Filmography

SELECTION
Mafia

ARD Crime Time - The Mafia Murders of Duisburg

Documentary series, D 2025, 4 episodes

  • Director: Peter Jeschke
  • Production: FilmFive | ARD | HR

Streaming premiere
  • April 2025 on ARD Mediathek
Chokehole

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Documentary, D 2024, 54 minutes

  • Director: Claudia Müller
  • DoP: Klemens Koscher
  • Composer: Ulrike Haage
  • Production: Phlox Film | ARTE

TV premiere
  • ARTE, September 18, 2024
Chokehole

What a Feeling

Feature film, AT 2024, 110 minutes

  • Director & Screenplay: Kat Rohrer
  • DoP: Michael Schindegger
  • Cast: Caroline Peters, Proschat Madani, Nicole Ansari, Anton Noori, Barbara Spitz, Rafael Haider
  • Production: Praherfilm | Geyrhalter Filmproduktion

Festivals
Awards
  • Audience Award Best Feature, Seattle Queer Film Festival
  • Audience Award Best Feature, Out Here Dayton Film Fest
  • Audience Award, Best Feature (Runner Up), OutFilm CT
  • Honorable Mention Best Feature, Outshine Miami
  • Audience Award, Pride Pictures Karlsruhe
  • Audience Award Best Feature, Queerstreifen
  • Best Feature Film, One Fluid Night Film Festival London
  • Audience Award, Best Narrative Feature (Runner Up), Mardi Gras Film Festival Sydney
  • ROMY Favorite Actress for Caroline Peters for 'What a Feeling'

Theatrical Release
  • Austria: April 19, 2024
  • Germany: September 5, 2024
  • UK: February 2, 2026
  • Netherlands: March 8, 2026

    • VOD Release
  • Hungary: Fall 2025
  • Poland: Fall 2025
  • Brazil: Spring 2026
  • Mexico: Spring 2026
  • Argentinia: Spring 2026
  • Chile: Spring 2026
Chokehole

Family of Choice

Documentary series, D 2023, 7 episodes

  • Directors: Brenda Akele Jorde, Gabriel B. Arrahnio
  • Production: RTL+ | Film Five

  • streaming premiere: June 5, 2023 on RTL+
Chokehole

CHOKEHOLE - Drag Wrestlers Do Deutschland

Documentary, D 2023, 20 minutes

  • Director: Yony Leyser
  • DoP: Shane McMillan
  • Production: LEAD Productions | Desire Productions

Festivals
Heidi Bucher

TRANSFORMATIONS - Heidi Bucher

Documentary, CH/D 2022, 52 minutes

  • Director: Claudia Müller
  • Production: snakefilm | phlox films

TV premiere: April 2022
Zwei

TWO

Videonstallation, D 2021/22

  • Director: Christian Niccoli
  • Production: Momentum

Exhibitions
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Szczecin
  • Künstlerhaus Bethanien
  • Centro per l'arte Contemporanea, Prato
  • Ibrida Festival Delle Arte Intermediali
  • Bolzano Art Weeks 2022
ANTIOPERA

I WAS A FORMALIST PENSIONER.
AN ANTIOPERA.

Multichannel-Installation, D/USA 2021

  • Director: Susanne Sachsse
  • Music: XiuXiu
Premiere: Participant Inc., NYC
Spacetime

Spacetime

Docu series, D 2021, 4 episodes, 50 minutes

  • Director: Daniel Bäumler, Holger Heinrich
  • Production: Welt

TV premiere: February 21, 2021
You By Me III

You By Me III

Video installation, D 2020, 13 minutes

  • Director: Christian Niccoli
  • DoP: Markus Kloth

Premiere
  • Berlinische Galerie - Museum for Modern Art
Sunburned

Sunburned

Feature film, D 2019, 90 Minutes

  • Director: Carolina Hellsgård
  • DoP: Wojciech Staron
  • Cast: Sabine Timoteo, Zita Gaier, Gedion Wekesa
  • Production: NiKo Film | FLICKFILM | The Film Kitchen

Festivals
Theatrical release
  • July 2, 2020
Endzeit

Endzeit - Ever After

Feature film, D 2018, 90 Minutes

  • Director: Carolina Hellsgård
  • DoP: Leah Striker
  • Cast: Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Maja Lehrer, Trine Dyrholm
  • Production: Grown Up Films
  • Coproduction: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel | Arte

Festivals
Theatrical releases
  • Vietnam: March 1, 2019
  • Mexico: May 24, 2019
  • US: June 21, 2019
  • Germany: August 22, 2019
  • Peru: August 22, 2019
  • Japan: December 6, 2019
Mosul - The Ruins of ISIS

Mosul - The Ruins of ISIS

Documentary, D 2018, 50 Minutes

  • Director: Helmar Büchel
  • Production: Welt
TV premiere: November 7, 2018
Original Sin

Original Sin

Multi-channel installation, D 2017, 70 Minutes

  • Concept: Susanne Sachsse
  • With: Xiu Xiu, Susanne Sachsse, Vaginal Davis, Marc Siegel

Live Concerts
  • silent green, Berlin, December 2017
  • Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf, March 2018
  • Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne, June 2018
  • Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich 2019
Mosul

The Tragedy of Mosul

Documentary, D 2017, 50 Minutes

  • Director: Helmar Büchel
  • Production: N24
TV premiere: July 23, 2017
The Forgotten Army

The Forgotten Army

 Documentary, D/DK 2016, 90 Minutes

  • Director: Signe Astrup
  • DoP: Frank Schwaiger
  • Production: Sineast Filmproduction | Molly Aida
In German cinemas: June 8, 2017

Festivals
  • Filmkunst MV Festival 2017, Competition
  • Docfest Kassel 2017
Little Bighorn River

Little Bighorn River

Documentary, D 2017, 50 Minutes

  • Director: Helmar Büchel
  • Production: N24
TV premiere: December 18, 2016
LADY

LADY

 Short film, CH 2016, 17 Minutes

  • Director: Jennifer Heinen
  • Production: COUPDEUIL Productions
  • Cast: Annelore Sarbach
  • Composer: Erika Stucky
World premiere
  • International Film Festival Solothurn 2017
One Day in Sarajevo

One Day in Sarajevo

Documentary, D 2015, 60 Minutes

  • Director: Jasmila Žbanić
  • Production: Deblokada | Produkcija Živa
Awards
  • Human Rights Award, SFF 2015
Festivals
  • Sarajevo Film Festival 2015
  • DOK Leipzig 2015
  • Film Festival Cottbus 2015
  • DeBalie Amsterdam 2015
  • Eastern Neighbours Film Festival Den Haag
  • 21. Autoren Film Festival Belgrad 2015
  • Triest Film Festival 2016
  • Helsinki Documentary FIlm Festival 2016
  • ZagrebDox International FIlm Festival 2016
  • Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz 2016
Lament

LAMENT - Einstürzende Neubauten

Concert film, D 2015, 120 Minutes

  • DoP: Matthias Benzing
  • Production: Einstürzende Neubauten
Serious Ladies

Serious Ladies

Video Installation, D 2013, 20 Minutes

  • Director: Susanne Sachsse
Premiere
  • Living Archive, KunstWerke Berlin
Festivals
  • Werkleitz Festival 2013
  • Experimenta Bangalore 2013
  • 15th Mumbai Film Festival 2013
  • DISTRITAL, Mexico, curated by Marie Losier, 2014
  • Moscow International Film Festival 2014
  • New Horizons International Filmfestival, Wroclaw, 2014
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014
  • Berlin Artfilm Festival 2014
  • B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Frankfurt 2017
To Say I Do

To Say I Do

 Documentary, D/IN 2012, 15 Minutes

  • Director: Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck
Festivals
  • Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden 2013
  • Filmfest Weiterstadt 2014
The Wicked Uncle

The Wicked Uncle

 Feature film, CH/D 2011, 95 Minutes

  • Director: Urs Odermatt
  • Cast: Miriam Japp, Jörg-Heinrich Benthien, Paula Schramm
Awards
  • New Vision Award IFF Rome 2012
Festivals
  • Hof International Film Festival 2011
  • International Film Festival Solothurn 2012
  • Rome Independent Film Festival 2012
  • Saas-Fee Filmfest 2014
Cows and Bells

Cows and Bells

Short film, D 2011, 13 Minutes

  • Director: Christian Günzler
  • Production: credo:film
Festivals
  • Achtung Berlin 2012
  • Cabriolet Festival Beirut 2012
  • Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2012
LOVE LOVE LOVE yeah

LOVE LOVE LOVE yeah

Short film, D 2011, 11 Minutes

  • Director: Peter Jeschke
  • DoP: Anna Intemann
  • Cast: Jonas Anders, Leon Palamarciuc, Marie Tietjen
Festivals
  • Achtung Berlin 2011
Home Stories

Home Stories

Documentary, D 2010, 11 Minutes

  • Director: Juan Sarmiento G
  • DoP: Juan Sarmiento G
TV premiere: September 3, 2010
Adolescence

Adolescence

Short film, D 2009, 20 Minutes

  • Director: Peter Jeschke
  • DoP: Andreas Steffan
Eleven Uncles

Eleven Uncles

 Feature film, D 2009, 90 Minutes

  • Director: Herbert Fritsch
  • Cast: Alexander Khuon, Maria Hofstätter, Friedrich Liechtenstein
On a Silk Thread

On a Silk Thread

 Short film, D 2009, 5 Minutes

  • Director: Peter Jeschke
  • DoP: Anna Intemann
Awards
  • F.-W.-Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis 2010
Festivals
  • Filmfest Dresden 2010
  • Ourense International Film Festival 2010
  • Festival de Cine de Huesca 2010
Tennis

Tennis

Short film, D 2008, 8 Minutes

  • Director: Herbert Fritsch
  • Cast: Katja Riemann, Michael Rehberg, Herbert Knaup
TV premiere March 2008
Sexual Repulsives' Lounge

Sexual Repulsives' Lounge

 Multi-channel video installation, D 2007, 5 Minutes

  • Idea/Realisation: Ruth Schönegge
  • With: CHEAP, Vaginal Davis, Bruce LaBruce
I am Max

I am Max

Short film, D 2007, 45 Minutes

  • Director: Jonas Rothländer
  • Cast: Immanuel Rathke, Atto Suttarp, Adolfo Assor
Holy Family

Holy Family

Short film, D 2003, 10 Minutes

  • Director: Herbert Fritsch
  • Cast: Susanne Lothar, Sebastian Butz, Joachim Tomaschewsky
TV premiere: June 2003