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Born August 14, 1945 · Düsseldorf, Germany
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.

The Keys to Freedom
2025

Perfect Days
2023

Some Body Comes Into the Light
2023

Anselm
2023
Présence
2022

Wim Wenders, Desperado
2020

Veränderung
2020

Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper
2020

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018

Submergence
2018

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez
2016

Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015

The Salt of the Earth
2014

Henri Langlois vu par...
2014

Cathedrals of Culture
2014
The Berlin Philharmonic
2014

Invisible World
2013
Ver ou Não Ver
2012

Pina
2011
If Buildings Could Talk
2010

Il Volo
2010

Palermo Shooting
2008

8
2008

To Each His Own Cinema
2007

Invisibles
2007

Invisible Crimes
2007

Don't Come Knocking
2005

Land of Plenty
2004

The Soul of a Man
2003

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002

BAP - Ode to Cologne
2002

The Million Dollar Hotel
2000

One Morning All Over the World
2000

Buena Vista Social Club
1999

Willie Nelson at the Teatro
1998

The End of Violence
1997

Lumière & Company
1995

A Trick of the Light
1995

Lisbon Story
1994

Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring
1993

Faraway, So Close!
1993

Until the End of the World
1991

Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
1990

Notebook on Cities and Clothes
1989

Wings of Desire
1987

Tokyo-Ga
1985

Paris, Texas
1984

Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982
1982

Hammett
1982

Room 666
1982

The State of Things
1982

Lightning Over Water
1980

The American Friend
1977

Kings of the Road
1976

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
1975

Wrong Move
1975

The Island
1974

From the Family of Reptiles
1974

Alice in the Cities
1974

The Scarlet Letter
1973

Summer in the City
1972

3 American LPs
1969

Polizeifilm
1969

Kaspar Hauser
1969

Silver City Revisited
1969

Alabama (2000 Light Years)
1969

Same Player Shoots Again
1968
Klappenfilm
1968
Victor I.
1968

Schauplätze
1967
Das Geheimnis der Orte

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

Cannes Uncut
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

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

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word
2018