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Geyrhalter takes us on a globe-trotting journey across Austria and Switzerland, Greece and Albania, Nepal and Nevada that reveals the manifold..
Director, producer, writer, and cinematographer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972.
Geyrhalter's static-camera, well-paced observational films tackle their subjects head-on, whether it's exploring the terrain in Chernobyl, Ukraine (Pripyat), tracing the route of the Dakar Rally (7915 Km), or investigating the production of processed foods (Our Daily Bread).
At 22, Geyrhalter started his production company, Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion (NGF).
He made his first film, Eisenerz, in 1992.
Two years later Geyrhalter shot his first documentary, Washed Up (Angeschwemmt).
Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in in Vienna, Austria.
Audiences, jurors, and critics took notice of Geyrhalter with Pripyat (1999), which won the SCAM Award at the Cinéma du Réel Festival and the Grand Prize at Diagonale Graz. He followed Pripyat with the epic four-hour globe-hopping documentary, Elsewhere (2001).
The film screened at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Jihl