Angela Schanelec Movies

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

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,...

Marseille describes an interlude in the life of young Berlin photographer Sophie. Wanting a change, Sophie does an apartment swap, so she can go...

A Glasgow woman inherits a house in Berlin and has her eyes opened

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

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

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

Theres and Kenneth are both young when they first meet whilst on holiday. They fall in love but are unable to prevent themselves from losing each...

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

A young photographer has fallen in love with his girlfriend's sister. Nobody knows quite what to do. A stylish variation on the problems of triolism...

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

Angela Schanelec discussing her movies.

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 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...

Two sisters try to manage life alone after their mother's accident.

Prompted by a seminar given by acclaimed German filmmaker Peter Nestler, Prague, March '92 combines 16mm footage shot over the course of a week in...

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...

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...