Hamburg Media School

Belgrade, 2022: A photojournalist is threatened by right-wing extremist groups in her Serbian home and flees to Germany with her daughter. But then she also experiences increasing strong threats and attacks in her new home.

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

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.

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 on their painful world.

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.

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, start to become compromised. The situation escalates, as Aslı is not willing to cooperate with the investigators.

To finally gain her father's acceptance, transsexual Leonie decides to return masqueraded as a man to the world of her childhood: the funfair. Though even the old owner of the ghost train has something to hide.

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 offer which bears unexpected consequences.

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 sits at the piano?

By the time Elifs Husband, Ozan, finds a wet burkini on the balcony he gets suspicious. His wife secretly takes swimming lessons. Ozan decides to take action and awaits Elif the next evening with the firm resolution to put an end to the secrecy. (Quelle: Hamburg Media School)

Max is on the road with his pregnant girlfriend Lina. He suddenly gets a call from his grandfather who wants to meet him shortly before he will be taken away.

Isi and Finn are planning their first time together. This becomes a complicated undertaking, not only because of their physical disabilities and it threatens to derail their relationship.

Eight-year-old Jonathan grows beyond himself on an excursion into a dark forest as he overcomes his fear of the dark and is forced to take away the fear of death from his father, who becomes seriously injured on the trip.

Sascha is shy, overweight and sells baked goods. When no one is looking his hands fold delicate origami figures. Pia is not a customer but the only constant excitement he has. One brioche roll, one coffee and she is gone. Each and every morning. When Sascha gathers all of his courage and lets an origami flower slip into her bag, things begin to unfold.

Year 2032. Ten-year old Luise and her mother Anna live in Germany, a totalitarian state. When a school theatre play, with Luise involved, turns into a brutal propaganda campaign, Anna recognizes the need to protect her daughter. But it might be too late.

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 android can become.

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

Alma is sexually harassed by a friend in a club. At first she wants to forget all about it quickly and dismisses it as a drunken slip of the tongue. But the experience sends her into a downward spiral that she can't seem to get out of - until she has to.

A theft with consequences: When introverted Didi is caught stealing a toy mermaid, his hyper-masculine father does not know how to handle it.