Spectrum
Overview of films
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Rio Belongs to Us
Ricardo Pretti | 75' | Brazil | World premiere
After receiving a strange picture postcard, Marina knows there’s nothing else to it but to return to Rio de Janeiro, the beautiful city that here… -
River People
He Jianjun | 88' | China | European premiere
He Jianjun, maker of the Sixth Generation classic Postman, is convincing with a beautiful, almost documentary portrait of two young fishermen on the Y -
Roman Diary
Michael Pilz | 124' | Austria | World premiere
Pilz’s description of his film doesn’t even mention Rome or the hill of Gianicolo, which overlooks the Trastevere district. The film should provide a -
Room and a Half
Andrey Khrzhanovsky | 130' | Russia | World premiere
A unique journey to the earlier life of Nobel Prize winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky and the USSR, the country of his youth. The film,… -
Rose and Jasmine
Michael Pilz | 106' | Austria | World premiere
A cinematographic poem based on the director’s journeys in Iran from 2006-7. By patiently and gently observing both people and place, Michael Pilz col -
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Rua Aperana 52
80' | Brazil | World première
Bressane, a leading name in progressive Brazilian cinema for the past forty years, was honoured with a retrospective at the IFFR in 2000. He has… -
Russian Lessons
Andrei Nekrasov, Olga Konskaya | 100' | Norway | European premiere
Personal investigation into the war between Russia and Georgia in 2008 by film makers Andrei Nekrasov and Olga Konskaya. They filmed at the front line -
The Russian Novel
Shin Yeon-Shick | 140' | South Korea | International premiere
With the same loving self-mockery in the face of romantic bombasts as in his low-budget jewel A Great Actor, Shin here introduces, meandering and exha -
Sailor of Hearts
Shaji N. Karun | 130' | India | European premiere
Three young women, from different backgrounds and religions, different mind sets and life aspirations, are claiming a dead body as their husband’s. Th -
Schattenwelt
Connie Walther | 91' | Germany | None
Confrontation between the daughter of a victim of an attack by the German RAF and the alleged culprit who is released two decades later. The…