Peter Nestler Movies

Jewish painter Leopold Mayer fled his native Frankfurt at the rise of the Nazi regime. Although briefly finding refuge in France, where he changed...

A film of Hungarian folk artists, sharing their handicrafts and paintings with the filmmakers.

How to Make Glass (Mechanically) is part of a series of educational films for television intended for young audiences. Directed by Peter and...

Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden

A 1994 German language documentary written and directed by Peter Nestler.

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

Peter Nestler, an important German filmmaker with an extensive filmography, agrees with Chilean filmmaker Rodrigo Gonçalves, exiled in Sweden,...

Greker i Sverige [Greeks in Sweden] consists of a staged discussion between Greek political refugees in Sweden. Dialogue is mainly in Greek, but the...

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...

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

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

Documentary short made for Swedish public television (SVT) about the past and current situation for Native Americans in the US. The film was produced...

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

Rarely screened two part documentary on the Swedish-Chilean folk music group Victor Jaras barn [Victor Jara's Children], formed by folk musician and...

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 by Peter Nestler.

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

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...

Filmed in Spain, Finland, Sweden, and West Germany, 'Spanien!' investigates ideas of internationalism and solidarity, using personal testimonies from...