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Film
Between the Lines
original title
Between the Lines
directed by
Niklas Pollmann
produced by
Sophie Tschach, Alina Rous, Niko Kantner (Filmakademie Wien)
year
2024
duration
20 minutes
country
Austria
language
German with English and Czech subtitles
Your place or mine? A fleeting acquaintance can be exciting, adventurous, funny, but also opaque or even threatening. Shot in a single shot, Between The Lines explores the nuances of such a situation. Between the tracks of an underground station, the outlines of two people and their stories slowly emerge.
The film participated in the Premiers Plans d'Angers 2025, where it was awarded the Student Films Grand Jury Prize & Student of Angers Award, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, or the Palm Springs International ShortFest 2025. The film had its Czech premiere on BOO 2025.
Niklas Pollmann (*1993 in Holzminden, Germany) has been studying screenwriting at the Film Academy Vienna under Prof. Götz Spielmann and directing as a module under Prof. Michael Haneke since 2015. With a background in film criticism and media studies, he works at the interface between film theory and practice. His debut short film Hurenkind & Schusterjunge was shown and honoured in Montréal, Riga, the Molodist Kyiv and Manaki Brothers Film Festival, among others.
