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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future Short

Overview of films

  • The Strange But Unknown Star

    Henri Plaat | 8' | Netherlands | None

    A ten-year-old girl dressed as a 1920s star gives a performance while Marlene Dietrich is bombarded with egg, chocolate powder and currants. (Eye)
  • The Stroker

    Pilvi Takala | 15' | Finland | World premiere

    Takala roams the corridors of a trendy co-working space, awkwardly touching people as part of a workers’ well-being programme.
  • studie voor een veldslag

    Esther Urlus | 7' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Thanks to a special printing technique, the film images look hand-drawn. Inspired by Late Medieval sketches of falling horses.
  • Subtítulos: saber sin estudiar

    Manuel Saiz | 6' | Germany | World premiere

    Funny and intimate film in which a sequence of handmade subtitles translates, confirms, or denies what the only character of the film says while he’s
  • Sunstone

    Louis Henderson, Filipa César | 35' | France | World premiere

    Critical research film in which optical technologies of military and colonial design evoke associations between seeing and understanding, light projec
  • Superinca & The Galactic Green with visuals by eerieear

    Captivating, danceable cumbia and potent rock make for a party. Live coding will translate the music into colourful (semi-)abstract images.
  • Suspended Island

    Jane Wilson, Louise Wilson | 16' | United Kingdom | World premiere

    In a moment of national reflection and anxiety, artists Jane and Louise Wilson contemplate the uncertain future of Britain.
  • Swinguerra

    Bárbara Wagner, Benjamin de Burca | 22' | Brazil | None

    Tensions rise between rival groups of non-binary dancers in this swirling submission to the Venice Biennale.
  • TÅKE

    Inger Lise Hansen | 15' | Norway | None

    The spectacle of fog appearing in Oslo, the Azores, Beijing and Newfoundland, beautifully captured in various film formats.
  • The Ten Commandments of Love

    Cordelia Swann | 4' | United Kingdom | None

    Two people in an impassioned embrace on an ocean pier as Harvey and the Moonglows start singing ‘Ten Commandments Of Love’. (LUX)
  • Terril

    Bronte Stahl | 13' | Belgium | World premiere

    Painstaking analysis of the peculiar geography of Charleroi, forever marked by the 1956 mining disaster and the ecological rebirth that followed.
  • TESTFILM #1

    Telcosystems | 14' | Croatia | World premiere

    Telcosystems attempt to hack into digital film projection to open it to chaos and creativity. Will they find the cracks in the system?