In this long-term documentary, a film team follows the struggle of the residents of the Esso houses and their supporters. They filmed numerous demonstrations, were present at subversive actions and chest mobs, documented neighborhood meetings and captured insights into lovingly furnished living rooms - right up to the packing of the moving boxes. The film aims to ask important questions: Was the demolition really unavoidable? Should the ownership of ruins be rewarded with tailor-made development plans? Not only activists from the Esso-Häuser initiative and residents, neighbors and tradespeople have their say, but also politicians, investors and a star architect.

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

On December 23, 2013, former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt will be 95 years old. As the second S...
Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseat...
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.

A documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical ...
Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime a...
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.

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

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

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

A documentary about the history of Hamburg-Ottensen.

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...
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

A portrait of the Hamburg ticket manufacturing company Beckerbillett.

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

Music as a counter-project to a bourgeois existence: Musicians, club and label operators, record sto...

With the intention to break free from the strict familial restrictions, a suicidal young woman sets ...