Spectrum
Overview of films
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Wild Field
Mikhail Kalatozishvili | 104' | Russia | None
A young charismatic doctor practices medicine in the middle of the vast Steppe. The lives of his patients, bizarre and tragic characters, are ruled by -
Winter Vacation
Li Hongqi | 91' | China | None
This hilarious minimalist film from poet/writer/filmmaker Li Hongqi won the Golden Leopard. Deadly dry humour, inimitable dialogues and long, sad sile -
Woman on Fire Looks for Water
Woo Ming Jin | 99' | Malaysia | None
Father and son wrestle with love in a small Malaysian fishing village. While father looks up an old lover he should have married years ago,… -
A Woman’s Revenge
Rita Azevedo Gomes | 100' | Portugal | International première
This version of the famous story from Les diaboliques by Barbey d’Aurevilly (1874) features beautiful classical music, costumes and theatrical convent -
Women on the Edge
Kobayashi Masahiro | 101' | Japan | International première
The disaster on 11 March 2011 made a huge impression in Japan. Few filmmakers were capable of coming up with an original response, but Kobayashi… -
Women Without Men
Shirin Neshat | 97' | Austria | None
Visually impressive feature debut by the Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat. She filmed the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, which is banned in Iran, abo -
The World of Kanako
Nakashima Tetsuya | 118' | Japan | None
A wildly swirling and violent film about a down-and-out former policeman who goes looking for Kanako, the daughter he’s lost. This ex-cop is in turn… -
Wuthering Heights
Andrea Arnold | 130' | United Kingdom | None
The well-known and gripping story of the love between Heathcliff and Cathy is more raw and obsessive than ever in this earthy Brontë filming. -
Yemen Travelogue – Days at Shibam and Seiyun
Michael Pilz | 160' | Austria | International premiere
Pilz follows his friend Nikolaus Scholz who is going to record music in Shibam, Yemen, which is famous for its clay ‘skyscrapers’. The result is… -
Yuri’s Day
Kirill Serebrennikov | 130' | Germany | None
According to statistics, every year some thirty thousand people vanish without a trace in Russia. A detective story with a difference: young man vanis -
Zanj Revolution
Tariq Teguia | 136' | Algeria | None
Journalist Battuta uncovers the traces of forgotten uprisings in 9th-century Iraq: the Zanj Revolution. He tries to map out this hidden history in Bei -
Zanj Revolution
136' | Algeria | Check
In the 9th century in what is now Iraq, black slaves known as Zanj rebelled against the Abbasid Caliphate. Algerian journalist Ibn Battuta hears of…