Hamburger Filmbüro

Two years after reunification: A married couple suspects the husband's brother-in-law, a former Stasi officer, of being responsible for the husband's interrogations. As an insurance agent, the ex-officer has made it in the "new" Germany, while the couple are among the victims of reunification and their daughter also suffers from the chemical legacy of the GDR. Events escalate at a family celebration, but the real victims are not the parents; it is the children who have to pay the price.

Old Europe: dreary. Kai and Ella want to emigrate. The noble savage, romantic principle, going back as a perspective. Let's go, but the film actually runs backwards. "Someone wanted to become a Negro," and Kai's anxious, conventional neighbor turns out to be the real adventurer.

Documentary film about the perception of physical disability in Germany, from National Socialism to the present day.

Based on French media theorist Paul Virilio's thesis that weapons and film technology inextricably influence human perception, the film interviews cameramen from German propaganda companies during World War II. It also features cinematic miniatures, including ones about the future of electronic media.

In this German drama a middle-aged physicist experiences a vision at a class reunion and with the help of a young female student, sets out across the Himalayas to find the lost island of Atlantis.

Harry, a timpanist and pyromaniac, and Ginamove into the same apartment due to Hamburg's housing shortage. This is the beginning of a wonderful enmity, with Harry, who has been tried and tested in marital warfare, and relationship terrorist Gina proving to be quite equal opponents.

Four young people—a Turkish woman who has escaped a forced marriage, a Japanese musician, an anarchist, and a male prostitute—retreat from the outside world in an abandoned shipyard and develop a kind of love-hate relationship with each other. At times oppressively realistic, this milieu study of "lost" urban youth loses much of its impact due to its overly complicated script.

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit. The main problem is that Vicky has told him she is a successful actress and happily married. She enlists the help of a gay friend to play her husband. Using a large range of characters—gay, lesbian, straight, transsexuals—the film creates a funny and touching view of family dynamics and sexuality.

Fifteen animated scenes tell the story of a miraculous encounter between a human and a bird. What happens when cyclist Fred finds a young, exhausted bird of prey and lets it spend the winter in his city apartment? By combining woodcut techniques with the medium of film for the first time, Artur Dieckhoff achieves what Dürer had dreamed of: making his figures dance.

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

Black comedy about a lucrative business. Grandmother, mother and daughter live together in a love-hate-relationship and run their business with divided responsibilities: via marriage ads they are looking for candidates. It’s the daughter that gets dressed and styled according to the new mission: no matter if vamp or tree-hugger she twists the men around her little finger until they clear their accounts from all the savings. The money ends up in coffee tins stored in grandma’s fridge. But where do the men end up when they discover the secret of the trio?

In 1936 Nazi Germany, a young, innocent apprentice, full of Olympic fever, leaves his rural village to see the ceremonies in Berlin. Upon arriving in the capitol, he meets a widow and a relationship blossoms. They spend an idyllic summer at her lakeside home, but the forces of totalitarianism cannot be held at bay and soon invade their lives.

Peter Sempel's masterful poetic film tribute to butoh performer Kazuo Ohno.

Poland, 1991. Two elderly political refugees, Demosthenes and Argyris, take the train from the coal mining region to the cemetery where the former's wife and the latter's mother are buried. Stuck in a cramped train carriage because of the rain, they begin to talk about their lives in exile. One has decided to return to his homeland, but the other seems hesitant. They speak candidly, revealing their sad loneliness and fears for the future, trying to share their feelings and their deepest pain.

The film depicts the creation of the world through playful images that draw parallels with the creative process associated with art.

A cinematic reflection on structural change in the Ruhr region. Where coal was once mined, steel produced, and machines built, industrial buildings are now falling into disrepair, unless they are listed as historic monuments. A new world of consumption and leisure is emerging on the huge open spaces: supermarkets, shopping areas, and amusement parks. Is this new world real, or does the experience only extend to the hours of the program?

Miguel steals a trick from a magic book and becomes a world-renowned magician. However, the idea of ​​the public discovering that this great trick is plagiarized from a book eats at his mind more and more.

This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".

A selection of seemingly unconnected scenes featuring Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Nina Hagen and Lene Lovich. Losely based on Voltaire's satire "Candide".

Once upon a time, the most beautiful girls in the region lived on Rosinenberg, a small hill in Mecklenburg; today, it is home to three single artists. A sensitive, impressionistic portrait of a place and its inhabitants, which dresses its documentary research in the guise of a fairy tale.