Films by Peter Nestler

2022, 113 min
by Peter Nestler

The film is about the German Sinti and Roma’s different forms of resistance spanning eight decades. It’s about revolt against injustice and about insistence on dignity and justice. A story of courage and resolve of individuals who desperately defended themselves. And the story of suffering of a minority caught between trauma and self-assertion: an ongoing unprecedented injustice throughout all of the post-war years to this very day. It is based around Romani Rose, his family and fellow campaigne

2022, 101 min
by Peter Nestler

The Film presents artists of the Sinti and Roma who shape the trauma of persecution and very personal experiences in their works. They use a wide variety of forms of expression and means, but what they all have in common is an open view.  Peter Nestler succeeds in making this tangible by meeting them without cultural fixations and at eye level.Gitta Martl and her daughter Nicole Sevik read short texts in memory of the Sinti and Roma incarcerated in the Upper Austrian 'gypsy detention camp' in We