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

In April 1992, ultra-orthodox Jews of the Athra-Kadisha came to Hamburg to demonstrate against the final destruction of the Jewish cemetery. The cemetery, where bones still lie, was to be built on with a shopping centre. The film shows the history of this Jewish cemetery, recalls the former Jewish community in Altona and gives an insight into Jewish religious life and culture.

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?

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.

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 documentary about the children's area of the AFA (Active Leisure Activities Altona e. V.). For years, this leisure center was the fixed meeting place for children and young people. A meeting place in the Altona-Altstadt district, which is designated as a redevelopment area. The film describes the atmosphere and work in a sub-area of the AFA. The film is history, the AFA was dissolved in 1982.

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.

Two artists, Anne Spengemann and Kay Weber, meet each other drawing. The camera moves further and further away from its viewer's point of view and is part of the drawing at the end.

A short house squat in the Virchowstraße.

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.

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.

A woman moves through the water, accompanied by cello tones.

The documentary accompanies the history of the district, its renovation and the struggle of the population against the urban development determined by investors. With interviews, productions and detailed observations, a complex picture of the people in Altona is painted.

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.

Years ago, SONY advertised with the slogan “The mobile memory”. We fell for it. The memory faded. The starting situation for the film was this crisis: The half-inch magnetic tapes dissolved and could no longer be played, they squeaked when trying to get them to work. We called it the squeak plague. Our archive threatened to disappear. We started talking about the future. How is everything supposed to go on, the whole thing here? Also the question of video or celluloid and whether we still feel like it at all. If you ask a lot, you get a lot of answers. A fan-like montage of images and sounds about the future was created. In search of social reality, the volume is also an answer, but without patent recipes.

A tribute to the players of the most successful football club in the Soviet Union, which rose to the European football elite in the 1970s with two international cups. The "dream eleven from the East" chased opposing teams across the lawn and surprised with a fast, offensive game. Western journalists wrote enthusiastically about the "football of the 21st century". Century". The players of the "Red Orchestra" were stars and were revered as heroes in their homeland. Today the players are around 50, their club has become a joint stock company, and some of the old footballers are still kicking in the veteran eleven.

Documentary chronicles the lives of the German-Jewish Wolf brothers, who started a popular band at the turn of the century, most notably with their song "Tuedelband," which remains the anthem of the city's football team to this day.

Documentary film essay that links the fate of the New York artist Jimmy Ernst and his parents Max Ernst and Louise Straus with the history of the Augustin printing house in Glückstadt.

In 1981, the city wanted to tear down the house at Billrothstrasse 55 - the bulldozers were already ready. The house was occupied for a short time, the police appeared and cleared. Afterwards interviews with Walter Seeler (SPD), the then legendary renovation commissioner in Altona, the press spokesman of the SAGA, the construction senator, etc. The house, built in 1857, when Altona was still Danish, was rescued, renovated, yellow facade, blue window frames, a residential project. The filmmakers now live there themselves.