Elfi Mikesch Movies

Rex Gildo’s songs and musicals made him very popular. His best-known song was “Fiesta Mexicana” from 1972. Rosa von Praunheim tells...

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.

On her 40th birthday, director Heide Breitel interviewed female friends of the same age about their experiences. All of them—born in 1941, the...

Elfi Mikesch accompanies Werner Schroeter in staging a tribute to Lautréamont in Berlin.

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.

The story of a child who faces the emptiness that surrounds the figure of his parents, disappeared in Africa.

24-hour television documentary about Berlin and its inhabitants, reporting in real time on the everyday lives of more than 50 protagonists from a...

Monika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several female to male transgendered individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine,...

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

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

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...

Nurses on the night shift roll dice to see which AIDS patient will die next. The owner of a gay bathhouse gets Kaposi's Sarcoma but tries to keep his...

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"...

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

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

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)....

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...

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