Movies: Hamburg Media School

For a decade Kenya has been targeted by terrorist attacks of the Al-Shabaab. An atmosphere of anxiety and mistrust between Muslims and Christians is growing. Until in December 2015, Muslim bus passengers showed that solidarity can prevail....

Janosch, an interpreter, is called to help during a police deployment at the Port of Hamburg. A young African woman has barricaded herself in a container ship and threatens to commit suicide. In order to get her out, Janosch promises to help her, an ...

Anorexia is taking up more and more space in Jean’s life or as he would call it: the incredible feeling of absolute self-control. His parents don’t understand him and put him under increasing pressure. But when the brazen Lili enters his life and tur...

Following the path of a deceased stranger, the young night watchwoman Zahra ends up finding a way to cope with her trauma....

She doesn't know it yet, but this year's sweltering summer will mark the end of Svenja's childhood. The butt of endless jokes at her school, Svenja finds solace under the wing of a fellow outcast - the school's janitor and his impressive collection o...

On a bridge: a boy tries to stop his friends from performing a dangerous dare. In a cellar: a single man confronts his most painful memories. In a car: a family sets off to seek a long overdue encounter with this man. The day their fates are forever ...

Even in a dystopian Germany in 2032, if you dig a pit for others, you will fall into it yourself. Because everyone is sitting in a glass house in the toilet at the latest....

When a girl on a medieval farm says she dances with the devil, her stepmother must find out the real reason before it's too late....

Yasin and Mauro live everywhere and nowhere. The streets are their home, the night is their life. Why conform when you can do what you want? When love can be bought, only friendship counts - until it is put to the test....

One night in a lonely hotel room, two strangers fatefully meet - one blind - one suicidal. During the night they spend together, they learn of each others differences and similarities and change as people....

The well-known activist couple Max and Lou made an extreme statement and had themselves sterilized under full media coverage: they do not want to bring children into this dying world. Following their sterilization they are now invited to their first ...

In Anita's dreams, her father Martin is larger than life - even after he has died. Is she the only one seeing the strange things that happened to her family in the days before the funeral? Or is it really Martin's look she feels on her neck when she ...

A German couple adopts in Kolkata an Indian orphan. Their child suddenly disappears and they realize that they are part of the problem....

Young neo-Nazi Jan's world is somewhat limited, but stable. At least until he ends up in an Asian strip club while on the run from the police and experiences a moment there that rocks his world....

Her self-chosen solitude in the thick forest comes to a sudden end for Noé, when she finds the broken body of a female android. While she slowly approaches the mechanic woman, Noé’s past is revealed and brings up questions about how alike she and the...

Istanbul 2014: Aslı gives shelter to a young political activist, who got into a fight with the police. The police investigates the case and ends up questioning Aslı's family. Her husband gets drawn into the affair. Their lives, and also their son's, ...

In order to escape from their lives, the teenage girls Carina and Denise always walk along the edge - smoking, stealing, drinking. When they have to bear the consequences for their actions, Carina gets to know Nikolas and with him another perspective...

Mikail had to flee Chechnya for being homosexual. Unexpectedly meeting his old childhood-friend Daud in Germany, Mikal is not only faced with a renewed friendship, but a recurring fear of persecution....

Night after night Bodo sweeps the empty city streets. Dirty work that no one notices. Attracted by electronic basses and gleaming lights he comes across a vernissage. A strange world in which he makes a familiar discovery and decides not to be invisi...

Alcoholic Isabell wants to celebrate her niece's baptism. But her father can't forgive past mistakes. He wants to keep up the perfect family picture. Isabell must find the courage to choose her own path....