Elfi Mikesch Movies

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

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...

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

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....

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

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...

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

The German homosexuals to whom the third film "Feuer unterm Arsch" is dedicated are visibly less enthusiastic about safe sex, let alone safe sex...

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

Together with her bisexual friend and manager Stefan, singer Miko is working on a great career that has so far failed to materialize.

The world according to Annie Sprinkle, renowned porn star and performance artist.

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...

A portrait of five St. Petersburgians and their connection to The Hermitage.

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

Documentary about street art in 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...

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...

Two sisters try to manage life alone after their mother's accident.

Perhaps her name is Maria: A woman with blonde curls listens to a caller in her New York apartment, moving between the couch and the kitchen floor,...