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

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

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

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

In this long-term documentary, a film team follows the struggle of the residents of the Esso houses ...
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.
The film shows the course of the Alster from its source to Jungfernstieg in Hamburg.
An insight into the economic life and beauty of the city of Hamburg.

Music as a counter-project to a bourgeois existence: Musicians, club and label operators, record sto...
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.