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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • Er Dong

    Yang Jin | 150' | China | European premiere

    Best narrative Chinese indie of the last year and an almost epic tale on modest low-budget canvas, about the maturing of the uprooted protagonist Er…
  • An Errand

    Dominic Bekaert | 83' | Philippines | International premiere

    A stylish, elliptical neo-noir scrutinising the psychosexual underside of a deeply class-riven society.
  • Errors of the Human Body

    Eron Sheean | 101' | Australia | None

    American geneticist Geoff Burton goes to Germany to continue his pioneering research. Slowly but surely he discovers that his medicine has unfortunate
  • Esa sensación

    Juan Cavestany, Pablo Hernando, Julián Génisson | 80' | Spain | World premiere

    Strange, irresistible sensations in three interwoven, often humorous stories about love, faith and human will in a surrealist portrait of Spain. Caves
  • Establishing Eden

    Persijn Broersen, Margit Lukács | 10' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Broersen & Lukács recreated the landscapes of New Zealand as confiscated by the entertainment industry to establish it as a new Land of Eden.
  • L’estate di Giacomo

    Alessandro Comodin | 78' | Belgium | None

    A summer day in Italy. The camera follows the deaf-mute Giacomo and a childhood girlfriend Stefi closely – in the woods, by the river –…
  • La estrella errante

    Alberto Gracia | 67' | Spain | World premiere

    Rober, once the front man of a Galician underground punk band, is the wandering star from the title. In Alberto Gracia’s second film, after his…
  • L’étoile du jour

    Sophie Blondy | 98' | France | None

    A circus is set up by the sea where the wind is cold and the audience scarce. While the shows are entertaining, the tensions among…
  • Europa, East

    Anita Doron | 78' | Hungary | World premiere

    After a young Hungarian woman breaks off a relationship, she realises that her fate is tangled up with the political drama facing her country. Intimat
  • Everybody Dies but Me

    Valeria Gaïa Germanica | 85' | Russia | None

    ‘Coming of age’ drama from the Russian prodigy film maker. In her debut feature, the 24-year-old director tells a story of three friends preparing for
  • Évolution

    Lucile Hadzihalilovic | 81' | Belgium | None

    An island where only mothers live with their little sons. Streets strewn with volcanic debris. The continual sound of the nearby ocean: a mysterious h
  • Ex Press

    Jet Leyco | 90' | Philippines | International premiere

    Made on a modest budget, but with an immodest cinematographic eye. Fiction and fact are mixed as in a dream. A dream about trains and…