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The small fishing village of Amble by the Sea on the Scottish North Sea coast is struggling with harsh living conditions and dwindling job opportunities. One day, they notice a dolphin feasting on the salmon and instead of moving on, he simply stays on the coast near the fishing village. He is soon christened Freddie and becomes a tourist attraction. Is this the turning point for Amble by the Sea?

How do blind people perceive the world and which sensory impressions remain hidden from sighted people? The experimental film explores this question in a multi-layered way. A sculptor's workshop, a painting museum and an orchestra become the settings for the richness that the perceptions of the different senses bring with them. Sound and image merge and bring the theme to life.

Mockumentary film about the alleged son of director Ernst Lubitsch.

Short-documentary about the squat at Amandastraße 73 in Hamburg.

A documentary about remembering and forgetting 60 years after the Shoa. Contemporary witnesses no longer live, and the author embarks on a search for an artistic strategy to sharpen the perception of the absent. In a labyrinth of memories we see interviews with Ivoné Simon (né. Guggenheim) from Brazil, the sons of the former homeowner Michael and Claus Fritsche as well as the scientists Prof. Dr. Aleida Assmann, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal and Dr. Claudia Curio and others.

In 1922, Max Ernst produced a painting entitled “The Rendezvous of Friends”. In surrealist style, it shows his friends from Paris - including Robert Desnos, Hans Arp, Paul Éluard and André Breton - all avant-gardists. The documentary follows the painting's journey from the artist's easel to the Museum Ludwig.

The great Brokdorf demonstration 28.02.1981. “The media do not miss an opportunity to set the waves of mind in motion: The battle for Brokdorf! Despite the ban on demonstrations: 100,000 people in Brokdorf. All criminals? Our film is an examination of television reporting and its consequences. We, a group of nuclear power plant opponents, made this film because we got angry. The anger when looking at the television screen, where the coverage turns the world upside down; the anti-nuclear power plant movement is defamed and criminalized; - Dissidents are dismissed as utopians, Stone Agers, enemies of the state and perpetrators of violence. What drives the responsible editors, the “makers” to this kind of reporting?

During an art auction, at which Gerhard Richter's “Abstraktes Bild (H.M.)” is being offered for sale, a photo of a dead man appears on the livestream. A paranormal phenomenon?

A quick current video about the first house squatting in Hamburg in the early 1980s. After several years, the house was empty, it was occupied on September 27, 1980 and demolished the day after the next. The thede and the MPZ were informed in advance by the occupiers about the action. The filmed material was then immediately mounted into a film and shown on a monitor in the pedestrian zone of the nearby Große Bergstrasse.

This video is not about legend making, but about Nazi propaganda. The tone of a Hitler speech contrasts with synthetic images.

The film documents the development of a performance by students from Koszalin/Poland and Hamburg in the former Neuengamme concentration camp. Under the guidance of dancers, musicians and rappers from New York, San Francisco and Hamburg, the young people get involved in this place and its history for five days. Despite initial reservations and openly expressed fears of dancing or singing here of all places, a process begins in which the students of both nations find their own, very moving form of expression to deal with the past.

At the beginning of cinematography were a variety of devices and inventions that produced animated images. They meet me today as a colorful group of plastic in the souvenir shop or chewing gum machine. This survival story is documented in the installation “Zu Hundert Jahre Film”; the film documents this installation.

A movie that shows conversations with a friend. It longs for clarity, not necessarily wisdom; he is looking for connections that give him meaning. This film gives reason to think about why young people go to the Hitler Youth in the early 1930s and find what they are looking for there.

With its numerous interviews, the film is an inventory of current forms of resistance. It shows the strength, but also the weakness of the momentary disputes. The story, the practice and the discussion are described in the film – an exciting affair.

The title is hopeful, the rest is different - oppressive sexuality, torture. Where should my eyes look when I have to examine eight hours of adult films a day at work in the film copy factory?

From the neighborhood to the suburbs. The Steffen family moves from a rental apartment in St. Pauli to their own home in Allermöhe. Farewell to the alternative scene, the billiard salon, the dance club nights, a certain idea of the city. “Some still do the same as 10 years ago, have only become 10 years older.” Site inspection. Topping-out. Where does the kitchen block go? Feng-Shui-like everything is balanced. Moving into the new house. “You have to stay supple ... Tomorrow the baseboards are coming. "

Emilia Klein from Norilsk, Siberia, and her daughter Christina have organized a dance group in Allermöhe. 300 girls and boys participate, and the trend is increasing.

In 1937, on behalf of Hitler, a competition was announced among the most important architects in Germany. The task was the redesign of the Hamburg Elbe bank. The face of the city was to be moved from the Alster to the Elbe. In addition to Berlin, Linz, Nuremberg and Munich, the Hanseatic city was thus declared a "Führerstadt". Representation and administrative buildings for the party and the private economy were to be created. The architects involved in the project are interviewed. They reflect their activity and function at that time.

Film about the Hamburg district of Ottensen and the resistance of the residents against the planned renovation. It was shot from 1972 to 1975.