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Rupert Höller

Director
Rupert Höller is a relatively unknown figure in the entertainment industry, and there is limited public information available about his career, films, or awards.

Films

Exit Right

Exit Right

By Bernhard Wenger, Rupert Höller

2015 | 3 min | Shorts

Look away or intervene? When a man is victim of unfounded abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who doesn't ignore the situation like everyone else. How do you best confront xenophobia? Is it right to stand up for the one abused or is it too great a risk of becoming a victim too? When a black man is abused by a stranger for no reason in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who doesn't ignore the situation like everyone else. He has the courage to step up and intervene. This doesn’t ...

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I Knew You Were My Kind

I Knew You Were My Kind

2023 | 18 min | Shorts

Set in the deserted off-season on the Italian coast, caregivers Anca and Zoya meet at a bus stop shortly before returning home and decide to visit a client's abandoned beach house. A brief vacation turns into a moment of solidarity and tenderness that challenges the structural norms that govern their daily lives. “The discourse on the inner-European class question has never been more present and at the same time more repressed. As a German-Romanian, I encounter these socio-economic conditions every ...

Rot

Rot

2004 | 3 min | Shorts

A woman who has a penchant for the color yellow loves a man who only has eyes for the color red. To win him over, she comes up with a few ideas to convince him of her merits. Will her love be reciprocated? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz often combines socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches in his works. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting ...

Rosa

Rosa

2004 | 2 min | Shorts

Eduard is afraid of the color pink. Sabine likes Robert and the color pink. Will that work out? Malte Wirtz is a German filmmaker and theater director known for his experimental and independent work. With a background in theater studies and directing, Wirtz's works often combine socio-critical topics with unconventional aesthetic approaches. His style is characterized by a clear handwriting that combines minimalism and intense character studies. In addition to feature films, he has also made short ...

Ella

Ella

2014 | 15 min | Shorts

Ella is a Polish migrant worker who works in Germany to finance her daughter's studies in Poland. Due to illness, her job seems to be in jeopardy. When her daughter decides to come to Germany and faces the same fate as Ella, the mother decides to blackmail her boss for severance pay. The film ELLA deals with social tensions and dependencies that recur in many European migration biographies. The short film focuses on family responsibility, structural exploitation, and the tension between origin and ...

Robin

Robin

2008 | 21 min | Shorts

The film was shot on the "Kölnberg" high-rise complex in Cologne-Meschenich, which is considered a social hotspot. Hanno Olderdissens's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was awarded more than ten prizes internationally. Robin is eight when his mother Sabine becomes pregnant again. Because Sabine is overwhelmed with child, new boyfriend and pregnancy, Robin has to go to a foster home. When he returns after three months, the situation has not improved at all. The mother's new ...

Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen

Sehnsucht nach dem ganz Anderen

1981 | 13 min | Shorts

A young woman walks straight from the subway at Hamburg Central Station into the strangely somnambulistic world of an overnight train. She starts rummaging through the bags of sleeping passengers. These are at first gentle, then increasingly urgent incursions, an immersion into the intimate details of private lives on anonymous terrain. "The magic of the first movie! We are immersed in the dialog-free scenery of a night train in the 1980s, in which the protagonist rummages subversively and undisturbed ...

Dear John

Dear John

2015 | 42 min | Documentary

Hans Scheugl could have started a new life with his friend John in the USA 50 years ago - but he didn't. He imagines a life that never happened. The letter A, blurred against a pink background. This is the first letter on a journey that does not go alphabetically to Z, even though many letters appear - not just alphabetical, but written correspondence. These letters connect two worlds: a life in the USA and one in Vienna. The sign with the A marks a house somewhere in America, which the filmmaker ...

Rien ne va plus

Rien ne va plus

2017 | 15 min | Shorts

Evi calls Bodo to tell him he won a prize in a competition he never took part in. As Bodo desperately tries to fend her off, he overhears how the casino Evi is calling from is being robbed... And now not only his life, but the lives of all the hostages are in danger.

Analysis Paralysis

Analysis Paralysis

2016 | 9 min | Shorts

The man is looking for somebody who is better at playing chess than his dachshund. The gardener is looking for a mysterious vandal who is missing a yellow boot. In the end, they might just be looking for the same thing.

Der Anschlag

Der Anschlag

1984 | 9 min | Shorts

A woman and a man clash in a bar in Hamburg, when she slaps him (almost) out of nowhere. The response is completely unexpected. It ignites a series of liberating slaps that spread through the city like wildfire. "Someone can't just smack me and declare it art." This statement by the then West German Minister of the interior was the starting point for Pia Frankenberg's second film.