Documentary film

MATTER OUT OF PLACE

Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria 2022, 105’

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.

Premiere: August 2022 Locarno (Main Competition)

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Awards

Pardo Verde WWF Award, Locarno Film Festival, Concorso internazionale (2022)

Best Director – Más Allá Competition, Black Canvas FCC, México (2022)

Best feature length documentary, Festival dei Popoli Florence (2022)

Big Stamp Award, Regional Competition, ZagrebDox, Int. Documentary Film Festival Zagreb (2023)

Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship Award for the Best Film on Ecology, Millennium Docs Against Gravity Film Festival, Warsaw (2023)

Festivals

Locarno Film Festival, Concorso internazionale, 2022

Camden International Film Festival, 2022

DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film. International Competition, 2022

IDFA, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, 2022

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Goyang, South Korea, 2022

Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo, México, 2022

Magnificent 7, Belgrade, 2022

Film Fest Gent, 2022

Viennale, Vienna International Film Festival, 2022

Leeds International Film Festival, 2022

Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon, 2022

Cork International Film Festival, 2022

Festival dei Popoli Florence, 2022

Jihlava, International Documentary Film Festival, 2022

Talinn Black Nights Filmfestival, 2022

Film Festival Cologne, 2022

L’Alternativa, Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, 2022

Hainan Island International Film Festival, 2022

Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX, 2023

Tempo Dokumentärfestival, Stockholm, 2023

FIPADOC, International Documentary Film Festival, Biarritz, 2023

Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2023

Ljubljana Doc Film Festival, 2023

Sofia International Film Festival, 2023

Human International Documentary Film Festival Oslo, 2023

DOK.fest München, 2023

Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, Graz, 2023

ZagrebDox, International Documentary Film Festival Zagreb, 2023

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