Nikolaus Geyrhalter Movies

18th century Vienna. Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart's, lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure...

Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a...

A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a...

Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks...

HOMO SAPIENS is visionary documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter's exploration of the finiteness and fragility of human existence, the end of the...

Taking the demise of a textile factory in Austria’s Waldviertel region as its starting point, with the antiquated manufacturing plant initially...

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

Marie Theres is a perfectly assimilated German in Vienna. She is a good wife to her husband Alexander, an understanding mother to her teenage...

A film about our garbage that is found in the most remote areas and about the people who try to dispose of it. Not only in the sea and on coasts,...

Mira lives for the sport of ice hockey and leads her team as captain with a strong determination. It's a challenge to reconcile this with her role in...

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

Thomas, a student drop-out, keeps his head above water with a life of petty crime. Passing himself off once again as a ticket inspector on a tram to...

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...

With a sense of humour, this documentary questions the condition of women from the angle of the image and perception of their body, and covers the...

Several billion tons of earth are moved annually by humans - with shovels, excavators or dynamite. Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes people in mines,...

Feminism WTF is an international Topic Documentary on feminism and gender equality. The film reflects on current debates and analyses the potential...

The penis as a source of identity and restlessness, legitimation for claims to dominance and fantasies of superiority, the object of fears of failure...

Austria's largest housing complex erected in one building stage is situated in the Northeast of Vienna. It lies on the former premises of a horse...

Matthias leads a succesfull rent-a-friend agency but as soon as his girlfriend Sophia breaks up with him, his life spirals into absurd chaos.

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