Nikolaus Geyrhalter

DIRECTOR, PHOTOGRAPHY, SCRIPT, PRODUCER

*1972 in Vienna

The Standstill

A 2023 - 137 min.

Matter Out of Place

A 2022 - 106 min.

Earth

A 2019 - 115 min.

The Border Fence

A 2018 - 112 min.

Homo Sapiens

A 2016 - 94 Min.

Over the Years

A 2015 - 188 Min.

CERN

A 2013 - 75 Min.

Danube Hospital

A 2012 - 75 min.

Abendland

A 2011 - 90 Min.

Allentsteig

A 2010 - 79 Min.

7915 KM

A 2008 - 106 Min.

Our Daily Bread

A 2005 - 92 Min.

Elsewhere

A 2001 - 240 Min.

Pripyat

A 1999 - 100 Min.

The Year After Dayton

A 1997 - 204 Min.

Washed Ashore

A 1994 - 86 Min.


Awards:

Matter Out of Place:
Pardo Verde WWF Award, Locarno Film Festival, Concorso internazionale (2022)
Best Director – Más Allá Competition, Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, México (2022)
Best feature length documentary, Festival dei Popoli Florence (2022)
Big Stamp Award, Regional Competition, ZagrebDox, International Documentary Film Festival Zagreb (2023)
Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship Award for the Best Film on Ecology, Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw (2023)
Green Planet Movie Award, Film Festival della Lessinia (2023)
 
Earth:

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Berlinale Forum (2019)
International Award, Sheffield International Documentary Festival (2019)
Best Sounddesign Documentary, Diagonale (2019)
Best Green Dox Award, Dokufest Prizren (2019)
Nomination for Best Editing, Filmplus, Festival for Editing and Montage Arts, Cologne (2019)
Harrell Award, Camden International Film Festival (2019)
Special Award for Best Film on the Topic of Soil, Innsbruck Nature Festival (2019)
Mención Especial, L’Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona (2019)
Nomination "Best Sound Design", Österreichischer Filmpreis (2020)
Best Documentary, Österreichischer Filmpreis (2020)


The Border Fence:
Grand Diagonale Prize: Best Austrian Documentary Film, Diagonale (2018)
Viktor dok.deutsch, DOK.fest München (2019)
Jury Prize, Trento Film Festival (2019)
Special Prize Cassa Rurale Vallagarina, Film Festival della Lessinia (2019)

Homo Sapiens:
Wild Dreamer Award for Best Documentary, Subversive Film Festival, Zagreb (2016)
Best Sounddesign Documentary, Diagonale (2017)

Over the Years:
Grand Diagonale Prize: Best Austrian Documentary Film, Diagonale (2015)
Best Artistic Editing of a Documentary Film, Diagonale (2015)
Best Film, Human Rights Competition, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI) (2015)
Silver Eye Award for Best feature-length documentary, Jihlava, International Documentary Film Festival (2015)
3-sat Documentary Film Prize, Duisburg Film Festival (2015)
Nomination: Best Documentary, Österreichischer Filmpreis (2016)

Danube Hospital:
Honorable Mention - World Pulse Culturgest Award, IndieLisboa International Film Festival (2013)
Nomination for the Prix Europa (2012)

Abendland:
Nomination: Best Documentary, Österreichischer Filmpreis (2012)
Diagonale austrian editors association aea Prize, Diagonale (2011)
Millennium Award, Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw (2011)
The Canon Cinematography Award, Honorable Mention, Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw (2011)
Grand Prix Special Mention, Split Film Festival (2011)
 
7915 KM:
Best Cinematography documentary film, Diagonale (2009)
 
Our Daily Bread:
Adolf-Grimme-Preis 2008, Kategorie Information & Kultur (2008)
Spezialpreis der Jury, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (2005)
Special John Templeton Prize, Visions du Réel, Nyon (2006)
Honourable Mention - Special Jury Prize - International Feature, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto 2006 (2006)
Nominierung - Prix Arte, Europäischer Filmpreis (2006)
Special Jury Award, Jihlava (2006)
EcoCamera Award, Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal (2006)
Best feature length documentary, Ashland independent film festival (2007)
Spezialpreis Jurado Pfizer, Festival internacional de cine contemporaneo de la ciudad de Mexico (2007)
Best Film, Ecocinema International Film Festival Athen (2006)
Grand Prix, Festival International du Film d'Environnement, Paris (2006)
 
Elsewhere:
Producers Award, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz (2003)
Audience Award, Duisburg (2002)
Ethnographic Award, Parnu (2002)
Special Jury Award, Amsterdam (2001)


Pripyat:
International Documentary Award, Istanbul (2001)
European Documentary Nominee (1999)
Grand Prix, Diagonale (1999)
Grand Prix, Munich (1999)
Grand Prix, Odivelas (1999)
Prix de la Jury, Audience Prize, Nyon (1999)
Prix International de la SCAM, Paris (1999)
 
The Year After Dayton:
3-sat Documentary Film Prize, Duisburg (1998)
Berliner Zeitung Readers’ Prize, Berlin (1998)
Le Prix Joris Ivens, Paris (1998)
Filmpreis, Vienna (1997) 
 
Washed Ashore:
New Cinema Prize, Vienna (1994)