Helke Sander Movies

A concise blast of feminist film making, Sander's first film is a tense yet playful four minute short that dissects a typical urban scene at a bus...

A young German soldier named Paul goes AWOL and returns to his childhood home in the countryside. Over a few summer days, Paul evades the...

In a critique to the Berliner films that depicted labour problems always through masculine lens, Sander changes the point of view. Irene, single...

Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find out something about the film business and also...

I was on a ship – this sounds like a novel: I had just embarked for Venezuela on June 2, 1967 as the Shah of Iran was arriving in West Berlin....

A woman from a big city moves to a small village near the former border zone between East and West Germany. What is she looking for? What will she...

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...

A sexual assault and its consequences. The 2nd of three self-contained shorts from Helke Sander's series of shorts entitled From the Reports of...

A look into the life of Holger Meins, the German cinematography student who became a revolutionary and a prominent voice in the Vietnam War protest...

Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the second part of the documentary...

Omnibus film about everyday handling of poison made by film students and produced by Helke Sander.

A documentary about the events at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb) in November 1968, which led to the termination of the training...

Documentary by Helke Sander, in collaboration with Harun Farocki (among others), about the campaign of the West German New Left against the...

Jenny is on the road in her film producer's Rolls-Royce, which she has to drive to a film shoot and a wedding. When she gets lost at night, she finds...

When an ordinary-looking man tries to buy a mirror in an upscale shop, class conflicts arise. The third part of the short film series.

Seven young women from Berlin discuss their experiences with the pill in a studio setting and react to the ideas that young men of the same age have...

Within four episodes ("Er am Ende", "Muss ich aufpassen", "Eva" and "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On...

Documentary about the situation of film students after graduation.

At the end of the 1960s, a young woman laid the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a...

Ihre Zeitungen is a political film rooted in the 1968 student campaign against the Springer press group, which controlled popular dailies such as the...