Films produced by Helke Sander Filmproduktion

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...

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

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...

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

When an ordinary-looking man tries to buy a mirror in an upscale shop, class conflicts arise. The third part of the short film series.

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...

Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the second part of the documentary...

Story concerns two friends, Freya and Irmtraut and their relationships with the same man, Traugott, who finds it impossible to choose between the two...

A sexual assault and its consequences. The 2nd of three self-contained shorts from Helke Sander's series of shorts entitled From the Reports of...

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

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

At the end of the 1960s, a young woman laid the foundation of the women's movement. As well as political initiatives against male dominance, a...