ARD • 31st July 2023

The Timber Mafia

#Film (German): Illegal timber trade is a billion-dollar business - and deforestation one of the biggest causes of climate change. A risky investigation in Cambodia, Romania and Germany.

Y-Kollektiv • 29th September 2022

How People With Down Syndrome Disappear

#Film (German): Down syndrome can be detected with blood tests during pregnancy, in which case the vast majority of parents decide to end it. This is how people with Down syndrome slowly disappear. What does this mean for our society? And what do the people themselves have to say?

Die Zeit • 26th August 2022

Pregnant On The Road

#Magazine (German): We are eight months pregnant. Shortly before birth, we dare one last adventure: hitchhiking from Berlin to Sicily. But setting off is much easier than arriving.

Y-Kollektiv • 23rd June 2022

One Last Party

#Film (German): I loved to party, Michaela says. Then came the cancer. Now she no longer is able to dance. The 37-year-old has a last wish, she wants to go to a festival with her friends one more time. A film not only about death, but much more: about life.

Y-Kollektiv • 7th April 2022

We Hunt Haters

#Film (German): Following the podcast on this topic, the film looks at the prosecution of hate speech. House searches in the early morning and strict sentencing – this is how German authorities are fighting hate speech. Will they finally keep hate online in check or is it still too little?

Y-Kollektiv • 17th March 2022

Street Kids

#Film: Otto is one of Berlin's street kids. He was 13 when he ran away from home. Following that: drugs, alcohol, problems. Otto takes me into his world for a few days, shows me where he sleeps, how he begs, and tells me about his big dreams.

Y-Kollektiv Podcast • 17th January 2022

More Than Words

#Film (German): From racism to death threats: hatespeech is a huge problem. But do we just have to accept online hate? To find out, I meet politician Tareq Alaows, who withdrew from the race to become member of parliament because of hate messages. And I accompany the police during a home search.

Y-Kollektiv • 13th January 2022

Fuck Corona (Part 1 & 2)

#Film (German): Fuck Covid, really! The next wave. Testing every day. Another vaccine shot. I'm annoyed and angry. Are other vaccinated people feeling the same way? In two films I'm looking for answers. I meet a high-risk patient, who leaves Germany because he's afraid he might otherwise contract the virus. And I visit a Covid ICU, where nurses are threatened by conspiracy theorists.

Y-Kollektiv • 16th September 2021

We Are Not Getting Vaccinated

#Film (German): One out of three Germans isn't vaccinated against Covid. But the media focuses mainly on the vaccinated and extreme vaccine skeptics. A film about all those in between. Who are the people who refuse the vaccine? And why?

Y-Kollektiv • 22nd July 2021

Pretty Man

#Film (German): Plastic surgery is a booming business – not only among women. Men, too, are tweaking their bodies. Robin is one of them. He doesn't like his mirror image, his receding hairline. So the young software developer takes a plane to Turkey to get a hair transplant. Will it actually make him happier?

Y-Kollektiv • 24th June 2021

Hooked On Meds Since 16

#Film (German): Benzos, Oxys, DXM – legal drugs. But they're addictive just the same. Almost two million people in Germany are hooked on prescription drugs. More than are dependent on alcohol. Among them many young people. Some already started abusing the drugs in school.

Hometown Journal • 18th April 2021

You Are The Only White Person Here

#Magazine: About seeing the color of my skin for the first time. It was a night in late October, light rain falling and a cold breeze coming in from the north, when things changed. Not just the seasons, leaves shifting color and the sun growing colder. Something else, more serious, too.

Y-Kollektiv • 15th April 2021

Violence Against Men

#Film (German): Men often aren't just offenders, but also victims of violence. Still hardly anyone talks about it. This makes it particularly difficult for affected men to seek help. A film about two of them: one was sexually abused by his brother for years, the other is regularly battered by his girlfriend.

Die Zeit • 4th January 2021

We Danced Until The Morning

#Magazine (German): He's 27, his roommate four decades older. About a very different apartment, about wild parties, life and death and everything in-between.

Y-Kollektiv • 22nd October 2020

Die Another Day

#Film (German): Basejumping is one of the Most dangerous sports. Athletes don't have a reserve parachute, accidents are often deadly. Who are the people jumping anyway?

Reportagen • 20th August 2020

Wolfgang's Wonderful World

#Magazine (German): Wolfgang fell in love with a woman in Prague. Then Corona came and the border closed. But he wouldn't let that stop him from following his heart. Something he would soon regret.

Y-Kollektiv • 30th July 2020

Dangerous Virgins

#Film (German): They are virgins, hate women and discuss killing sprees. Incels belong to one of the most extreme corners of the internet. They demand girlfriends allocated by the government and the legalization of rape. How dangerous are incels in Germany?

TruDoku • 11th October 2019

Rubber Love

#Film (German): A film about, well, sex objects. And about two people – she owns a brothel for sex dolls in the German city of Dortmund, he lives together with four silicone women.

Y-Kollektiv • 19th September 2019

Who‘s Afraid Of HIV?

#Film (German): HIV is incurable, but thanks to modern medication one can live a generally normal life today. So we needn‘t worry anymore? The search for answers leads to a homosexual fetish fest in Berlin as well as the Botswanan savannah.

Y-Kollektiv • 20th June 2019

The Last Fiesta

#Film (German): Chaos in Lloret de Mar. Every year thousands of German high schoolers head to the Spanish city on their graduation trip. It’s the last big party before things get serious – study, work, standing on one‘s own feet. But first: alcohol.