Nikolaus Geyrhalter

He has directed, produced, written, and worked as cinematographer for numerous documentaries.

He has won awards for Das Jahr nach Dayton (1997), Pripyat (1999), Elsewhere (2001), and Our Daily Bread (2005).

His first documentary was the 1994 film Washed Ashore (German: Angeschwemmt), about life on the Danube.

He also filmed Pripyat (1999), a black-and-white look at residents who live near the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

Elsewhere (2001) was a travelogue to a dozen different places around the world, and Our Daily Bread (2005) explored mechanical food production.