Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Our Voices Are Mute
S.J. Ramir | 4' | New Zealand | None
Second part of a New Zealand video diptych that portrays a slow motion journey through a grainy metaphysical landscape. -
Our Wonderful Nature
Tomer Eshed | 5' | Germany | None
Amazing animation about shrews that fight as if they were acting in The Matrix. -
Out of Thin Air
Samreen Farooqui, Shabani Hassanwalia | 50' | India | None
Intriguing and funny documentary on a thriving film industry in beautiful Ladakh. Buddhist monks, taxi drivers and shopkeepers make their own masala b -
Ouverture
Christopher Becks | 5' | Canada | European premiere
Camera improvisation in Cinemascope transforms the meagre light in an old Normandy shed into an abstract kinetic light show. -
Over het naar gezichten in de wolken speuren
Sander Blom | 50' | Netherlands | World premiere
Where do you have the greatest chance of seeing the absurd: in Lourdes, in Loch Ness or in Rotterdam? A film that poses questions and… -
Overseas
Wichanon Somumjarn, Anocha Suwichakornpong | 16' | Thailand | None
Hard work at smelly Thai fish processing facilities as experienced by a young immigrant from Myanmar. A victim, we’ll soon discover. -
Packing
Behrooz Karamizade | 4' | Germany | World premiere
Genuine and authentic fiction, moving in its simplicity. Two boys, a watermelon and the market. -
Padre
Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso | 11' | Argentina | Dutch Premiere
Claustrophobic stop-motion animation about an officer’s daughter who can’t say goodbye to Argentina’s ousted military dictatorship. -
The Painters
Nicolas Provost | 5' | Belgium | World premiere
See drip painters at work, blobs flying around. A film that appears to be modelled out of digital clay, on the borderline between beauty and… -
The Painting Sellers
Juho Kuosmanen | 59' | Finland | None
Winner of the student competition in Cannes is a delicate family drama about an exceptional friendship in icy Finland. -
Palácios de Pena
Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt | 55' | Portugal | None
‘Big baby sleep over at my new palace!!! Bring boots and your black hoodies, and pls pls pls pls don’t tell Ana about this, K?’ -
Papillon d’amour
Nicolas Provost | 4' | Belgium | None
Manipulated fragments from Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashomon (1950) create a new powerful and evocative scene.