Helke Sander Movies

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

Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to...

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

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...

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

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

Here is the third and last of three self-contained shorts by Helke Sander from her series of shorts entitled From the Reports of Security Guards &...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...