Helke Sander Movies

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

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

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...

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

Film by a student collective of the dffb.

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

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...

why am i aggressive as a mother? why am i unhappy with a man i love? why is the man unhappy too? and why does his unhappiness seem more bearable...

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...

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

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

“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....

Omnibus film made by film students and produced by Helke Sander

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...

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...