Bright Future
Overview of films
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Letters from Panduranga
Nguyen Trinh Thi | 35' | Vietnam | None
In Vietnamese artist Thi Nguyen’s tranquil essay film, a letter exchange unveils the changing uses of space in various provinces and the different way -
The Levelling
Hope Dickson Leach | 83' | United Kingdom | None
When her brother commits suicide, Clover returns to the farm where she grew up. Why did he decide to end it all? Director Hope Dickson… -
Het leven en de vreemde verrassende avonturen van Robinson Crusoe die acht en twintig jaar helemaal alleen op een bewoond eiland leefde en zei dat het van hem was
Benjamin Deboosere | 75' | Belgium | World premiere
An incisive, singular decolonisation of the Robinson Crusoe myth, in which a goat will capture your heart. -
The Liar’s Dice
98' | India | World premiere
After her remarkable short film Are You Listening? (premiered in Rotterdam in 2010), Geetu Mohan Das, an established actress since childhood, makes her feature debut… -
The Liar’s Dice
Geethu Mohan Das | 98' | India | European premiere
A headstrong, beautiful woman from a picturesque village at Indian-Tibetan border sets out on a hazardous journey with her small daughter and a goat t -
Life and Nothing More
Antonio Méndez Esparza | 113' | Spain | None
Nothing more, but certainly nothing less than life. Two lives, to be precise: that of the black teenager Andrew and of his single mother, in… -
Limbo
Anna Sofie Hartmann | 80' | Germany | None
A small town on the outskirts of Denmark. Two women – a teenage girl and her schoolteacher – build a strange connection that transforms both… -
Las lindas
Melisa Liebenthal | 77' | Argentina | World premiere
Melisa, filmmaker and character in The Pretty Ones is young, intelligent and funny, but also critical and ironic. She interviews her friends, reconstr -
A Little Closer
Matthew Petock | 72' | USA | World premiere
Intimate family drama about a single mother and her two sons. They are all wrestling in their own way with questions about sexuality and love,… -
Little Crushes
Aleksandra Gowin, Ireneusz Grzyb | 78' | Poland | World premiere
Two girls clean places after somebody dies there. Sometimes they sell the belongings of the dead at a flea market. When they meet an odd… -
Live from Dhaka
91' | Bangladesh | European premiere
A disabled man loses his grip on life in Dhaka. Family, love, money – nothing is working. So he tries to find a way to… -
Looking for Cherry Blossoms
Joe Odagiri | 64' | Japan | World premiere
Joe Odagiri is a phenomenon in Japan. He’s everywhere as an actor on TV or the silver screen. And what did this celebrity do in…