THE TRAIN DRIVER (ANIDOC)
In the five-minute animated documentary film “The Train Driver”, an anonymous train driver recounts his experience with suicide on the rails.
Six times he experienced people taking their own lives before his eyes. While surf fishing, he tries to distract himself – but does something like that really leave no trace?
PRESS ECHO
“A shocking and hard-hitting short film, one of those that continue to affect you long after you have seen it.” (Animatión para Adultos, translated from spanish)
“Wittmoser and Kim have made an impressive short film that resonates for a long time with its very own ideas about a neglected topic.” (Excerpt jury text FBW)
AWARDS
Rating Especially Valuable – German Film and Media Rating FBW
FESTIVALS
Annecy Int. Animation Festival 2021 – Int. Short Film Competition
Animafest Zagreb 2021 – Grand Competition Short Film
Anibar Animation Festival 2021 – Int. Competition
Athens Animfest 2021 – Int. Short Competition
Bucheon International Animation Film Festival (BIAF) 2021 – Int. Competition
Int. Animation Festival Wiesbaden 2021
Kasseler Dokfest 2021 – Golden Hercules Competition
LIAF London Int. Animation Festival 2021 – Int. Competition
Lichter Filmfest 2021 – Regional Short Film Competition
CREDIT LIST
Script, Directors – Christian Wittmoser, Zuniel Kim
Production – Raumkapsel Animation
Dramaturgical Consulting – Martin Schmidt, Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Voice Actor – Christoph Steinau
Animatic – Florian Maubach
Animation – Elisabeth Zwimpfer
Compositing – Dennis Stein-Schomburg
Digital Retouching – Johanna Failer, Oleksandra Krasavtzeva
Sound Design – Christian Wittmoser
