Directing
Harald Friedl
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Directing
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7 titles
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6.0The simple staple bread has become a branded product with an increasing number of varieties and providers. The film provides authentic impressions in today’s world of bread. We encounter small craft bakers as well as corporate CEOs whose professional work is our daily bread and ask the question: how do you see the future of our bread? And: what are we actually eating?
Bread: An Everyday Miracle
2020
5.050-year-old Romanian Sadina Lungu is a 24-hour caregiver. She has been looking after 85-year-old Mrs. Pöschl in Bad Vöslau for years. Sadina's life is monotonous and exhausting. Loneliness gnaws at her. Fitness exercises, smoking and online conversations with family and friends in Romania help her get through the days. For 14 years now, Sadina has endured three to five months at a time before she can go home for a month to be with her loved ones, whom she supports financially, and do what she wants to do. With her long assignments, Sadina is a rare phenomenon in the industry. How does Sadina manage her life away from home? What does she do to combat the danger of alienation from home? How does she manage to stay with herself in the face of various physical and mental challenges and get something out of life herself?
24 Stunden
2024
NRHow do you gain the most votes or lose the fewest? How do you cast your lead candidate in the best possible light? In his long-term observation Wahlkampf, Harald Friedl accompanies a young, ambitious campaign team on their way through the “super election year” of 2024.
Wahlkampf
2026
9.0Four traditional Viennese businesses try to hold their ground against the competition of big corporations.
Aus der Zeit
2006
Bhutan, long isolated, wants to open itself up to the world without succumbing to materialism. It wants to modernize without selling its soul. The benchmark for this development is "Gross National Happiness." In a project unique worldwide, officials from the Ministry of Happiness are traveling for eight months to determine happiness in the country using thick questionnaires. A road movie to the most distant of all goals: The film offers insight into a country that has until now been largely inaccessible to film footage.
What Happiness Is
2012
Behind the camera
6.0The simple staple bread has become a branded product with an increasing number of varieties and providers. The film provides authentic impressions in today’s world of bread. We encounter small craft bakers as well as corporate CEOs whose professional work is our daily bread and ask the question: how do you see the future of our bread? And: what are we actually eating?
Bread: An Everyday Miracle
2020
6.0The simple staple bread has become a branded product with an increasing number of varieties and providers. The film provides authentic impressions in today’s world of bread. We encounter small craft bakers as well as corporate CEOs whose professional work is our daily bread and ask the question: how do you see the future of our bread? And: what are we actually eating?
Bread: An Everyday Miracle
2020
5.050-year-old Romanian Sadina Lungu is a 24-hour caregiver. She has been looking after 85-year-old Mrs. Pöschl in Bad Vöslau for years. Sadina's life is monotonous and exhausting. Loneliness gnaws at her. Fitness exercises, smoking and online conversations with family and friends in Romania help her get through the days. For 14 years now, Sadina has endured three to five months at a time before she can go home for a month to be with her loved ones, whom she supports financially, and do what she wants to do. With her long assignments, Sadina is a rare phenomenon in the industry. How does Sadina manage her life away from home? What does she do to combat the danger of alienation from home? How does she manage to stay with herself in the face of various physical and mental challenges and get something out of life herself?
24 Stunden
2024
5.050-year-old Romanian Sadina Lungu is a 24-hour caregiver. She has been looking after 85-year-old Mrs. Pöschl in Bad Vöslau for years. Sadina's life is monotonous and exhausting. Loneliness gnaws at her. Fitness exercises, smoking and online conversations with family and friends in Romania help her get through the days. For 14 years now, Sadina has endured three to five months at a time before she can go home for a month to be with her loved ones, whom she supports financially, and do what she wants to do. With her long assignments, Sadina is a rare phenomenon in the industry. How does Sadina manage her life away from home? What does she do to combat the danger of alienation from home? How does she manage to stay with herself in the face of various physical and mental challenges and get something out of life herself?
24 Stunden
2024
NRHow do you gain the most votes or lose the fewest? How do you cast your lead candidate in the best possible light? In his long-term observation Wahlkampf, Harald Friedl accompanies a young, ambitious campaign team on their way through the “super election year” of 2024.
Wahlkampf
2026
9.0Four traditional Viennese businesses try to hold their ground against the competition of big corporations.
Aus der Zeit
2006
Bhutan, long isolated, wants to open itself up to the world without succumbing to materialism. It wants to modernize without selling its soul. The benchmark for this development is "Gross National Happiness." In a project unique worldwide, officials from the Ministry of Happiness are traveling for eight months to determine happiness in the country using thick questionnaires. A road movie to the most distant of all goals: The film offers insight into a country that has until now been largely inaccessible to film footage.
What Happiness Is
2012
