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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future Short

Overzicht van films

  • Schwerelos

    Jannis Lenz | 9' | Austria | None

    Jannis Lenz cuts a parallel through Fatima Moumouni’s performance with runners who cannot be stopped by anyone or anything. He gives their actions som
  • A Screen Test for an Adaptation of Giselle

    Cécile B. Evans | 9' | United Kingdom | International premiere

    The ballet Giselle reimagined as an ecofeminist thriller. Digital footage, VHS, animation and deep AI represent a newly hybridised world.
  • The Sculpture

    Musquiqui Chihying | 28' | China | World premiere

    Aesthetic re-imagining of the complicated relationship triangle between China, Africa and Europe. From African sculptures to The Terminator.
  • The Sea Is History

    Louis Henderson | 28' | France | None

    A poem, a materialist and animist critique of European colonial history. It proposes a new way of bringing the past into the present.
  • The Seaweed in Your Hair

    Daphné Hérétakis | 8' | France | International premiere

    Diary entries from the hollow shell of post-referendum Athens. A city in crisis, yet hopeful, melancholy and happy. The film shows beauty can be found
  • Secret, Lie and Deaths

    Véronique Sapin | 3' | France | European premiere

    A metaphor for the war in Iraq unfolds underwater. The fish watches, powerless, as the star invades its territory, the bottle. (Heure Exquise!)
  • See a Dog, Hear a Dog

    Jesse McLean | 18' | USA | International premiere

    Analytical tragicomedy about humans and their desire to communicate with others, animals and machines. Luckily technology provides ingenious algo
  • Seize Control of the Taj Mahal

    Glenn Belverio | 12' | USA | None

    In this episode of The Brenda and Glennda Show, a group of drag queens go on a trip to Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel Casino.(VDB)
  • Set

    Peter Miller | 10' | Germany | None

    A colossal found-footage sunset comprising 10,000 photographs, presented on 16mm. (Arsenal )
  • Sewing Borders

    Mohamad Hafeda | 25' | Lebanon | World premiere

    Through personal tales of displacement, Beirut residents personalise different maps of the city and region by sewing borders onto them.
  • Shadows

    Noemi Sjöberg | 3' | Spain | European premiere

    Past and future mingle at the harbour in Essaouira as children dive, fishermen work, women hang around, seagulls fly and construction works
  • SHIFT SYMM.two

    Zeno van den Broek | 5' | Netherlands | None

    Sculptural sonic architecture plays on rigorous shifts of compositional symmetry with results that are both hypnotic and evocative. (LIMA)