A man breaks up with his girlfriend.

The young girls Kate and Echo live in their own land of make believe. When one of them stumbles across the real world, their friendship faces a serious challenge.

A family lives in a house in the woods.

Anna is milking the cows, Jakob smokes pot, Berni works on a telescope and Ulrike celebrates her birthday. So far, everything is fine in Otto's farm. When Ulrike's coffee cup breaks on the kitchen floor, something dark breaks loose. Sometimes the devil has to take the hindmost.

The setting is on a floating platform where a group of evenly and carefully placed men live. Each man is aware that the platform is not stable and in order not to fall to their deaths, they maintain a careful balance of weight to prevent the platform from tipping too far and cause them all to fall.

Five young men ride their bicycles through the city, each of them having a piece of a huge movie advertisement attached to his bike.

Two people lost in the woods.

We follow a young woman through different places in Hamburg - from a visit to an aquarium, through the rain, back home, and finally to the shore.

The in medias res monologue of Margarete during her stay in Buenos Aires questions to what extent, having thoughts in a loop reveals truths or obstructs paths of forgetting. A process which is so essential for the survival of human emotions, just as much as not forgetting.

The film portrays life on the Balduintreppe in Hamburg during the 1980s and early 1990s and thus takes us right into the heart of the time of the Hafenstrasse squat, which in many respects was a turning point. It circles the harbor steps, relives the squatters' battles with the police and visits the residents between utopia and the housing struggle.

A property shark wakes up in an empty hotel on the Baltic coast. He knows this place. He had wanted to buy it. But how did he end up in the attic? And who is the dancing girl in the hotel disco?

Protagonis Alfred D. travels around the world to help people develop themselves and their countries. Just before he gets lost on one of his trips to Antarctica, a friend of his receives a box full of video tapes from Alfred's travels and recreates his life on film.

Using a collage of found footage, this documentary essay examines humanity's conflicted relationship with fire - tracing its journey from control and mastery to destructive power, reflects on masculinity and the cost of progress and hubris.

It’s summer and the streets are almost empty in a small town, once the centre of the metalworking industry in former Yugoslavia. People gather at the public swimming pool. Two friends are saying goodbye.

The life journey of a Pontic refugee from Crimea, as seen through the eyes of his great-granddaughter, two decades after his death.

Short film directed by Eckhard Blach

This documentary explores the lives of the Korean diaspora in Germany, many of whom arrived as nurses and miners in the 1960s to 70s and still reside there today. How have their personal and communal lives evolved?

In the quiet of a museum, a gaze lingers on a painted scream. Something boils, just beneath the surface.

Scenes from the seminar "Lange Sprechen." Angela Schanelec, HFBK Summer Semester 2024.