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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Spectrum Shorts

Overview of films

  • Immortal, Suspended

    Deborah Stratman | 6' | USA | International premiere

    A video essay on levitation, UFOs and ancient Asian dreams. One long shot filmed at a Smithsonian Museum of Art warehouse.
  • Imperceptihole

    Robert Todd, Lori Felker | 15' | USA | World premiere

    Science non-fiction fairy tale made as an experimental correspondence between two lyrical 16mm filmmakers: Robert Todd and Lori Felker.
  • The Impossibility of Knowing

    12' | Singapore | European premiere

  • Imprint

    Leah Decter | 7' | Canada | None

    A winter storm insists its presence on an expansive flat plain, where a figure performs a ritual in two parts.
  • L’imprudence

    Katell Quillévéré | 14' | France | None

    What starts as an uneasy conversation between two adolescents on a holiday ends as a power game in the woods.
  • In a Lonely Place

    Chris Westendorp, Britt Kootstra, Hans Diemel | 3' | Netherlands | None

    Original short compiled from googled dialogues. A still from In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950) is the starting point for a love story.
  • In a Musty, Misty Thicket

    13' | Finland | World premiere

  • In Free Fall

    Hito Steyerl | 32' | Austria | None

    Steyerl tells the story of the current global economic crisis by means of an aeroplane junkyard in the Californian desert and all sorts of crashes.
  • In ictu oculi

    Greta Alfaro | 10' | Spain | None

    A peaceful landscape, with a perfectly laid table covered in delicious food and drink. The ideal occasion for a fabulous meal…
  • In Search of Hip-Hop

    Issraa El-Kogali | 11' | Sudan | European premiere

    You don’t expect to find hip-hop in Sudan. Everything God prohibited really is banned there. When you do find some, it is, at the very…
  • In Space

    Visra Vichit Vadakan | 16' | Thailand | World premiere

    A small, delicate story about a young Thai monk and his grandparents in New York. They need each other.
  • In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails

    Fern Silva, Fern Silva | 13' | Brazil | International premiere

    Eclectic hotpot shot in an overheated Brazil. People are oppressed, baby turtles swim out to sea and our culture decays.