MATTER OUT OF PLACE

23.11.2023

Feature Film Selection/ Austria, 2022, 107’

Details
  • Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
  • Editing: Samira Ghahremani, Michael Palm
  • Cinematography: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
  • Producer: Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser, Nikolaus Geyrhalter
  • Production: NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH
  • 2022 Locarno International Film Festival Pardo Verde WWF
  • 2023 ZagrebDox Big Stamp Award

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Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains... On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. "Matter Out of Place" is a film about rubbish, which has spread across the world, to the most remote corners of the planet. Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows the traces of our rubbish across the planet and sheds light on the endless struggle of people to gain control over the vast quantities of waste.

Director

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter was born in Vienna in 1972. He formed his own production company NGF Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion at 22 years old. He has directed, produced, written, and worked as cinematographer for numerous documentaries. He has won awards, among other films, for Pripyat (1999), Elsewhere (2001), Our Daily Bread (2005), Over the Years (2015) and Earth (2019).

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The Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye organises the annual EU Human Rights Film Days on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here for the list of films.