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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future Short

Overview of films

  • Printed Sunset

    Andrés Baron | 6' | France | None

    The Hollywood trope of a couple gazing at a romantic sunset, deconstructed and transformed into a novel beauty.
  • Private Properties

    Lilli Carré | 3' | USA | World premiere

    A living room shrinks only to expand again in this morphing animation with skilful line work. A forensic study of a private space.
  • A Proposal to project in Scope

    Viktoria Schmid | 8' | Austria | World premiere

    Widescreen film format CinemaScope not as a window on the world, but a sculpture in a subtle interplay of light and shadow, sun and trees.
  • The Protagonists

    Gabi Dao | 8' | Canada | World premiere

    Dao makes a plea for ‘Domestic Cinema’: plants, a metronome, a clumsy animatronic hand and colorful smoke bombs become characters in her film.
  • Psychic

    Tova Mozard | 20' | Sweden | World premiere

    Psychic dives into the commonplace phenomenon of psychics in the Hollywood area. Littered around town, they function as a type of low-budget therapy.
  • PTKHO

    Mahine Rouhi | 7' | France | None

    Escaped from a dream close to the ground, the phenomena of sound poetry retreat farther and farther until they vanish.
  • Pure Difference

    Byron Peters | 22' | Canada | World premiere

    Pure Difference asks its viewers “What is a number?”. It deals with the inclination to rely on data as truth, reassurance, neutrality and security.&nb
  • Les quatre récits d’Alice

    Myriam Jacob-Allard | 5' | Canada | World premiere (festival)

    True story? Myriam Jacob-Allard’s grandmother was carried away by a tornado as a child. The artist tries to find out her own way.
  • Radio at Night

    James Richards | 8' | Germany | None

    An assemblage of distorting and looping audiovisual material, including industrial documentation, medical imaging, news broadcasts, birds and fish.
  • The Radio Wave of Blood Beneath the Dirt Ice and Flowers

    Sandy Ding | 10' | China | None

    An alchemical process of elevation becoming a worship of energy. Dirt, ice, liquids, flowers and the shape of blood are the words in this poem.…
  • Re-rupture

    Hsu Che-yu | 15' | Taiwan | European premiere

    Artist Hsu Che-yu unearths and reanimates forgotten moments in Taipei’s history, one of which includes a guitar solo eight storeys up in the air.
  • Remedies – Rongoã

    Sasha Huber, Petri Saarikko | 6' | Finland | European premiere

    Huber and Saarikko were inspired by the traditions of various healing methods and the Maori culture, but also by the imminent threat of nature. (AV-ar