Hamburg, summer 1945: The young English control officer Captain Hannes Hacker arrives in the Hanseatic city to initiate the establishment of a new, liberal German radio station - in the Funkhaus on Rothenbaumchaussee. But Hacker also has private ties to Hamburg. He was born here and lived here until he had to leave his hometown on a Jewish Kindertransport.

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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.
Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.
A portrait of St. Pauli and its people.

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...

In this long-term documentary, a film team follows the struggle of the residents of the Esso houses ...

A documentary about the history of Hamburg-Ottensen.

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

14-year old Uwe lives in s suburban Hamburg housing estate. Besides trouble, the boy has not much to...