Bright Future
Overview of films
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Jonaki
While Jonaki, an eighty-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she
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Life and Nothing More
Nothing more, but certainly nothing less than life. Two lives, to be precise: that of the black teenager Andrew and of his single mother, in a small t
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Of Good Report
Parker Sithole served as a UN soldier in the Congo, is very proud of his teaching diploma and with his wise, peaceful demeanour somewhat resembles Nelson Mandela. He is clearly a man ‘of good report’ when he is hired to teach English at a secondary school. Cracks quickly appear in his blameless facade, however.Parker meets […]
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The Liar’s Dice
After her remarkable short film Are You Listening? (premiered in Rotterdam in 2010), Geetu Mohan Das, an established actress since childhood, makes her feature debut with a refined road movie that tackles the social position of migrant workers in the big city.A young mother from a tribal mountain community on the border between India and […]
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Darkness by Day
Martín Desalvo (Kept and Dreamless, Tiger Awards Competition 2005) is finally back in Rotterdam with his latest – breathtaking and unsettling – work.Virginia and her niece Anabel are staying in an old family home surrounded by beaches, woods and rocks. But the initial sunshine doesn’t last: right from the opening scene, we know something strange […]
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William, el nuevo maestro del judo
Back in the 1950s, Swedish-American singer William Clauson had a worldwide hit with La Bamba. Now he lives in a ramshackle garage in Tijuana, Mexico. In William, the New Judo Master, directors Ricardo Silva and Omar Guzmán show how a Mexican nurse washes his naked old body. “How did we get here?”, a voice-over muses. […]
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Solo, Solitude
When rioting breaks out in Jakarta in July 1996 and Wiji Thukul’s critical poems are chanted in the squares, the Suharto regime accuses the poet of being one of the ringleaders. Thukul is forced to flee his home in Solo, leaving his wife Sipon and their two children behind. He spends a total of eight […]
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Wir sind jung. Wir sind stark.
On 24 August 1992, a group of rioters in Rostock, cheered on by more than 3,000 spectators, set fire to an apartment building where 150 Vietnamese men, women and children lived. The riots were symbolic for the xenophobia in recently reunited Germany.Burhan Qurbani, whose parents fled from Afghanistan to Germany, reconstructs the shocking incident from […]
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Lucía
In his first feature, Niles Atallah sketches a sensitive portrait of Lucía, a young seamstress who lives with her father Luis in an old house in the Chilean capital, Santiago. The film focuses on the relationship with her unemployed, physically degenerating father. It’s important to know it is set in December 2006, in the period […]
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Jean Gentil
After he is dismissed as a French teacher, middle-aged Haitian man Jean Gentil embarks on a desperate quest for work in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. He sets out with a large shopping bag looking for a place in the world and a reason to carry on. During his journey on foot, he passes […]
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Qarantina
In today’s Iraq, a hitman and a family are condemned to each other by circumstance. He looks down from above on the courtyard where the difficult family life largely takes place.The wife deceives her husband with a much younger housemate, but finds out that the two men are barely different. Both vent their frustrations using […]
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Cornelia frente al espejo
She has brought a phial of poison with her. Cornelia has come to her parental home with only one intention: to commit suicide. Why would an attractive young woman like her do such a thing? And who are those strange people in the house? It should be empty, but Cornelia keeps having visitors.You could call […]