Spectrum Shorts
Overview of films
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Shutter
Alexi Manis | 8' | Canada | None
Shutter tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse. -
Sidewalk
Karl Kels | 30' | Germany | None
In Kels’ world, plenty of stories are scattered around, but he leaves them lying there for the spectator. -
Signs of Stillness Out of Meaningless Things
Sandro Aguilar | 28' | Portugal | None
No one does darkness better. This is a confoundingly claustrophobic, sensual and mysterious film from the startlingly talented Sandro Aguilar. -
Silêncio de dois sons
Rita Figueiredo | 14' | Portugal | International premiere
Mysterious, dreamy fiction about a mother who tells a secret story to her daughter, while two babies are asleep. The house is a character as… -
Silent Things
Rob Brown | 12' | United Kingdom | International premiere
Exploration of the tormented relationship between love and friendship, passion and jealousy, set in the turbulent landscape of the English coast. -
Silent
Rezan Yeşilbaş | 14' | Turkey | None
Subtle prison drama set in Kurdistan in 1984, which won a Golden Palm. A woman visits her husband. A few words are enough. -
Silk Ties
Jim Jennings | 11' | USA | None
Silk Ties was made mostly in the Garment District between 34th and 42nd streets on the west side from a plumbing truck I was driving… -
Sink
Kirsten Tan | 10' | Singapore | European premiere
A sink in the sea symbolises the different stages of life. Sink, in stylised black-and-white, prompts reflection. -
Six Easy Pieces
Reynold Reynolds | 10' | Germany | World premiere
Animation about film as the seventh art, and the ultimate synthesis of art and technology. Based on a book by physicist Richard Feynman. -
Six Strands
Chaitanya Tamhane | 16' | India | European premiere
Shot on breathtaking locations at the tea plantations in Darjeeling, this oneiric tale contemplates the amazingly uplifting experience of drinking tea -
Six
Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti | 28' | France | None
Someone’s missing from ‘La Jetée’, Tokyo’s famously compact, Golden Gai, cinephile bar. -
A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)
Jumana Manna | 8' | Norway | International premiere
An exceptional photograph is the basis for a re-enactment of the last Palestinian masked ball in Jerusalem, held in 1942.