The Year after Dayton

Das Jahr nach Dayton

A portrait of the first year of peace in Bosnia. This is a human story played out before a background of a war which still makes itself felt, a story of a possible life together, which has on the other hand become impossible in many cases. Rajko, the Serbian mechanic and his family must leave their home for the second time. Nermin, the actor, lost both legs in the war and might have the chance to learn a new role. Halid, a shepherd from the Muslim-controlled region, risks his life to visit friends on the western (Croatian) side of Mostar.
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Direction: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Script: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer
Cinematography: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Editing: Wolfgang Widerhofer
Sound: Hrvoje Durasek
Production: NGF – Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Producers: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Austria
Production Year: 1997
Duration: 204'
Contact: NGF – Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion
Awards/Distinctions: Film Prize – Vienna IFF 1997, Berliner Zeitung Readers’ Prize – Berlin IFF 1998, Joris Ivens Award – Cinéma du Réel 1998, 3-sat Documentary Film Prize – Duisburg Film Week 1998

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Nikolaus Geyrhalter is a director, producer, and cameraman, born in Vienna in 1972. In 1994, when he was 22 years old, he founded his own production company Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion which focuses on documentaries and amateur fiction. He made his first film, Eisenerz, in 1992. Two years later, he shot his first documentary, Washed Ashore (1994) narrating a story about the river Danube and often strange idiosyncrasies of the people who live along its banks. Geyrhalter’s static-camera, well-paced observational films tackle their subjects head-on, whether it’s exploring the terrain in Chernobyl, Ukraine (Pripyat, 1999), tracing the route of the Dakar Rally (7915 KM, 2008), or investigating the production of processed foods (Our Daily Bread, 2005). In 2003, he received the Austrian State Award for Film Art and in 2008 his film Our Daily Bread won the Grimme Prize. Throughout the years, his films were nominated for and won numerous other awards in the world’s most renowned festivals, including (among others) IDFA, the Berlinale, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, IndieLisboa, DocSheffield, Cinéma du Réel, Diagonale, and, most recently, Locarno.

Filmography

1994 Washed Ashore
1997 The Year After Dayton
1999 Pripyat
2001 Elsewhere
2005 Our Daily Bread
2008 7915 KM
2010 Allentsteig (TV)
2011 Abendland
2012 Danube Hospital (TV)
2013 Cern (TV)
2015 Over the Years
2016 Homo Sapiens
2018 The Border Fence
2019 Earth
2022 Matter Out of Place