Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Eight-year-old Nele is lonely and starts to take matters into her own hands: Fed up with the agonizing, silent boredom, she rambles through the countryside in desperate search of a change in her life.

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In the shade won the following awards:

- 2008 Short Film Festival - Prädikatwertvoll - BEST FILM
- 2007 Amirani Student Int. Film Festival, Georgia - BEST SOUND AWARD
- 2007 Slow Film Festival, Hungary - BEST SHORT FICTION AWARD
- 2007 Asolo Int. Art Film Festival, Italy - BEST SCHOOL OF CINEMA PRODUCTION AWARD
- 2007 Next Reel Film Festival, Singapore - CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARD
- 2007 Fano Int. Film Festival - 2. PRIZE VIDEO SECTION
- 2007 Mediaschool 2007 - 14th Int. Film & TV Schools' Festival, Lodz - SPECIAL JURY'S MENTION
- 2007 24. Video/Film Tage - HANS W. GEIßENDÖRFER NACHWUCHSPREIS

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Original title: Platz im Schatten
Director: Sophie Narr
Screenplay: Sophie Narr
Year: 2007