Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Le bout du fil
François Raffenaud | 13' | France | International premiere
Will this Parisian actress land one last, big role? Intriguing portrait of an aging star. -
El boxeador
Juan Ignacio Pollio | 10' | Argentina | None
Subdued and touching story about the impotence of a simple boxing coach who can no longer relate to his wife. Competed at Cannes in 2009.Screened… -
Boxing in the Philippine Islands
Raya Martin | 7' | Philippines | None
Actually a type of shadowboxing. The film looks old, but the maker shot it using a simple pinhole camera. Screened before Buenas noches, España. -
Braconnière
Martin Tronquart | 40' | France | International premiere
Suzanne is a liberated young woman who lives alone on the edge of the village. Not everyone is happy with the way she leads her… -
Bradley Manning Had Secrets
Adam Butcher | 6' | United Kingdom | International premiere
Intimate and provocative animation of the US soldier accused of leaking thousands of government secrets, exploring his loneliness and uncertainty abou -
Brasilia/Chandigarh
Louidgi Beltrame | 27' | France | None
A film that links those two world-famous, modernist utopias from the last century together in a constructive dialogue. -
The Breaking Water/The Breathing Bridge
Rutger Zuydervelt | 20' | Netherlands | -
The detached images of Jim Jennings enter into a dialogue as they are presented alongside the layered microscopic ‘field recordings’ of Machinefabriek -
A Breath from the Bottom
Chan Ching-lin | 42' | Taiwan | International premiere
Why did his son have to join the cops? Father, a fanatical old activist, distrusts all government. Black-and-white and therefore perhaps very real. -
Bridges and Balloons
Anne Klotzek, Christopher Nagel | 4' | Germany | International premiere
Animation about a girl losing the thread that leads her through life. Now she needs to make an important decision. -
A Brief History of Collapses
Mariam Ghani | 22' | Afghanistan | None
Chasing a ghost of the past that can neither be revived nor reconciled, while tracking a possible future that can never be fully realised in… -
Bring Me the Head of Henri Chrétien!
Billy Roisz, dieb13 | 9' | Austria | International premiere
There’s no sentiment as bold as the one in a duel shot in cinemascope, no emotional drop as high as the one in a vertical… -
Brothers of Metal
Arno Coenen | 13' | Netherlands | None
Heavy metal witnessed its heyday in the 1980s as a controversial and loud music genre, with a dedicated fan base. Metal knows many subgenres…