Bright Future Main Programme
Overview of films
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Nafi’s Father
Mamadou Dia | 108' | Senegal | None
Tokara wants to marry the beautiful Nafi, his cousin, bringing their fathers into a bitter conflict. -
No Data Plan
Miko Revereza | 70' | USA | World premiere
Living in the USA illegally for over 20 years, Miko Revereza takes the train from Los Angeles to New York. -
Nocturne
Viktor van der Valk | 80' | Belgium | World premiere
Lyrical film noir about two producers, an investor, a deadline, a woman, a gun and a hopelessly romantic boy. -
A noite amarela
Ramon Porto Mota | 102' | Brazil | World premiere
Disturbing visions plague a group of Brazilian teens on a dark island in this spiritual slasher – a metaphor for their lost youth. -
Non c’è nessuna Dark Side (atto uno 2007-2019)
Erik Negro | 215' | Italy | International premiere
Unstable fragments as a liminal phase in a historical, personal process of solidification. Holding up a mirror to our times and committed love of film -
NUTS!
Penny Lane | 79' | USA | International premiere
A businessman who owes his fame to the balls of goats? John Brinkley takes testicles from billy goats to his male clients as a new… -
Of Shadows
Yi Cui | 80' | Canada | World premiere
The changes in China affect everyone. Hypnotically, yet also modestly, Of Shadows shows the creative world of shadow theatre and players whose way of -
Operation Avalanche
Matt Johnson | 94' | Canada | International premiere
Humorous mockumentary in which two dopey CIA agents in 1967 investigate a Russian mole at NASA, which at the time was heavily involved in the… -
Out of Love
Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito | 101' | Netherlands | World premiere
The boundary between passionate love and destructive obsession proves to be very thin for Varya and Nikolai, a couple whose fiercely blossoming relati -
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Brian Follmer | 131' | Mexico | World premiere
An intimate semi-documentary with a satirical but genuine interest in the problems of millennials in a disintegrating group of friends from Los Angele -
Pacífico
72' | Mexico | World premiere
The building site of a house (designed by architect Ando Tadao) by the beach in Mexico is the setting for this loving, crystal-clear film focussing… -
The Painter and the Thief
Benjamin Ree | 102' | Norway | European premiere
The painter of two stolen canvasses recognises a kindred spirit in the thief. An improbable friendship unfolds.