Bright Future
Overview of films
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Bollywood Hero
Diederik van Rooijen | 85' | Netherlands | World premiere
A young actor (Egbert-Jan Weeber) goes to Mumbai for a role as a colonial in a Bollywood costume film. While he records video messages for… -
Bonded Parallels
Hovhannes Galstyan | 89' | Armenia | European premiere
This Armenian film tells of forbidden love and its consequences. The two ‘bonded parallel’ stories of the film provide a close look at two different… -
Boogie
Radu Muntean | 98' | Romania | None
A ‘generation film’ about 30-somethings in Romania who deal with totally different issues than those of their parents. The businessman Bogdan (alias B -
Borrowed Time
Choy Ji | 93' | China | European premiere
A young woman journeys to Hong Kong in search of the father who abandoned her. -
Boy Eating the Bird’s Food
Ektoras Lygizos | 80' | Greece | None
Yorgos is 22 and lives in Athens. He dœsn’t have a job, money, a girlfriend or food. His most important possessions are his canary and… -
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Wang Jing, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Kaz Cai | 87' | Singapore | European première
Three tasty shorts. The lunch is from a female Tiger winner, but the breakfast and dinner are also top-notch. However, there is an aftertaste, because -
A Brief Excursion
Igor Bezinović | 75' | Croatia | World premiere
A group of Croatian friends trek through a barren landscape in searing heat, following Roko – half schlemiel, half Messiah. Narrator Stola provi -
Burning Birds
Sanjeewa Pushpakumara | 84' | France | European premiere
Eight kids, no husband, no money: how can a woman alone in rural Sri Lanka keep her head above water in a situation like this?… -
Buzzard
Joel Potrykus | 97' | USA | None
Marty has a temp job in an office and does some work on the side with small-scale fraud. When his activities misfire, a colleague’s cellar… -
By the Time It Gets Dark
Anocha Suwichakornpong | 105' | France | None
Powerful second feature by Anocha Suwichakornpong, who won a Tiger in 2010 with Mundane History, starts with the Thammasat University massacre of 1976 -
Cactus Flower
Hala Elkoussy | 104' | Egypt | World premiere
Struggling actress Aida and bourgeois lady Samiha suddenly find themselves on the streets of a tense Cairo. Smooth-operating street urchin Yassin lend -
Café noir
Jung Sung-il | 197' | South Korea | None
Tragic-romantic stream of consciousness in which former film critic Chung Sung-Il does not hide his admiration for literature and cinematographic exam