Absurdistan
By Veit Helmer
2008 | 87 min | Comedy
In the distant country of ABSURDISTAN, the men are lazy, whereupon the women go on a sex strike.
Veit Helmer
DirectorVeit Helmer is a German filmmaker known for his unique storytelling style and whimsical approach to filmmaking. He started his career directing short films before transitioning to feature films. Some of his notable works include "Tuvalu," "Gate to Heaven," and "Absurdistan." Helmer has received critical acclaim for his visual storytelling and ability to create captivating narratives without extensive dialogue. While he may not have received major awards, his work has garnered recognition at various film festivals around the world.
Films
Tuvalu
By Veit Helmer
1999 | 91 min | Drama
In Veit Helm's fairy-tale feature debut, shy Anton struggles to prevent the closure of his family's dilapidated indoor swimming pool.
Gate to Heaven
By Veit Helmer
2003 | 88 min | Comedy
German romantic Bollywood comedy: Nisha is a janitor at the Frankfurt Airport but of dreams of becoming a flight attendant.
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Gate to Heaven
2003 | 88 min | Comedy
After her shift Nisha sneaks into the planes at night and entertains imaginary first class passengers. She meets the young Russian Alexej, who has fled to Germany and works under the table to make ends meet. Their nightly airplane fantasies draws them together, as Alexei dreams of flying - as a pilot.
Tuvalu
1999 | 91 min | Drama
TUVALU is an island the main characters dream about as a place of refuge. A dream that seems unlikely to come true, given the fact that they are cut off from the outside world in a once opulent but now run-down and largely deserted swimming pool. "A small sensation" (Spiegel.de)
The Portuguese Nun
2009 | 121 min | Drama
A young French actress who is in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming. "THE PORTUGUESE NUN has both wit and feeling. The director explores the collision of eros and religion in a way that is both cerebral and sensual." (New York Times) Left to her own devices by a director (Green himself), Julie wanders the streets and has encounters with a series of male archetypes including a needy child (Mozos), a faithless husband (Michaux) and a ...
Hypnosis To Be Happy
2018 | 75 min | Love & Sex
Pilar and Felipe are lonely beings who have not been able to find love or their place in the world. Right after they meet Felipe boldly proposes marriage. Pilar outright refuses and their friendship shifts in a different direction. On a short trip to the simplest of places, Felipe shares his most intimate mantra. It has kept him afloat in the worst existential crisis: an archaic '70s cassette with hypnosis inducing talk. This has a strange effect on Pilar and the story takes yet another turn. HYPNOSIS ...
Holger and Hanna
2013 | 84 min | Comedy
HOLGER AND HANNA tells the story of shy 16 year old Holger who falls in love with his classmate Hanna. Not only the pains of first love, but also his parents' separation are troubling Holger. When his father Gerhard hooks up with Hanna, Holger is determined to win her at all costs. Unfortunately, his courtship can best be described as awkward, and eventually his parents send him to a therapist. The no budget production was financed by crowdfunding and cast with actors from renowned theaters in ...
Rendezvous
2005 | 95 min | Love & Sex
Shot on video with dynamic hand-held camerawork and a high volume of scathing dialogue, RENDEZVOUS is the debut of self-taught filmmaker Alexander Schüler. The film follows two couples. Without their respective partners' knowledge, all four set up dates with a person of the other couple. The swapped partners unexpectedly run into each other, and all hell breaks loose as societal conventions are challenged and deep-rooted resentment comes to the fore…
Burning Beds
1988 | 83 min | Comedy
It is well known that a German man's love of cars comes before his interest in the opposite sex. Gina wages a two-front war against this state of affairs: as a vehicle inspector at the TÜV, she lovingly seizes her opportunities to take revenge on man and machine, while in her private life she devotes herself to the previously missed sexual revolution with unreserved exploratory fury. What Gina does is done with German thoroughness. Harry, a Brit, values self-control, discretion and restraint. Qualities ...
Second Thoughts
2021 | 85 min | Drama
Marie is blindsided by her boyfriend at his brother's wedding in front of the assembled family with a marriage proposal. Marie has no idea how to react to this. She flees to the countryside to think about herself, her life and her relationship alone. Alone? In her mother's vacation home, things soon get increasingly tighter and more absurd: because Marie's thoughts suddenly take shape, her "thought people" become more numerous and more penetrating. They force possible baby names on her, an ex-boyfriend ...
Dry Hot Summers
2016 | 30 min | Comedy
The frail old Shawky and the spirited young Doaa are both caught up in their own routines as their trip through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery through which they reconnect with life. Sherif Elbendary, whose films have been officially selected at over 70 festivals worldwide and won more than a dozen prestigious awards, returns to the screen with his short film DRY HOT SUMMERS - sponsored by the Robert Bosch Foundation. "It would be no exaggeration to say that Har Gar Sayfan [DRY ...
After Effect
2006 | 75 min | Independent
The Carl Celler (CC) Culture Institute sells art projects to big companies. Carl Celler has assembled an group of young artists to develop his newest idea: LOGOS and ANIMALS. Furnished with a sufficient budget and set loose in Berlin art world, the group set out to produce ad campaigns and art objects based on the LOGOS and ANIMALS theme. Diva Rena becomes infatuated with (anti-)model Kai. But Kai is thrown off balance. Is he now in love? Or is he just a body eroticized by this dazzling experience? ...