Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

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

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

This film is less about the birth of printing in medieval Germany, than about the effect it has had on social life and human relations. On the one...

A short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest.

The story begins on a hilltop, at an old castle that served as a German observation post in 1942. The traces of German fascism have also left their...

Nestler traces the history of Frankfurt’s Jewish ghetto from the middle ages to the present day.

An emotional condemnation of the U.S.’s role in the war in North Vietnam, composed of photographs by Thomas Billhardt, this film depicts the...

Rarely screened documentary on West-German anti-communism and the Deutsches Friedenunion [The German Peace Union]. Made in collaboration with...

A documentary about the Sami people across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, and about the environmental devastation in that area throughout the...