Elfi Mikesch Movies

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

A feature-length documentary on Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, award-winning artist and human-rights activist who has gained international recognition for...

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

Aladdin’s parents separate when he is three. His father moves with him and his brothers to Tangier and re-marries. Then he leaves the family...

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...

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

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

The authentic story of Maria Zechmeister who lived in an Upper Austrian village and was convicted of the murder of her husband. There was no evidence...

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

The world according to Annie Sprinkle, renowned porn star and performance artist.

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...

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)....

A documentary film showing life in one of Hamburg’s homes for seniors. Over the course of six months, Elfi Mikesch interviewed and filmed the...

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...

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

This film tells the story of Markus Anatol Weisse, who, astonishingly enough, became an artist, in spite of being only very partially sighted. Markus...