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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • 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.