Helke Sander Movies

Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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....

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

Omnibus film made by film students and produced by Helke Sander

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...