Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Cerro negro
João Salaviza | 22' | Portugal | World premiere
Subdued, moving fiction about a young immigrant couple from Brazil in Lisbon. She visits him in prison. -
Charlemagne 3: Pastrami Recordings
Pip Chodorov | 32' | France | None
A cinematic concert by two free spirits: avant-garde filmmaker Pip Chodorov and minimal composer Charlemagne Palestine, both New Yorkers in the diaspo -
Chasing Cats and Cars
Liew Seng Tat | 12' | Malaysia | World premiere
What can a leg do without the man who should be fixed to it? About how you can forget a leg and the leg decides… -
Cherie Is Korean-Thai
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit | 19' | Thailand | International premiere
A matter of casting. A diva-like soap actress is given the role of a female builder, opening her eyes to the lives of others. Very… -
Chi si ferma é perduto
Giacomo Cesari | 25' | Bolivia | World premiere
Beautiful mystical film with an alienating effect about a shoeshine who goes looking for his chopped off foot in the mountains of Bolivia. -
Chiri
Kawase Naomi | 45' | France | None
Intimate video poem of the filmmaker’s foster mother/granny. Perhaps intimate isn’t a strong enough term. A tender type of candidness. -
Choke
Michelle Latimer | 5' | Canada | World premiere
Leaving his First Nations reserve, Jimmy encounters the lost souls of the city. No matter how far you travel, you can’t escape who you are. -
Chorus
Paul Clipson | 7' | Netherlands | European premiere
Three cities by night become one in this layered Super-8 evocation by prolific film maker Paul Clipson. Music by Gregg Kowalsky. -
Chrome
Esther Urlus | 8' | Netherlands | International premiere
Chrome is inspired by the Autochrome process, a colouring technique for black-and-white photographs invented by the Lumière brothers in 1903. -
Cinema Behind Bars
Bahaeldin Ibrahim | 30' | Sudan | International premiere
There are almost no cinemas in Sudan, but they did exist at one point. A cinema owner talks about better days. -
Cinema
Eder Santos | 13' | Brazil | World premiere
In the countryside of Minas Gerais, a province in Brazil, life unfolds at its own tempo. Lyrical video work with nerve-wracking tension.
