Hamburg Media School

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.

On a bridge: a boy tries to stop his friends from performing a dangerous dare. In a cellar: a single man confronts his most painful memories. In a car: a family sets off to seek a long overdue encounter with this man. The day their fates are forever intertwined.

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.

One wants to do everything right, the second die and the third somehow make ends meet. And yet all three have the same problem: the lack of autonomy. A love triangle about self-determination as the key to life.

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.

Mikail had to flee Chechnya for being homosexual. Unexpectedly meeting his old childhood-friend Daud in Germany, Mikal is not only faced with a renewed friendship, but a recurring fear of persecution.

Pouya is a political refugee from Iran who lives in Hamburg and is doing everything he can to bring his wife Nikta to safety. As a political activist and video maker, he finds it difficult to trust strangers, as he is always afraid of putting the regime on his wife's trail. When a passenger plane is shot down over Tehran and the political situation escalates, Pouya has to overcome his paranoia. He must be able to believe that he has found a friend.

Mikail had to flee Chechnya for being homosexual. Unexpectedly meeting his old childhood-friend Daud in Germany, Mikal is not only faced with a renewed friendship, but a recurring fear of persecution.

Marie hates the strawberry stall next to the field where she has to sell fruit after school. Stefan loves sleeping with her in the strawberry. Only he does not love Marie. And Philipp hates that Marie does not love him.

Alcoholic Isabell wants to celebrate her niece's baptism. But her father can't forgive past mistakes. He wants to keep up the perfect family picture. Isabell must find the courage to choose her own path.

The well-known activist couple Max and Lou made an extreme statement and had themselves sterilized under full media coverage: they do not want to bring children into this dying world. Following their sterilization they are now invited to their first TV show. The problem: shortly before they enter the studio, Max confesses to Lou that he couldn't bring himself to undergo the vasectomy.

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.

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.

Juno is dead. As advanced as medicine is in the year 2030, it couldn't save Hanna's daughter's life. Juno has not been around for two years now and yet Hanna spends every day with her. There is a cube in Juno's nursery, the "Echoehub". The device is controlled by an artificial intelligence that can be fed information about the deceased and calculates possible scenarios that the deceased could have experienced in the future. Again and again, Hanna lives through new scenarios in which she accompanies Juno through all the happy milestones that she can no longer experience. Hanna's wife Paula initially thought the AI in the children's room was a good way of grieving, but over the past few months she has increasingly reached her limit. She decides to put her wife into cold turkey, but what she didn't expect was the drastic measures Hanna is prepared to take in her search for happiness.

Anna has been suffering from violent nightmares for some time, which are obviously being experienced in real life by Aylin, a woman she doesn't know. Anna is magically drawn into Aylin's mysterious world, where dream and reality finally meet to rekindle the connection between these women.

Derek loves the blues, even outside his on stage perfomances. When the singer wakes up in a mental institution after a suicide attempt, he meets Adam, his devoted fan and a true pain in the ass. A story about two guitars, three chords and the beginning of a friendship.

Even in a dystopian Germany in 2032, if you dig a pit for others, you will fall into it yourself. Because everyone is sitting in a glass house in the toilet at the latest.

Her part-time job as a pizza delivery girl leads Suri to the house of Thomas, a man in his mid-fifties. There she is confronted with her biggest nightmare: Her parents' sexuality and the realization of her own double standards.

Karla and Falk run over a dog on the way to their honeymoon and seriously injure it. After various attempts to save him, the poor animal sees his last hour approaching - but then fate comes to the grand finale.

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)