Elfi Mikesch Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Vicky, an out-of-work actress, struggling waitress and lesbian has her whole life thrown into turmoil when her father comes from Germany to visit....

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for...

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

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

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...

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was...

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

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...

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

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

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