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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • 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.