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{{short description|German filmmaker (born 1945)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name         = Wim Wenders
| image        = Wim Wenders at Berlinale 2026.jpg
| caption      = Wenders in 2026
| birth_name   = Wilhelm Ernst Wenders
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|df=y|1945|8|14}}
| birth_place  = [[Düsseldorf]], Germany
| years_active = 1967–present
| occupation   = {{hlist|Film director|screenwriter|producer|photographer|author}}
| spouse       = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Edda Köchl<br />|1968|1974|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Lisa Kreuzer]]<br />|1974|1978|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Ronee Blakley]]<br />|1979|1981|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Isabelle Weingarten]]<br />|1981|1982|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Donata Wenders<br />|1993|}}
}}
| website      = [http://www.wim-wenders.com/ www.wim-wenders.com]
| awards       = [[#Legacy and honors|Full list]]
}}

'''Wim Wenders'''<ref name="spotify">{{Cite web |date=14 August 2025 |title=Wim Wenders, was ist die Zukunft des Kinos? |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/4K0KuRueC6DCeXqMNHPw4s |trans-title=Wim Wenders, what is the future of cinema? |access-date=4 September 2025 |language=de |via=[[Spotify]]}}</ref> ({{IPA|de|ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs|lang}}; born '''Wilhelm Ernst Wenders'''; 14 August 1945<ref name="spotify" />) is a German filmmaker and photographer. Regarded as a major figure of [[New German Cinema]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kürten |first=Jochen |date=8 July 2013 |title=The eclectic filmmaker: Wim Wenders at 75 |url=https://www.dw.com/en/the-eclectic-filmmaker-wim-wenders-at-75/a-54538492 |access-date=1 February 2021 |website=Deutsche Welle |language=en-GB}}</ref> and widely considered an [[auteur]] director,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lehrer |first=Adam |date=27 January 2015 |title=MoMA Celebrates Auteur Director Wim Wenders With Retrospective |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamlehrer/2015/01/27/moma-celebrates-auteur-director-wim-wenders-with-retrospective/ |access-date=23 June 2017 |magazine=Forbes}}</ref> he has received various accolades, including a [[BAFTA Award]], a [[Palme d'Or]], a [[Golden Lion]], and an [[Honorary Golden Bear]], in addition to nominations for four [[Academy Awards]] and a [[Grammy Award]].

Wenders made his feature film debut with ''[[Summer in the City (film)|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 (film)|Paris, Texas]]'' (1984) and the [[Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)|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).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boyero |first=Carlos |date=13 January 2024 |title='Perfect Days': so alone and so happy |url=https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-01-13/perfect-days-so-alone-and-so-happy.html |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=EL PAÍS English |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schilling |first=Mark |date=4 January 2024 |title=Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days' finds beauty in small pleasures |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/01/04/film/perfect-days/ |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=The Japan Times |language=en}}</ref>

Wenders has received three nominations for the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]]: for ''[[Buena Vista Social Club (film)|Buena Vista Social Club]]'' (1999), ''[[Pina (film)|Pina]]'' (2011), and ''[[The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)|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), ''[[Pope Francis: A Man of His Word]]'' (2018), and ''[[Anselm (film)|Anselm]]'' (2023).

Wenders formerly served as the president of the [[European Film Academy]] from 1996–2020. He also earned an [[Honorary Golden Bear]] in 2015. He is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes.<ref name="theguardian1">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2011/apr/23/wim-wenders-photographs |title=Wim Wenders: Places, Strange And Quiet – in pictures &#124; Art and design |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=22 April 2011 |access-date=17 March 2015|last1=Wenders |first1=Wim}}</ref><ref name="telegraph">{{cite news |first=Mick |last=Brown |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8415621/Wim-Wenders-Show-dont-tell.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/8415621/Wim-Wenders-Show-dont-tell.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Wim Wenders: Show, don't tell |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=4 April 2011 |access-date=17 March 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Wenders was born in [[Düsseldorf]] into a traditionally Catholic family. His father, Heinrich Wenders, was a surgeon. The Dutch name "Wim" is a shortened version of the baptismal name "Wilhelm". As a boy, Wenders took unaccompanied trips to [[Amsterdam]] to visit the [[Rijksmuseum]]. He graduated from high school in [[Oberhausen]] in the [[Ruhr area]]. He then studied medicine at the [[University of Freiburg]] (1963–64) and philosophy at the [[University of Dusseldorf]] (1964–65), but dropped out and moved to Paris in October 1966 in order to become a painter.<ref name="Biography">{{cite web |title=Wim Wenders |url=http://www.polkagalerie.com/en/wim-wenders-biography.htm |website=polkagalerie.com |access-date=21 July 2020}}</ref> He failed his entry test at France's national film school, [[IDHEC]] (now [[La Fémis]]), and instead became an engraver at [[Johnny Friedlaender]]'s studio in [[Montparnasse]].<ref name="Biography" /> During this time he became fascinated with cinema, and saw up to five movies a day at the local movie theater.

Set on making his obsession his life's work, he returned to Germany in 1967 to work in the Düsseldorf office of [[United Artists]]. That fall, he entered the [[University of Television and Film Munich]] (HFF).<ref name="Biography" /> Between 1967 and 1970, while at the HFF, he also worked as a film critic for ''FilmKritik'', the Munich daily newspaper ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]'', ''[[Twen]]'' magazine, and ''[[Der Spiegel]]''.<ref name="Biography" />

Wenders completed several short films before graduating from the Hochschule with a [[16mm]] black-and-white film, ''[[Summer in the City (film)|Summer in the City]]'' (1970), his feature directorial debut.

== Career ==
=== 1970–1976: Film debut and early work ===
Wenders's career began in the late 1960s, the [[New German Cinema]] era.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dollar |first=Steve |date=29 November 2023 |title=Wim Wenders' new films explore the 'poetic medium' of 3-D and Tokyo toilets |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2023-11-29/wim-wenders-perfect-days-anselm-documentary-3d |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Much of the distinctive [[cinematography]] in his movies is the result of a long-term collaboration with Dutch cinematographer [[Robby Müller]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Robby Müller Retrospective|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4100-a-robby-m-ller-retrospective|access-date=1 February 2021|website=The Criterion Collection|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Fox|first=Killian|date=22 June 2019|title=The private Polaroids of a celebrated cinematographer|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/22/private-polaroids-robby-muller-cinematographer-arles-like-sunlight-coming-through-clouds|access-date=1 February 2021|issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Unseen Polaroids by Robby Müller: the legendary cinematographer and Wim Wenders collaborator|url=https://hero-magazine.com/article/151941/robby-muller-unseen-polaroids/|access-date=1 February 2021|website=HERO magazine|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=5 July 2018|title=Wim Wenders Pays Tribute to 'Paris, Texas' Cinematographer Robby Muller|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/wim-wenders-pays-tribute-paris-texas-cinematographer-robby-muller-1125126|access-date=1 February 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en}}</ref> Wenders made his directorial film debut with ''[[Summer in the City (film)|Summer in the City]]'' (1970), his graduation project at the [[University of Television and Film Munich]], which he attended from 1967 to 1970. Shot in [[16 mm]] black-and-white by Müller, the movie exhibited many of Wenders's later trademark themes of aimless searching, running from invisible demons, and persistent wandering toward an indeterminate goal. Protagonist Hans (Zischler) is released from prison, and after searching through seedy [[West German]] streets and bars, he visits an old friend in Berlin.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Wenders then directed ''[[The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty]]'', titled ''The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick'' in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick |url=https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-goalie-s-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick |access-date=9 April 2026 |website=The Criterion Channel |language=en}}</ref> The film was adapted from [[Peter Handke]]'s [[The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick|1970 short novel]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Peter Handke {{!}} Biography, Nobel Laureate, Books, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Handke |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260306093039/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Handke |archive-date=6 March 2026 |access-date=9 April 2026 |work=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}</ref> He then directed the period drama ''[[The Scarlet Letter (1973 film)|The Scarlet Letter]]'' (1973),<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Scarlet Letter {{!}} Wim Wenders Stiftung |url=https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/der-scharlachrote-buchstabe/ |access-date=9 April 2026 |website=wimwendersstiftung.de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/the-scarlet-letter-am46600 |title=The Scarlet Letter (1973) - Wim Wenders {{!}} Synopsis, Movie Info, Moods, Themes and Related {{!}} AllMovie |language=en |access-date=9 April 2026 |via=www.allmovie.com}}</ref> adapted from [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]'s [[The Scarlet Letter|1850 novel of the same name]]. From 1974 to 1976 Wender directed the [[Road Movie trilogy]]. The first film in the trilogy was ''[[Alice in the Cities]]'' (1974), which was shot in 16mm. The last two films are ''[[The Wrong Move]]'' (1975) and ''[[Kings of the Road]]'' (1976),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alice in the Cities {{!}} Wim Wenders Stiftung |url=https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/alice-in-den-staedten-2/ |access-date=9 April 2026 |website=wimwendersstiftung.de}}</ref> the latter of which won the [[FIPRESCI Prize]] at the [[1976 Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Festival Awards 1976 |url=https://fipresci.org/awards/1976/ |access-date=23 March 2026 |publisher=[[FIPRESCI]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kings of the Road {{!}} Wim Wenders Stiftung |url=https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/kings-of-the-road/ |access-date=9 April 2026 |website=wimwendersstiftung.de}}</ref>

=== 1977–1987: Breakthrough and acclaim ===
[[File:Carrie Fisher and Wim Wenders.jpg|thumb|right|Wenders with [[Carrie Fisher]] in 1978]]
In 1977 Wenders gained prominence for directing the neo-noir ''[[The American Friend]]'', starring [[Dennis Hopper]] and [[Bruno Ganz]]. The film is adapted from the [[Patricia Highsmith]] 1974 novel ''[[Ripley's Game]]''. J. Hoberman of ''[[The New York Times]]'' has compared the film to [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[Taxi Driver]]'', writing, "Like ''Taxi Driver'', ''The American Friend'' was a new sort of movie-movie—sleekly brooding, voluptuously alienated and saturated with cinephilia."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/movies/homevideo/wim-wenderss-the-american-friend.html |title=Wim Wenders's High Plains Grifter |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 February 2016 |access-date=24 September 2023 |last1=Hoberman |first1=J. |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214155352/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/movies/homevideo/wim-wenderss-the-american-friend.html |archive-date=14 February 2016}}</ref>

Wenders earned critical acclaim for his road drama ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]'' (1984), starring [[Harry Dean Stanton]], [[Nastassja Kinski]] and [[Dean Stockwell]]. The film premiered at the [[1984 Cannes Film Festival]], where it won the [[Palme d'Or]]. Critic [[Roger Ebert]] wrote of the film, "[it's] a movie with the kind of passion and willingness to experiment that was more common fifteen years ago than it is now. It has more links with films like ''[[Five Easy Pieces]]'' and ''[[Easy Rider]]'' and ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'' than with the slick arcade games that are the box-office winners of the 1980s. It is true, deep, and brilliant".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paris-texas-1984 |title=Paris, Texas |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=1 January 1984 |access-date=6 July 2017 |website=[[RogerEbert.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709062934/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paris-texas-1984 |archive-date=9 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Wenders then directed the romance fantasy ''[[Wings of Desire]]'' (1987), starring [[Bruno Ganz]] and [[Peter Falk]]. It premiered at the [[1987 Cannes Film Festival]], where Wenders won the [[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director]]. [[Peter Handke]] co-wrote the screenplay. West Germany submitted ''Wings of Desire'' for consideration for the [[Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film]], a bid supported by its distribution company. It was not nominated; the academy seldom recognized West German cinema.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinema.usc.edu/assets/101/16163.pdf |last=Dickinson |first=Robert |title=The Unbearable Weight of Winning: Garci's Trilogy of Melancholy and the Foreign Language Oscar |work=Spectator |page=13 |via=[[University of Southern California]] |access-date=2 July 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126053423/https://cinema.usc.edu/assets/101/16163.pdf |archive-date=26 November 2010}}</ref> The film was one of the most acclaimed films of the year, with many critics adding it on their top 10 lists.

=== 1991–2010: Career fluctuations ===
[[Image:Wim Wenders(cannesPhotocall)-.jpg|thumb|left|Wenders at the [[2002 Cannes Film Festival]]]]
In 1991 Wenders directed the science fiction adventure drama ''[[Until the End of the World]]'', starring [[William Hurt]], [[Solveig Dommartin]], [[Max Von Sydow]] and [[Jeanne Moreau]]. The film has been released in several editions, ranging in length from 158 to 287 minutes, with the longer versions receiving mixed reviews. In 1993 he directed ''[[Faraway, So Close!]]'', a sequel to ''Wings of Desire''. Actors [[Otto Sander]], [[Bruno Ganz]] and [[Peter Falk]] reprised their roles as angels who have become human. The film also stars [[Nastassja Kinski]], [[Willem Dafoe]] and [[Heinz Rühmann]], in his last film role. It received critical acclaim, premiering at the [[1993 Cannes Film Festival]], where it earned the [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix]]. The next year, he directed ''[[Lisbon Story (1994 film)|Lisbon Story]]'', which screened at [[Un Certain Regard]] at the [[1994 Cannes Film Festival]]. In 1995 he directed both ''[[A Trick of Light]]'' and the anthology film ''[[Lumière and Company]]''.

In 1997, Wenders directed the American drama film ''[[The End of Violence]]'', starring [[Bill Pullman]], [[Andie MacDowell]], and [[Gabriel Byrne]]. The film received negative reviews and performed poorly at the box office after its debut at the [[1997 Cannes Film Festival]]. Like many other of Wenders's American movies, it was shot in multiple locations, including the [[Griffith Observatory]] and the [[Santa Monica Pier]]. Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, including ''[[Willie Nelson at the Teatro]]'', a documentary about the recording sessions of ''[[Teatro (Willie Nelson album)|Teatro]]'' (1998). The next year he directed ''[[Buena Vista Social Club (film)|Buena Vista Social Club]]'', about the [[music of Cuba]]. It was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature]]. In 2002, he directed a documentary about the German rock group [[BAP (German band)|BAP]] called ''{{lang|ksh|Viel passiert}}'' (A lot has happened).

=== 2011–present: Resurgence with documentaries ===
[[Image:Wim wenders.jpg|thumb|Wenders in 2008]]
Wenders has directed music videos for groups such as [[U2]] and [[Talking Heads]], including "[[Stay (Faraway, So Close!)]]" and "[[Sax and Violins]]".{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} His television commercials include a UK advertisement for [[Carling Premier]] Canadian beer.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} Wenders's book ''Emotion Pictures'', a collection of diary essays written as a film student, was adapted and broadcast as a series of plays on [[BBC Radio 3]], featuring Peter Capaldi as Wenders, with [[Gina McKee]], [[Saskia Reeves]], [[Dennis Hopper]], [[Harry Dean Stanton]] and [[Ricky Tomlinson]], dramatized by Neil Cargill.

Wenders also directed a documentary-style film on the [[Max Skladanowsky|Skladanowsky brothers]], known in English as ''A Trick of the Light''.<ref>{{IMDb title|0113151|A Trick of the Light}}</ref> The Skladanowsky brothers were inventing "moving pictures" when several others like the [[Lumière brothers]] and [[William Friese-Greene]] were doing the same. In 2011, Wenders was selected to stage the 2013 cycle of [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'' at the [[Bayreuth Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.german-info.com/press_shownews.php?pid=3312 |title=German Information Centre South Asia &#124; Facebook |publisher=German-info.com |date=8 March 2015 |access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lebrecht |first1=Norman |title=What Wim Wenders may be planning for Bayreuth |url=http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/03/what_wim_wenders_may_be_planni.html |website=Slipped Disc |access-date=30 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203003818/http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/03/what_wim_wenders_may_be_planni.html |archive-date=3 December 2013 |language=en |date=24 March 2011}}</ref> The project fell through when he insisted on filming in [[Stereoscopy|3-D]], which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lebrecht |first1=Norman |title=Breaking: Bayreuth loses its next Ring director in 3-D row |url=http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/04/breaking_bayreuth_loses_its_ne.html |website=Slipped Disc |access-date=30 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001446/http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2011/04/breaking_bayreuth_loses_its_ne.html |archive-date=3 December 2013 |language=en |date=5 April 2011}}</ref> In 2012, while promoting his 3-D dance film ''[[Pina (film)|Pina]]'', Wenders told the [[DOC: The Documentary Channel|Documentary channel]] blog that he had begun work on a new 3-D documentary about architecture.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Campbell |first1=Christopher |title=Interview: Wim Wenders on "PINA" and Why 3D is the Future of Documentary |url=http://blog.documentarychannel.com/post/14625054063/interview-wim-wenders-on-pina-and-why-3d-is-the |website=Doc Channel Blog |access-date=30 October 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121205012745/http://blog.documentarychannel.com/post/14625054063/interview-wim-wenders-on-pina-and-why-3d-is-the |archive-date=5 December 2012 |language=en |date=22 December 2011}}</ref> He also said he would only work in 3-D from then on.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/12/23/its-3d-or-bust-for-pina-director-wim-wenders/ |title=It's 3D or Bust for 'Pina' Director Wim Wenders – Speakeasy – WSJ |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=23 December 2011 |access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref> Wenders had admired the dance choreographer [[Pina Bausch]] since 1985, but only with the advent of digital 3-D cinema did he decide that he could sufficiently capture her work on screen.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/01/14/145123337/wim-wenders-on-pina-a-dance-documentary-in-3-d|title=Wim Wenders On 'Pina': A Dance Documentary in 3-D |publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=24 January 2018}}</ref>

In 2015, Wenders collaborated with artist/journalist and longtime friend [[Melinda Camber Porter]] on a documentary feature about his body of work, ''Wim Wenders – Visions on Film''. Porter died before it was finished, and the film remains incomplete.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wimwendersfilmfestival.com/#!a-b-o-u-t/cfp1 |title= Wim Wenders Film Festival|website=www.wimwendersfilmfestival.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222153705/http://www.wimwendersfilmfestival.com/ |archive-date=22 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=12 March 2015 |title=Wim Wenders keeps looking for new canvases |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-wim-wenders-20150312-story.html |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Wenders is a member of the advisory board of [[World Cinema Foundation]]. The project was founded by [[Martin Scorsese]] and aims to find and reconstruct world cinema films that have been neglected. As of 2015 he served as a Jury Member for the digital studio [[Filmaka]], a platform for undiscovered filmmakers to show their work to industry professionals.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.filmaka.com/profile_jury_favfilms.php?profile_id=5684 |title=Profile Jury |publisher=Filmaka.com |date=14 August 1945 |access-date=17 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710215013/http://www.filmaka.com/profile_jury_favfilms.php?profile_id=5684 |archive-date=10 July 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[File:MJK30794 Donata and Wim Wenders (Berlinale 2017).jpg|thumb|left|Wenders with wife Donata at [[Berlinale 2017]]]]
In June 2017, Wenders stage-directed [[Georges Bizet]]'s opera ''[[Les Pêcheurs de perles]]'', starring [[Olga Peretyatko]] and [[Francesco Demuro]] and conducted by [[Daniel Barenboim]] at the [[Berlin State Opera]] (Staatsoper). In a 2018 interview, he said his favorite movie of all time was his film about [[Pope Francis]], and that his entire career had been building up to it. His admiration for Francis is profound; he said he felt Francis is doing his best in a world full of calamities. He also said that, though raised Catholic, he had converted to Protestantism years earlier.<ref>{{cite episode |title=Amanpour: Joseph Yun and Wim Wenders |series=Amanpour on PBS |date=23 May 2018 |network=[[PBS]] |last=Amanpour |first=Christiane (host)}}</ref>

In 2019 Wenders acted as executive producer for his former assistant director Luca Lucchesi's documentary ''A Black Jesus'', which has similar themes to ''Pope Francis: A Man of His Word.'' The film explores the role of religion in communal identity and how this can create or dissolve differences in a small Sicilian town during the height of the refugee crisis.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ROAD MOVIES {{!}} A BLACK JESUS|url=https://roadmovies.com/film/a-black-jesus-working-title/|access-date=9 October 2020|website=roadmovies.com}}</ref> Lucchesi noted that Wenders pushed the film to be more symbolic and philosophical, saying that Wenders wanted the film to have a "universal fairy-tale aspect" and to represent "Europe in a nutshell".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cunningham|first=Nick|title=Cannes Marché: Tale of A Black Jesus – Business Doc Europe|date=23 June 2020 |url=https://businessdoceurope.com/cannes-marche-tale-of-a-black-jesus/|access-date=9 October 2020|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2025, Wenders made a short film called "The Keys to Freedom" in [[Reims, France]]. In the film, Wenders tours the Museum of the Surrender, where General [[Eisenhower]] gave the liberated city's keys to the mayor in 1945, and comments "These are the keys to the freedom of the world". Wenders told ''The New York Times'' that Europeans can no longer assume American protection, adding that young people take freedom for granted, not realizing they may soon need to defend it.<ref>{{cite news |last=Erlanger |first=Steven |date=5 May 2025 |title=Wim Wenders on Where the War in Europe Really Ended 80 Years Ago |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/movies/wim-wenders-the-keys-to-freedom.html |access-date=11 May 2025 |newspaper=The New York Times |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506153111/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/movies/wim-wenders-the-keys-to-freedom.html |archive-date=6 May 2025}}</ref>

==Photography==
Wenders has worked with photographic images of desolate landscapes and themes of memory, time, loss, nostalgia and movement.<ref name="theguardian1" /><ref name="telegraph" /> He began his long-running project "Pictures from the Surface of the Earth" in the early 1980s and pursued it for 20 years. The initial photographic series was titled "Written in the West" and was produced while Wenders criss-crossed the American West in preparation for his film ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]'' (1984).<ref name="Biography" /> It became the starting point for a nomadic journey across the globe, including Germany, Australia, Cuba, Israel and Japan, to take photographs capturing the essence of a moment, place or space.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rose |first=Barbara |url=http://brooklynrail.org/2004/01/artseen/wim-wenders-pictures-from-the-surface-of-the-earth |title=Wim Wenders: Pictures From the Surface of the Earth |work=[[The Brooklyn Rail]] |date=1 January 2004 |access-date=17 March 2015}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Wenders lives and works in Berlin with his wife, Donata.<ref name="Biography" /> He has lived in Berlin since the mid-1970s.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/sep/23/wim-wenders-berlin-changed-cathedrals-of-culture-wings-of-desire |title=Wim Wenders on his Berlin: 'Oh man, has it ever changed!' |last=Michael |first=Chris |date=23 September 2014 |work=The Guardian |access-date=9 November 2019 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> He is an [[ecumenical]] Christian; as a teenager he wished to become a Catholic priest.<ref>{{cite web |last=Burger |first=John |title=Exclusive interview: Wim Wenders discusses the Catholic influences on his film about Pope Francis |url=https://aleteia.org/2018/05/17/wim-wenders-discusses-the-catholic-influences-on-his-film-about-pope-francis/ |website=[[Aleteia]] |publisher=Aleteia SAS |access-date=13 December 2019 |date=17 May 2018}}</ref> He supports German football club [[Borussia Dortmund]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://2amfilms.co.uk/showreels/wim-wenders-showreel/ |title=Wim Wenders Showreel (please do not edit) |website=2AM Films |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017182315/https://2amfilms.co.uk/showreels/wim-wenders-showreel/}}</ref>

In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in support of director [[Roman Polanski]], who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 [[Roman Polanski sexual abuse case|sexual abuse charges]], which the petition argued would undermine the tradition of film festivals as a place for works to be shown "freely and safely" and argued that arresting filmmakers traveling to neutral countries could open the door to "actions of which no-one can know the effects."<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 June 2012 |title=Le cinéma soutient Roman Polanski / Petition for Roman Polanski – SACD |url=http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120604100742/http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cinema-soutient-Roman-Polanski-Petition-for-Roman-Polanski.1340.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 June 2012 |access-date=20 April 2022 |website=archive.ph}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Shoard |first1=Catherine |author2=Agencies |date=29 September 2009 |title=Release Polanski, demands petition by film industry luminaries |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |url-status=live |access-date=12 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628013652/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/sep/29/roman-polanski-petition |archive-date=28 June 2019}}</ref>

From 1979 to 1981, Wenders was married to the American actress and singer-songwriter [[Ronee Blakley]].

==Filmography==
===Film===
'''Short film'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
! Notes
|-
|1967
|''Sceneries''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|rowspan=2|Also cinematographer and editor
|-
|rowspan=3|1968
|''Same Player Shoots Again''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|''Blurb Film''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
| Co-directed with Gerhard Theuring
|-
|''Victor I.''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
| 1969
|''Alabama (2000 Light Years)''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|Also editor and sound
|-
| 1992
|''Arisha, the Bear, and the Stone Ring''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| 1995
|''Segment 38''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
|Segment of ''[[Lumière et compagnie]]''
|-
|2002
|''Twelve Miles to Trona''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|Segment from ''[[Ten Minutes Older|Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet]]''
|-
|2003
|''Other Side of the Road''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
| 
|-
|2007
|''War in Peace''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Segment of ''[[To Each His Own Cinema]]''
|-
| 2008
|''Person to Person''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|Segment of ''[[8 (2008 film)|8]]''
|-
|2012
|''Ver ou Não Ver''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Segment of ''Mundo Invisível''
|-
| 2010
|''If Buildings Could Talk''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
| 2015
| ''Two or Three Thoughts on Edward Hopper''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Also executive producer
|-
| 2019
|''(E)motion''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|}

''' Feature film '''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
|-
|1970
|''[[Summer in the City (film)|Summer in the City]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1972
|''[[The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1973
|''[[The Scarlet Letter (1973 film)|The Scarlet Letter]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1974
|''[[Alice in the Cities]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1975
|''[[The Wrong Move]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{partial|Uncredited}}
|-
|1976
|''[[Kings of the Road]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1977
|''[[The American Friend]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |1982
|''[[Hammett (film)|Hammett]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
|-
|''[[The State of Things (film)|The State of Things]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
| 1984
|''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
|-
|1987
|''[[Wings of Desire]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1991
|''[[Until the End of the World]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{partial|Co-producer}}
|-
|1993
|''[[Faraway, So Close!]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1994
|''[[Lisbon Story (1994 film)|Lisbon Story]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|1995
|''[[Beyond the Clouds (1995 film)|Beyond the Clouds]]''
|{{partial|Partial}}{{efn|Director of the prologue, intermissions & epilogue}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
|1997
|''[[The End of Violence]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|2000
|''[[The Million Dollar Hotel]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|2004
|''[[Land of Plenty]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
|2005
|''[[Don't Come Knocking]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{partial|Executive}}{{efn|Uncredited}}
|-
| 2008
|''[[Palermo Shooting]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|2015
|''[[Every Thing Will Be Fine]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
|-
|2016
|''[[The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|-
|2017
|''[[Submergence (film)|Submergence]]'' 
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
|-
|2023
|''[[Perfect Days]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|-
|}

{| style="width:100%;"
|- style="vertical-align:top;"
| width="40%" | 
'''Producer only'''
* ''[[The Left-Handed Woman]]'' (1977){{Citation needed|date=June 2022|reason=Is commonly known as released in 1978, some sources say Hofer Filmtage (festival) in 1977.}}
* ''[[Radio On]]'' (1979) (Associate producer)
* ''...als diesel geboren''<ref>{{Cite web |title=...ALS DIESEL GEBOREN (1979) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ead91a6 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605025126/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ead91a6 |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 June 2022 |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref> (1979)
* ''[[Iron Earth, Copper Sky]]'' (1987)
* ''[[The Absence (1992 film)|The Absence]]'' (1992) (Co-producer)
* ''Go for Gold!''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Go for Gold |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/525169/go-for-gold |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605075238/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/525169/go-for-gold |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 June 2022 |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=Turner Classic Movies |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Half the Rent |url=https://mubi.com/films/half-the-rent |language=en |access-date=5 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=June Moon |url=https://www.hanwayfilms.com/june-moon |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=Hanway Films |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=16 February 2020 |title=Wim Wenders Collection: Fools aka Narren |url=https://smile.dk/fools/ |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=Smile Entertainment |language=en-US}}</ref> (1997)
* ''Half the Rent'' (2002)
* ''Junimond'' (2002)
* ''Fools'' (2003)
* ''[[:de:Egoshooter (2004)|Egoshooter]]'' (2004)
* ''A Black Jesus''<ref>{{Cite web |title=ROAD MOVIES {{!}} A BLACK JESUS |url=https://roadmovies.com/film/a-black-jesus/ |access-date=4 June 2022 |website=roadmovies.com}}</ref> (2018)
* ''[[Souad (film)|Souad]]'' (2021) (Co-producer)
* ''[[An Endless Sunday]]''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Marshall |first1=Lee |title='An Endless Sunday': Venice Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/an-endless-sunday-venice-review/5185696.article |access-date=11 September 2023 |work=[[Screen International]]|date=9 September 2023 |language=en}}</ref> (2023)

| width="60%" |
'''Executive producer only'''
* ''La torcedura'' (2004)
* ''Música cubana''<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Woodward |first=Daisy |date=22 September 2017 |title=This Wim Wenders-Produced Dance Documentary is Unmissable |url=https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/10187/this-wim-wenders-produced-dance-documentary-is-unmissable |access-date=4 June 2022 |magazine=[[AnOther]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Clone Returns Home |url=https://www.subwaycinema.com/the-clone-returns-home |access-date=4 June 2022 |website=Subway Cinema |language=en-US}}</ref> (2004)
* ''[[The House Is Burning (film)|The House Is Burning]]'' (2006)
* ''The Clone Returns Home'' (2008)
* ''[[The Open Road]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Au Revoir Taipei|Au Revoir, Taipei]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle]]'' (2012)
* ''Our Last Tango''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Last Tango |url=https://strandreleasing.com/films/our-last-tango/ |access-date=4 June 2022 |website=Strand Releasing |language=en-US}}</ref> (2015)
* ''[[National Bird (film)|National Bird]]'' (2016)
* ''Little Hands''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grater |first=Tom |date=10 January 2020 |title=Oscar Hopeful Live Action Short 'Little Hands', Exec Produced By Wim Wenders, Gets Global Deal |url=https://deadline.com/2020/01/mubi-buys-oscar-listed-live-action-short-little-hands-exec-produced-wim-wenders-1202826626/ |access-date=4 June 2022 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=IT MUST SCHWING! – The Blue Note Story / Documentary Film Jazz Records |url=http://itmustschwing.com/ |access-date=4 June 2022 |website=itmustschwing.com |language=en}}</ref> (2017)
* ''It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story'' (2018)
* ''[[Waiting for the Miracle to Come]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Karen Dalton#Documentary|Karen Dalton: In My Own Time]]'' (2020)
* ''[[Reality Winner (film)|Reality Winner]]'' (2021)
| width="50%" |
|}

=== Documentary works ===
'''Short film'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
! Notes
|-
|1969
|''Silver City Revisited''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Also cinematographer and editor
|-
| 1982
|''Reverse Angle''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|2007
|''Invisible Crimes''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| Segment of ''Invisibles''
|-
| rowspan="2" |2010
|''If Buildings Could Talk''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 
|-
|''Il volo''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Refugees |first=United Nations High Commissioner for |title=Wim Wenders inspired by integration model set by idyllic town in Calabria |url=https://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2010/3/4ba7a0126/wim-wenders-inspired-integration-model-set-idyllic-town-calabria.html |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=UNHCR |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|2014
|''The Berlin Philharmonic''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|Segment of ''Cathedrals of Culture''<ref>{{Cite web |title=ROAD MOVIES {{!}} Cathedrals of Culture |url=https://roadmovies.com/film/cathedrals-of-culture/ |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=roadmovies.com}}</ref>
|-
| 2022
| ''Présence''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{partial|Executive}}
|
|-
| 2023
|''Somebody Comes Into the Light''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
| 2025
|''The Keys to Freedom''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 
|}

'''Film'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
! Notes
|-
|1980
|''[[Lightning Over Water]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Co-directed by [[Nicholas Ray]];<br/>Also editor
|-
|1985
|''[[Tokyo-Ga]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
| Also editor and narrator
|-
|1989
|''[[Notebook on Cities and Clothes]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
| Also cinematographer and narrator
|-
| 1995
|''[[A Trick of Light]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|
|-
|1998
|''[[Willie Nelson at the Teatro]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 
|-
|1999
|''[[Buena Vista Social Club (film)|Buena Vista Social Club]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
|2002
|''Ode to Cologne: A Rock 'N' Roll Film''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
|2003
|''[[The Soul of a Man]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|
|-
|2011
|''[[Pina (film)|Pina]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/presse/pressemitteilungen/alle/Alle-Detail_7188.html |title=Berlinale 2011: First Competition Films |access-date=3 January 2011 |work=Berlinale.de}}</ref>
|-
| 2014
|''[[The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)|The Salt of the Earth]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{partial|Executive}}
| Co-directed with [[Juliano Ribeiro Salgado]]
|-
|2018
|''[[Pope Francis: A Man of His Word]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
| 
|-
| 2023
|''[[Anselm (film)|Anselm]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{yes}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Giardina |first=Carolyn |date=15 January 2024 |title=Wim Wenders on Why He Turned to 3D for His Documentary 'Anselm': "It's a Great Medium" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/anselm-director-interview-3d-documentary-1235786678/ |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Felperin |first=Leslie |date=18 May 2023 |title='Anselm' Review: Wim Wenders Explores the World of German Artist Anselm Kiefer in Glorious 3D |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/anselm-review-wim-wenders-anselm-kiefer-1235494913/ |access-date=15 January 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| {{TBA}}
|''The Secrets of Places''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|<ref>{{cite web|last=Macnab|first=Geoffrey|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/wim-wenders-shares-details-about-planned-3d-architecture-doc-the-secrets-of-places/5182347.article|title=Wim Wenders shares details about planned 3D architecture doc 'The Secrets Of Places'|website=[[Screen Daily]]|date=20 May 2023|access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2024/10/shooting-begins-on-3d-zumthor-film.html|title=Shooting Begins on 3D Zumthor Film|website=Los Angeles County Museum on Fire|date=5 October 2024|access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref>
|}

'''TV movies'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
|-
| 1969
|''Kaspar Hauser''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
|-
| 1982
|''[[Room 666]]''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|}

'''TV series'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Notes
|-
| 1977
| ''A House for Us''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
| 2 episodes
|-
|2020
|''4 Walls Berlin''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
| Episode "Change"
|}

===Television===
'''TV shorts'''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Producer
! Notes
|-
| rowspan=2|1969
|''Police Film''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
| Also cinematographer and editor
|-
|''3 Americans LPS''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|{{no}}
| Also editor
|}

=== Music video ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Artist
|-
|1990
|"[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]"
|[[U2]]
|-
|1992
|"[[Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads album)|Sax and Violins]]"
|[[Talking Heads]]
|-
|1993
|"[[Stay (Faraway, So Close!)#Music video|Stay (Faraway, So Close!)]]"
|U2
|-
|1997
|"Every Time I Try"
|[[Spain (band)|Spain]]{{Citation needed|date=June 2022}}
|-
| rowspan="2" |2000
|"[[The Ground Beneath Her Feet (song)#Promotion and releases|The Ground Beneath Her Feet]]"
| U2
|-
|"[[Warum werde ich nicht satt?]]"
|[[Die Toten Hosen]]
|-
|2001
|"[[Souljacker Part I]]"
|[[Eels (band)|Eels]]
|-
|2002
|"Live in a Hiding Place"
|[[Idlewild (band)|Idlewild]]<ref>{{Citation |title=Idlewild – Live In A Hiding Place |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/819374-Idlewild-Live-In-A-Hiding-Place |language=en |access-date=5 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
| 2009
|"[[Auflösen]]"
|Die Toten Hosen
|-
|2020
|"Anagnorisis"
|[[Asaf Avidan]]
|}

=== Commercials ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Director
! Writer
! Subject
|-
| 2000 
|"Un matin partout dans le monde"
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|[[JCDecaux]] 
|-
|2009
|"My Point of View"
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|Leica<ref>{{Citation |title=Leica Camera – Wim Wenders movie for Leica Camera AG {{!}} Facebook{{!}} By Leica Camera |url=https://www.facebook.com/LeicaCamera/videos/wim-wenders-movie-for-leica-camera-ag/1006168211709/ |language=en |access-date=5 June 2022}}</ref>
|-
|2017–2018
|''Jil Sander: Spring/Summer 2018''
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
|[[Jil Sander]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=SPRING/SUMMER 2018 CAMPAIGN PAUSED BY WIM WENDERS |url=https://www.jilsander.com/en-us/spring%2Fsummer-2018-campaign-paused-by-wim-wenders/project-08.html |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=www.jilsander.com}}</ref>
|-
| 2021
|''A Future Together''
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
|Salvatore Frengasso
|}

==Legacy and honors==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Association  
! Category
! Nominated work
! Result
! class=unsortable|{{Abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
| [[72nd Academy Awards|2000]]
| rowspan=4|[[Academy Awards]]
| rowspan=3|[[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film|Best Documentary Feature Film]]
| ''[[Buena Vista Social Club (film)|Buena Vista Social Club]]''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Nominees for the 72nd Academy Awards |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2000 |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |date=22 April 2015 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[84th Academy Awards|2012]]
| ''[[Pina (film)|Pina]]''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{cite web |title=Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2012 |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |date=7 October 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[87th Academy Awards|2015]]
| ''[[The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)|The Salt of the Earth]]''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Nominees for the 87th Academy Awards |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2015 |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |date=10 March 2015 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[96th Academy Awards|2024]]
|[[Best International Feature Film]]
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Perfect Days]]''
|{{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Nominees for the 96th Academy Awards |url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2024 |access-date=25 November 2024 |website=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |date=2024 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|-
| [[16th Asia Pacific Screen Awards|2023]]
| [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]]
| [[Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |date=3 November 2023 |title=Asia Pacific Screen Award Winners: 'Perfect Day' By Wim Wenders Wins Best Film, Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Evil Does Not Exist' Takes Jury Prize |url=https://deadline.com/2023/11/asia-pacific-screen-awards-winners-perfect-day-wim-wenders-ryusuke-hamaguchi-evil-does-not-exist-celine-song-past-lives-1235591782/ |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| [[17th Asian Film Awards|2024]]
| [[Asian Film Awards]]
| [[Asian Film Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=12 January 2024 |title=Nominations Announced for the 17th Asian Film Awards |url=https://2023.tiff-jp.net/news/en/?p=18698 |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=[[Tokyo International Film Festival]]}}</ref><br /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Brzeski |first=Patrick |date=10 March 2024 |title=Asia Film Awards: Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Evil Does Not Exist' Wins Best Film |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/asia-film-awards-2024-winners-1235846437/ |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 1987
| rowspan="2" |[[Bavarian Film Awards]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Bavarian Film Awards (Best Director)|Best Director]]
| ''[[Wings of Desire]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Wings of Desire {{!}} Wim Wenders Stiftung |url=https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/wings-of-desire/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=Wim Wenders Stiftung}}</ref>
|-
| 1993
| ''[[Faraway, So Close!]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Faraway, so Close! {{!}} Wim Wenders Stiftung |url=https://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/film/faraway-so-close/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=Wim Wenders Stiftung}}</ref>
|-
| 1988
| rowspan="2" |[[Belgian Film Critics Association]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Grand Prix (Belgian Film Critics Association)|Grand Prix]]
| ''[[Wings of Desire]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Denis |first=Fernand |date=23 November 2014 |title=Cinematek fête les critiques |url=https://www.lalibre.be/culture/cinema/2014/11/23/cinematek-fete-les-critiques-SMXSEQ2ROBE3JE6GA4NIN6NTPI/ |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=[[La Libre Belgique]] |language=fr}}</ref>
|-
| 2024
| ''[[Perfect Days]]''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=5 January 2024 |title=The Quiet Girl Grand Prix de la Critique du cinéma belge 2023! |url=https://madamefaitsoncinema.be/2024/01/05/the-quiet-girl-grand-prix-de-la-critique-du-cinema-belge-2023/ |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=Madame fait son Cinéma |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
|-
| [[65th Berlin International Film Festival|2015]]
| [[Berlin International Film Festival]]
| [[Honorary Golden Bear]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Barraclough |first=Leo |date=21 August 2014 |title=Berlin Film Festival to Honor Wim Wenders with Honorary Golden Bear |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/global/berlin-film-festival-to-honor-wim-wenders-with-honorary-golden-bear-1201287468/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| [[38th British Academy Film Awards|1985]]
| rowspan=4|[[British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]
| ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Film in 1985 {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1985/film |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=BAFTA}}</ref>
|-
| [[42nd British Academy Film Awards|1989]]
| rowspan=3|[[Best Film Not in the English Language]]
| ''[[Wings of Desire]]''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Film in 1989 {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=https://awards.bafta.org/award/1989/film |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=BAFTA}}</ref>
|-
| [[53rd British Academy Film Awards|2000]]
| ''[[Buena Vista Social Club (film)|Buena Vista Social Club]]''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=1 March 2000 |title=BBC News {{!}} ENTERTAINMENT {{!}} Bafta nominations in full |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/662167.stm |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
|-
| [[65th British Academy Film Awards|2012]]
| [[Pina (film)|''Pina'']]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=17 January 2012 |title=Bafta Film Awards 2012: Winners |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-16590913 |access-date=11 March 2024 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
|-
| [[1984 Cannes Film Festival|1984]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Cannes Film Festival]]
| [[Palme d'Or]]
| ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=24 May 1984 |title=WENDERS'S FILM, 'PARIS, TEXAS,' WINS AT CANNES (Published 1984) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/24/arts/wenders-s-film-paris-texas-wins-at-cannes.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=14 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[1987 Cannes Film Festival|1987]]
| [[Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| ''[[Wings of Desire]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=20 May 1987 |title=PIALAT FILM GETS TOP PRIZE AT CANNES (Published 1987) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/20/movies/pialat-film-gets-top-prize-at-cannes.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=14 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[1993 Cannes Film Festival|1993]]
| [[Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)|Grand Prix]]
| ''[[Faraway, So Close!]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=25 May 1993 |title=Top Prize at Cannes Is Shared (Published 1993) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/25/movies/top-prize-at-cannes-is-shared.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=14 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[3rd César Awards|1978]]
| rowspan="5" |[[César Awards]]
| rowspan="3" |[[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| ''[[The American Friend]]''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="5" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders |url=https://www.academie-cinema.org/personnes/187409/ |access-date=27 March 2024 |website=Académie des César |language=fr-FR}}</ref>
|-
| [[10th César Awards|1985]]
| ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[13th César Awards|1988]]
| ''[[Wings of Desire]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[40th César Awards|2015]]
| [[César Award for Best Documentary Film|Best Documentary Film]]
| ''[[The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)|The Salt of the Earth]]''
| {{won}}
|-
| [[49th César Awards|2024]]
| [[César Award for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| ''[[Perfect Days]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| 1985
| rowspan="2" |[[David di Donatello]]
| rowspan="2" |[[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film|Best Foreign Film]]
| ''[[Paris, Texas (film)|Paris, Texas]]''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2" |<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim WENDERS |url=https://www.daviddidonatello.it/motore-di-ricerca/cercavincitori2.php?idsoggetto=654 |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Accademia del Cinema Italiano – Premi David di Donatello}}</ref>
|-
| 2015
| ''[[The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)|The Salt of the Earth]]''
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[1st European Film Awards|1988]]
| rowspan="6" | [[European Film Awards]]
| [[European Film Award for Best Film|European Film]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Wings of Desire]]''
| {{nom}}
| rowspan="2" | <ref>{{Cite web |title=EFA Night 1988 |url=https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/archive/1988 |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[European Film Awards]] |archive-date=21 April 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421201918/https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/archive/1988 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[European Film Award for Best Director|European Director]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[12th European Film Awards|1999]]
| [[European Film Award for Best Documentary|European Documentary]]
| ''[[Buena Vista Social Club (film)|Buena Vista Social Club]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=EFA Night 1999 |url=https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/archive/1999 |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[European Film Awards]] |archive-date=28 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228220434/https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/archive/1999 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[18th European Film Awards|2005]]
| [[European Film Award for Best Director|European Director]]
| ''[[Don't Come Knocking]]''
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=EFA Night 2005 |url=https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/archive/2005/nominated |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[European Film Awards]] |archive-date=24 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224215446/https://europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/archive/2005/nominated |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
| [[24th European Film Awards|2011]]
| [[European Film Award for Best Documentary|European Documentary]]
| [[Pina (film)|''Pina'']]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=4 December 2011 |title='Melancholia' Picks Up European Film Awards (Published 2011) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/movies/melancholia-picks-up-european-film-awards.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=14 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[37th European Film Awards|2024]]
| [[European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement Award]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{honored}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Academy Honours Wim Wenders |url=https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/press/the-academy-honours-wim-wenders/ |access-date=16 September 2024 |website=[[European Film Academy]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| 2017
| [[Filmfest Hamburg]]
| [[Douglas Sirk Award]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Douglas Sirk Award • FILMFEST HAMBURG |url=https://www.filmfesthamburg.de/en/festival-info/douglas-sirk-award/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=FILMFEST HAMBURG |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| [[43rd Annual Grammy Awards|2001]]
| [[Grammy Awards]]
| [[Best Long Form Music Video]]
| [[Teatro (Willie Nelson album)|Teatro]] (Video)
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |title=43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards {{!}} GRAMMY.com |url=https://grammy.com/awards/43rd-annual-grammy-awards |access-date=11 March 2024 |website=grammy.com}}</ref>
|-
| 2004
| [[International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg]]
| Master of Cinema Award
| {{n/a}}
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=25 November 2004 |title=Film: Wim Wenders mit "Master of Cinema-Award" geehrt |trans-title=Film: Wim Wenders honored with "Master of Cinema Award" |url=https://www.mz.de/kultur/film-wim-wenders-mit-master-of-cinema-award-geehrt-3047097 |access-date=14 March 2024 |newspaper=[[Mitteldeutsche Zeitung]] |trans-newspaper=Central German Newspaper |language=de}}</ref>
|-
| [[47th Japan Academy Film Prize|2024]]
| [[Japan Academy Film Prize]]
| [[Japan Academy Film Prize for Director of the Year|Director of the Year]]
| ''[[Perfect Days]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |date=8 March 2024 |title='Godzilla Minus One' wins Best Picture at Japan Academy awards {{!}} NHK WORLD-JAPAN News |url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240309_02/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240308220353/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20240309_02/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 March 2024 |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[NHK World-Japan|NHK WORLD]] |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| 2005
| [[Locarno Film Festival]]
| [[Leopard of Honour]]
| {{n/a}}
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=6 August 2005 |title=Wenders' work earns leopard of honour |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-08-07/wenders-work-earns-leopard-of-honour/2075192 |access-date=14 March 2024 |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |language=en-AU}}</ref>
|-
| 2025
| [[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 4Class BAR.svg|55px|ribbon bar]] [[Order of the Rising Sun]]
| [[Order of the Rising Sun|4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette]]
| {{n/a}}
| style="text-align:center; background: #98fb98;" | Honored
| <ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mofa.go.jp/files/100838122.pdf|title= 2025 Spring Conferment of Decorations on Foreign Nationals|access-date= 30 April 2025|date= 29 April 2025|website= Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan}}</ref>
|-
| [[39th Venice International Film Festival|1982]]
| [[Venice Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Lion]]
| ''[[The State of Things (film)|The State of Things]]''
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{Cite news |date=9 September 1982 |title=WENDERS FILM WINS AT VENICE FESTIVAL (Published 1982) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/09/movies/wenders-film-wins-at-venice-festival.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=14 March 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| [[64th Writers Guild of America Awards|2012]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay|Best Documentary Screenplay]]
| [[Pina (film)|''Pina'']]
| {{nom}}
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Fernandez |first=Jay A. |date=19 February 2012 |title=Writers Guild Awards: Complete Winners List |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wga-writers-guild-awards-winners-list-292639/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}</ref>
|}

Wenders has been awarded honorary doctorates by the [[University of Paris|Sorbonne]] in Paris in 1989, the [[University of Fribourg]] (Switzerland) in 1995, and the [[Université Catholique de Louvain]], Belgium, in 2005. The Wim Wenders Foundation was established in Düsseldorf in 2012. It provides a framework to bring together his cinematic, photographic, artistic and literary works in his native country and make them permanently accessible to the public.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wimwendersstiftung.de/en/the-foundation/ |title=The Foundation – Wim Wenders Stiftung |website=Wim Wenders Stiftung |access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref> In 2016, he received the Großer Kulturpreis of the Sparkassen Culture-Foundation Rhineland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kulturpreise • Der Award der Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland |url=https://www.sks-rheinland.de/kulturpreise/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland}}</ref>

== Exhibitions ==

'''1986–1992'''
*Written in the West, in conjunction with the publication, Written in the West, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel (1987)<ref name="unesco">{{Cite web |date=1988 |title=The Photographic memory |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000079179 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=unesdoc.unesco.org}}</ref>

'''1993–1995'''
*Wim Wenders Photo Exhibition, in conjunction with the publication, Once, Munich: Schirmer/ Mosel (2001)<ref name="unesco" />

'''2004'''
*Pictures from the Surface of the Earth, Australia and Japan, James Cohan Gallery, New York<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders – Pictures from the Surface of the Earth: Australia and Japan – Exhibitions – James Cohan |url=https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/wim-wenders2/selected-works?view=thumbnails |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.jamescohan.com |language=en}}</ref>
*Between The Lines, group exhibition, [[James Cohan Gallery]], New York<ref>{{Cite web |title=Between The Lines – - Exhibitions – James Cohan |url=https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/between-the-lines |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.jamescohan.com |language=en}}</ref>

'''2006'''
*Wim Wenders: Immagini dal pianeta terra, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy<ref>{{Cite web |title=German director Wim Wenders and his wife Donata attend the opening of... |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/german-director-wim-wenders-and-his-wife-donata-attend-the-news-photo/1230248451 |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Getty Images |date=21 December 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Wenders: photographer of landscapes |url=https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/2006/07/19/wenders-photographer-of-landscapes.html |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.domusweb.it |language=en-gb}}</ref>
*Journey to Onomichi – Photos by Wim and Donata Wenders,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders' world: through his lens |website=[[Independent.co.uk]] |date=12 August 2015 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/wim-wenders-world-through-his-lens-10451406.html}}</ref> Omotesando Hills, Tokyo, Japan<ref>{{Citation |last=Oshima |first=Toshihiro |title="Journey to Onomichi" |date=9 May 2006 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tommyoshima/143771297/ |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>

'''2011'''
*Places, strange and quiet, Haunch of Venison, London, UK<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders' photos of strange and quiet places |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/22/uk.wim.wenders.photography/index.html |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.cnn.com |language=en}}</ref>

'''2012'''
*Places Strange and Quiet, Ostlicht. Galerie Für Fotografie, Vienna, AT<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders: Places, Strange and Quiet {{!}} OstLicht |url=https://www.ostlicht.org/places-strange-and-quiet-wim-wenders |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=www.ostlicht.org |language=en}}</ref>
*Places, strange and quiet, Harald Falckenberg Exhibition Space, [[Deichtorhallen]], Hamburg, DE<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders: Places, Strange and Quiet |url=https://www.deichtorhallen.de/en/ausstellung/wim-wenders-places-strange-and-quiet |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=[[Deichtorhallen|Deichtorhallen Hamburg]] |language=de-DE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120235011/https://www.deichtorhallen.de/en/ausstellung/wim-wenders-places-strange-and-quiet |archive-date=20 January 2021}}</ref>
*Wim Wenders: Pictures from the Surface of the Earth,<ref>{{cite web |title=Wim Wenders, Pictures from the Surface of the Earth |url=http://mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/pictures-from-the-surface-of-the-earth/ |publisher=Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow}}</ref> [[Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow]], RU

'''2014'''
*Wim Wenders: Places Strange & Quiet, GL Strand, Copenhagen, DK
*Wim Wenders: Urban Solitude, Palazzo Incontro, Rome, IT<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 June 2014 |title=Urban Solitude. Fotografie di Wim Wenders |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/cultura/2014/06/22/news/urban_solitude_fotografie_di_wim_wenders-6416566/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}}</ref>

'''2015'''
*Wim Wenders: America, Villa e collezione la Panza, Varese, IT<ref>{{cite web |last=Italiano |first=FAI – Fondo Ambiente |title=Wenders in mostra a Villa Panza con il FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano |url=http://www.wimwendersvillapanza.it |access-date=23 June 2017 |website=wimwendersvillapanza.it}}</ref>
*"In broad daylight even the sounds shine. Wim Wenders scouting in Portugal", curated by Anna Duque y González and Laura Schmidt [[Reservatório da Mãe d'Água das Amoreiras]], Lisbon<ref>{{Cite web |title=EPAL – Empresa Portuguesa das Águas Livres, SA |url=http://www.epal.pt/EPAL/menu/museu-da-%C3%A1gua/atividades-e-servi%C3%A7os/exposi%C3%A7%C3%B5es-tempor%C3%A1rias |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027214212/http://www.epal.pt/EPAL/menu/museu-da-%C3%A1gua/atividades-e-servi%C3%A7os/exposi%C3%A7%C3%B5es-tempor%C3%A1rias |archive-date=27 October 2016 |access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref>

'''2016'''
*"The Space Between the Characters Can Carry the Load", Collection Ivo Wessel, Weserburg Museum for modern Art, Bremen, DE

''' 2017/2018'''
*"Instant Stories/Wim Wenders' Polaroids", The Photographers' Gallery, London, from 20 October 2017 to 11 February 2018.<ref name="ra">{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders {{!}} Artist |website=Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/wim-wenders-hon-ra |access-date=17 January 2024}}</ref>

=== Installation art ===

''' 2019 '''
*''(E)motion''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders {{!}} (E)motion : Wim Wenders |url=https://www.wim-wenders.com/event/9512-2/ |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=www.wim-wenders.com}}</ref><ref name="ra" />

''' 2020 '''
*''Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper''<ref>{{Cite web |title=ROAD MOVIES {{!}} TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT EDWARD HOPPER. A Road Movies 3D film by Wim Wenders |url=https://roadmovies.com/two-or-three-things-i-know-about-edward-hopper-a-road-movies-3d-film-by-wim-wenders/#:~:text=TWO%20OR%20THREE%20THINGS%20I%20KNOW%20ABOUT%20EDWARD%20HOPPER%20is,aspects%20of%20his%20unique%20work. |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=roadmovies.com}}</ref>

''' 2022 '''
* ''Presence'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wim Wenders {{!}} "présence" The art of Claudine Drai, a 3D installation by Wim Wenders |url=https://www.wim-wenders.com/presence-the-art-of-claudine-drai-a-3d-installation-by-wim-wenders/ |access-date=5 June 2022 |website=www.wim-wenders.com}}</ref> with [[Claudine Drai]]

== Bibliography ==
* {{citation |last1=Lindbergh |first1=Peter |author-link=Peter Lindbergh |first2=Wim |last2=Wenders |title=Peter Lindbergh: stories |year=2002 |location=Santa Fe |publisher=Arena Editions |isbn=978-1-892041-64-7}}
* {{citation |last1=Shepard |first1=Sam |author-link=Sam Shepard |first2=Wim |last2=Wenders |title=Paris, Texas: Screenplay |year=1991 |location=New York |publisher=[[Ecco Press]] |isbn=978-0-88001-266-9}}
* {{citation |last1=Steinhilber |first1=Berthold |last2=Wenders |first2=Wim |title=Ghost towns of the American West |year=2003 |location=New York |publisher=[[Harry N. Abrams, Inc.]] |isbn=978-0-8109-4508-1}}
* {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Emotion pictures: Essays und Filmkritiken, 1968–1984 |year=1986 |place=Frankfurt |publisher=Verlag der Autoren |isbn=978-3-88661-078-5}}
* {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Emotion pictures: reflections on cinema |year=1989 |location=London |publisher=[[Faber and Faber]] |isbn=978-0-571-15271-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/emotionpicturesr00wend}}
* {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Once: pictures and stories |year=2001 |location=New York |publisher=[[Distributed Art Publishers|DAP]]/Schirmer/Mosel |isbn=978-1-891024-25-2}}
* {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Paris, Texas |year=1984 |place=Nördlingen |publisher=Greno |isbn=978-3-921568-11-8}}
* {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=Written in the West |year=2001 |location=New York |publisher=[[teNeues]] |isbn=978-3-8238-5469-2}}
* {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Handke |first2=Peter |author2-link=Peter Handke |title=Der Himmel über Berlin: Ein Filmbuch von Wim Wenders und Peter Handke |year=1998 |location=Berlin |language=de |publisher=[[Suhrkamp Verlag]] |isbn=978-3-518-02406-5}}
* {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Hofmann |first2=Michael |author2-link=Michael Hofmann |title=The logic of images: essays and conversations |year=1992 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-16517-9}}
* {{citation |last=Wenders |first=Wim |title=The Act of Seeing:Essays and Conversations |year=1997 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571178-43-8}}
* {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Hofmann |first2=Michael |title=My time with Antonioni: the diary of an extraordinary experience |year=2000 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-20076-4}}
* {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Hofmann |first2=Michael |title=On film: essays and conversations |year=2001 |location=London |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=978-0-571-20718-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/onfilmessaysconv00wend}}
* {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Tawada |first2=Yoko |author2-link=Yoko Tawada |title=Where Europe begins |year=2007 |location=New York |publisher=[[New Directions Publishers]] |isbn=978-0-8112-1702-6}}
* {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Wenders |first2=Donata |title=The heart is a sleeping Beauty: the Million Dollar Hotel - a film book |year=2000 |location=New York |publisher=teNeues |isbn=978-3-8238-5468-5}}
* {{citation |last1=Wenders |first1=Wim |last2=Zournazi |first2=Mary |url=http://inventing-peace.com/ |title=Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception |year=2013 |location=London |publisher=[[I.B.Tauris]] |isbn=978-1-78076-693-5}}

== See also ==
* [[List of German Academy Award winners and nominees]]
* [[BlainSouthern]]
* [[James Cohan Gallery]]
* [[Jerusalem 2111]]

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite web | title=Rede: Abendessen zu Ehren von Wim Wenders | trans-title=Speech: Dinner in honor of Wim Wenders | website=[[Der Bundespräsident]] | trans-website=The Federal President | date=22 September 2022 | url=https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/DE/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/Reden/2022/09/220915-Wim-Wenders-Praemium-Imperiale.html | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Der Bundespräsident | 2022}} | access-date=1 December 2022}}

==External links==
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* {{Official website}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0000694|name=Wim Wenders}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090923172804/http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/wenders.html Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071109164957/http://www.filmportal.de/df/bb/Uebersicht,,,,,,,,EFC0CAA3F03B03C1E03053D50B372D46,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html filmportal.de] including biography, filmography and photos
* [https://www.theguardian.com/film/wim-wenders Wim Wenders] at ''[[The Guardian]]''

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