Peter Nestler Movies

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

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

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

A Roma silversmith talks about her experiences.

Second documentary short by Peter Nestler about Iranian migration in Sweden

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

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

In the 1970s, Peter and his wife, Zsóka Nestler, collaborated on a series of educational films for television that focused on craft-making....

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

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and...

A tribute to the victims of a mining disaster that happened in 1930 in Silesia before the reign of Nazi Germany.

“This film is about the indigenous cultures of Ecuador, of what is past and what is preserved, of destruction and resistance, of persisting in...

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

Roma and Sinti people talk about their experiences in the Third Reich and the Federal Republic of Germany, inspired by Otto Pankok’s paintings...

Documentary about the return of fascism in Western Germany

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...

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

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

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

Peter and Zsóka Nestler collaborated on this film, an exploration of the working techniques involved in the process of glass-making.