Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Mak
Géraldine Zosso | 18' | Switzerland | International premiere
Heart-wrenching, well-acted fiction about a Moldavian teenager and her baby. Her mother makes her give the child up. Cuts to the bone. -
Make It New John
Duncan Campbell | 55' | United Kingdom | International premiere
A new history of complications featuring the DeLorean dream car run aground amidst inclement Irish weather and the 70s oil crisis. -
Malaria and Mosquitoes
Pimpaka Towira | 24' | Thailand | International premiere
A Thai river along the border with Myanmar. A man was killed in his boat two years ago. Two women keep the boat as proof.… -
Malody
Phillip Barker | 12' | Canada | None
Chaos in a diner built in a rolling wheel when the gravitational pull changes and sets off a chain of events. Strange and hallucinating fiction. -
Mama
Jean Bosco Nshimiyimana | 19' | Rwanda | World premiere
This can happen to a woman in Rwanda: she has to tolerate her husband’s killer in her immediate surroundings. Reconciliation is too much to ask. -
Mama,l’chaim!
Elkan Spiller | 5' | Belgium | None
Caim (61) and his mother (95) share their memories and laughs. The Holocaust is never far away.Screened before Europa, East. -
Mamori
Karl Lemieux | 8' | Canada | International premiere
Strong presence of the Amazon rainforest in sound and vision, made with field recordings by Francisco Lopez and ‘direct film’ by Karl Lemieux. -
Manhã de Santo António
João Pedro Rodrigues | 25' | France | None
João Pedro Rodrigues celebrates the patron saint, architecture and people of Lisbon, bewitched with longing, loss and desire. -
Mapping Journey
Bouchra Khalili | 4' | France | -
While he describes his personal experiences, an emigrant draws on a map of the world the route he has followed. In this way, the sober… -
Le marais sauvage
Martin Drouot | 25' | France | World premiere
Tender ties between a man and a child; a brief illusion. True friendship makes reality momentarily disappear. -
Marcel Broodthaers °1924
Jef Cornelis | 6' | Belgium | None
Sober documentary shows the diverse works by the conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers and the ideas on which they were founded. -
March 14 2009, Hong Kong Coliseum
Hsu Chia-wei | 7' | Taiwan | None
In an empty concert hall, star singer Fish Leong shares her deeper thoughts on the pan-Asian tour, in which every show follows a fixed pattern.