On the route

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Movie
Original title On the route
Country of production Switzerland
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 31 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Reto Caffi
script Reto Caffi,
Philippe Zweifel
production Daniel Leuthold
music Ivo Ubezio
camera Piotr Rosołowski
cut Thomas Bachmann
occupation

On the route is the graduation film by Swiss film director Reto Caffi at the Art Academy for Media Cologne from 2007. The film received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Short Film and was awarded the Student Oscar and the Swiss Film Prize , among other things . The film premiered at the Hof Film Festival on October 27, 2007. The film was made in co-production with Swiss television (SF DRS).

action

Rolf is a department store detective in a shopping center in the city of Zurich. He has been in love with the saleswoman Sarah for a long time. Thanks to the surveillance tools available to him in his small office, he can see them through his small screen in every corner of the store. And that's what he does - he watches her and what she does. He knows exactly when she's going home and always takes the same S-Bahn as her.

One evening, to his chagrin, he had to watch Sarah entering the S-Bahn accompanied by a young man. To his satisfaction, the two of them quarrel, whereupon she gets out. When a violent argument broke out between her companion and some aggressive young people, Rolf also left the S-Bahn. The next day it turns out that the companion was Sarah's brother and that he did not survive the fight. As a result, Rolf makes great reproaches that prevent him from getting involved with Sarah.

criticism

The film received the rating “particularly valuable” from the German Film and Media Assessment . In the jury's statement, the department store detective's figure drawing appears “coherent and credible”. The director manages with "his detailed, sensitive staging to reveal the fatalism from which his main character suffers". Overall, the film is a “convincing directing performance” with a “good cast” and “coherent, tight dialogues”. Doris Senn wrote in the film yearbook CINEMA that after the brawl, the film would develop into an “atmospheric and complex epic in miniature that deals with love and revenge, courage and cowardice, guilt and atonement”. This is due on the one hand to the “nuanced play of the main actor Roeland Wiesnekker”, and on the other hand to the “fresh and dynamic camera” by Piotr Rosolowski.

Awards

In 2008 Caffi received the Student Oscar for Best Foreign Film ( Honorary Foreign Film Award ) and an Oscar nomination from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles in 2009 . The film had previously received numerous awards in Europe , including the Grand Prix at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and the Quartz Swiss Film Prize for the best short film in 2008.

Awards and nominations (selection):

  • Oscar nomination , best short film, Los Angeles (USA), 2009
  • Gold student Oscar for best international short film at the Student Academy Awards , Los Angeles (USA), 2008
  • Grand prize of the international jury at the short film festival in Clermont-Ferrand (France), 2008
  • “Lutin” for the best European short film (all national short film award winners), Paris, 2008
  • " Swiss Film Award " in the "Best Short Film" category
  • Grand Prix at the Sapporo Short Film Festival, Japan
  • Grand Prix, Tofifest, Poland
  • Grand Prize, Ourense Film Festival, Spain
  • "Grand Remi Award", Worldfest Houston, USA
  • “Best narrative short”, Brooklyn International Film Festival, USA
  • "Best Student Award" at the Aspen Film Festival (US state Colorado)
  • "Best narrative short" Brooklyn Int'l Film Festival, New York
  • Student Jury Prize, Krakow Film Festival, Poland
  • "Best Director", "Best Production", "Best Screenplay", International Festival of the Munich Film Schools
  • "Babelsberger Media Award" for the best fictional graduate film
  • "Best German Film", Interfilm Festival, Berlin
  • German Film Award, best short film (nomination)
  • “First Steps Award”, best short film (nomination), Germany
  • "Innovation Award" International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany
  • Audience Award at the Hamburg Short Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Kinofest Lünen, Cinessonne u. v. a.
  • Bern Film Prize and Zurich Film Prize for the best short film 2008
  • “Prix Walo”, best Swiss film production 2008
  • “Luna de Valencia de plata”, Cinema Jove Valencia, Spain
  • "Best Fiction Film", Tirana International Film Festival, 2008
  • Jury award “Best narrative short film” and audience award, Kratkofil International Short Film Festival
  • Best Fiction Film, Algarve International Film Festival, Portugal
  • Prix ​​du Conseil Général, Cergy-Pontoise Festival international du court métrage, France
  • Best Fiction Film, Tabor Film Festival, 2008
  • Prize of the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, Alter-native International Short Film Festival, Madisz
  • best short film, Landshut Short Film Festival, Germany
  • Grand Prize, Festival des premiers films Européens “Les enfants terribles”, France
  • “Mer de bronze”, Best of international Short Films Festival, France
  • Audience Award and Best Cinematography Award, Poitiers Film Festival, France
  • Grand Prix, Sleepwalkers Student Film Festival
  • "Best Actor", Guanajuato International Film Festival. Mexico
  • "Best leading actor", Mostra Int. del cortometraggio Montecatini, Italy
  • Grand Prize, Angelus Student Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
  • "Best Director" (nomination), Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award, Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database , accessed December 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ On the line. German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , accessed on December 9, 2014 (jury statement).
  3. ^ Doris Senn: On the line (Reto Caffi). CINEMA, accessed December 9, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Deutsche Welle of June 8, 2008: German film wins student Oscar