Elfi Mikesch Movies

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...

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

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

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....

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

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...

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

Rosa von Praunheim, the director of the film, parodies himself and his time as a professor at the Film School in Potsdam Babelsberg, where he taught...

A German short film

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

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

From feminist director and provocateur Monika Treut comes this eclectic collection of four short documentaries profiling unconventional women. One...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.