Helke Sander Movies

Part of the episodic film, Seven women, seven sins, this is a different take on the Adam and Eve story. Eve does eat the apple and her curiosity...

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...

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

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

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...

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist...

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...

A woman threatens to jump off a crane with her two young children in order to secure affordable housing.

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

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...

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

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...

Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance press photographer and single mother living in 1970s West Berlin, is confronted with the fact that "a cook has no...

“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....

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...

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...

Analysis of an incident in Nazi Germany involving a man and a jewish woman.

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

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