Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years
Maha Maamoun | 8' | Egypt | None
Night Visitor is a compilation of YouTube clips of citizens breaking into Egyptian sites of power; it documents the recent Egyptian revolution. -
Ninifuni
Tetsuya Mariko | 42' | Japan | None
Short film half a feature film in length, with the appeal of a full-length film. The tragic life of a burglar. Includes girls dancing. -
No hay pan
Macarena Monrós | 20' | Chile | International premiere
Charming Chilean film about a global issue: the demise of local shops caused by corporate chains. -
No One Is Illegal
Ho Yuhang | 25' | Malaysia | World premiere
Indonesia and Malaysia are sometimes at odds with one another. There are even people gunning for war. Humour solves this type of idiocy and led… -
Noelia
15' | Argentina | None
Noelia – a slightly odd girl with a camera – mistakes a series of women for her mother. Mildly disturbing. -
Noise Reduction II: Chinatown
Rahee Punyashloka | 16' | India | World premiere
Cunning image manipulation elicits questions about digital film’s immateriality. -
Nomads
Mohamed Hanafi | 36' | Sudan | International premiere
In Sudan even the best musicians have to moonlight to get by. When one group found employment as mechanics, their work became rhythmical. -
Not a Soul
Jet Leyco | 13' | Philippines | World premiere
A man flees to guerrilla territory. His son is a rebel, but will that save him? Panic in photographs and film. The power of images.… -
Not Waving, But Drowning
Elias Grootaers | 53' | Belgium | International premiere
Indian refugees are arrested by the Belgian harbour police. Together with them, we lose all sense of time and place. -
Nous
Olivier Hems | 11' | France | None
Intriguing, moving fiction about a lonely man who died on his own in his apartment. How life can go completely wrong. -
Now Wait for Last Year
Rachel Reupke | 10' | China | None
Future music and dreamed reality in the architecture of the explosively growing city of Beijing. -
Nuclear Waste
Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy | 23' | Ukraine | None
A couple live and work in Chernobyl. Every day has a fixed ritual that is simultaneously sad and hopeful. Beautifully shot, restrained and touching.