Tamtam Film GmbH

2022, 98 min
by Nama Filmcollective

An Indian filmmaker returns to his homeland during the national elections. With voting spread over a period of six long weeks, he starts travelling the country, turning the camera towards his family. Their privileged life contrasts starkly with the lives of the ordinary Indian citizens working for them. With a dry sense of humour and eye for the absurd, the director tries to comprehend the India of today, connecting collective and family history, and confronting the recent rise of right-wing pop

Germany 2020, 95 min
by Natalija Yefimkina

In Russia there is a phenomenon beyond ice fishing, matryoshkas and vodka: the garage settlement. Seemingly inhospitable sheds which offer refuge to a large number of Russians – mainly men. Within these few square metres, they create alternative living spaces, with ingenuity and tenacity, according to their own taste and beyond any rules. The garages are an expression of a retreat into privacy, an escape from everyday life. Behind the Arctic Circle, in an area dominated by the local mining compa

Germany 2018, 95 min
by Claudia Lehmann

The German Electron Synchrotron in Hamburg, DESY for short, is home to some of the largest particle accelerators in the world and, as an international research centre, is already a world of its own. This is where elementary particles clash. This is also where filmmaker Claudia Lehmann lets her former doctoral supervisor, physics professor Gerhard Mack, clash with other scientists as well as with a shaman, his partner or filmmaker Hark Bohm. They all confront him with questions about our very exi

Germany 2016, 87 min
by Christian Hornung

SOME HAD CROCODILES is a portrait of Hamburgs famous and notorious harbor area - or better: a portrait of the people who came decades ago in search for a different way of live, and who stayed throughout the years. Former exotic dancers and bartenders, sailors and pimps, today they all meet in their favorite pubs remembering the good old days - and saving some money for the hard times to come: All of them are members in the so called 'Saving Clubs'.

Germany 2012, 15 min
by Sylvie Hohlbaum

There seems to exist a clandestine dress code that all German 'best agers' secretly commit themselves to: Come retirement, and they all preferably start to wear beige. At least, this is what Hamburg based filmmaker Sylvie Hohlbaum observed. But she couldn’t care less. Until just after his 65th birthday, her father, of all people, stood before her: dressed in beige cap-a-pie. Now she had to find answers: Is there an alliance between wearing beige and getting old? Has my father turned into an old