Bright Future
Overview of films
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Imagine, the Sky
Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky | 80' | Sierra Leone | World première
Philosophical and observational documentary portrait of the pupils at a School for the Blind in Sierra Leone. An improvised court in the school forms -
Impermanence
Zeng Zeng | 94' | China | World premiere
Fate brings together three fascinating lost souls – a monk with a sack of money, an innkeeper with an uneasy conscience, and a father who’ -
Inferninho
Guto Parente, Pedro Diógenes | 82' | Brazil | World premiere
Inferninho – ‘little hell’ – is the name of a grubby and gender-uncritical bar. The kind where wistful yearning and world-weariness go han -
Inland
Tariq Teguia | 138' | Algeria | None
The patient ones are rewarded in this stern second film by the former photographer Teguia. He focuses on a remote corner of his Algeria plagued… -
Inside the Distance
Elias Grootaers | 101' | Belgium | World premiere
A famous director once said that making a film about a real person is a crime, because you can never do justice to life. So… -
Intruders
Noh Young-Seok | 99' | South Korea | European premiere
As you can guess from the title: a ‘home invasion movie’. A young man from Seoul hopes to finish his screenplay in a remote, snow-topped… -
The Invader
Nicolas Provost | 95' | Belgium | None
Provost has been a regular guest in Rotterdam since his first short film and his feature debut is a hypnotic series of big-city tableaux. An… -
El invierno de los raros
Rodrigo Guerrero | 112' | Argentina | World première
In the cold and damp winter in the heart of the Argentine outback, far from the bustle of modern life, people routinely do what they… -
Involuntary
Ruben Östlund | 98' | Sweden | None
Olle is involuntarily involved in sexually tinted games and Villmar, who was injured at his own party, acts as if nothing is up in order… -
The Iranian Film
Yassine El Idrissi | 67' | Egypt | World premiere
Creative documentary about filmmaking in Morocco, by a filmmaker inspired by Iranian masters. He sets out to get his own film off the ground. On… -
The Island Funeral
Pimpaka Towira | 105' | Thailand | European premiere
A couple of young people drive out of town for a long journey. It could well be a Thai Jules and Jim. On the way,… -
It Is Lit
Viktor Israel Strand | 72' | Sweden | World premiere
The bleak reverse image of an office comedy: the nightmare of the modern employee.