Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Nulepsy
Jessica Sarah Rinland | 8' | United Kingdom | International premiere
An elderly man tells us about his life with a very odd disease, nulepsy. What is that naked man doing on that skateboard? -
Number 12
Mosaab Fadul | 9' | Sudan | International premiere
Here the ‘twelfth man’ i.e. the crowd who support the team really is just one man. He’s sort of the crowd’s coach. A good-natured agitator. -
NYX
Claire Hooper | 22' | Germany | None
In the eyes of a boy on a trip, Berlin’s metro is a spirit world ruled by the gods Hypnos (sleep) and Nemesis (revenge). -
O nosso homem
Pedro Costa | 24' | Portugal | None
A heartening return to Pedro Costa’s painterly cinema of hope and hopelessness – we go rabbit hunting with Ventura, thinking of Cape Verde. -
O quam tristis
Maite Abella | 9' | Netherlands | None
A mother and daughter wrestle on a beach – an analogy for their real life conflicts and a manifestation of a perpetual generational gap. -
Odboy & Erordog Suite
Marcus Fjellström | 22' | Germany | World premiere
Multi-talented Marcus Fjellström’s animation about a boy and his dog carrying out various assignments. The soundtrack will be played live by the filmm -
Odete
Clarissa Campolina, Ivo Lopes Araújo, Luiz Pretti | 16' | Brazil | None
Disturbing, hallucinatory portrait of a difficult mother-daughter relationship whose true nature is only revealed after the mother’s death. -
Oh
Anouk De Clercq | 8' | Belgium | International premiere
Enquiry into the allegorical tension between inside and outside, real and imaginary, two- and three-dimensional, analogue and digital, immensity and i -
Oil Blue
Elli Rintala | 25' | Finland | None
To see the sea in its purest form, in tranquil harmony with the technology surrounding it, sailing on it and polluting it. -
Olifantenvoeten
Dan Geesin | 13' | Netherlands | World premiere
Strange things happen to Thomas, a white foreigner in the Netherlands, during his first night shift at a petrol station. Acutely observed and absurdis -
On Broadway
Aryo Danusiri | 34' | Indonesia | World premiere
Recording of an underground Moslem service in New York. Fascinating to the end, when the question is answered. About faith and urban overcrowding.Scre -
On Shaky Ground
Sonja Tarokić | 29' | Croatia | World premiere
Beautifully shot, depressing portrait of a family in Split, whose financial stability is lost during a crisis.