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451 Originals

Filmgalerie 451 produces, distributes and publishes films which take risks regarding form and content. Many of the directors working with us are outsiders in film business, who seek their innovative ways off the beaten track. Among them are "classics" of German cinema like Werner Schroeter and Roland Klick, experiments by Christoph Schlingensief and Heinz Emigholz, as well as young cinema by Angela Schanelec, Robert Schwentke, Omer Fast and the films of the Filmgalerie 451 founders Irene von Alberti and Frieder Schlaich. New films by Robert Schwentke, Irene von Alberti, Omer Fast, Sobo Swobodnik and Elfi Mikesch are in postproduction and will be released in 2023.
On this page you will find all of Filmgalerie 451’s own productions:

GER 2024, 115 min.

Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she...

GER 2024, 100 min

Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed...

Chad 2023

After a deadly accident, the life of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N'Djamena, is turned upside down. Director Achille Ronaimou...

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

GER/MAR 2023

A grotesque drama about the last days of the ancient philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca and the beginnings of Emperor Nero's despotic...

GER 2024, 92 min

A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film...

GER 2023

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of...

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-...

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean...

GER 2020, 124 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic...

GER 2020, 100 min

A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER/FR/PL 2017, 118 min

A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks...

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

D 2016, 15 min

The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).

GER 2016, 85 min

A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.

GER 2016, 30 min

A disturbing role play.

GER 2016, 86 min

Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience...

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod,...

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of...

GER 2012, 41 min

Coming home from Afghanistan.

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman...

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not...

GER 2011, 23 min

Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur...

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An...

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

GER 1995, 45 min

The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 2014, 7 min

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three...

GER 2024, 115 min.

Following a protest against loggers, a young activist falls into a ravine. Injured and stranded, she wanders through the forest until she finally discovers a small...

GER 2024, 100 min

Germany, shortly before elections – a mysterious disease outbreak afflicting only men strikes. Differences between the sexes long believed to have been overcome re-emerge, shaking society to its...

Chad 2023

After a deadly accident, the life of Dane, a driver for a humanitarian NGO in N'Djamena, is turned upside down. Director Achille Ronaimou reflects on the common practice of blood money.

GER 2024, 86 min

The film tells the story of a planned transformation of the former military base Wünsdorf into an ecological campus.

GER/MAR 2023

A grotesque drama about the last days of the ancient philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca and the beginnings of Emperor Nero's despotic regime in Ancient Rome. Seneca fails in his own philosophical...

GER 2024, 92 min

A wave of evictions grips Berlin. The squatting scene dissolves and it’s members feel like they are supposed to leave the city. The film portrays a subculture through different generations. People...

GER 2023

The 42-year-old actress Marga has passed the zenith of her career and, due to advancing age and as a woman, collides with the limits of patriarchal society. A radically humorous critique of the...

GER 2022, 80 min

The quasi-fascist architecture of Francisco Salamone's slaughterhouses in the Argentine pampas, the utopian buildings by Freddy Mamani Silvestre in El Alto, Bolivia, and the...

GER 2022, 62 min

Architecture as Autobiography. Photography and beyond – Part 34. Twenty-five buildings by Argentine architect Francisco Salamone (1897-1959).

GER 2022, 95 min

Photography and beyond – Part 35. The film shows numerous choletts of the Bolivian civil engineer, architect and founder of neo-Andean architecture Freddy Mamani Silvestre.

GER 2020, 124 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s “Heimat” films, performance art, installations and provocative theatrical, television, operatic and artistic productions shaped the cultural and political discourse in...

GER 2020, 100 min

A revelation stuffed with every kind of surprise except the ones you expect.

GER/Peru 2017, 92 min

A justice thriller of a different kind.

GER 2017, 132 min

There are streets, paths, motorways, alleys, boulevards and promenades. And there are life paths, intersections and dead ends.

GER/FR/PL 2017, 118 min

A disturbing hoax in a no-man’s-land in Germany, two weeks before the end of the war.

GER 2017, 81 min

“What is to be done?“ Three women, their demand for political action and the question of how to put it into a reality.

D 2016, 15 min

The last days of the German photographer August Sander (1876-1964).

GER 2016, 85 min

A middle aged couple hire young men to act as their son.

GER 2016, 30 min

A disturbing role play.

GER 2016, 86 min

Two couples suffer the failure of their relationships 30 years apart.

GER 2014, 108 min

An architectural journey from Berlin back to Berlin – into the abyss.

GER 2013, 80 min

At the age of 14 Roland Klick was certain: cinema was what his soul was longing for. Filmmaking as an adventure, existential experience and escape from overstructured German post-war reality. The...

GER 2013, 18 min

A study of two museums: The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, and its predecessor, the Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel.

GER 2012, 81 min

CAUSE I HAVE THE LOOKS intertwines a vibrant coming-of-age story about a 13-year-old girl from Columbia with the exceptional situation of illegal immigration.

GER 2012, 41 min

Coming home from Afghanistan.

GER 2012, 100 min

PARABETON presents 17 in Italy and France extant buildings by Italian master-builder Pier Luigi Nervi and ten examples of Ancient Roman architecture made of Opus caementitium.

GER 2012, 110 min

30 buildings and architectural ensembles of the French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.

GER 2011, 97 min

The life and work of this artist who was as acutely sensitive to beauty as to death, was determined by the forces of Eros and passion. Not unfamiliar with the pitfalls of life, Werner Schroeter...

GER 2011, 23 min

Sometimes there is a good moment to say goodbye to the story ...

GER 2009, 60 min

Reframing CYCLING THE FRAME. Cynthia Beatt and Tilda Swinton once again go on the trail of the Berlin Wall. 

GER/Morocco 2008, 95 min

Tangiers, Morocco. A complicate love triangle between a young Moroccan woman and a German couple. Money, dishonesty and prostitution occur as antagonists of real friendship and moreover of love....

FR/GER/Portugal 2008, 118 min

One night to find an ever-escaping truth fhe last film of Werner Schroeter.

TND/MAD/F/GER 2006, 115 min

Nouri Bouzid's award-winning film about the making-of a terrorist.

GER 2005, 93 min

Three episodes between stage and life – exciting young German cinema and a true Berlin film!

GER 2005, 52 min

15 rooms of the Villa Cargnacco in Gardone on Lake Garda, where Gabriele D’Annunzio moved in 1921 and lived until his death.

GER 2005, 87 min

Christoph Schlingensief's first ur-animatograph installation.

GER 2005, 399 min

Lost in Namibia – a documentary about Christoph Schlingensief’s last, unfinished film – commented by himself.

GER 2003, 75 min

Christoph Schlingensief’s answer to the Talent Show frenzy!

GER 2003, 110 min

Heinz Emigholz’ congenial approach to Bruce Goff’s works.

GER 2004, 77 min

An Interviewfilm-portrait from the first untill the last film!

GER 1999, 82 min

A day in the life of a dead man.

GER 2017, 131 min

For the 1998 general election Schlingensief organized an “election campaign circus” in Berlin and founded the party CHANCE 2000. An ecstatic piece of political education and a tale of a party’s...

GER 1997, 177 min

Interviewfilm with Roland Klick from 1997 about all his films.

GER 1995, 45 min

The biographies of the two photographers Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach.

GER 1995, 93 min

Three episodes based on three short stories and commented by famouse American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 1993, 30 min

Based on the story "The Story of Lahcen and Idir" by the famous American writer Paul Bowles.

GER 2014, 7 min

In April of 2013, American singer Patti Smith travels to the grave of French writer Jean Genet in Larache, Morocco. She brings him three stones, which she collected for him over 30 years ago....