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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • L for Leisure

    Lev Kalman, Whitney Horn | 69' | France | World premiere

    Comedy about students on holiday in the early 1990s. First feature by Kalman and Horn after IFFR hit Blondes in the Jungle (2010). Friends from…
  • La Playa D.C.

    Juan Andrés Arango | 90' | Colombia | None

    Male hairstyles also count – above all in La Playa, a district of Bogotá where many immigrants from the West Coast live. Young Tomas is…
  • Labour of Love

    Aditya Vikram Sengupta | 84' | India | None

    A husband and wife, gently in love and in the prime of life, hardly see each other due to their working schedules in an extremely…
  • Las lágrimas

    Pablo Delgado Sánchez | 64' | Mexico | International premiere

    Gripping graduation film follows the self-destructive teenager Fernando and his kid brother Gabriel on a camping trip in the woods. Back home they are
  • Land of Desire – Happy Is the New Black

    Donna Verheijden | 18' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Land of Desire questions today’s increasingly consumerist society and our desire-driven media landscape. To what behaviour does desire lead us? Seeing
  • The Land of the Enlightened

    Pieter-Jan De Pue | 85' | Belgium | European premiere

    An Afghan child knows that a landmine can also be your friend. If you dig it out carefully, you can get money for it. Fiction…
  • The Land

    He Jia | 74' | China | International premiere

    A gem. Without judgement or drama, but with all the more feeling for every daily detail and composition, the debutant He Jia shows a remote…
  • The Last Buffalo Hunt

    Lee Anne Schmitt | 76' | USA | World premiere

    For five years, Schmitt and Lynch followed the buffalo hunt in the American West. Their fascinating portrait of a disappearing world contrasts unspoil
  • Last Conversation

    Noud Heerkens | 75' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Saying that Johanna ter Steege shines in this feature debut by short film maker Noud Heerkens is an understatement. In one spectacular long take (shot
  • The Last Family

    Jan P. Matuszyński | 123' | Poland | None

    An unconventional portrait of an unconventional artist. The dystopian paintings of Polish cult hero Zdzisław Beksiński are constantly in the backgroun
  • Last Man in Dhaka Central

    Naeem Mohaiemen | 82' | Bangladesh | None

    Third part of the series The Young Man Was relates the struggle of Dutch journalist and Peter Custers, who was imprisoned in Dhaka in 1975.…
  • The Last of Us

    Ala Eddine Slim | 95' | Lebanon | None

    N. travels from Sub-Saharan Africa through the desert and then by boat to Europe, only to end up stranded in a mysterious forest and be…