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The jury’s verdict: “The intelligent script by Stefan Kolditz and the careful direction by Thomas Stuber create – thanks also to the music – a touching, intense atmosphere that continues to grip the viewer even long after the film has ended. The cast, even down to minor characters, exudes an ambivalence that makes it so convincing. The policeman Mehmet Mutlu longing for the German homeland that he lost or the policewoman Maria Sombert who is almost torn apart by the courage to speak the truth and the fear of being ostracised. “
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In the middle of a cheerful jumble of cultures “Marry Me!” is the charming and funny story of the young German-Indian Kissy looking to find her own way between self-fulfilment and relationships, family and friends, tradition and the modern world. A recipe for complications. And when her heart also starts getting in the way of things, chaos ensues.
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A festival film like you’ve never seen before about a festival unlike any other. A complete sensory experience placing the audience right in the middle of the festival with massive imagery and mind-blowing sound. A must, not just for music fans and metalheads. For more information click here.

Every day people in need, fearing for their lives, and without any prospects arrive here in Hamburg. It’s mostly thanks to volunteers that they receive help in various areas of life. The initiative “Refugees Welcome Films Hamburg“ has created a support system for refugees that visually illustrates and brings to life the slogan “Refugees are welcome!” Within their skillset Hamburg filmmakers have developed concepts how to help refugees pragmatically in the form of How-To-Guide-Clips in various languages in a Youtube Channel and via other sites. These provide important information ranging from sports and games to issues like legal status and administrative requirements as well as themes circling women and family issues and material support.
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An initiative by Hamburg producers and the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein

Bank manager Frank and star author Patrizia meet from time to time at the airport on their way to Paris. Both sustain a major loss there: Patrizia her lover Jean-Jacques, who is in a coma after a car crash with no hope of recovery, Frank his professional ascension because the company Charcuterie Albert, which he is supposed to merge with a Swiss firm, scams him with a spectacular case of accounting fraud. But they both also gain something permanent. Patrizia a new friend in the form of Françoise, the wife of her lover, who shares her suffering and fate, and Frank, to his own amazement, the fraudulent butcher Albert, who at least knows one truth: that the scent of his sausages is worth much more than the rustle of ficticious money.

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Cinema Wednesday on ARD: Meet the Coskuns! Disarmingly charming, with lots of wit and a big heart this multicultural comedy explores the daily routine of a Turkish family. Based on the same-titled bestseller by Hatice Akyün in which she humorously relates her experiences as a German-Turk in her foreign yet native country, A Spicy Kraut plays with every German-Turkish cliché – lovingly and amusingly skewering the well-known mannerisms, conventions, and customs.

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The first case for the new investigative team on NDR: In TATORT The Wrath of God Wotan Wilke Möhring as Inspector Thorsten Falke shares the screen with Franziska Weisz playing Julia Grosz, lead inspector with the federal police. After a number of overseas deployments Grosz is working at the Hannover airport – the mix of this tough federal policewoman and the “street cop” Falke does not make the difficult investigation in this dangerous case any easier. ARD will broadcast the film on March 20, 2016. Please click here for further information on the Tatort and visit us on facebook.

One of the most unusual friendships in children’s literature is back: for the first time in its long and successful history Boy Lornsens novel Robbi, Tobbi, and the Fliewatüüt is adapted for the screen. After “The Vampire Sisters” and “The Pasta Detectives 2” this is the new adventure for the whole family from the star director Wolfgang Groos who was able to assemble an international cast for the project: Alexandra Maria Lara (“Rush“), Sam Riley (“Control“), Friedrich Mücke (“Friendship! “), Jördis Triebel (“Emma’s Bliss“), Bjarne Mädel (“Stromberg “) star with the robot Robbi, child actor Arsseni Bultmann („The Nanny“) as Tobbi and newcomer Melina Mardini as the Inuit girl Nunu, and presenting the popular “Wissen macht Ah!“-moderator Ralph Caspers in his first role. The novel, published by Thienemann Publishing Stuttgart/Wien, was modernised and adapted for the big screen by Jan Berger (“The Physician”).

A cheerful mix of cultures provides the backdrop for the charmingly funny “Marry Me!“, the story of the young German-Indian Kissy who must navigate her life between self fulfilment and relationships, family and friends, modernity and tradition. Complications are guaranteed. But when her heart suddenly gets in the way, that’s when the madcap chaos for Kissy really goes into full swing… „Marry Me!“ is feature debut of the Berlin director Neelesha Barthel. As the daughter of an Indian mother and a German father – and the grandchild of an Indian Nana – raised in Berlin, she recounts a piece of her own family history in “Marry Me!“. Maryam Zaree stars as Kissy with Bharati Jaffrey as her grandmother Sujata, Mira Kandathil as her sister Sonal, Fahri Yardim ass the cook Karim, Steffen Groth as her supposed husband Robert and Rebecca Rudolph as his girlfriend Freundin Laura, Wolfgang Stumph and Renate Krößner as Kissy’s neighbors, Idil Baydar alias Jilet Ayse as the kitchen help Fatma, and Stephan Grossmann as ther German-Indian priest Joshi Kumar.