Peter Nestler Movies

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...

Peter Nestler's short focusses the works of four Chilean artists: two painters [Nicolas de la Cruz and Jorge Kuhn], a graphic designer [Rolando...

“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...

A tribute to the victims of a mining disaster that happened in 1930 in Silesia before the reign of Nazi Germany.

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...

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

Documentary short by Peter Nestler.

A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there.

Stoff (1) is part of a series of films made for television and aimed at young audiences. The series was dedicated to the history and techniques...

Ethnologist and adventurer, Count Eric von Rosen was a man of contradictions: interested in the natives of Africa and colonial racism. Nestler...

The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.

This film is arguably Nestler's angriest documentary. It is a bitter personal statement about life in the Ruhr region: the fight against fascism, the...

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden

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

Shot in the commercial harbor of Fos-sur-Mer in Southern France, this film denounces the destruction of the region and the poor living and working...

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...

Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

This is the first part of a history about the history of paper.

Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings...