René
René
A man in a yellow raincape is standing by the road. He places a soccer ball on the ground and sends it with a decisive kick into the forest across the street. He listens, as if waiting for an echoe, but there is only silence. "What the forest takes, it keeps", he says and walks off."

Tobias Nölle
Switzerland 2007
29'00 min
35 mm   1:2,35 CS   Dolby SR
Color
Short Fiction
Swiss German
Script: Tobias Nölle
Camera: Simon Guy Fässler
Editor: Tobias Nölle
Music: Beat Jegen
Producer: Tobias Nölle, Franziska Graf
Cast: Urs Jucker, Hans Birrer, Arthur M. Miranda, Hans Rudolf Twerenbold


Festivals:
2007:Festival del film Locarno; Festival Européen du Film Court de Brest; Cinéma Tout Écran; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur // 2008: Solothurn Film Festival; Festival International du Court Métrage, Clermont-Ferrand; Tampere Film Festival; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen; Internationales KurzFilmFestival Hamburg; Odense Film Festival
Awards:
2007: Pardino d’oro for Best Swiss short film, Festival del film Locarno; Main Award, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur // 2008: Prix de la Jeunesse, Festival International du Court Métrage, Clermont-Ferrand; Best Fiction Award International Competition, Tampere Film Festival