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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future Short

Overzicht van films

  • Night Garden

    Kyath Battie | 6' | Canada | None

    Personal short film uses a series of telephone conversations with the filmmaker’s mother as she tries to reconcile facing cancer for a fourth ti
  • Nixon Visions

    Hans Esselius, Kjartan Slettemark | 4' | Sweden | None

    The new, coffee-loving Nixon is marketed in a satirical balancing act. “A study of mental health in which the face is the mirror of the…
  • No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5

    Korakrit Arunanondchai, Alex Gvojic | 31' | Thailand | World premiere (festival)

    This dynamic film is charged with the idea of community – among humans and non-humans – in Thailand’s contemporary moment of instabi
  • Ocean II Ocean

    Cyprien Gaillard | 11' | USA | None

    From subway cars dumped in the ocean to fossils in marble slabs, eternally spiralling into each other to the tune of steel drums.
  • Odessa Crash Test (Notes on Film 09)

    Norbert Pfaffenbichler | 6' | Austria | None

    A stroller is subjected to a crash test on the Odessa steps, resulting in a mad,Eisenstein-esque ride.
  • of Violence

    Heather Phillipson | 4' | United Kingdom | International premiere

    Heather Phillipson uses close-up pillow talk and casual camerawork to engage a dog − as an involuntary participant − in intimate digressio
  • On the Border

    Yoshiki Nishimura | 7' | Japan | European premiere

    Ocean trash on the beach can be surprisingly captivating. Human amorality, irresponsibility and ocean waves collaborate to create these objects.
  • On the Origin of Fear

    Bayu Prihantoro Filemon | 12' | Indonesia | None

    Deep-seated traumas of Indonesia are rooted out when a man dubs the roles of both perpetrator and victim over a docudrama on the 1965 attempted…
  • Once Removed

    Lawrence Abu Hamdan | 29' | Lebanon | World premiere (festival)

    Bassel Abi Chahine, a self-described reincarnation of a dead soldier from the Lebanese civil war, recalls past details with remarkable precision.
  • Oneheadword Protection

    Igor Buharov, Ivan Buharov | 7' | Hungary | None

    Oneheadword Protection uses stop-motion animation techniques, irrespective of whether objects, cardboard cut-outs or human bodies are used.
  • Only the Beloved Keeps Our Secrets

    Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme | 10' | Palestine | None

    Images of ritual and dance collected online overlap to obscure one another in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s video, which contemplates the
  • Palace of Colour

    24' | India | World premiere