Elfi Mikesch Movies

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

A German woman travels to San Francisco to find her mother, but winds up distracted by the sexually flamboyant culture of the city.

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

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

Wünsdorf in Brandenburg was a military base for decades: first for the Prussians, then for the Wehrmacht and finally for the Red Army. At the...

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under...

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...

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

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

Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in a building on the Hamburg waterfront, where audiences pay for the privilege of watching her humiliate her...

The authentic story of Maria Zechmeister who lived in an Upper Austrian village and was convicted of the murder of her husband. There was no evidence...

From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One...

The sexual fantasies of women are explored by three female directors.

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...

Yi-Chun loves dancing. She attends ballet classes at her high school, with a lot of discipline, even if the exercises are painful. "Made in Taiwan"...

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

A young woman is fed up with the usual consumer's television and begins to make her own television, or more correctly, closevision. She is now a...

The eponymous party is hosted by Queenie and Burrs, long-term lovers who are rapidly growing apart.

Shot in a neo-expressionist style, the film is a satire on cults of any kind. The plot follows Frankie and Hannes, a young gay couple living in...

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.