LINES

AWARDS

First Prize (Official Competition)
PUNTO y RAYA Abstract Art in Motion Festival 2025

SPECIAL MENTIONS

Honorable Mention (Best Animated Short)
Cinéfagos Festival de CineArte en la Frontera 2025

PREMIERES

PRESS ECHO

Testkammer.com – Film Review

Testkammer.com – Director Interview

Annecy Festival – Video Interview

Jury Text – PUNTO y RAYA 2025

“For the outstanding way in which the simplicity of form is combined with a dynamic and intense rhythm of confrontation, as well as the perfectly balanced overall structure of crescendo and release of tension, where sound and image coexist in an effective symbiosis, the jury decided to give the first prize to the film Lines by Martin Schmidt.”

Excerpt from Press & Jury Texts – FBW Germany

“…In LINES, filmmaker Martin Schmidt creates a fascinating world in just four minutes that consists solely of abstract lines, yet tells a complex story. It almost seems as if the individual lines, some thin, some thick, become personalities that fight each other…”

FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT 2024

FILM FESTIVAL CIRCUIT 2025

London Short Film Festival 2025

Under 5 minutes, United Kingdom, 19.-28.01.25

Clermont-Ferrand Le Court

Short Film Market Picks, France – 3.-6.2.25

Two Short Nights Film Festival

Short Film, United Kingdom – 6.-7.2.25

ANIMED Mediterranean Animation Film Festival

Experimental Animation, Spain – 7.3.25

REGARD – Saguenay Int. Short Film Festival

Official Competition, Canada – 19.-23.3.25

MONSTRA – Lisbon Animation Festival

Short Films Competition, Portugal – 20.-30.3.25

Int. Short Film Week Regensburg

German Competition, Germany – 20.-30.3.25

Ann Arbor Film Festival

Animation Competition, USA – 25.-30.3.25

AmDocs American Documentary and Animation Film Festival

Animated Work, Palm Springs, USA – 27.-31.3.25

Athens ANIMFEST

Experimental, Greece – 27.-30.3.25

European Film Festival of Lille

Experimental Competition, France – 28.3.-2.4.25

Go Short Int. Short Film Festival Nijmegen

Weird Animation, Netherlands – 1.-6.4.25

Detroit Int. Festival of Animation

USA – 5.4.25

Fronteira Int. Film Festival

Int. Animation Short Film Competition, Brazil – 23.-27.4.25

ITFS Int. Festival of Animation Stuttgart

Int. Competition, Germany – 6.-11.5.25

Anifilm Int. Festival of Animated Films

Int. Competition, Abstract and Non-narrative Animation, Czech Republic – 6.-11.5.25

Kinofilm Manchester Short Film Festival

Animation Shorts, UK – 12.-18.5.25

Sunrise Film Festival

Official Selection, UK – 22.-25.5.25

Leiden Shorts 2025

Exhibition Screening, Netherlands, 30.5.-3.6.25

Pune Short Film Festival

Best Experimental Film Competition, India – 2.6.25

deadCenter Film Festival

Experimental Shorts, USA – 11.-15.6.25

Int. Animation Festival Fest Anča

Contemporary Abstract and Non-narrative Animation, Slovakia – 24.-29.6.25

Insomnia Int. Animation Film Festival

Int. Competition, Russia – 16.-21.7.25

LIFE AFTER OIL International Film Festival

Animation, Italy – 17.-21.7.25

South Italy International Film Festival

Best Animated Short Competition, Italy – 18.7.25

Anim sur le lac

Int. Competition, Canada – 8.-10.8.25

Toronto Arthouse Film Festival

Experimental Film Competition, Canada – 6.-9.10.25

24FRAME Future Film Fest

Short Film Competition, Italy – 17.-19.10.25

Filmfestival Suikerzoet Schiedam

Netherlands – 26.11.-30.11.25

PUNTO y RAYA Abstract Art in Motion

Official Competition, Bulgaria – 3.-7.12.25

TIAF Tbilisi 8th Int. Animation Festival

Experimental Competition, Georgia – 2025