Paradise: Hope

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love wit

Krauses Hoffnung

Police chief Horst Krause and his sister Elsa have been looking after the inn in Schönhorst in Brandenburg since his well-deserved retirement. It would be all good if Elsa wasn't suddenly so forgetful.

Journey of Hope

In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go. He sells their livestock and small plot of land in exchange for passage

Two Days of Hope

Brothers Helmut and Wolfgang Kaminski live on opposite sides of the still porous Iron Curtain: Helmut works as a reporter for radio in the American sector, Wolfgang as an SED functionary for the construction of socialism

Drei mal Hoffnung

Promised Lands

An Israeli director currently living in Berlin returns to Israel to meet some of her friends from primary school. She learns what has been happening in their lives since their paths parted while we get a glimpse of diffe

The Last Hope: U-Boat 864

Germany, 1945: The 25-year-old Ellen is active in the resistance movement against the Nazis. When she meets Robert, a charismatic English secret agent, the two begin to have an affair. Ellen is ordered to spy on the Ger

Das Spiel der Hoffnung

Follows the central character from infant innocence to an ageless teenage persona, we witness the tussle between a 'family' descending into delirium as the special relationship between an aunt and her teenage nephew is u

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung

Portrait of a group of skinheads, some politically left wing, others extremely right wing. The cold atmosphere of the society.

Egomania: Island Without Hope

Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distant thunder of the boiling sea. The film’s characters – riddled with unc

Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung

Spur der Hoffnung

A dinghy drifts ashore on some forsaken beach. Its passenger is a Sri Lankan boy. Ben, a former Stasi-prisoner, saves and decides to hide him. But nothing escapes the small island community for long and soon the local po

Hoffnung auf Heilung

A return to the family home after several years to attend her father's funeral leads to expectations for Veronique to take over the village surgery and help with the family olive grove. However there are complications in

Lissabon - Hafen der Hoffnung

German immigrants share their Impression of life in Lisbon between 1938 and 1945.

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotion

Zwei Leben. Eine Hoffnung.

Transplant surgeon Dr. Hellweg has two seriously ill teenagers at the top of her surgery list: 17-year-old Frank has been waiting for a donor liver for two years. A suitable organ has finally been found. But for his fell

Liebe, Pflicht und Hoffnung

Endometriose - Hoffnung auf neue Therapien

Garden of Hope

In a new housing development in Schwerin, people from ve countries come together through gardening. Fighting loneliness, prejudice, poverty, and displacement.

The Hoffnung Symphony Orchestra

A light hearted look at the various instruments of the orchestra, based on the original cartoons of the late Gerard Hoffnung, satirising musical pomposity.