Angela Schanelec Movies

An ordinary working day on a construction site. Thomas, a 40-year-old crane operator, receives a call from his wife asking him to pick her up from...

Abandoned at birth in the Greek mountains on a stormy night, Jon is taken in and adopted, without having known his father or mother. As a young man,...

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential...

Scenes from the seminar "Lange Sprechen." Angela Schanelec, HFBK Summer Semester 2024.

A family spends three summer days in a beautiful lake mansion close to Berlin. Together with her new lover, Irene visits her brother Alex, who still...

A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister, throwing the trio into chaos.

Die UFA, a film essay about the eponymous German studio.

This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions...

Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.

Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what...

Mimmi is a very lonely girl, not knowing what to do with her life. On the search for friends and boyfriends, she wanders around alone in different...

A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in various ways with friends, family, and lovers.

A woman converses with another over the phone, witnesses a theft, and samples a record in a store.

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough...

A young Berlin photographer participates in an apartment swap with a stranger in Marseille to briefly explore the French city.

A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, Take What You Can Carry is a picture of a young woman...

At the Paris airport Orly, a woman falls for a stranger, a family heads to a funeral, a couple lose touch, a wife reads her husband’s break-up...

The aristocratic families of Rossitz and Warwand, who are relatives, have started to treat each other with mistrust and hatred, since a testamentary...