Wim Wenders
Directing
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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (born 14 August 1945) is a German filmmaker and playwright, who is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among the honors he has received are prizes from the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. He has also received a BAFTA Award and been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Grammy Award. Wenders made his feature film debut with Summer in the City (1970). He earned critical acclaim for directing the films Alice in the Cities (1974), The Wrong Move (1975), and Kings of the Road (1976), later known as the Road Movie trilogy. Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987). His other notable films include The American Friend (1977), Faraway, So Close! (1993), and Perfect Days (2023). Wenders has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), Pina (2011), and The Salt of the Earth (2014). He received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video for Willie Nelson at the Teatro (1998). He is also known for directing the documentaries Tokyo-Ga (1985), The Soul of a Man (2003), and Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (2018). Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy since 1996 and won an Honorary Golden Bear in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wim Wenders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
Films to Die For
2025
La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
2025
The Ozu Diaries
2025
Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende
2025
The Keys to Freedom
2025
Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days'
2024
Room 999
2023
Directors Talks
2023
Cannes Uncut
2023
German Genius
2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
CAN and Me
2022
Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary
2022
From Our Side
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
Die 2050er - Everything will change
2022
Why Are We (Not) Creative?
2021
Now
2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen
2020
High Maintenance
2020
Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020
Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020
Veränderung
2020
Zeroville
2019
Paul Auster: What If
2019
Beyond the Bolex
2018
Living the Light: Robby Müller
2018
Why Are We Creative?
2018
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018
Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders
2018
Plankton Salesmen
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
2017
Along for the Ride
2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016
Three for the Road
2016
A Weekend at the Beach
2015
Filmstudio, mon amour
2015
Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany
2015
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen
2015
Restoring Time
2015
The Salt of the Earth
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
2013
A Fuller Life
2013
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
2012
Close Up
2012
BAM150
2012
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard
2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Schawinski
2011
Hitler in Hollywood
2011
Zwischen den Zeiten
2011
Viaggio in Bergmania
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011
Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
2011
Snowblind
2010
Cronología
2010
Westpol
2010
What Do You Know About Me
2009
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
2008
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
2008
Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years
2008
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
2008
Back to Room 666
2008
One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years
2008
Dickes B
2007
Cannes: All Access
2007
The Art of Football from A to Z
2006
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2006
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
Kulturplatz
2004
Im Palais
2004
Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
2004
La torcedura
2004
ZIBB
2003
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
2003
Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die)
2003
Fassbinder in Hollywood
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Janela da Alma
2001
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
FreeDogme
2000
Volle Kanne
1999
Alekan le magnifique
1998
Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show
1998
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
1998
Sabine Christiansen
1998
Nachtstudio
1997
Im Dialog
1997
Tango Berlin
1997
Love in Hollywood
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
A Trick of the Light
1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
1995
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders
1995
Kleiner Mann ganz groß
1994
Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait
1994
Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993
Talking with Ozu
1993
Without Me
1993
Morgenmagazin
1992
Riverboat
1992
Dream Island
1991
Wim Wenders in Tokyo
1990
Pictures of Europe
1990
Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas'
1990
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
1990
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989
The Heart and the Legs
1989
Alekan, la lumière
1988
Helsinki Napoli All Night Long
1987
live - die ZDF-talkshow
1987
Nachtcafé
1987
King Kongs Faust
1985
Room 666
1985
Report from Hollywood
1985
Tausend Augen
1984
Goldene Kamera
1984
De droomproducenten
1984
Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act
1983
Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982
Cinématon XXII
1982
Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
1982
The State of Things
1982
Menschen
1982
Wortwechsel
1982
Lightning Over Water
1980
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
NDR Talk Show
1979
Cinématon
1978
Long Shot
1978
The American Friend
1977
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
Kings of the Road
1976
Kölner Treff
1976
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975
Wrong Move
1975
Midi Première
1975
Spécial cinéma
1974
Alice in the Cities
1974
Summer in the City
1972
3 American LPs
1969
Love and So Forth
1968
Candy Man
1968
German Film Award
1951
Bambi
1948