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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Spectrum

Overview of films

  • 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
  • Rotterdam aan den slag

    Herman van der Horst | 12' | Netherlands | -

  • 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…
  • Ruhr

    James Benning | 120' | Germany | None

    James Benning’s worrying and also reassuring vision of the Ruhr Valley, shot in six fascinating takes of a tunnel, a forest, a factory, a mosque,…
  • 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…