Elfi Mikesch Movies

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch’s own version of...

Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his...

It’s the early 1950s and little Franzi is growing up in the small Austrian town of Judenburg. Her oppressive family home is dominated by her...

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

A woman reflects on her romantic relationship with a young Moroccan years ago. Her daughter travels to Morocco, attempting to relive her mother's...

Bondage was made from, among other things, footage Monika Treut filmed in New York with women of the LSM(Lesbian Sex Mafia/ Lesbian Sado-Masochists)....

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty...

Half documentary, half docu-drama about a German karate champion, who used to be a successful pimp...

Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught...

Interview with Christoph Schlingensief on his films. Including many film clips.

In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug...

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire".

Semi-documentary film about the everyday life of a 16-year-old schoolgirl in Berlin who lives with her single mother on the outskirts of West Berlin....

The film explores the life and career of the Hamburg-born musician, whose creative work began in the West German post-punk scene of the 1980s.

This story is told by the boy's father: "My father wrote letters from the front. He didn't come back from the war. In my dream, I saw a hundred...

When Lieutenant Colonel Anastasia Biefang came out as transgender at the height of her military career, she became the first trans female commander...

Portrait made for the 70th birthday of Rosa von Praunheim by his close collaborator.

A feature-length documentary on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for...

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in Berlin Neukölln for many years. Every...