About us
Founded in 2013, Bulldog Agenda is an independent production company based in Berlin. We produce/co-produce documentary and narrative films with an emphasis on young directors and underrepresented voices. Bulldog Agenda was founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker and Berlinale Talents alumnus Patrick Hamm.
Documentary projects
FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF
89 min / GERMANY / 2017 / HD
Democracy is in crisis. A new generation of elected leaders are dismantling freedom and democracy as we know it. Filmed over three years in five countries, Freedom for the Wolf is an epic investigation into this new regime of illiberal democracy. From the young students of Hong Kong, to a rapper in post-Arab Spring Tunisia and the viral comedians of Bollywood, we discover how people from every corner of the globe are fighting the same struggle. They are fighting against elected leaders who trample on human rights, minorities, and their political opponents.
11 MIN / 2018 / GERMANY, SYRIA / HD
If you could no longer return to the place where your memories were made, would you still recall them in the same way? Director Razan Hassan takes us with her onto an autobiographical journey trying to recover her only record of the past, while she is trying to forge a new identity following her displacement from Syria.
THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP
102 min / 2020 / UKRAINE, GERMANY, LATVIA, QATAR / 4K
Filmed in striking black-and-white, This Rain Will Never Stop observes the endless cycle of war and peace, in which we meet 20 year-old Andriy Suleyman. Fleeing the Syrian civil war, Andriy and his Kurdish family start a new life in a small town in eastern Ukraine, only to be caught up in another military conflict. Following Andriy back to his homeland, This Rain Will Never Stop takes the viewer on a journey from Ukraine to Iraq, Syria and Germany, featuring war zones, military parades, humanitarian missions, refugee camps, cultural, religious and funeral customs.
Fiction projects
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY
95 MIN / 2016 / UNITED STATES, GERMANY, HUNGARY / HD
The film follows Father Smith on his Faustian descent into the Roman underworld. Following a disgraceful turn at his local parish, Smith is called to Rome for spiritual rehabilitation. Upon his arrival, Charles, the man who introduced him to the faith, reveals the real reason Smith was brought to Rome – to go underground and ascertain the mysterious leader of an anarchist group of renegades. Smith accepts this mission and ultimately unearths the true leader of the group and redeems himself but not before experiencing a litany of mind-altering twists and turns.