Bright Future
Overview of films
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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…