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When Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
93'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
In 1990, Noël Carroll published The Philosophy of Horror Or, Paradoxes of the Heart, an investigation into the nature of cinema and fear – our desire to face the worst nightmares on the big screen. Péter Lichter and Bori Máté adapted the book into several chapters, or movements. Each opens with a Carroll quote on one specific way horror works, followed by brutally treated appropriated footage from classics of the genre that highlight this observation.
It is all very structural and materialist, making it a companion piece to another Cinema Regained film: Stephen Broomer’s Fat Chance, in which materials from gothic noir icon Laird Cregar are treated and used in a similar essayistic fashion. And let’s not forget Kier-La Janisse’s Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror, which in Bright Future embarks on a similar journey towards one heart of darkness, albeit in a more classical documentary mode.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Read more about this programmeWhen Nazi Germany invaded the Benelux, Switzerland faced the question: what if we’re next? Restored 1950s masterpiece.
93'
Switzerland
IFFR 2021
As Japanese monsters like Godzilla have so often saved the world, could they now help us fight Covid-19? Find out here!
88'
Japan
IFFR 2021
Can we find a different feminism in the images of state-sponsored Soviet documentaries about women and their role in socialism? Yes.
20'
Russia
IFFR 2021