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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • Eldorado

    Bouli Lanners | 85' | Belgium | None

    Belgian submission for 2009 doesn’t stand a chance at the Oscars. In this absurdist-tragic road movie, Yvan (all-round talent Lanners himself) gives t
  • Eles transportan a morte

    Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado | 75' | Spain | None

    Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET
  • Ella und Nell

    Aline Chukwuedo | 78' | Germany | World premiere

    Two women in their forties from Berlin go hiking and camping in the mountains on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic. What starts…
  • Elle pis son char

    Loïc Darses | 28' | Canada | None

    Years later, a woman decides to confront the man who abused her as a child with what he has done to her. Ultimately, her son…
  • Elon Doesn’t Believe in Death

    Ricardo Alves Jr | 75' | Brazil | European premiere

    With compelling intensity, this debut film follows protagonist Elon as he searches for his missing wife in a huge Brazilian city. Viewers are inescapa
  • Emperor Visits the Hell

    Li Luo | 70' | Canada | European premiere

    Satire with a straight face. Free adaptation of chapters from Journey to the West, a novel from the Ming Dynasty moved to contemporary China with…
  • La empresa

    André Siegers | 94' | Germany | World premiere

    Bemused, ironic look at a new Mexican micro-industry: re-enacting illegal border crossings for film and TV crews.
  • En el futuro

    Mauro Andrizzi | 62' | Argentina | None

    Difficult to classify, and that is only one of the attractive sides of this episodic film about the many manifestations of love, sex and film.…
  • End of Animal

    Jo Sung-Hee | 114' | South Korea | None

    The debutant Jo took an almost Lynchian approach with limited means and plenty of surrealist talent to make an apocalyptic road movie. A pregnant teen
  • Engkwentro

    Pepe Diokno | 61' | Philippines | None

    Story of two brothers who fight in a Filipino slum against ubiquitous gangs and government supported death squads, which summarily execute dozens of t
  • Engram of Returning

    Daïchi Saïto | 19' | Canada | International premiere

    Accompanied by an extraordinary improvisational score, Engram of Returning is an epic 35mm metaphysical travelogue that reveals a supernal world which
  • Entrelazado

    Riccardo Giacconi | 37' | Colombia | None

    A tailor, puppeteer, parapsychologist and physicist discuss events deemed impossible.