Biography
Sherry Hormann (born 20 April 1960) is a German-American film director. Hormann is best known for her movies Guys and Balls (2004), Desert Flower (2009), and 3096 Days (2013). Hormann was born in the United States, but moved to Germany in 1966 when she was six years old. She attended the Munich Academy for Television and Film (HFF) and mainly works in German cinema today. She was married to film director Dominik Graf. In October 2011, she married cinematographer Michael Ballhaus; he died in Ap...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Fall for Me
2025
Director
Lilli visits her sister Valeria. She is surprised to learn that Valeria has become engaged to the Frenchman Manu. She also meets nightclub manager Tom...
Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt
2024
She is the grande dame of German and international cinema, always a bit of a rocker chick, freedom-loving, adventurous and willing to take risks. This...
A Regular Woman
2019
Director
Hatun Aynur Sürücü, a German woman of Kurdish origin, was shot dead by her brothers at a bus stop in 2005. The story of a woman who fought for her fre...
Vermisst in Berlin
2019
Director
A former investigator searches for a missing refugee child and gets caught up in a maelstrom of ignorance, excessive demands, exploitation - and a wil...
Wir lieben das Leben
2018
Director
The good thing about a low point is, you can not fall lower. At least the unemployed Maria Kowalke thinks after her break-up and when the "strange" fa...
Tödliche Geheimnisse – Jagd in Kapstadt
2017
Director
Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff, together with his son Max, is looking for the disappeared lobbyist Paul Holthaus...
Deadly Leaks
2016
Director
Journalist Rommy Kirchhoff wants to interview a whistle-blower. Paul Holthaus, lobbyist on behalf of the agricultural company Norgreen Life Inc., is r...
Lotte Jäger und das tote Mädchen
2016
Director
Operation Zucker - Jagdgesellschaft
2016
Director
Karin Wegemann has been transferred. Instead of being on active duty at the LKA, she has been teaching prospective colleagues at the police academy fo...
3096 Days
2013
Director
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012
Director, Writer
Based on the best-selling psychology book by Paul Watzlawick, the film tells the story of Tiffany Blechschmid, a neurotic, moony, superstitious, contr...
Desert Flower
2009
Director, Scenario Writer
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad who was sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is n...
Helen, Fred und Ted
2006
Director
Psychotherapist Fred Czerny is finding it difficult to retire. So he shares his busy practice in Munich with Ted Fröhlich, an advocate of modern, holi...
Guys & Balls
2004
Director
Ecki is a sweet, closeted gay man who works in his family’s bakery and plays goalie in his small town’s soccer team. When he both loses the big game, ...
Wenn Weihnachten wahr wird
2003
Director
Ten-year-old Lena has been looking forward to Christmas for weeks. But three days before Christmas Eve, she falls onto the ice while ice skating and f...
Against All Evidence
2002
Director
Police arrest a woman for the murder of his five years son. She claims to have drunk the night before and not knowing what happened to his small son, ...
Scheidung auf amerikanisch
2001
Director
Angst spür' ich, wo kein Herz ist
1998
Director, Writer
Children from poor families recount experiences from their daily lives.
Widows
1998
Director
A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella M...
Die Cellistin
1998
Director
Irren ist männlich
1996
Director
Lawyer Thomas Neumann is extremely successful in his career and happily married to his wife Bettina. Nevertheless, he has a mistress on the side, who ...
Frauen sind was Wunderbares
1994
Director, Writer
A screwball comedy about relationships between women and men.
Silent Shadow
1991
Director, Screenplay
Linda is a headstrong woman. She marries and lives with her husband Paul in the Ruhr area. But 12 years of marriage do not make Linda happy. She dream...
Tiger, Löwe, Panther
1989
Writer, Production Design
The three friends Pat, Nicoletta and Sissy are in their 30s and actually lead very decent lives. But that alone does not satisfy them: Like cats of pr...
Tango im Bauch
1985