Christoph Hübner

Final part of a long-term observation of football talents trained at Borussia Dortmund in the 1990s. Three lives with, for and after the "favourite sport".

Among the "political" filmmakers who got their start in the student movement, Harun Farocki is perhaps the most formally brilliant and conscious, and today he is exploring new documentary territory with his video installations.

The film Mandala by Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss shows in great calm and forcefulness the formation and destruction of the hitherto largest sand mandala in the "Bochumer Jahrhunderthalle zur Ruhrtriennale", created in 2011. Traditionally, sand mandalas scattered on certain ritual occasions in monasteries and the general public are hardly accessible

A multi-generational portrait of women living in the Ruhr region. Part of the seven-part documentary film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche und ihrer Siedlung"

The era of mining is coming to an end in the Ruhr area. Prosper-Haniel is the last shaft that is still in use and will finally be closed for coal production in 2018.

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Despite or perhaps because of his position at the public television channel ZDF, Hans-Dieter Grabe has developed his own unmistakable signature style which falls between journalism and documentary (similar to Klaus Wildenhahn during his time at the TV channel NDR).

Interview with Peter Nestler about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

Three famous jazz musicians, the German Jochim Kühm, the Moroccan Majid Bekkas, the Spanish Ramon Lopez, realize a long-term dream: One month of free time together in Morocco, time for music, for encounters, for a new CD. They rent a small studio in Rabat and invite guest musicians. They travel to the desert to meet a legendary group of native drummers, to play with them and make recordings. In between excursions into the everyday life of Morocco, computer crashes, and little crises. A film about improvised music and the work on it, a film about encounters of different cultures, a film about understanding and not understanding. Where do you come from, where do you go to?

In eight parts, Alphons S. tells the story of his life as a child and teenage miner in the Ruhr region, as a vagrant traveling across Germany in the 1920s, as a farm worker on estates in Mecklenburg, as an anarchist and left-wing socialist—but above all as an intelligent and alert witness to everyday history from 1906 to 1939.

Two women on a journey through Germany from 1989 to 1993.

The cinematographer and idiosyncratic filmmaker Elfi Mikesch has significantly contributed to the extension of the aesthetic boundaries of the "standard" documentary.

Documentary about guest workers in the Ruhr area. Part of the seven-part film cycle "Prosper/Ebel. Chronik einer Zeche und ihrer Siedlung".

With his background in Brechtian theater and the material-like, pure poetic style of his documentaries, Thomas Heise has created his very own kind of filmic expression.

The last of the five films in the original film series is composed of footage from Ebel shot between 1979 and 1982 and most closely reflects the original concept of Hübner and Voss.

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A documentary about new apprentices at the coal mine.

Thomas Harlan, filmmaker, author and revolutionary was born in 1929 in Germany. His father was the infamous propaganda filmmaker Veit Harlan, director of Jew Suess. During his childhood, as a result of his father’s closeness to the Nazi Party, the little Thomas came face to face with Hitler and Goebbels. Now an old frail man, Harlan lives in a respiratory clinic in Berchtesgaden. It is in this clinic in South Germany that he, along with documentary filmmaker Christoph Hübner, examines fragments of his past.

A former coal miner from Bottrop talks about his youth. He focuses primarily on the cinema, the radio, and television.

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo.