Peter Nestler

In 1950, Picasso was offered a room that had once been used as a chapel in his hometown of Vallauris. He pictured turning it into a “pagan site...

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The film presents artists from the Sinti and Roma minority who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works.

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The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood...

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“Don’t be scared,” he’d whisper, “There’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just the hollow people.”...

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Humanity’s thirst for knowledge and its consequences, from the Bible to the A-bomb. Nestler uses sixteenth-century engravings and paintings by...

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A reflection on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet captured in its economic and social causalities. Originally shot for a TV youth program but...

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Peter Nestler's poetic documentary Verteidigung der Zeit is not only an hommage to Jean-Marie Straub's and Danièle Huillet's film Quei loro...

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

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short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest

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Essay film about the origins of war in human history

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Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany

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Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden

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Documentary short about Iranian migration in Sweden

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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

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A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

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

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

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

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