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.

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...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
Ayşe Polat grows up in Hafenstraße in Hamburg in the 1980s. The 15-year-old is surrounded by crime a...
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich...

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...

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

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 documentary about the underground singer-songwriter Tobias Gruben, his upbringing and his musical ...
Short documentary about a Hamburg tenants' initiative that is fighting for its neighborhood.
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.

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

A portrait of the Hamburg ticket manufacturing company Beckerbillett.
A group of punks is observed and interviewed on a square in Hamburg-Ottensen. In close-ups, characte...

A documentary about the history of Hamburg-Ottensen.

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisher...

It all starts with a bang. The car breaks through the crash barrier and falls off the bridge. The li...