Bright Future Main Programme
Overview of films
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Domains
Kusano Natsuka | 150' | Japan | World premiere
Drifting apart as adult women, childhood friends Aki and Nodoka’s story is told through line-readings, whose structures reveal the complications of fr -
Doozy
Richard Squires | 70' | United Kingdom | International premiere
The animated story of Paul Lynde, the flamboyant voice actor behind many Hanna-Barbera cartoon villains from the 1960s and 1970s. -
The Dork, the Girl and the Douchebag
Okuda Yosuke | 141' | Japan | International premiere
If you thought that the genre of Yakuza gangster films could no longer be improved or changed, here’s the raw proof to the contrary. The… -
La dosis
Martín Kraut | 93' | Argentina | World premiere
Argentine hospital thriller poses the tricky question: How to unmask a murderer if you yourself are a killer? -
Dreissig
Simona Kostova | 120' | Germany | World premiere
Twenty-four hours in the lives of a group of colourful Berliners in their late twenties/early thirties, oscillating between a carefree existence and e -
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Gu Xiaogang | 150' | China | None
The ups and downs of the Yu Family in the Chinese provincial town of Fuyang. Panoramic impression of radical changes, told with calm, reserved empathy -
En medio del laberinto
Salomón Pérez | 65' | Peru | European premiere
Dreamy coming-of-age film about shy, Peruvian skater Renzo as he tries to win Zoe’s heart. -
End of Season
Elmar Imanov | 92' | Azerbaijan | World premiere
An Azerbaijani family’s father, mother and son all desire freedom; or have they in fact become alienated from one another? -
Enquanto estamos aqui
Clarissa Campolina, Luiz Pretti | 75' | Brazil | World premiere
Poetic, fictionalised film diary about globalisation and migration, brought back to the essence of human micro-politics: desire, fear and hope. -
Esa sensación
Juan Cavestany, Pablo Hernando, Julián Génisson | 80' | Spain | World premiere
Strange, irresistible sensations in three interwoven, often humorous stories about love, faith and human will in a surrealist portrait of Spain. Caves -
Évolution
Lucile Hadzihalilovic | 81' | Belgium | None
An island where only mothers live with their little sons. Streets strewn with volcanic debris. The continual sound of the nearby ocean: a mysterious h -
Fabiana
Bru Laboissière da Silva | 89' | Brazil | International premiere
As she approaches retirement, a transgender truck driver looks back on her life on the road, with a different sweetheart in every town.