Series

With their rap musical series Hype, Esra and Patrick Phul turned heads and showed how genre boundaries can be pushed. Now they take on the superhero genre and twist it in a direction you wouldn’t expect.

For Malik, Dina, and Hamza, after a mysterious artifact grants them superpowers, it’s not just about rescuing children who have been abducted from their neighborhood. They also find themselves confronted with an extreme form of social division and a system that pushes them—and people like them—to the margins.

ALL HEROES ARE BASTARDS relocates the superhero genre to a world that feels closer to our own than we might like. Racism, fake news, and social media algorithms are no longer side issues but directly shape the characters and their decisions. The series weaves together personal stories with broader social tensions, somewhere between Misfits and X-Men, yet with a distinct voice of its own.