Angela Schanelec

My Wife Cries (2026)

A normal 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 the hospital. He finds her crying. ...

Music (2023)

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, he meets Iro, a warden in the prison where he is incarcerated after a deadly tragic accident. She seems to ...

Hamlet (2020)

I Was at Home, But... (2019)

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life. ...

The Dreamed Path (2017)

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 other. Thirty years later, in another country, another couple: Ariane leaves her husband David because she no ...

Per Song (2016)

Film about young drifters in Chonqing, China. ...

The Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)

Thirteen European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo; what this city has represented in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo stands for today in Europe. These eminent filmmakers of different generations and origins offer exc ...

Orly (2010)

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 letter. All wait for their planes. Absorbed in their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably structured ...

Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation (2009)

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

Afternoon (2007)

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 inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of th ...

Marseille (2004)

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

Passing Summer (2001)

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

Places in Cities (1998)

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 cities. ...

My Sister’s Good Fortune (1995)

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

I Stayed in Berlin All Summer (1994)

Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing, until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholic observation of two young couples having difficulties trusting one another. They ...

Far Away (1992)

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

About the Accommodation (1992)

Short interaction in a bar. ...

Prague, March ’92 (1992)

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 the title city with excerpts from Bohumil Hrabal's essay "The Magic Flute," which considers the 20th annivers ...

Lovely Yellow Color (1991)

A story told in the off about the growing discomfort towards the new roommate Valentin. ...

Leçon de cinéma avec Angela Schanelec (2020)

Guest of honor at the 31st edition of FID Marseille, German director Angela Schanelec gave a master class this summer, hosted by editor Marie Hermann and critic Cyril Neyrat. It was an opportunity to discover the work of this filmmaker from the German New ...

Take What You Can Carry (2015)

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 seen through the interiors she occupies and the company she keeps. A North American living abroad, Lilly aspir ...

A House in Berlin (2014)

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

The Cinema of Angela Schanelec (2008)

Angela Schanelec discussing her movies. ...

Afternoon (2007)

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 inhabits the house with Irene's writer son Konstantin. Konstantin's girl-friend pops in, too, and all of th ...

Passing Summer (2001)

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

Dealer (1999)

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to ...

Dragonland (1999)

Hannes left Berlin seven years ago. As a computer kid from the very beginning, he quickly made a career in the USA. ...

Daily Chicken (1997)

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

My Sister’s Good Fortune (1995)

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

I Stayed in Berlin All Summer (1994)

Nadine is obsessed by a memory linked to a haunting tune she can no longer sing, until she hears someone else singing and everything falls back into place again. A melancholic observation of two young couples having difficulties trusting one another. They ...

Anna Zeit Land (1994)

Two women on a journey through Germany from 1989 to 1993. ...

Die UFA (1992)

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

Lovely Yellow Color (1991)

A story told in the off about the growing discomfort towards the new roommate Valentin. ...

The Death of the White Stallion (1985)

This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' War in Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions imposed by the clergy and nobility and then committed many acts (including atrocities) that did not morally ...

Die Wupper (1985)

The Family or Schroffenstein (1984)

The aristocratic families of Rossitz and Warwand, who are relatives, have started to treat each other with mistrust and hatred, since a testamentary contract has stated, that the complete goods will be inherited to the respective surviving line. At the sam ...