Films by Sebastian Lemke

Germany 2023, 93 min
by André Krummel, Pablo Ben Yakov

A retired gay sex worker wants to get into politics. Leading a cosmopolitan and queer life, he is not the typical 'little man', but an intellectual without a university degree and bon vivant with addiction problems. Born a German Christian, he now lives as a Jewish Israeli in Tel Aviv and Berlin, in a relationship with a young Shanghainese man whose seemingly endless wealth provides for his dissolute lifestyle. GOLDHAMMER looks behind the facade of a millennial on his way to becoming a populist

Germany 2023, 250 min
by Florian Opitz

The 5 part high-end documentary series CAPITAL B. WHO OWNS BERLIN? tells in an exciting and entertaining way how Berlin became what it is after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It has been a hip global metropolis for three decades, attracting artists, freedom lovers and young people from all over the world. But the way there was by no means preordained.And Capital B tells the story of how Berlin’s citizens have been fighting back ever since: against the sellout of their city, its displacement and ag

Germany, Switzerland 2020, 107 min
by Milo Rau

What would Jesus preach in the 21st century? Who would his disciples be? And how would today’s bearers of secular and spiritual power respond to the return and provocations of the most influential prophet and social revolutionary in human history? With “The New Gospel”, Milo Rau is staging a “Revolt of Dignity”. Led by political activist Yvan Sagnet, the movement is fighting for the rights of migrants who came to Europe across the Mediterranean to be enslaved on the tomato fields in southern Ita

Germany 2014, 225 min
by Andrew Davies, Benjamin Leers, Sebastian Lemke, Michael Schomers, André Schäfer

Amidst the urban jungle, hidden between deep concrete canyons, one can find one of the world’s most exclusive clubs. The Explorers Club in New York is the epicentre of the last heroes – it is the meeting place for the planet’s most distinguished explorers. 105 years ago, at the time when the club was first formed, travelling was arduous. Vast parts of the world were not yet mapped, and the world was full of adventure. The world has become a smaller place, hardly a patch is left that has not yet

Germany 2014, 180 min
by Sebastian Lemke, Jonas Niewianda, André Schäfer, Viktor Stauder

This series accompanies the geographer, photographer and explorer Michael Martin on five of his unique desert expeditions. Michael Martin's goal is to compare the world’s most spectacular hot and indeed cold deserts. Over the course of three years he has undertaken 40 expeditions to 24 locations and circled the globe four times. He not only documents the fantastic landscapes in his photographs but also the people who live under these most extreme circumstances. Of these 24 locations, we have ch

Germany 2008
by Sebastian Lemke, Thomas Halaczinsky

„If Paris is France, then Coney Island is the entire world from June to September“, is how George C. Tilyou – the builder of the legendary Steeplechase Park – described Coney Island. A sparkling amusement institution in New York´s West End, colourful and fantastic. That´s how it used to be. Coney Island´s entertainment district is supposed to be sold to a major investor, who plans to erect a Las Vegas-style artificial world. With the destruction of these old amusement sites, New York does not on