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Homo Sapiens

Homo Sapiens

A film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being.

What will remain of our lives after we’re gone? Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity

has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago.

Homo Sapiens is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario.

Year: 2016

Country: Austria

Runtime: 94 min

Color:  Color

LanguageNo dialogue

Format: 1: 1,85

Image: 4k

Sound: Dolby Atmos

"A gloriously beautiful documentary of an unimagined future."

- Hong Kong Film Festival

"As intriguing as it is overwhelming."

- BAFICI Festival

"A compelling modern study of man vs. nature, with the latter clearly getting the upper hand."

- Hollywood Reporter

"Nikolaus Geyrhalter's fantastical HOMO SAPIENS depicts a disquieting scenario whereby the world made by people is slowly won back by nature: it is science fiction and documentary in equal measure, equal parts contemporary and post-apocalyptic."

- Berlinale Forum

About the Director

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).

 

DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY

1992  Eisenerz
1994 Angeschwemmt
1997 Das Jahr nach Dayton
1999 Pripyat
2001 Elsewhere
2003 Fremde Kinder
2005 Our Daily Bread
2008 7915 Km
2010 Allentsteig
2011 Abendland
2012 Donauspital
2016 Homo Sapiens
2018 Die Bauliche Massnahme

2019 Earth

 

Cast and Crew

CREW

Producers: Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser

Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Director of Photography: Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Research: Maria Arlamovsky

Editing: Michael Palm

Sound Design: Florian Kindlinger, Peter Kutin

Sound mixing: Alexander Koller

Home Media

DVD

Digital

Awards and Festivals

Berlinale Forum

Cinema du Reel

Hong Kong International Film Festival

Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival

Docville International Documentary Film Festival

Subversive Film Festival2016 Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

DOK.fest Munchen

Docs Against Gravity Film Festival

Docaviv International Film Festival

Bildrausch Filmfest Basel

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