Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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H(i)J
Guillaume Cailleau | 6' | Germany | European premiere
Hand-processed 16mm film, extremely rich in contrast, visualises solitary silence, a figure at sea, change and conception. -
Habitable
Gustavo Bastidas | 10' | Venezuela | World premiere
A lonely, elderly man takes radical steps to be closer to the love of his life. -
Habitat
Robert Todd | 10' | USA | None
A cinematic look at the various worlds the director inhabits. When parts are collected and composed. -
Hall of Mirrors
Warren Sonbert | 7' | USA | None
Throughout Hall of Mirrors, Sonbert underscores the materiality of film and the self-referential aspect of the film making enterprise. -
Hand Soap
Oyama Kei | 16' | Japan | International premiere
Family with growing adolescent son portrayed in a beautiful animation style. Calm and yet sultry. -
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Hands
Bob Kohn | 3' | France | European premiere
What hands do and the places they go become painfully apparent in this short, but convincing edit of human actions. -
Hanger
Charlotte Lim Lay Kuen | 13' | Malaysia | European premiere
Tiger-nominated director of My Daughter returns with a gem. The daughter seems to live alone now and keeps dreaming, but what is that boy doing… -
Le haricot bleu
Pierre Villemin, Jean Villemin | 3' | France | World premiere
‘One summer I picked a pod of blue bean in the botanical garden of Geneva’ (from a poem by Jean Villemin, co-director). -
Hazentijd
Jellie Dekker | 58' | Netherlands | None
Engaging portrait of Han Bennink, the celebrated Dutch jazz drummer. He finds rhythm, images and art everywhere. -
the Healers
Tim Leyendekker | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere
The gay party scene presented in a triptych: the thrills of the night, the location, the date. With a surgeon’s ambition, director Leyendekker dissects a… -
Heaven for Insanity
Dria Soetomo | 32' | Indonesia | International premiere
The man is reported by his neighbours to a beastly madhouse. They also come to fetch him. There’s no way out.
