Nikolaus Geyrhalter Movies

After the catastrophe in 1986, a 30-km restricted zone was erected around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and 116,000 persons were evacuated from...

The year 2000, elsewhere. 12 months. 12 episodes. Weeks, days, single moments of different ways of life. Tradition and change. People of different...

A portrait of the first year of peace in Bosnia. This is a human story played out before a background of a war which still makes itself felt, a story...

Some things can be seen more clearly at night.. . A film poem about a continent at night, a culture on which the sun’s going down, though...

Ten years have passed since the First Congo War, six since the beginning of the UN mission there. Rape is still being employed as a weapon. In White...

The daily workings of Austria's Danube Hospital.

A working day in Austria, 2004. Nine modern working-class heroes are engaged in their daily struggle of survival, accompanied, motivated and...

Brenner Pass, Alpine border, spring 2016: the Austrian government announces the construction of a border fence, expecting a shift of the refugee...

CERN in Switzerland is a research center where they try to recreate the big bang. Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows the center's infrastructure and meets...

This mountain region that reaches across several countries in Eastern Europe is the home to gold diggers, wizards, cow herders and old Hassids.

A motor-sports spectacle that kicks up plenty of dust. On the trail of the 2007 Dakar Rallye ‘7915 KM’ undertakes a search, along the way...

This portrait of Allentsteig, a military training area and nature reserve, presents various aspects of life. Without comment but with a keen eye for...

In Loud and clear five women and one man talk about the effects of sexual abuse on their lives. Years and in some cases decades afterwards, they have...

How do people live in snowbound areas? What are the mechanisms for simply moving snow around? How have ski resorts mechanised what ought to be a...