Movies

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 strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.

This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastrophe”. It deals...

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

1802: The adventurous life story of Hans Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes”, who fights against the French occupying forces and...

Peter Nestler illustrates a poem by Hans Sachs from 1540.

For more than eight decades, German Sinti and Roma experienced injustice. The film tells of the family of activist Romani Rose, their resistance and...

The burial of an old woman leads to several complications among family and friends.

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

The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The...

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

The film documents the activities of two human-rights organisations during the military dictatorship in Chile — PIDEE (Protección de la...

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as...

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...

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden.

In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are...

A large German city at the beginning of the 1960s. This is where the well-to-do Berger family lives. Outwardly a bourgeois idyll, but behind the...

Still photography combined with moving imagery in this portrait of civic life in Chile. Made for Swedish public television almost a decade after the...

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

In the 1970's Peter and Zsóka Nestler made several educational documentaries on industrial production for Swedish public television. The...