Veit Helmer

Directing

Veit Helmer

Born

1968-04-24 (58)

Place of birth

Hannover, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

42 titles

Veit Helmer is a German film director and producer who began making films as a teenager and later studied directing in Berlin and Munich. He gained recognition through numerous award-winning short films and his feature debut Tuvalu (1999), followed by internationally screened films such as Absurdistan and Baikonur. His work is known for its visual storytelling, often using very little dialogue and emphasizing expressive imagery and physical acting.

Known for

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German Film Award

1951

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NR

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Bavarian Film Awards

1979

The Bra poster
6.0

Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”.

The Bra

2019

A Trick of the Light poster
6.2

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

A Trick of the Light

1995

Gondola poster
6.8

In the Georgian mountains, a cable car connects a village with a smaller town in the valley. Iva started working for the cable car as a conductor and is now in charge of handling the gondolas. While one gondola goes up to the village, the other goes down to the valley. Halfway down, the gondolas meet every half hour. This is exactly the moment when Iva and Nina, the conductor of the other gondola, meet each time. Where at the beginning only collegial greetings were exchanged, over time a flirtation develops. What follows is the big love and stress with the boss.

Gondola

2024

Absurdistan poster
6.1

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

Absurdistan

2008

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Bra poster
6.0

Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”.

The Bra

2019

The Bra poster
6.0

Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”.

The Bra

2019

The Bra poster
6.0

Train driver Nurlan’s heading to Baku for the last time before retirement, but on his fateful journey around the neighborhoods of the city his train snags a blue bra off a washing line. To escape from his lonely existence, Nurlan embarks on the most adventurous journey of his life: to find the owner of this perky piece of underwear. He rents a small room in Baku and begins his quest to find his “Cinderella”.

The Bra

2019

A Trick of the Light poster
6.2

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

A Trick of the Light

1995

A Trick of the Light poster
6.2

A rare gem of cinematic storytelling that weaves docudrama, fictional reenactment, and experimental photography into a powerful, reflective work on the early days of German cinema. The film tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers, the German-born duo responsible for inventing the "bioskop", an early version of the film projector.

A Trick of the Light

1995

Gondola poster
6.8

In the Georgian mountains, a cable car connects a village with a smaller town in the valley. Iva started working for the cable car as a conductor and is now in charge of handling the gondolas. While one gondola goes up to the village, the other goes down to the valley. Halfway down, the gondolas meet every half hour. This is exactly the moment when Iva and Nina, the conductor of the other gondola, meet each time. Where at the beginning only collegial greetings were exchanged, over time a flirtation develops. What follows is the big love and stress with the boss.

Gondola

2024

Gondola poster
6.8

In the Georgian mountains, a cable car connects a village with a smaller town in the valley. Iva started working for the cable car as a conductor and is now in charge of handling the gondolas. While one gondola goes up to the village, the other goes down to the valley. Halfway down, the gondolas meet every half hour. This is exactly the moment when Iva and Nina, the conductor of the other gondola, meet each time. Where at the beginning only collegial greetings were exchanged, over time a flirtation develops. What follows is the big love and stress with the boss.

Gondola

2024

Gondola poster
6.8

In the Georgian mountains, a cable car connects a village with a smaller town in the valley. Iva started working for the cable car as a conductor and is now in charge of handling the gondolas. While one gondola goes up to the village, the other goes down to the valley. Halfway down, the gondolas meet every half hour. This is exactly the moment when Iva and Nina, the conductor of the other gondola, meet each time. Where at the beginning only collegial greetings were exchanged, over time a flirtation develops. What follows is the big love and stress with the boss.

Gondola

2024

Absurdistan poster
6.1

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

Absurdistan

2008

Absurdistan poster
6.1

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

Absurdistan

2008

Absurdistan poster
6.1

An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love.

Absurdistan

2008

Be Careful At Night! poster
NR

Taking a taxi at night in Jakarta is very dangerous. Especially for attractive young girls. In this case, it's more dangerous for the taxi driver.

Be Careful At Night!

2001

Be Careful At Night! poster
NR

Taking a taxi at night in Jakarta is very dangerous. Especially for attractive young girls. In this case, it's more dangerous for the taxi driver.

Be Careful At Night!

2001

Tuvalu poster
6.2

Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind father that business is thriving. Working to sabotage their efforts is Gregor - Anton's brother - an amoral developer who is determined to raze the entire town and construct a sprawling condominium complex. Gregor engineers an accident that seems certain to doom the business and in the process steals away Eva, the beautiful woman of Anton's dreams. Will Gregor's dastardly plan succeed?

Tuvalu

1999

Tuvalu poster
6.2

Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind father that business is thriving. Working to sabotage their efforts is Gregor - Anton's brother - an amoral developer who is determined to raze the entire town and construct a sprawling condominium complex. Gregor engineers an accident that seems certain to doom the business and in the process steals away Eva, the beautiful woman of Anton's dreams. Will Gregor's dastardly plan succeed?

Tuvalu

1999

Tuvalu poster
6.2

Set in a dilapidated indoor swimming pool (the Central Baths in Sofia), the film details the efforts of Anton, a clueless dreamer who yearns to sail the world, and Martha, the button obsessed cashier, to maintain the illusion for Anton's blind father that business is thriving. Working to sabotage their efforts is Gregor - Anton's brother - an amoral developer who is determined to raze the entire town and construct a sprawling condominium complex. Gregor engineers an accident that seems certain to doom the business and in the process steals away Eva, the beautiful woman of Anton's dreams. Will Gregor's dastardly plan succeed?

Tuvalu

1999

Fiddlesticks poster
5.9

Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocrity. New products are to be tested here. The market researchers know that what the people of Bollersdorf like sells well everywhere. But while the local parents enthusiastically take part, their children quickly get fed up with the annoying product testers. Even more so when they want to send their beloved grandmas and grandpas to a care home to bring the average age back into line. This is a case for the coati gang! Together with the clever coati Quatsch, the children hatch a clever plan: With adventurous inventions and crazy world records, they want to prove Bollersdorf's uniqueness so that the consumer researchers finally disappear again...

Fiddlesticks

2014

Fiddlesticks poster
5.9

Life could be so good for the children of Bollersdorf if the town had not been discovered by the Society for Consumer Research because of its mediocrity. New products are to be tested here. The market researchers know that what the people of Bollersdorf like sells well everywhere. But while the local parents enthusiastically take part, their children quickly get fed up with the annoying product testers. Even more so when they want to send their beloved grandmas and grandpas to a care home to bring the average age back into line. This is a case for the coati gang! Together with the clever coati Quatsch, the children hatch a clever plan: With adventurous inventions and crazy world records, they want to prove Bollersdorf's uniqueness so that the consumer researchers finally disappear again...

Fiddlesticks

2014

Akiko, the Flying Monkey poster
4.5

The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out of the forest. Together they want to free the animals from the zoo

Akiko, the Flying Monkey

2025

Akiko, the Flying Monkey poster
4.5

The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out of the forest. Together they want to free the animals from the zoo

Akiko, the Flying Monkey

2025

Akiko, the Flying Monkey poster
4.5

The monkey child Akiko lives in the zoo, but his family sends him on a big mission: he is supposed to go out into the world and get his relatives out of the forest. Together they want to free the animals from the zoo

Akiko, the Flying Monkey

2025

Gate to Heaven poster
8.0

With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot, in an underground labyrinth of pipes and vents. The young Indian woman Nisha is an aircraft cleaner who dreams of being a flight attendant.

Gate to Heaven

2003

Gate to Heaven poster
8.0

With the help of airport technician Dak, Alexej breaks out of the holding area for refugees. Dak puts up the Russian, who yearns to become a pilot, in an underground labyrinth of pipes and vents. The young Indian woman Nisha is an aircraft cleaner who dreams of being a flight attendant.

Gate to Heaven

2003

Tour Eiffel poster
7.5

Lulu from Sicily drives with his small rickety Fiat to Paris to fulfill his lifelong dream: he buys a red cabriolet. From the top of the Eiffel Tower he has to watch as his car is stolen by a man who intends to steal the Mona Lisa. In the course of a chase with the police, his car is completely wrecked. When getting back to it, the police takes Lulu for the thief and arrests him.

Tour Eiffel

1994

No artwork available
9.0

A movie wannabe from Singapore and some of Hollywood's elite contribute to Storyville's illuminating view of the world of casting.

Behind the Couch: Casting in Hollywood

2006

No artwork available
7.5

Shy window cleaner Anton sees waitress Sophie at work, and it's love at first sight. Instead of working, the two flirt with each other until Sophie's jealous boss interrupts them and harasses his employee. Anton sees red and grabs a huge sledgehammer...

Der Fensterputzer

1993

No artwork available
7.1

While his lover is sleeping, a man assembles around her a Rube Goldberg collection of malevolent-looking implements. Then he leaves and lights the fuse . . .

Surprise!

1996

No artwork available
10.0

15-year-old Moritz lives with his father near East Berlin, helping at his gas station and drifting through life after his girlfriend leaves him. He skips school, hides in a crumbling house, and escapes into music, Game Boy games, and memories of his mother - believed to have died ten years ago. But a chance discovery reveals she’s alive and living in Hamburg. Moritz sets out to confront her and the truth.

Game Over

1996

No artwork available
NR

A weary donkey causes a huge traffic jam on a busy road in Tbilisi. The donkey refuses to budge. Outside the city, a bull is attracted by the red dress of a pretty girl and chases her.

Georgian Summer

2004

Caspian Bride poster
6.0

Beneath layers of grime and waste, a man unearths an ancient mannequin, bringing it back to his humble abode. After a meticulous cleansing and adorning, he embarks on a whimsical bicycle journey through the oil fields, with the mannequin as his unconventional companion. As a band of curious children playfully trails behind him, their escapade takes an unexpected turn when they encounter a flock of grazing sheep.

Caspian Bride

2005

Baikonur poster
5.6

“Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. The last two youthful members of the village are the radio operator Iskander, known as Gagarin, and the spirited Nazira. While Nazira finds it increasing difficult to conceal her love for Iskander by means of her unconventional behaviour, Iskander is evidently not only crazy about Baikonur and the vastness of outer space, but also deeply smitten with the beautiful French astronaut Julie Mahé, whose journey to the stars he wistfully follows on television.

Baikonur

2011

Baikonur poster
5.6

“Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. The last two youthful members of the village are the radio operator Iskander, known as Gagarin, and the spirited Nazira. While Nazira finds it increasing difficult to conceal her love for Iskander by means of her unconventional behaviour, Iskander is evidently not only crazy about Baikonur and the vastness of outer space, but also deeply smitten with the beautiful French astronaut Julie Mahé, whose journey to the stars he wistfully follows on television.

Baikonur

2011

Baikonur poster
5.6

“Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. The last two youthful members of the village are the radio operator Iskander, known as Gagarin, and the spirited Nazira. While Nazira finds it increasing difficult to conceal her love for Iskander by means of her unconventional behaviour, Iskander is evidently not only crazy about Baikonur and the vastness of outer space, but also deeply smitten with the beautiful French astronaut Julie Mahé, whose journey to the stars he wistfully follows on television.

Baikonur

2011

No artwork available
7.0

Anton falls in love with a woman who lives opposite the building site where he works. From then on, the crane operator helps him to place presents on her balcony without being recognized. But his boss doesn't find this funny at all...

Within Grasp

1992

No artwork available
7.5

A comedy about a man who conquers his dream woman with the help of a dialable telephone box, but fails due to the broken technology of his alarm clock. Anton is a lonely stranger. Every morning he sees a girl going to work. He is too shy to talk to her, but finds a way to get her around.

Tour d'Amour

1989

No artwork available
NR

A man attempts to attract a woman's attention by playing music from his cell phone. This results in a serious accident.

Dushanbe With Love

2009

No artwork available
NR

Amalia looks at her ruined castle. Franz uses every means at his disposal to subdue her. Amalia fights to preserve her dignity. It is a hopeless endeavor.

Die Räuber

1990

No artwork available
NR

Amalia looks at her ruined castle. Franz uses every means at his disposal to subdue her. Amalia fights to preserve her dignity. It is a hopeless endeavor.

Die Räuber

1990

Dingi poster
NR

Homeless children are chased away at the harbour by boatmen. But the boys have an ingenious way of retaliating...

Dingi

2012

Dingi poster
NR

Homeless children are chased away at the harbour by boatmen. But the boys have an ingenious way of retaliating...

Dingi

2012