Helke Sander Movies

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...

“Six young people move through a city in order to establish the starting point of their joint action. But they can’t agree on the topic....

A documentary with fictious elements. Ms. Elisabeth (Lieschen) Müller from Austria comes to Bonn, Germany to find herself a man. During the...

Set in contemporary Vienna, the film involves a photographer, Anna, who discovers that extraterrestrial beings are colonizing the minds of her fellow...

Lucy, who is already human-like, claims that the first humans were mothers: The mother built a nest to secure the child when it became too heavy to...

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...

Documentary showing the daily routine of Sander’s seven year old son, Silvo.

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...

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

An austere treatise on the military-industrial complex that produces napalm.

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

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 documentary essay on the 1960s women's liberation movement in Germany and it's developments and conflicts through the following decades.

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...

The weaker sex must become stronger - but how can this be achieved? The central keyword of the six filmmakers Claudia von Alemann, Susanne Beyeler,...

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...

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