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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • Hello, Mr. Tree!

    Han Jie | 88' | China | None

    Han Jie (Tiger Award winner with Walk on the Wild Side, 2005) constructs a slightly absurd social comedy around the eccentric protagonist Mr Tree (Wan
  • Het Hemelse Leven op Aarde

    Jesse de Jong | 70' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Film maker Jesse de Jong is not happy. After an edifying journey in the jungle, he decides to move from the city to a commune…
  • The Here After

    Magnus von Horn | 101' | France | None

    A young man returns to his father’s home after spending some time in jail. The community has certainly not forgiven him his crimes, however. This…
  • Los herederos

    Eugenio Polgovsky | 90' | Mexico | None

    For months, Polgovsky’s camera hovered hypnotically above the rough, inaccessible Mexican countryside. He wanted to share his fury and admiratio
  • Hereditary Language

    Lisa Oppenheim | 10' | USA | None

    A search for and 3D-reconstruction of Methuselah, the oldest living tree on Earth. Its exact location has not been publicly disclosed.
  • The High Life

    Zhao Dayong | 96' | China | None

    This first fiction film by a prize-winning documentary maker is a very sharp and realistic, but also dreamy and surreal urban portrait from today’s Ch
  • Hinter diesen Bergen

    Michael Krummenacher | 76' | Germany | International première

    School’s out for summer in a small, mountain-encircled town somewhere in Switzerland. But Milena has failed to graduate and her best friend Heidi woul
  • Hiroshima

    Pablo Stoll Ward | 79' | Argentina | None

    And equally hyper-realistic and surrealist slacker film is the first solo project by Pablo Stoll after the death of his companion and co-director Juan
  • Une histoire d’amour

    Hélène Fillières | 80' | France | International premiere

    He is rich. She is beautiful. She becomes his mistress. He gives her a revolver, she gives him a latex suit. He offers a million…
  • Historia de pastores

    Jaime Puertas Castillo | 80' | Spain | World premiere

    A moving and humorous homage to Granada’s rural tradition, with surprising touches of the fantastique.
  • Historias extraordinarias

    Mariano Llinás | 245' | Argentina | None

    The absolute secret tip of the last film year is this more-than-four-hour adventurous trilogy situated on the pampas. As the title indicates, this is
  • HISTÓRIAS que só existem quando lembradas

    Julia Murat | 98' | Argentina | None

    Beautifully photographed fable about a ghost village where no one has died since 1976, where old people are stuck in their memories – until the…