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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future Short

Overzicht van films

  • Billy

    Zachary Epcar | 8' | USA | European premiere

    Re-enactment of a scene from a famous American primetime soap becomes a psychodrama full of petit bourgeois fears in tasteless interiors.
  • Birds in the Earth

    Marja Helander | 11' | Finland | None

    Examination of the deeper questions concerning ownership of Sámi land through dance performances by two young ballet students.
  • Birth of the Alseides

    Erin Buelow | 7' | Canada | International premiere

    A flock of nymphs herald the arrival of spring and explore their hazy surroundings through dance.
  • Black and White Film

    Robert Huot | 9' | USA | None

    A woman reveals her naked body and gradually paints it. When she has become invisible, the film fades to total darkness. (Light Cone)
  • Bled Out – Ausgeblutet

    Pauline Curnier Jardin | 16' | Germany | World premiere (festival)

    A celebration of post-menopausal femininity. Emboldened by the re-emergence of their menstrual flow, these women reclaim their erotic power.
  • The Blood of Stars

    Raqs Media Collective | 13' | India | World premiere (festival)

    A woman and a girl discuss the omnipresence of iron that connects our bodies to the earth and the cosmos.
  • Blue Sky from Pain

    Stéphanos Mangriotis, Hyacinthe Pavlides | 15' | France | International premiere

    A man has been locked up without knowing why. Where is he? And for how long? The camera studies the empty spaces whilst he talks.
  • Boardgame, or From the Ranks to Field Marshal

    Wendy Morris | 8' | Belgium | International premiere

    Recruits of the Union of South Africa board ships to the beat of S.E.K. Mqhayi’s sarcasm-laden poem The Dark Army. (Argos)
  • Bowl Me Over

    Lissa Mitchell | 5' | New Zealand | None

    Bowl Me Over is an animated road movie painted directly onto film that travels the highways carved through the unpeopled wilderness of
  • Bridge over Troubled Water

    Jaakko Pallasvuo, Jari Kallio, Antti Jussila | 28' | Finland | None

    This film re-imagines 1960s musical duo Simon & Garfunkel as time-travelling protagonists and follows them as they navigate past, present and
  • Bugs & Beasts Before the Law

    Bambitchell | 32' | Canada | International premiere

    This essayistic film explores the history and legacy of the ‘animal trials’ that took place in medieval Europe.
  • The Burglary

    Anna Selander, Malin Skjöld | 6' | Sweden | None

    Vacationing with her family in Spain, a woman returns to her rented summer house, only to find it burgled.