Peter Nestler Movies

A documentary of the town of Sheffield's main pub and the people who went there.

Documentary about empty space in Berlin

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

The revolt at Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943 is a central episode of resistance against national socialism. Thomas...

A cheerful take on the lives of school children in a Swiss rural environment. Young pupils recite short essays they have written on subjects such as...

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

Portrait of a small south German village and its residents in the early sixties. Rural culture is undergoing a transformation caused by the intrusion...

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

The first part of a history about the history of paper.

A short film about a wicker weaver in Budapest.

Today, the Römerstrasse in Italy's Aosta valley, is a significant traffic artery in the center of modern Europe. Nestler's journey explores the...

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...

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

Peter Nestler portrays the everyday life of two young music students from Budapest who are trying to balance their family life, which is shaped by...

This dialogue-free short is edited to music and the rhythms of change in a small town in the Ruhr region, shot a few years after the first mining...

In the 1970's Peter and Zsóka Nestler made several educational documentaries on industrial production for Swedish public television. The...

Nestler highlights visits by several German entrepreneurs to oil facilities. In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on...

Filmed aboard a Hungarian ship, this is a journey upstream the Danube, recalling the vital role the majestic river played in the settlement and...

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

In his first film, Peter Nestler gives voice to an old floodgate. A nearby village, its inhabitants, wooden posts and twisted willow rods are...