Faculty III – Media, Information and Design is one of the leading institutions in research and teaching for aspiring journalists, filmmakers, media designers and those interested in historical films. Many of the films produced, evaluated and researched at the faculty can be found in this media library.

The workshops and laboratories of Faculty III - Media, Information and Design support the practice-oriented education. With their extensive technical equipment, they offer students a wide range of opportunities to realise their designs and produce models in order to expand their practice-related knowledge.

The Filminstitut Hannover (film institute) emerged from the Cultural Archive - Documentation and Research Centre for Media at the Hochschule Hannover (Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts), which was founded in 1995. The Filminstitut is a research institution of the Hochschule Hannover (Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts), the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and the Leibniz University of Hanover.