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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • Fortune Teller

    Xu Tong | 157' | China | European premiere

    Unpolished jewel from China’s blossoming documentary scene: not far from Beijing lives old Li, a dwarf-like charismatic soothsayer, who is married to
  • Foudre

    Manuela Morgaine | 230' | France | World premiere

    Lightning appears and disappears, strikes and tetanises in a fraction of a second: in this world and that of the immortals. Since the beginning of…
  • Four Ways to Die in My Hometown

    Chai Chunya | 90' | China | European premiere

    The effect of people moving away from the Chinese countryside, portrayed in poetic, occasionally stunning and often magical scenes. A student returns
  • Foxes

    Mira Fornay | 83' | Czech Republic | None

    Tensions rise between two Slovakian sisters who have emigrated to Ireland. Something happened in the past that has to explain their lies and jealousy.
  • Française

    Souad El-Bouhati | 84' | France | None

    Beautifully honourable drama about a Moroccan girl in France who is forced to go back to Morocco when she is 10. However, she feels French…
  • Frankenstein’s Army

    Richard Raaphorst | 86' | Czech Republic | World premiere

    Nazi zombie horror In which blood and limbs fly cheerfully. Inspired by the diary of the illustrious Dr Victor Frankenstein, a small group of Nazis…
  • Die Frau hinter der Wand

    Grzegorz Muskala | 89' | Germany | International premiere

    The unsettling, eerie atmosphere is perhaps the most powerful character in the film. Martin is a student and needs shelter urgently. He finds an apart
  • Freda

    Gessica Généus | 93' | France | None

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

    Gessica Généus | 93' | France | None

    To run or to stay? In student Freda’s Port-au-Prince, protests and violence escalate. A female perspective on Haitian society.
  • Frozen River

    Courtney Hunt | 97' | USA | None

    Sundance prize winner. The prize was above all earned by Melissa Leo. She plays a single mother marked by life will smuggles illegal immigrants throug
  • The Future Ahead

    Amalia Ulman | 16' | USA | None

    Ulman uses online images of Justin Bieber to deal with the confusion surrounding Bieber’s gender. Was he perhaps a woman at one point?
  • Future Lasts Forever

    Özcan Alper | 108' | France | European première

    Sumru travels to Diyarbakir to do research for her thesis. Listening to the evidence of Kurdish victims of the sanguinary oppression, she is confronte