The here and now, the melancholy and the joyful, the everyday and the magical are the focus of this portrait of Austria's foremost film essayist. For some friends is made about, for and with Michael Pilz, and is just as much a documentary film as a filmic experiment. “Is it even possible to make a film about the lightness of an instant and about drifting into a friendship? Or does reaching for the camera interrupt the flow?“ asks director Gabriele Hochleitner. A film about life; personal, honest and poetic.