Bright Future Short

An investigation into a plane crash becomes the entry point to a web of seemingly unrelated events that appear to be deeply entangled.

Impressions of a city divided: no use trying to keep afloat in the tangle of images stitched together into a stereoscopic whole.

Examination of the deeper questions concerning ownership of Sámi land through dance performances by two young ballet students.

A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos.

Vacationing with her family in Spain, a woman returns to her rented summer house, only to find it burgled.

Cavalcade deals with basic elements of the motion picture: movement and standstill, as a turning wheel interacts with strobe light synchronized with two 35mm cameras.

A film painted with the light of a sun-drenched spot in Sierras de Córdoba where history manifests itself as an apparition.

Staged objects, ephemera, slide projections and spoken word: the debris of a decade long research project on sound poet Henri Chopin.

People flee in terror before the force, or remain riveted to their seat, in the clutches of fear.

At Claude Chabrol’s request, Patrice Énard arrived on the set of Dr Popal to observe and deconstruct this 'different' form of cinema.

Giving voice to the anxiety and rage of Brexit Britain, artist Callum Hill uses fire to weld together real and fictional stories.

Based upon children’s experiences of Virgin Mary apparitions, this film deals with the feeling and responsibility of being chosen.

With his camera movements and unusual cropping of the image, Jan Dibbets moulds the flat landscape into mountains.

A series on the movement of walking barefoot through the ocean waves, produced using several hundred photographs.

Reflecting on the legacy of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, this film contemplates how memory might or might not become history.

Minimalist expanded cinema performance with two modified 16mm projectors. An exploration of film emulsion without image, sound or narrative.

During a first practice session in the Khoe language Khoekhoegowab, commonly used words and phrases linger in the landscape.

A virtual replica of Białowieża primeval forest. Iranian singer Yazdani performs his remake of Nature Boy, a song that originated there.

Empty streets, a suburb. A man recounts about the first time, desire, dizziness of the ignition, forgetfulness, complete blackout.

In search of unrealised paradises, a communist and a capitalist break into summer homes to build a new future.

In the second episode of Kübelkind, an afterbirth leads an independent life – until child welfare comes along.

In the seventh episode of Stöckl and Reitz’ film series, Dumpster Kid fools around with the fruits of the field.

An eerie and surprising reflection on cinema, voice and embodiment by way of stones, skin and digitally generated imagery.

Gulyabani is a restless spirit. With the aid of a clairvoyant, her tumultuous past is recounted through her diary and letters.

In times of anxiety and despair, Gibson delivers a visual poem brimming with life and love, pondering the future of a world in flux.

From ‘Facebook overshare’ through ‘giving your movie a shitty review’ to ‘missing your own funeral’: everyone has regrets.

A quest on performance, educational voice-over, analogue filmmaking, ASCII, language, ethics of ethnography and narrative storytelling under a metaphor of instructions to farm.

Shot with a thermal camera, Interbeing is based on documentation of social structures and their approaches to trust and fear.

Based on archival images from Yugoslav cinema, this film shows the fragmented experience of the woman and her broken body.

The spirit of contemporary Athens is captured through dance, performance and the writings of the Greek anarchist poet Katerina Gogou.

Visually attractive essay on trompe-l’oeil, deception, privileges, seductions and false freedoms. How to live in the post-privacy age?

A shifting in the light of the lot, where parked cars become containers for a collective experience of estrangement.

Inspired by early cinema, Kidanu explores the construction of images and space using analogue film technology. Diorama with echoes of Addis Ababa.

Nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking between life and death.

The best way to spend the last minute before the apocalypse.

Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.

Filmed in the Paigah tombs in India,Midnight Orange tells of unresolved crescendos, thwarted anticipations and unmanaged escalations through architecture gone awry.

A Super-8 time-lapse documentation of the First Story's walking tour by Jaene Castrillon: a disabled, mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler.

The objects found in someone’s pockets – photos, pieces of paper – tell the story of the owner’s life and hopes.

This dynamic film is charged with the idea of community – among humans and non-humans – in Thailand’s contemporary moment of instability.

A stroller is subjected to a crash test on the Odessa steps, resulting in a mad,Eisenstein-esque ride.

Heather Phillipson uses close-up pillow talk and casual camerawork to engage a dog − as an involuntary participant − in intimate digressions.

Ocean trash on the beach can be surprisingly captivating. Human amorality, irresponsibility and ocean waves collaborate to create these objects.

Oneheadword Protection uses stop-motion animation techniques, irrespective of whether objects, cardboard cut-outs or human bodies are used.

Abstract patterns made on 16mm film are used as source material for finding similar figurative images by an online search engine to create visual poetry.

A letter from W.E.B. Du Bois is the starting point for this colourful film about inequality in Brazilian society.

Diamonds, forever an object of desire, are also the hardest substance on the planet, carving winding lines into our retina.

The pyramid used to be a mountain. Wild, single-frame, free jazz film experience with rocks, stones and rampant plants that stick to your retina.

This absurd documentary about (political) desire consists of collages and drawings with voice-over comments from a telephone speaker.

The Hollywood trope of a couple gazing at a romantic sunset, deconstructed and transformed into a novel beauty.

Dao makes a plea for 'Domestic Cinema': plants, a metronome, a clumsy animatronic hand and colorful smoke bombs become characters in her film.

Psychic dives into the commonplace phenomenon of psychics in the Hollywood area. Littered around town, they function as a type of low-budget therapy.

Escaped from a dream close to the ground, the phenomena of sound poetry retreat farther and farther until they vanish.

Inspired by Bergman’s The Virgin Spring, a woman gets rid of her frustration by hitting and breaking something.

A cinematographic reflection on a historic train journey seen from the people’s perspective, with photographs, home movies and witness accounts.

As our perception of speed grows faster and visual information is taken over by powerful computers, a strange spectacle arises.

Hypnotising audio tracks dance to the soundtrack of Canapa’s previous film about Jérôme Noetinger, Metamkine’s sound artist. Cinema for your ears!

In this found footage film with its distinctive soundtrack the filmmaker studies the colonial perspective, returning authorship to the dancers.

Takala roams the corridors of a trendy co-working space, awkwardly touching people as part of a workers' well-being programme.

Thanks to a special printing technique, the film images look hand-drawn. Inspired by Late Medieval sketches of falling horses.

In a moment of national reflection and anxiety, artists Jane and Louise Wilson contemplate the uncertain future of Britain.

The spectacle of fog appearing in Oslo, the Azores, Beijing and Newfoundland, beautifully captured in various film formats.

Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed.

This Action Lies is about the limits of observation; about staring very hard at something while listening to something else.

A visual poem linked with Guadalupian colonial heritage, weaving forgotten voices and stories together and bringing them back to light.

Part science fiction, part homage to film history, this short fuses images of the moon with King Mohammed’s face.

Meticulously edited, frame by frame, The Hare Krishna Tree comes to life, more than 40 years after the images were shot.

Spiritual stories of a Mexican farm are conjured up through 3D animation. An attempt to reveal the ghosts of a lost paradise.

An exchange of letters between the filmmaker and a paedophile evokes powerful emotions. But she wants to understand his motives.

At a Berlin studio, researcher Abu Hamdan recorded stories about court cases that revolved around sounds, heard or experienced through walls.

A re-examination of John-Boy’s near-death experience at the sawmill. A homespun midnight deconstruction of an entire era of television mannerisms.

Many people in the Kurdish city of Cizre are trapped between life and death. belit sağ conjures up apparitions in her images.

Exceptional animation in bright neon colours, full of suppressed sexual desire, fear and perversion, presented with disarming openness and humour. See also Wong Ping's Fables 1 in the programme collection Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 1.

Semi-autobiographical, experimental narrative film tells the story of a woman growing up battling mental and emotional disability, but with a powerful drive for greatness.

On an uninhabited Indonesian island where the nobleman Tupaia is believed to be buried, Bridget Reweti telescopes then and now.