Auf der Strecke
On the Line
Synopsis
A department store security guard is secretely in love with a clerk in the store's bookshop. When he witnesses a seeming rival beeing attacked in the train, he gets off instead of helping him – a decision with devastating consequences.
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Auf der Strecke has received a new award at Big Sur International Short Film Screening Series. | more...
3 September 2009
The 2009 Oscar-nominated live-action and animated short films are now available to download. | more...
17 February 2009
Auf der Strecke has received a new award at ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival. | more...
25 November 2008
Auf der Strecke has received 2 new awards at Munich International Festival of Film Schools. | more...
24 November 2008
Auf der Strecke has received a new award at Cork Film Festival. | more...
20 October 2008
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Awards and nominations
Audience Award
18th Kinofest Lünen | 2007
Grand Jury Prize - International
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
Best Student Film
Aspen Shortsfest | 2008
Honorary Foreign Film
35th Student Academy Awards | 2008
Best Fiction Film
Algarve International Film Festival
Best Narrative Film
Innovation Award - German Competition
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Audience Award - German Competition
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Audience Award
KRATKOFIL: International Short Film Festival
Best Fiction Film
KRATKOFIL: International Short Film Festival
Best European Short Film
Les Lutins du Court Metrage | 2008
Silver Moon of Valencia
Cinema Jove International Film Festival
Best Actor (Roeland Wiesnekker)
FilmVideo: Montecatini International Short Film Festival
Special Mention
Lago Film Fest
Grand Prize
3rd Prize
International Best of Short Films Festival
Grand Prize
3rd Sapporo Short Fest | 2008
Special Mention - FictionWorld
Best International Short Film - Audience Award
53rd Cork Film Festival | 2008
Prize of the Romanian Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs
NOMINATION
Best Short Film - under 30 minutes
Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis | 2008
German Short Film Award
Best German Short Film
Munich International Festival of Film Schools
Best Director of a German Short Film
Munich International Festival of Film Schools
First Place
Previous screenings
2007
International Short Film Festival Winterthur
7 Nov – 11 Nov | Winterthur, Switzerland
2008
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
1 Feb – 9 Feb | Clermont-Ferrand, France
Grand Jury Prize - International
Landshut Short Film Festival
6 Mar – 10 Mar | Landshut, Germany
BMW Short Film Prize
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
1 May – 6 May | Oberhausen, Germany
Algarve International Film Festival
12 May – 17 May | Portimão, Portugal
Best Fiction Film
22 May – 15 Jun | Seattle, United States
30 May – 8 Jun | Brooklyn, United States
Best Narrative Film
Krakow International Short Film Festival
30 May – 5 Jun | Krakow, Poland
Student Jury Award
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
4 Jun – 9 Jun | Hamburg, Germany
Innovation Award - German Competition
Audience Award - German Competition
Audience Award - German Competition
KRATKOFIL: International Short Film Festival
11 Jun – 15 Jun | Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Best Fiction Film
Audience Award
Audience Award
Cinema Jove International Film Festival
21 Jun – 28 Jun | Valencia, Spain
Silver Moon of Valencia
FilmVideo: Montecatini International Short Film Festival
7 Jul – 12 Jul | Montecatini Terme, Italy
Best Actor (Roeland Wiesnekker)
11 Jul – 19 Jul | Desinic, Croatia
Lago Film Fest
18 Jul – 26 Jul | Lago, Italy
Special Mention
Locarno International Film Festival
6 Aug – 16 Aug | Locarno, Switzerland
19 Aug – 24 Aug | Odense, Denmark
São Paulo International Short Film Festival
21 Aug – 29 Aug | São Paulo, Brazil
26 Aug | Berlin, Germany
30 Aug – 1 Sep | Seattle, United States
International Best of Short Films Festival
11 Sep – 14 Sep | La Ciotat, France
3rd Prize
18 Sep – 28 Sep | Cambridge, United Kingdom
6 Oct – 12 Oct | Forlì, Italy
Special Mention - FictionWorld
The Short Film Night of Lausanne
10 Oct | Lausanne, Switzerland
Ourense International Film Festival
11 Oct – 18 Oct | Ourense, Spain
12 Oct – 19 Oct | Cork, Ireland
Best International Short Film - Audience Award
Brno Sixteen International Competitive Festival of Short Fiction Films
15 Oct – 19 Oct | Brno, Czech Republic
Uppsala International Short Film Festival
20 Oct – 26 Oct | Uppsala, Sweden
5 Nov – 11 Nov | Mures County, Romania
Prize of the Romanian Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs
Munich International Festival of Film Schools
16 Nov – 22 Nov | Munich, Germany
Best Director of a German Short Film
Best German Short Film
Best German Short Film
18 Nov – 23 Nov | Bristol, United Kingdom
22 Nov – 30 Nov | Lille, France
2009
9 Jan – 18 Jan | Sydney, Australia
12 Feb – 15 Feb | Boulder, United States
22 Feb | United States
11 Jun – 30 Aug | Big Sur, United States
First Place
Latest user comments
The cinematic prowess of this piece is advanced. The use of sound, light and the human face are uncomfortably close to that word "truth". The kind of slow burni...
11 Mar 2009 | Anonymous
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29 min 45 s
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