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Given the current global situation, few films were as eagerly anticipated at this year's Cannes Film Festival as "Once Upon a Time in Gaza", the new work by twin brothers Arab and Tarzan Nasser, who were born in Gaza. It is already their third feature film about their homeland – and certainly not their last. We reveal what the film has to do with Hamburg here

Fatih Akin's new film "Amrum" has been nominated as the German entry for the 98th Academy Award in the category "Best International Feature Film".

He celebrated the premiere of his first feature film, ‘The Stranger,’ in Venice – his second work, ‘Yunan,’ made it straight into the competition at the 2025 Berlinale and can now be seen at the Hamburg Film Festival. Ameer Fakher Eldin is one of the up-and-coming young filmmakers and currently lives in Hamburg. He shot most of his drama on a Hallig island in Schleswig-Holstein. Here we reveal what all this has to do with ‘Land unter’ (Land Under) and how you can get stars like Hanna Schygulla and Sibel Kekilli excited about your second feature film.