Bright Future
Overview of films
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Exhausted
Kim Gok | 128' | South Korea | European premiere
Uncompromising and shocking portrayal of the life of a French pimp and his wife exploited by him as a prostitute, who stay together in an… -
Extraño pero verdadero
Michel Lipkes | 93' | Mexico | World premiere
A refuse truck driven by Mister Clean crisscrosses the streets of Mexico City with Jonathan and Yesi on board, who are in love – and… -
Eyes Wide Open
Haim Tabakman | 91' | France | None
Modest feature debut about an Orthodox Jewish father and husband who becomes embroiled in a passionate affair with another man. He realises just how s -
F*ck for Forest
Michal Marczak | 85' | Poland | International premiere
A very cinematic documentary of a group of young post-hippies who live on the fringes and produce home-made porn in order to raise money to… -
Closing Film: All India Rank
Join our festive close to the 52nd edition with the world premiere of our closing film All India Rank. -
Fado
Jonas Rothlaender | 100' | Germany | International premiere
Love mixed with jealousy is a poisonous combination. It already went wrong once between Fabian and Doro but she decides to give him one more… -
Fahrtwind – Aufzeichnungen einer Reisenden
Bernadette Weigel | 85' | Austria | World premiere
Austria, on the doorstep of the East. But what is out there, in the East? Bernadette Weigel sets out to find out with her 8mm… -
A Fallible Girl
Conrad Clark | 104' | China | World premiere
Young Chinese woman has started a mushroom farm in the desert of the Gulf states. Ambition, love, identity, uprooting and a clash of cultures in… -
Fantail
Curtis Vowell | 83' | New Zealand | International premiere
Blonde Tania is a Maori – she thinks. She works nights at a petrol station so she can search for her father, along with her… -
Faux départ
Yto Barrada | 23' | Morocco | None
False Start observes the elaborate fossil industry in Morocco and is a sly meditation on authenticity and a paean to the creativity of the ‘preparator -
Faya Dayi
Jessica Beshir | 120' | Ethiopia | None
Between repression and labouring on the khat plantations, Ethiopians dream of a better life. Rich impressions in poetic black and white. -
A felicidade das coisas
Thais Fujinaga | 87' | Brazil | World premiere
A forty-year-old mother has to watch her expectations crumble in this subtle, superbly acted Brazilian drama.