Elfi Mikesch Movies

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...

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...

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

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

Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining...

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

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)....

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

Michel, a young man idolized by his mother, falls in love with Madeleine. What he does not know is that the young woman is already the mistress of...

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....

A documentary film showing life in one of Hamburg’s homes for seniors. Over the course of six months, Elfi Mikesch interviewed and filmed the...

Documentary about Austrian city Judenburg and its art scene.

On the occasion of the 30th birthday of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, founded in 1966. Graduate Barbara Teufel accompanies a camera...

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

This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus...

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Heinz Emigholz, the premiere purveyor of architectural oddities (Sullivan’s Bridges, Goff in the Desert), meticulously documents 15 rooms of...

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German...

Aladdin’s parents separate when he is three. His father moves with him and his brothers to Tangier and re-marries. Then he leaves the family...