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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future Short

Overzicht van films

  • Das Wesen der Verwandlung

    Monika Funke-Stern, Hanno Baethe | 8' | Germany | None

    The frog and the princess. Shall he change or shall he remain as he is? What does the princess desire? (imai)
  • Western Wild…or how I found Wanderlust and met Old Shatterhand

    Martha Colburn | 9' | Netherlands | World premiere

    The highlight so far in the flourishing career of animator Martha Colburn is a very personal work about her relationship with the German author Karl…
  • What Happens to the Mountain

    Christin Turner | 12' | USA | World premiere

    Contemplation on what happens to consciousness while facing death. Soaked in psychedelic colours, our perceptions blur as we’re taken on a long-
  • what remains

    belit sağ | 7' | Netherlands | World premiere (festival)

    Many people in the Kurdish city of Cizre are trapped between life and death. belit sağ conjures up apparitions in her images.
  • What the Sun Has Seen

    Agnieszka Polska | 7' | Germany | None

    An animated child-faced sun with melancholy eyes jokes about environmental issues and comments on the tumultuous times in which the world finds itself
  • where i don’t meet you

    Charlotte Clermont | 4' | Canada | None

    Shot on Super 8 and hand processed, the film’s materiality is treated not only as a medium but also as a subject. (Vidéographe)
  • Where Is My Body?

    Julian Pedraza | 8' | Colombia | None

    This audiovisual remix tries to unveil the dogma intrinsic to the tv melodrama that the world of entertainment imposes on them. (Collectif Jeune Cin&e
  • Where Shapes Come From

    Semiconductor | 11' | United Kingdom | World premiere

    A scientist goes about his daily work in mineral preparatory labs, cutting up large meteorites. Fantastic shapes begin to emerge, showing how science
  • Whipping Zombie

    Yuri Ancarani | 27' | Italy | World premiere

    In a Haitian village there is a dance, the whipping zombie ritual. Men whip and fight until they die, to be reborn in the infinite…
  • Who’s the Daddy

    Wong Ping | 9' | Hong Kong | None

    Exceptional animation in bright neon colours, full of suppressed sexual desire, fear and perversion, presented with disarming openness and humour.&nbs
  • Wind Music

    Elina Brotherus | 2' | Finland | None

    After Scores are blown away from stands by wind from a strong fan in the wings as the orchestra tries to hold them. (AV-arkki)
  • Words Words Words Are Decorative Sounds

    Giovanni Giaretta | 8' | Italy | World premiere

    Artist’s recollection of learning English. Words, memories and images merge with artificial landscapes, as natural and unsettling as a dream.