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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • Masked Monkey – The Evolution of Darwin’s Theory

    Ismail Fahmi Lubish | 110' | Indonesia | World premiere

    Up-close portrait of exuberant, controversial monkey shows in the slums of Jakarta. And if the apes are treated roughly, their trainers hardly get any
  • The Masked Monkeys

    Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | 30' | Germany | International premiere

    Satirising ethnographic documentary, OJOBOCA documents the training of masked monkeys whose performances take us to where shadows, dreams and death me
  • Matei Child Miner

    Alexandra Gulea | 80' | France | World premiere

    Matei lives with his grandfather in Romania. His parents have gone to work in Italy. After arguing with his grandfather, he leaves. A poignant, beauti
  • Matière grise

    Kivu Ruhorahoza | 104' | Australia | None

    If you are cynical, you could call this a genre film. Almost all Rwandan films are about the genocide they can’t come to terms with.…
  • Matkormano

    Fabien Rennet, Julien Louvet | 32' | France | None

    In 1968, ‘the mage’ Matkormano gets accused of being responsible for his sons’ disappearance. He proclaimed his innocence.
  • Matterhorn

    Diederik Ebbinge | 87' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Fred lives on his own. His wife is dead, his son has left. He leans on the church, busses, meat-and-two-veg. Then Theo appears. Theo is…
  • Mauro

    Hernán Rosselli | 80' | Argentina | None

    In a rich year for new Argentine Cinema, Mauro was one of the surprises. The hero of the title is a Jack-of-all-trades who leads an…
  • Mayilaa

    Semmalar Annam | 97' | India | World premiere

    A mother-daughter pair begin selling straw mats for survival in this funny, piercing road movie.
  • Mejima

    Izutani Tomonori | 79' | Japan | International premiere

    Melancholy, romantic gangster film. Illegal butcher Mejima falls for gangster’s moll/prostitute Mon, seemingly sealing his fate. However her boss, the
  • Melaza

    80' | Cuba | International premiere

    Money and love worries of swimming teacher Aldo and rum factory worker Monica in Melaza, the cradle of Cuban sugarcane. With tangible love for Cuba,…
  • Memories Look at Me

    Song Fang | 91' | China | None

    A film in which the characters are all themselves and we look on in silence: a daughter with a life of her own in Beijing…
  • Men Who Save the World

    Liew Seng Tat | 93' | France | None

    Rural comedy. A man decides to move a deserted jungle house; this leads to one hilarious event after another. Under the cover of a village…