The remembrance of its own colonial past is only very weak in Germany, the common form of archiving being suppression. How can an archive be created that instead remembers actively, also the history of resistance, and that can be used to conceive a possible future? Cinema plays a special role in this regard: as collective memory, as a place for conveying and updating history in the present. Cinema and colonialism are also historically linked; especially in Germany, cinema was a place of colonial fantasies. But cinema is also always resistive. What kind of cinema is created where, how is it made and how is it viewed? What do center and periphery mean in this context?