Bright Future

Overview of films

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  Lost Persons Area

  Feature debut about loneliness and alienation is aptly set in a no-man’s-land filled with high-tension masts and mobile homes and follows the life of

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  Double-Take: Leader of the Syrian Revolution Commanding a Charge

  Two similar paintings filmed in detail, one of the French colonial overlord, the other of a Syrian resistance leader. Tough questions about the coloni

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  Closing Film: All India Rank

  Join our festive close to the 52nd edition with the world premiere of our closing film All India Rank.

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  White River

  This exquisite erotic drama finds new intimacies in a city of loneliness.

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  Whispering Mountains

  In Sri Lanka, a youth revolt is being violently silenced.

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  Vildanden

  A gem of discretion full of allusions to the family dramas of Ibsen and Chekhov.

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  Tigru

  A tiger escapes from a Romanian zoo. Can vet Vera catch it before it’s too late?

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  Shimoni

  Shimoni is an affecting meditation on the enduring consequences of unspoken trauma and unhealed wounds.

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  Residency

  A DIY docu-horror about a NYC multi-disciplinary artists’ residency.

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  Represa

  A delicate, metaphorical exploration of the fraught links between land rights and the patriarchal family.

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  A primeira idade

  Allegorical tale about the loss of innocence, featuring a children’s commune and a forbidden forest.

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  Paco

  Absurdist metafictional comedy about the surreal odyssey of a soundman in search of a microphone.

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