Bright Future
Overview of films
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Jean Gentil
84' | Dominican Republic | World premiere
After he is dismissed as a French teacher, middle-aged Haitian man Jean Gentil embarks on a desperate quest for work in Santo Domingo in the… -
Jermal
Ravi Bharwani, Rayya Makarim | 90' | Germany | European premiere
A children’s boating adventure, but then with the real see, real fish and real boys. Anyone working on a fishing platform (known as a jermal)… -
Un jeune poète
Damien Manivel | 71' | France | None
Rémi is young and handsome and has already found his vocation: he will be a poet. Seeing Paul Valéry as his role-model, he finds inspiration… -
Jonaki
95' | France | World premiere
While Jonaki, an eighty-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world… -
Journey to the West
Kong Dashan | 111' | China | None
Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET -
The Joy
Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande | 100' | Brazil | None
Luiza (16) has had enough of stories about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin is shot; a few weeks later she… -
La jubilada
Jairo Boisier Olave | 83' | Chile | International première
Appealing film about how ordinary people relate to each other in unusual situations. Fabiola (played by Tony Manero actress Paola Lattus) returns to h -
Julien
Gaël Lépingle | 80' | France | None
Teenagers playing knights. They dream of a future far from their native village of Beauce. A loving and poetic glimpse of the young people and… -
Junun
Paul Thomas Anderson | 54' | USA | None
Junun is Paul Thomas Anderson’s debut documentary film, immersing us in a joyful meeting of musical minds brought together by composer Ben Tzur at Jod -
Kaili Blues
Bi Gan | 110' | China | None
One of the past year’s most striking, dreamy and poetic debuts is difficult to describe in retrospect. Situated in the subtropical south-west of China -
Karma
Prasanna Jayakody | 88' | Sri Lanka | European première
One of the most talented directors of South Asia returns to Rotterdam with a provoking contemplation on notions of pain, passion, sexual desire, guilt -
Karparaa
Vignesh Kumulai | 71' | India | World premiere
Austere, richly atmospheric rural portrait of the cruelties of youth and the frailties of age.