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

• 2026From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor — Director
• 2026I'll Be Gone in June — Producer
• 2025From Darkness to Light — Executive Producer
• 2025La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione
• 2025The Keys to Freedom — Wim Wenders, Director, Writer
• 2023An Endless Sunday — Co-Producer
• 2023Anselm — Director, Writer, Producer
• German Genius — Wim Wenders
• 2023Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party — Producer
• 2023Perfect Days — Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2023Some Body Comes Into the Light — Director, Producer
• 2023Songs of Earth — Executive Producer
• 2022Die 2050er - Everything will change
• 2022From Our Side
• 2022Présence — Director
• 2022Roving Woman — Executive Producer
• 2021Karen Dalton: In My Own Time — Executive Producer
• 2021Reality Winner — Executive Producer
• 2021Souad — Co-Producer
• 2020A Black Jesus — Producer
• 2020Two or Three Things I Know about Edward Hopper — Writer, Executive Producer, Director
• 2020Veränderung — Self, Director, Writer
• 2019Waiting for the Miracle to Come — Executive Producer
• 2019Zeroville — Larry
• 2018It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story — Executive Producer
• 2018Little Hands — Executive Producer
• 2018Pope Francis: A Man of His Word — Self - Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Writer, Director, Producer
• 2018Submergence — Director
• 2017Buena Vista Social Club: Adios — Executive Producer
• 2016National Bird — Executive Producer
• 2016The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2015Every Thing Will Be Fine — Director
• 2015Filmstudio, mon amour — Sé stesso
• 2015Our Last Tango — Executive Producer
• 2014Cathedrals of Culture — Director, Writer, Executive Producer
• 2014Cathedrals of Culture: Halden Prison — Executive Producer
• 2014Henri Langlois vu par... — Self, Director
• 2014The Berlin Philharmonic — Director
• 2014The Salt of the Earth — Self, Director, Writer, Still Photographer, Executive Producer
• 2013Invisible World — Director, Writer
• 2013Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle — Executive Producer
• 2013Über Gott, Alfi und Mexico — Producer
• 2012Der fremde Fotograf und die Einsamkeit — Script Supervisor
• 2012Stories We Tell — Thanks
• 2012Ver ou Não Ver — Director
• 2011Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland
• 2011Hitler in Hollywood — Wim Wenders
• 2011Pina — Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 2011Zwischen den Zeiten
• 2010Au Revoir Taipei — Executive Producer
• 2010Cronología
• 2010If Buildings Could Talk — Writer, Director
• 2010Il Volo — Director, Writer
• 2010Snowblind — Gray Fox
• 2009Passage — Thanks
• 2009The Open Road — Executive Producer
• 20088 — Director, Writer
• 2008Palermo Shooting — Director, Writer, Producer
• 2008Person to Person — Director
• 2008The Clone Returns Home — Executive Producer
• 2007Invisible Crimes — Director
• 2007Invisibles — Writer, Director
• 2007To Each His Own Cinema — Director
• 2006The House Is Burning — Executive Producer
• 2006The Way I Spent the End of the World — Associate Producer
• 2005Don't Come Knocking — Director, Executive Producer, Writer
• 2005Egoshooter — Producer
• 2004Half the Rent — Producer
• 2004La torcedura — Producer
• 2004Land of Plenty — Screenplay, Director
• 2004Música Cubana — Producer
• 2003Fools — Producer
• 2003Fools — Producer
• The Blues — Writer, Director
• 2003The Soul of a Man — Director, Writer, Camera Operator
• 2002BAP - Ode to Cologne — Director, Writer
• 2002June Moon — Producer
• 2002Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet — Doctor #1 (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona"), Director, Writer
• 2002Three Days of Rain — Presenter
• 2000In the Shadow of Hollywood — Archival Footage Research
• 2000The Million Dollar Hotel — Director, Producer
• 1999Buena Vista Social Club — Director, Screenplay
• 1998City of Angels — Original Film Writer
• 1998Willie Nelson at the Teatro — Writer, Director
• 1997Go for Gold! — Producer
• 1997Tango Berlin
• 1997The End of Violence — Producer, Director, Story
• 1995A Trick of the Light — Regisseur / Milchmann, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1995Beyond the Clouds — Screenplay, Still Photographer, Co-Director
• 1995Lumière & Company — Director
• 1994Lisbon Story — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1993Adamski — Thanks
• 1993Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring — Santa Claus, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
• 1993Faraway, So Close! — Screenplay, Producer, Director
• 1993The Absence — Producer
• 1991Dream Island — Producer
• 1991Until the End of the World — Director, Co-Producer, Story, Screenplay
• 1990Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter — Director
• 1990Speaking Parts — Thanks
• 1989Notebook on Cities and Clothes — Self, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
• 1988Chocolat — Co-Producer
• 1988The Passenger – Welcome to Germany — Consulting Producer
• 1987Helsinki Napoli All Night Long — Gas Station Attendant
• 1987Iron Earth, Copper Sky — Producer
• 1987Sansibar oder Der letzte Grund — Sound Mix Technician
• 1987Wings of Desire — Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1985I Played It for You — Additional Photography
• 1985King Kongs Faust — Regisseur
• 1985Report from Hollywood
• 1985Room 666 — Self, Director, Writer
• 1985Tokyo-Ga — Director, Editor, Writer, Producer
• 1984Paris, Texas — Director, Producer
• 1984Tausend Augen — Dieb im Videoladen
• Cinéma cinémas — Director
• 1982Cinématon XXII — N°212
• 1982Cinématon n°212 : Wim Wenders
• 1982Hammett — Director
• 1982Reverse Angle: New York, March 1982 — Self, Director, Producer, Writer
• 1982The State of Things — Tram Passenger (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• 1980Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers — Additional Camera
• 1980Lightning Over Water — Self, Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
• 1979...als Diesel geboren — Producer
• 1979Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre — Camera Operator, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound
• 1979Radio On — Associate Producer
• 1978Cinématon — N°212
• 1978Long Shot — Another Director
• 1978The Left-Handed Woman — Producer
• 1977The American Friend — Figure Wrapped in Plaster Bandages in Ambulance (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Producer
• 1976Kings of the Road — Spectator at Pauline's Theater (uncredited), Director, Producer, Screenplay
• 1975The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick — Man Walking through Vienna Bus Station (uncredited), Director, Writer, Producer
• 1975Wrong Move — Man in Dining Car (uncredited), Director, Producer
• 1974Alice in the Cities — Man by Jukebox in American Cafe (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Producer
• Ein Haus für uns — Director
• 1974Ein bißchen Liebe — Producer
• 1974From the Family of Reptiles — Director
• 1974The Island — Director
• 1973The Scarlet Letter — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1972Summer in the City — Billardspieler (uncredited), Director, Producer, Writer
• 19693 American LPs — Director, Editor
• 1969Alabama (2000 Light Years) — Writer, Editor, Director, Sound
• 1969Am Spätnachmittag des folgenden Tages erwachte Joe in einem billigen Hotelzimmer - Andy schläft noch ... — Producer
• 1969Amon Duul II: Plays Phallus Dei — Director of Photography
• 1969Der Fall Lena Christ — Unit Manager
• 1969Kaspar Hauser — Director
• 1969Polizeifilm — Writer, Director, Editor, Director of Photography
• 1969Silver City Revisited — Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer
• 1969Ten Years After — Director of Photography
• 1968Candy Man
• 1968Klappenfilm — Producer, Director
• 1968Love and So Forth — Student
• 1968Same Player Shoots Again — Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography, Writer
• 1968Victor I. — Director
• 1967Schauplätze — Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
• Echoes of Light — Executive Producer
• Return to Timbuktu — Executive Producer
• Sound of Ice — Executive Producer
• Truth:Beauty — Executive Producer
• Untitled Wim Wenders Science Fiction Film — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (112)

• Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm — Self
• 2025Films to Die For — Self - Interviewee
• 2025The Ozu Diaries — Self
• 2025Wim Wenders: Der ewig Suchende — Self
• 2024Now is Now: Wim Wenders on 'Perfect Days' — Self
• 2023Cannes Uncut — Self
• Directors Talks — Self
• 2023Room 999 — Self
• 2022Bruno Ganz - The Longing Revolutionary — Self
• 2022CAN and Me — Self
• 2022Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors — Self
• 2022Film: The Living Record of Our Memory — Self
• 2022Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer — Self
• 2021A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner — Self
• 2021Now — Self
• 2021Why Are We (Not) Creative? — Self
• 2020Good Morning, the Wind Blows — Self
• 2020High Maintenance — Self
• Wim Wenders - Von Filmen und Träumen — Self
• 2020Wim Wenders, Desperado — Self
• 2019Paul Auster: What If — Self - Filmmaker
• 2018Beyond the Bolex — Self
• 2018Leçon de cinéma avec Wim Wenders — Self - filmmaker
• 2018Living the Light: Robby Müller — Self
• Was tut sich - im deutschen Film? — Self
• 2018Why Are We Creative? — Self
• 2017Plankton Salesmen — Self (archive footage)
• 2017The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov — Self
• 2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life — Self
• 2016Along for the Ride — Self
• 2016Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider — Self
• 2016Three for the Road — Self
• 2015A Weekend at the Beach — Self
• 2015Chris Marker: Never Explain, Never Complain — Self
• 2015French Cinema Mon Amour — Self
• 2015Restoring Time — Self
• 2015Return to Beethoven Street: Sam Fuller in Germany — Self
• 2015The Legend of the Palme d'Or — Self
• 2015Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen — Self
• 2013A Fuller Life — Self - Reader (segment "A River of Tears")
• 2013Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction — Self
• 2012BAM150 — Self
• 2012Close Up — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas — Self
• 2011Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard — Self
• 2011Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter — Self
• Schawinski — Self
• The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Self
• 2011Viaggio in Bergmania — Self
• Westpol — self
• 2009What Do You Know About Me — Self
• 2008Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte — Self
• 2008Back to Room 666 — Self
• 2008Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers — Self
• 2008Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada — Self
• 2008One Who Set Forth: Wim Wenders' Early Years — Self
• 2008Wim Wenders' Story Of His Early Years — Self
• 2007Cannes: All Access — Self
• Dickes B — Self
• 2006Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski — Self
• 2006The Art of Football from A to Z — Self
• 2004Dennis Hopper: The Decisive Moments — Self
• 2004Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen — Self
• Im Palais — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• Leçon de Cinéma — Self
• 2003Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) — Self
• 2003Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us — Self
• ZIBB — Self
• 2002Fassbinder in Hollywood — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2001Window of the Soul — Self
• 2000FreeDogme — himself
• Volle Kanne — Self
• 1998Alekan le magnifique — Self
• Die Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• Millionär gesucht! - Die SKL Show — Self
• Sabine Christiansen — Self
• Im Dialog — self
• Nachtstudio — Self
• 1996Love in Hollywood — Self
• Die Harald Schmidt Show — Self
• 1995In Bildern leben - Die filmischen Reflexionen des Wim Wenders — Self
• 1995The Night of the Filmmakers — Self
• 1995To Make a Film Is to Be Alive — Self (uncredited)
• 1994Kleiner Mann ganz groß — Self
• 1994Nick Cave: Straight To You - A Portrait — Self
• 1993Talking with Ozu — Self
• 1993Without Me — Himself
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• Riverboat — Self
• 1990Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders — Self
• 1990Motion and Emotion: The Road to 'Paris, Texas' — Self
• 1990Pictures of Europe — Self
• 1990Wim Wenders in Tokyo — Self
• 1989The Heart and the Legs — Self
• 1988Alekan, la lumière — Self
• Nachtcafé — Self
• live - die ZDF-talkshow — Self
• 1984De droomproducenten — Self
• Goldene Kamera — Self
• 1983Dennis Hopper's Russian Dynamite Death Chair Act — Himself
• Menschen — Self
• Wortwechsel — Self
• Bavarian Film Awards — Self
• NDR Talk Show — Self
• Kölner Treff — Self
• 1976Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema — Self
• Midi Première — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• German Film Award — Self
• Bambi — Self