Bright Future Main Programme
Overview of films
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Tikkun
Avishai Sivan | 120' | Israel | None
Haim-Aron is a dedicated ultraorthodox student. When he has a heart attack, his father miraculously revives him. But Haim-Aron is no longer the same, -
Tlamess
Ala Eddine Slim | 120' | France | None
This hypnotic, largely silent diptych brings together an army deserter and a rich man’s pregnant wife in the Tunisian woods. -
Toponimia
Jonathan Perel | 82' | Argentina | None
Perel focuses his disciplined artist’s eye on four villages in Tucumán (in the far north-west of Argentina), which was founded in the 1970s by the… -
The Tree House
Trương Minh Quý | 84' | China | None
The reflections of a filmmaker on Mars, prompted by the stories told by an isolated people in Vietnam. -
Der Unschuldige
Simon Jaquemet | 114' | Germany | None
Tense, enchanting Swiss drama about religion, science, delusion and reality. Is radical Christian Ruth possessed by a demon, or not? -
Las vacas con gafas
Alex Santiago Pérez | 93' | Puerto Rico | European premiere
A subtle drama about a solitary, eccentric professor who’s going blind, and he has to come to terms with this terrifying fact. -
VHYes
Jack Henry Robbins | 72' | USA | International premiere
Life seemed so straightforward in the 1980s. A 12-year old’s hilarious, bizarre home video provides a different perspective. -
A volta ao mundo quando tinhas 30 anos
Aya Koretzky | 110' | Portugal | International premiere
Loving, captivating portrait of the director’s father based on the latter’s 1970 round-the-world journey. -
The Waiting Room
Igor Drljaca | 92' | Canada | None
Jasmin, a successful actor, has to flee from Bosnia in the 1990s and ends up in Canada. In a series of dryly humorous moments, this… -
Walking in Darkness
Tang Tang | 102' | China | World premiere
A man’s quest for his runaway son, presented in a stylish narrative in which confusion slowly makes way for realisation. -
We Are From There
Wissam Tanios | 82' | France | World premiere
Two Syrian brothers flee to Europe: a sober carpenter and a sensitive musician, each with a different idea of what ‘home’ is. -
Winter After Winter
Xing Jian | 110' | China | World premiere
A Chinese patriarch is eager to have a grandchild, but that isn’t easy in Manchuria suffering under Japanese occupation.