Movies

A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the...

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood...

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.

Documentary that portrays Vincent van Gogh's live and work through his letters to his brother Theo.

Interview with Peter Nestler about his filmmaking practice conducted and directed by Christoph Hübner

The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on...

A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but...

In 1950, Picasso was offered a room that had once been used as a chapel in his hometown of Vallauris. He pictured turning it into a “pagan site...

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the...

Documentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany.

In the 1970's Peter and Zsóka Nestler made several educational documentaries on industrial production for Swedish public television. The...

The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la...