Creatives: Make Movies!

Welcome to the Sooner Channel "Creatives: Make Movies!". Here you can immerse yourself in the fascinating world of filmmaking and discover the creative processes that take place behind the scenes of film production. Our carefully selected collection of films and documentaries offers you a deep insight into the lives and work of directors, screenwriters and producers who bring the big screen to life with their vision and talent.
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  • The Lord Worked Wonders in Me

    The Lord Worked Wonders in Me

    Documentary

    2011

    2h.26min

    16+

    A road movie – on the trail of Don Quixote's mythical locations.


  • Fellinopolis

    Fellinopolis

    Biography, Documentary

    2021

    1h.19min

    16+

    Never-before-seen insights into the work of Federico Fellini, the grand master of Italian cinema.


  • Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

    Roland Klick: The Heart Is a Hungry Hunter

    Biography, Documentary

    2013

    1h.19min

    12 FSK

    Roland Klick is a film history legend. He made movies with Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, then mysteriously faded away after only six films.


  • Highfalutin

    Highfalutin

    Biography, Documentary

    2021

    1h.36min

    16+

    Friends and colleagues reminisce about the controversial actor Volker Spengler, who was dubbed the "Downfall of the West".


  • E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)

    E.K.G. Expositus (the public and the artistic media)

    Biography, Icons & Media Art

    2004

    1h.41min

    16+

    A hospital in Berlin-Neukölln at midnight. A patient is being admitted. TV journalists are on the scene. The beginning of a story that tells itself.


  • Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

    Biography, Documentary

    2015

    1h.47min

    16+

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder has never been shown with such openness and introspection.


  • Delphine and Carole

    Delphine and Carole

    Documentary

    2019

    1h.10min

    12

    In the early 1970s, actress Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole Roussopoulos became icons of feminist video activism in France.


  • Eight Hundred Times Lonely

    Eight Hundred Times Lonely

    Biography, Documentary

    2020

    1h.24min

    0 FSK

    A warm-hearted yet stylistically radical film portrait in black and white and color about Edgar Reitz and his encounter with a young female filmmaker.


  • Making Montgomery Clift

    Making Montgomery Clift

    Documentary, Queer

    2018

    1h.28min

    16+

    Edward Montgomery Clift, four-time Academy Award nominee, was one of the first method actors and known for his roles as "moody, sensitive young men".


  • Bruno & Bettina

    Bruno & Bettina

    Documentary

    2018

    1h.41min

    16+

    Masao Adachi, born in 1939, is a well-known Japanese scriptwriter and director who in 1974 joined the ‘Japanese Red Army’.


  • Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

    Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman

    Biography, Documentary

    2016

    1h.5min

    16+

    Bernadette Lafont embodied the unyielding desire for freedom and independence like hardly any other actress in her time.


  • Friedkin Uncut

    Friedkin Uncut

    Biography, Documentary

    2018

    1h.47min

    16+

    The unusual and offbeat director himself shows for the first time which themes have influenced his artistic work.


  • The Prince of Nothingwood

    The Prince of Nothingwood

    Biography, Documentary

    2017

    1h.26min

    12 FSK

    Salim Shaheen defied the Soviets and the Taliban and is the most prolific Afghan filmmaker you've never heard of.


  • Werner Nekes: The Life Between Images

    Werner Nekes: The Life Between Images

    Biography, Documentary

    2017

    1h.28min

    0 FSK

    Werner Nekes (1944-2017) is one of the most important contemporary experimental filmmakers. His oeuvre includes 100 avant-garde films.


  • My Life Part 2 - Mein Leben Teil 2

    My Life Part 2 - Mein Leben Teil 2

    Biography, Independent

    2003

    1h.30min

    16+

    Angelika Levi explores her German Christian-Jewish family heritage through the archives of photographs, audio tapes and films collected by her mother.


  • My Name Is Not Ali

    My Name Is Not Ali

    Biography, Documentary

    2011

    1h.32min

    16+

    A portrait of El Hedi ben Salem, the actor of the Arab guest worker Ali from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Ali – Fear Eats The Soul".


  • Brasch – Words Of Want, Words Of Fear

    Brasch – Words Of Want, Words Of Fear

    Biography, Documentary

    2011

    1h.33min

    12 FSK

    Thomas Brasch (1945-2001), was a charismatic and aggressive artist, he loved conflicts. The documentary offers a unique insight into the fascinating life ...


  • Zownir: Radical Man

    Zownir: Radical Man

    Biography, Documentary

    2006

    1h.0min

    16+

    ZOWNIR: RADICAL MAN is the portrait of Miron Zownir, one of the most censored photographers, filmmakers and crime novelists of our time.


  • David Wants to Fly

    David Wants to Fly

    Biography, Documentary

    2010

    1h.36min

    0 FSK

    David Sievekind, young filmmaker, is in search of inspiration. He meets David Lynch, who assures him that the meditation TM is the key to success. But, ...


  • Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti

    Because I Am a Genius! Lorenza Mazzetti

    Biography, Documentary

    2016

    1h.2min

    16+

    Lorenza Mazzetti's extraordinary life story touches many points in twentieth century history.


  • Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    Kurt Gerron's Carousel

    Documentary, Classics

    1999

    1h.5min

    0 FSK

    An award-winning, authentic film about the Holocaust. "It’s a well done, very moving documentary." (Roman Polanski)