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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Spectrum Shorts

Overview of films

  • Remisequenz

    Xenia Lesniewski | 3' | Germany | None

    Brief, associative animation conjures up a colourful world of reality and fiction, recognisability and abstraction.
  • Remote

    Jesse McLean | 12' | USA | World premiere

    In the collage video Remote, dream logic invokes a presence that drifts through physical and temporal barriers.
  • Rendering Rome

    Sefer Memisoglu | 6' | Netherlands | World premiere

    A nocturnal dream landscape is the beautiful backdrop for this atmospheric tale.
  • A Resident of the City

    Adham El Sherif | 15' | Egypt | European premiere

    Powerful documentary about big city life as a stray dog. Survival instinct and territorialism; dogs are just like humans. Screened before The Three Di
  • Resonance

    Karen Johannesen | 3' | USA | European premiere

    Resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate with larger amplitudes at some frequencies than at others. These are known as the system’s resonant…
  • Restauratiewagens

    Arianne Olthaar | 15' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Empty interiors of dining cars, shot on Super-8, rock through the landscape, like a rolling time capsule.
  • Restless Leg Saga

    Shana Moulton | 7' | USA | International premiere

    A joyously askew multicoloured, multi-faceted excavation of mass mediated pop culture. Pure pleasure.
  • The Return

    Nathaniel Dorsky | 27' | USA | None

    Dorsky – honoured with a retrospective at IFFR 2011 – has incorporated images of Rotterdam in his new film. ‘Like a memory already gone, this…
  • RGB XYZ

    David OReilly | 12' | Germany | None

    ‘Somewhere between Kubrick, Kaufman and Ketamine.’ (Xeni Jardin)
  • Rien d’extraordinaire

    Rose Lowder | 2' | France | None

    Intimate, poetic film diary in Rose Lowder’s signature style. She ran the film through the camera multiple times whilst recording a mountain village.
  • The Right to Not Be Tortured

    Douglas Gordon | 10' | United Kingdom | World premiere

    Beautifully shot portrait of an animal in distress, made to call attention to the 60th birthday of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • The Right to Privacy

    Alice Nelson | 10' | United Kingdom | World premiere

    A droll yet dead serious animated description of what is and isn’t allowed in the privacy of your own home.