Bright Future: VPRO Tiger Awards Competition
Overview of films
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À l’ouest de Pluton
Henry Bernadet, Myriam Verreault | 95' | Canada | International premiere
True to life, occasionally documentary looking film portrays 24 hours in the lives of 12 teenagers in the suburbs of Québec, Canada. The langua -
Be Calm and Count to Seven
Ramtin Lavafipour | 89' | Iran | European premiere
Feature début film from Iran tells about people on the country’s southern islands who make their living smuggling a variety of goods, on the run… -
Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
Edwin | 77' | Indonesia | European premiere
Original feature by a young Indonesian film maker who wonders how come he hardly feels Chinese, while he is of Chinese blood. Of course it’s… -
Breathless
Yang Ikjune | 130' | South Korea | International premiere
Extremely hard gangster-and-his-mol film is borne by masterful acting by the debutant director Yang Ik-June. He plays a frustrated extortionist who pu -
The Dark Harbour
Naito Takatsugu | 101' | Japan | International premiere
You’re looking for a nice, sensitive yet not common film with a special style? Something to be surprised that and to talk about? Here it… -
Dogging: A Love Story
Simon Ellis | 103' | United Kingdom | World premiere
Self-assured feature début set in north-eastern England following several characters looking for love, intimacy and sex in public places. In a fresh, -
Floating in Memory
Peng Tao | 107' | China | World premiere
Grim drama about an unavoidable fate is a kind of Chinese Dardennes Brothers film. The young man with the wrong connections shows an interest in… -
The Hungry Ghosts
Michael Imperioli | 105' | USA | World premiere
The directing début by Imperioli, who acted in The Sopranos, is filled with hungry ghosts. According to Buddhists, these are the dead who cannot bid… -
No puedo vivir sin ti
Leon Dai | 85' | Taiwan | International premiere
Father lives as a tramp by the waterside. He does dangerous jobs. It’s no life for a child, you would say, but he lives together… -
Norteado
94' | Mexico | Check world premiere
After several documentaries, Rigoberto Perezcano makes his debut as a fiction director with an appealing feature filled with documentary detail and psychological insight. The protagonist… -
Schottentor
Caspar Pfaundler | 123' | Austria | World premiere
A free thinking portrayal of the desire to be oneself and not to be swallowed up in anonymous mediocrity that sketches the daydreams of several… -
Sois sage
Juliette Garcias | 90' | Denmark | European premiere
A girl on the verge of maturity tells her family and friends in the French countryside so many lies about her hidden relationships that they…