Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Focal Point
Alireza Khatami, Ali Seiffouri | 12' | Iran | European premiere
Old photographer gets himself in trouble with his magic camera. His photographs reveal the true partner, but can this magic be influenced?Screened bef -
The Folded Edges Across the Rim
John Forget | 5' | Canada | World premiere
Waitress Marlene’s ordinary day changes into a mystical experience thanks to leopard print spandex, moving colours and a musical mantra. -
For the Love of Drowning
Nazim Esa | 10' | Malaysia | International premiere
The makers say it’s about the complexity of communication, but they don’t have any problem with that themselves. They communist well and wittily. -
Förår
John Skoog | 18' | Sweden | World premiere
Memories of a news event from several years ago, turned into an associative story. How did the 11-year-old girl get hold of the rifle? -
A Forest Within a Forest
AUJIK | 5' | Japan | None
Guide Nashi leads the viewer through mysterious woods. What sort of creatures live here? Living organisms or robots? -
Forever for a While
Sara Rajaei | 8' | Netherlands | None
A young woman enters the living room, a little later looks in the mirror as an old woman and sits down in the chair as… -
Forgotten Column
Zhou Xiao-hu | 6' | China | International premiere
An exceptionally ingenious Chinese clay animation, in which a mighty symbol is hollowed out. -
Fort Buchanan
Benjamin Crotty | 13' | France | None
Homosexuality, a parent-foster child relationship, friendships and empowerment are the ingredients for a seductively camp drama in the wintery woods. -
Four Boys, White Whiskey and Grilled Mouse
Wichanon Somumjarn | 10' | Thailand | International premiere
Are sneaky activities fun when there is nobody to check up on you? Four teenagers use a small hut in the middle of a rice… -
The Foxhole Manifesto
Nick Fox-Gieg | 4' | Canada | European premiere
Bad-ass, joyful romp of an animation on bumper stickers and a God who eats crisps, plus a runaway performance from poet Jeffrey McDaniel. A small… -
A Free Moment
Nir Evron | 5' | Israel | None
Tell el-Full, location for King Hussein’s summer palace, which before 1967 was in Jordan but now is part of Israel, seen through an ingenious camera… -
Freude
Thomas Draschan | 3' | Austria | World premiere
Hyperactive pop collage film that preaches peace at a subliminal level.