Helke Sander Movies

“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....

Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The...

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

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

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...

Documentary about the situation of film students after graduation.

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

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.

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.

The film documents the work of an anti-authoritarian and self-organized school store in Witzlebenstraße in Berlin-Charlottenburg, which emerged...

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

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...

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 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 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...

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

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...

Filmmaker and author Helke Sander is an icon not only of the women's movement, but also of new German cinema. Historical upheavals sometimes only...

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