Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Påfuglen
Matthias jobber for byrået «My Companion», hvor klienter ansetter ham til å spille roller i deres privatliv. Trenger du en «kultivert kjæreste» for å imponere vennene dine? En «perfekt sønn»? Eller kanskje bare en sparringspartner for å øve inn en krangel? Uansett hva det er, bare lei Matthias. Mens Matthias utfører hver persona feilfritt, finner han seg følelsesmessig distansert og ute av stand til å få kontakt med sitt eget liv eller kjæresten Sophia. Til slutt, under en bursdagsoppgave, gir Matthias offentlig avkall på rollen sin og rømmer. Påfuglen er en tragikomisk og absurd satire som illustrerer identitet vs. prestasjon, og utforsker hvordan selvet forvitrer når livet reduseres til påtatte roller.
Fremtidsbaby
En film om fremtiden til menneskelig reproduksjon slik den utfolder seg fremfor våre øyne. Denne undersøkelsen tar oss med verden rundt til pasienter og forskere, til eggdonorer og surrogatmødre, til laboratorier og klinikker. Håpene og ønskene til fremtidige foreldre blandes med forskning på hvordan det menneskelige genom kan optimeres i møte med en aksellerende fremgangsrate. Hvor langt er vi villige til å gå?
Befolkningsveksten
A well-known nightmarish vision of the future: The Earth’s population reaches seven billion. Dwindling resources, mountains of toxic waste, hunger and climate change—the results of overpopulation? Who says that the world’s overpopulated? And who’s one too many?
Master of the Universe
Investerende bankmenn er de virkelige universets mestere, ikke politikere, militære styrker eller nasjoner. I den økonomiske stormakten Tyskland, gir en ledende bankmann et forstyrrende innblikk fra innsiden, i sine følelser, motivasjoner og forutsigelser. Han avslører et parallelt univers som består av ekstreme inntekter og et nådeløst press. Et system som avskjærer bankmenn fra verden utenfor, og gjør dem ute av stand til å reflektere over jobbene sine.
CERN
Multi-awarded Nikolaus Geyrhalter delivers stunning images from inside the immense CERN apparatus. Alternated with interviews with the experts who devised and operate this gigantic big bang machine, the film gives an insight into the complex experimental research institution.
Befolkningsveksten
A well-known nightmarish vision of the future: The Earth's population reaches seven billion. Dwindling resources, mountains of toxic waste, hunger and climate change-the results of overpopulation? Who says that the world's overpopulated?
Master of the Universe
Investment bankers are the real Masters of the Universe, not politicians, armies or even countries. In economic powerhouse Germany, a top banker gives a disturbing insider’s account of his emotions, motivations and predictions. Revealing a parallel universe of extreme income and merciless pressure. A system disconnecting bankers from the outside world, unable to reflect about their work.
Pripyat
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 this area. PRIPYAT is a portrait of the people who still live and work in the zone, and of those who have moved back. What is life like for these people, a life with the invisible and incomprehensible danger of radioactivity? How do they deal with the aftereffects of an accident which is claimed to be statistically improbable? Four protagonists tell their stories and provide a look at everyday life in “their“ zone. PRIPYAT, released 1999 and awarded with numerous international prices, was scanned from ist original negative and is now available in a digitally restored version.
The Year After Dayton - Part 2 (Autumn, Winter)
When the peace treaty of Dayton was signed in 1996, fightings in Bosnia and Hercegovina finally ceased and the country became less attractive for the crowd of war correspondents and eventually faded from public news coverage.
The Year After Dayton - Part 2 (Autumn, Winter)
When the peace treaty of Dayton was signed in 1996, fightings in Bosnia and Hercegovina finally ceased and the country became less attractive for the crowd of war correspondents and eventually faded from public news coverage. At this point Nikolaus Geyrhalter starts to shoot his one-year-observation of the first year of peace in a country divided by nationalities: Always on eye-level with his protagonists, he pays attention more to people´s daily struggle, than to their actual ethnic origin. Very soon it becomes clear that the wounds oft war will not heal easily. „Geyrhalters tenderly respectful approach to the trauma is simply touching.“ Claus Phillip „The Year After Dayton“ premiered 1999 on the Venice Film Festival and was awarded with numerous international prices. The present version was scanned from the original negative and digitally restored.
Washed ashore
Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself and the often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. And they are multifarious: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. All linked by the great current against which they swim. The film tells their stories and their longings in tranquil images by an unobtrusive camera. Nikolaus Geyrhalters first feature documentary was released 1994. Entirely shot on 16mm black-and-white film, it was recently rescanned from its original negative and digitally restored.
Cern
Den prisvinnende regissøren Nikolaus Geyrhalter gir oss fantastiske bilder fra det enorme CERN-apparatet. I filmen får vi intervjuer av eksperter som oppfant og driver denne gigantiske "big bang-maskinen", og den gir oss et innblikk i denne komplekse eksperimentelle forskningsinstitusjonen.
Washed ashore
Life on the Danube is essentially determined by two factors: the river itself and the often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. And they are multifarious: fishermen and graveyard wardens, Buddhist monks, allotment holders on Danube Island, stranded shippers, tramps and soldiers. All linked by the great current against which they swim.