Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR

When Michael was released from the Jugendwerkhof at the age of 16, he said: "... There has to be controversy to make progress, to achieve something in life, to be a human being at all." Three years later, the movie tries to find out what has become of him.

Rainer Burmeister (director) tells a story about everyday working life of 46 young Mozambican people in the GDR who were employed as contract workers. Among them is 20-year-old Luisa, who worked in the mining industry and, like the others, is now training to be a craftswoman.

Short film about foreign affairs

A Little Boy in the ruins of World War II and the white lie of an old man - after a story by Wolfgang Borchert.

Documentary short about Husemannstraße in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg.

In interviews, several important GDR personalities and also GDR citizens comment on the events of October 1989.

This portrait shows Black cartoonist Oliver Harrington from New York, who fled to the GDR. For his political drawings, he drew on worldly anecdotes and his love of storytelling. Director Hans Hattop later taught videography at the University of Film and Television.

The story of Paris-based Palestinian painter Samir Salameh.

An adaptation based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.

17-year-old Ramona comes from a home in Berlin to a small village and introduces herself as the baker's daughter. Neither of them knew anything about each other. Laconic images of the dreariness of the East German provinces show the excessive demands on the long-married baker and the mutual speechlessness of daughter and father.

Documentary about the Potsdam landscape painter and art teacher Hubert Globisch.

Student film depicting recess at a grade school.

Student film about hiding Jews during the Second World War.