SECTION: Spectrum

Everything, just not what you'd expect. Police officers who arrest you because you're too pessimistic about life? Film Noir in the Serbian lowlands? Grandma as a legendary figure from Estonian mythology who grows restless when she has nothing to do? War veterans as squatters in revolt? Nothing is impossible, as evidenced by the works in this year's Spectrum.
The space between experimental and genre film is where works arise that tell tales with a surprising freshness. Be it off-beat humour or romance with extraterrestrials, borrowings from expressionism or YouTube drama, ironic everyday portraits or grotesque animation, each of these films develops a cinematic language of its own, with its characters unafraid to go against the grain of expectation. Films that stay long in the memory due to their willingness to look at life from new perspectives.