Bright Future Main Programme
Overview of films
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Parade
Nino Zhvania | 87' | Georgia | European premiere
An adventurous road trip through the Georgian countryside allows three old friends to temporarily forget their age. -
Paradise
Sina Ataeian Dena | 99' | Germany | None
Filming without permission, in his feature debut Ataeian Dena focuses on life as a working woman in Iran. In doing so, he shows how intimidation… -
Phases of Matter
Deniz Tortum | 71' | Turkey | World premiere
Doctors and other workers in a venerable old hospital form a parallel world of their own. A free-spirited impression of life and impermanence. -
El placer es mío
Elisa Miller | 94' | Mexico | International premiere
Miller wrote this delicate love story before shooting her debut (Vete más lejos, Alicia, Tiger Awards Competition 2011). Miles from anywhere, a young -
The Plague at the Karatas Village
86' | Kazakhstan | World premiere
Surrealistic parable denounces political wrongs in Kazakhstan. The new mayor arrives in an isolated village where the inhabitants are dying of the pla -
The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin
Kim Dongryung, Park Kyoungtae | 115' | South Korea | International premiere
Former ‘comfort woman’ at an American base in Korea re-writes her history into something supernatural. Sublime. -
The Proposal
Jill Magid | 83' | USA | None
Strange things happen in the struggle to make the hidden archives of architect Luis Barragán public again. -
The Seven Last Words
Kaveh Nabatian, Ariane Lorrain, Sophie Goyette, Juan Andrés Arango, Sophie Deraspe, Karl Lemieux, Caroline Monnet | 74' | Canada | World premiere
Challenging and varied omnibus film by seven Canadian filmmakers, inspired by Joseph Haydn’s composition around the last words of Jesus. -
Shell and Joint
Hirabayashi Isamu | 154' | Japan | None
Understated humour and philosophy go hand in hand in this Japanese comedy that strings offbeat moments together. -
The Shell Collector
Tsubota Yoshifumi | 87' | Japan | World premiere
The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but -
Slow Machine
Paul Felten, Joe DeNardo | 72' | USA | World premiere
A New York actress has to face the consequences of an encounter in this dark and transgressive indie “screwball thriller”. -
Il solengo
Matteo Zoppis, Alessio Rigo de Righi | 70' | Argentina | None
A ‘solengo’ is a wild pig living a life of solitude and also the nickname of Mario de Marcella, a wild man living in the…