HFBK - Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg

Germany 2023, 20 min
by Sophia Schachtner

The motorway roars in the background, darkness lies over the service area. One truck driver smokes; another turns on the light in his sleeper cab. A summer Sunday is dawning, everything is standing still. Precisely designed detail shots induce in us a state of waiting. This is what life on the road can also look like. Cooking, dozing, staring into space. Hair is shorn short, words are exchanged. Polish pop songs resound from one of the cabs.Life seems to have been tuned out. And yet it is happen

Germany 2023, 30 min
by Martin Per Åhlin

In the ancient land of Egypt, Thoth, the deity of wisdom, cherished the power of written language, guiding civilizations through time. Far across the oceans, Ulsan in South Korea witnessed industrial growth, forging new alliances and shaping its destiny. Meanwhile, the rich oil reserves of the Middle East wove a complex web of global influence, stirring tides of power and conflict. Amidst this tapestry of history, a smart city named Neom emerged, driven by the consequences of oil production. For

2023, 12 min
by Perghuzat Enver

From afar, Perghuzat Enver reflects on his upbringing in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China. The film is about belonging, friendship, and freedom in an increasingly repressive system. Using delicately-drawn animation and poetic pictures, the film illustrates the search for his own identity, and the inner conflicts that leaving your homeland triggers. [65 Nordic Film Days Lübeck]

Germany, Austria 2023, 21 min
by Mona Rizaj

2 villages, 2 countries, 2 persons, what unites them, their children.

Germany 2011, 17 min
by Martin Prinoth

'Tanzpalast Kiss' is one of the last dance halls in Hamburg, where people of different cultures over their 50ies are coming together to dance in couples. The film immerges in a microcosmos of twinkeling plastic palms and glitter chandeliers, tracing loneliness and desire of individuals living in a major city. People that are either in search of love or just for someone to dance with for one evening, escaping from the daily loneliness by fleshly closeness.

Germany, Iran 2019, 59 min
by Faezeh Nikoozad

Many years after the loss of her parents during childhood, Faezeh turns to the camera to revisit and rediscover her past. For the first time, in fuzzy home videos, she notices the presence of a strange man in her family. Seeing herself as a child, embracing the man's open arms instead of her own father's, she faces the mystery of the man and her family. Who is the mysterious figure who's mostly behind the camera? How did he became a member of the family? Why does no one in the family want to tal

Germany 2018, 9 min
by Katharina Bintz

A park in summer. Every day a woman comes with her children to call her husband. In the park she is well, for one or two hours. She may not be able to see her husband, but she can hear him. A wall separates the two.

Germany 2014, 30 min
by Hana Kim

Hana Kim travelled to South Korea in 2013 to shoot a film portrait of her mother. Oksun Kim was the youngest of four sisters and her parents wanted a boy. They did not hide their disappointment from their youngest and she left home at the age of 12. Since then, she has had a strenuous life. In her prize-winning film Hana Kim also reflects in a personal way on modern South Korea.With: Oksun Kim, Sungmi Kim, Hwa-suk Jeon, Sang-ryeo Jeong, Changyoung Kim

Germany 2013, 28 min
by Martin Prinoth

The Camorra clan has been dominating the city of Naples for centuries. By now it is part of people’s everyday life and it’s tolerated like an unavoidable and naturally given reality by most part of the population. The film’s essayistic way of storytelling enters the hermetic space and makes the city’s archaic structures of power perceptible.

Germany 2011
by Vanessa Nica Mueller

TRACES OF AN ELEPHANT is a reflection on different attitudes towards the film ELEPHANT directed by Alan Clarke (Belfast, 1989). It features a number of interviews that deal with Clarke's controversial television drama. Along with their personal memories of the film, the interview partners also reminisce about the structural changes in the city of Belfast during the past twenty years - a cinematic reflection on the medium of film as such and on the troubles in Northern Ireland. The documentary ap

Germany 2011
by Arne Körner

All his life Wilfried Schurback sold umbrellas. Day in, day out for thirty years he crouched down in his half basement shop until no customers showed up anymore. In his words he never digitalised. After closure of his business and forcing himself to do, he applied for unemployment benefits. The Jobcentre send him on to a job coaching. He passes through a row of seminaries: motivation training, Excel, Word but also Yoga and recreational group activities. Herr Schurback is passed through the com

Germany, Austria 2010, 13 min
by Bernhard Hetzenauer

In this film the director makes the unusual effort to combine psychotherapeutic work with filmmaking. He accompanies 25-year-old Mexican actress Ana Serrano through a process of finding herself. In a poetic way the film shows the painful process of losing a beloved person and the search for a way to deal with the loss.