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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future Short

Overzicht van films

  • The Machine

    Marieke van der Lippe | 16' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Goethe’s poem Wanderer’s Nightsong is systematically analysed. Poetry is, however, more powerful than any analysis or restructuring.
  • Making a Diagonal with Music

    Aura Satz | 10' | United Kingdom | World premiere

    Short film about Argentine electro-acoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra, a pioneer of musique concrète. Featuring creaking doors and more.
  • Mal-Fekata

    Hasabie Kidanu | 6' | USA | World premiere (festival)

    Inspired by early cinema, Kidanu explores the construction of images and space using analogue film technology. Diorama with echoes of Addis Ababa.
  • Man Walking

    Charley Case | 3' | Belgium | None

    Nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking between life and death.
  • Mariam Jafri vs. Maryam Jafri

    Maryam Jafri | 12' | Denmark | World premiere (festival)

    A humorous tale of the journey a ready-made sculpture takes down the rabbit hole of stock photo copyright and image ownership.
  • The Masked Monkeys

    Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | 30' | Germany | International premiere

    Satirising ethnographic documentary, OJOBOCA documents the training of masked monkeys whose performances take us to where shadows, dreams and death me
  • Matata

    Petna Ndaliko Katondolo | 37' | Congo, Democratic Republic | World premiere (festival)

    A photo shoot takes an unexpected turn, spiralling into dance-inspired dreamscapes. Matata flirts with liberation, away from the colonial gaze.
  • Matkormano

    Fabien Rennet, Julien Louvet | 32' | France | None

    In 1968, ‘the mage’ Matkormano gets accused of being responsible for his sons’ disappearance. He proclaimed his innocence.
  • Meltdown

    Hildegarde Duane | 1' | USA | None

    The best way to spend the last minute before the apocalypse.
  • The Mesh and the Circle

    Mariana Caló, Francisco Queimadela | 35' | Italy | None

    Fragmentary film examines empirical thinking and the tactile; full of brilliant visualisations and analogies. A fascinating labyrinth of a film.
  • The Mess

    Peter Burr | 14' | USA | World premiere

    Computer-animated video taking us to the threshold of a utopian labyrinth. A solitary female figure has to clean up the mess it inadvertently spawned.
  • Meteorito

    Mauricio Sáenz | 15' | Mexico | European premiere

    Mysterious ‘bird men’ seek the place the sun rises. In rituals they balance between life and death.