Bright Future
Overview of films
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Naangal
Avinash Prakash | 259' | India | International premiere
Three boys learn to navigate life under a disciplinarian father in an epic coming-of-age drama. -
Nainsukh
Amit Dutta | 75' | India | None
A compelling tale on a 18th century Indian painter from a small hill state, created as a stunning poetic meditation on universal notions of devotion, -
Nairobi Half Life
David ‘Tosh’ Gitonga | 96' | Germany | None
This debut is a catchy comedy, filled with unlikely plot turns that go with the genre and the colourful realism of real African life. The… -
Nana
Valérie Massadian | 68' | France | None
The unusual Nana is filmed from the perspective of a child. Four-year-old Nana walks with a childlike purity through a world that is partly paradise, -
La nana
Sebastián Silva | 93' | Chile | European premiere
Subtly directed and beautifully acted tragicomedy shows in a restrained way the grumpy self-hatred of the housekeeper of a rich Chilean family who con -
Natatorium
Helena Stefánsdottir | 105' | Finland | World premiere
Lilja’s stay with her estranged grandparents becomes a dangerous journey into her family’s dark past. -
Native Dancer
Guka Omarova | 87' | France | None
New film by the maker of Schizo is a magic story of crooks in the Kazakh mountains. Natural healer has to leave her land because… -
Natura
Matti Harju | 68' | Finland | World premiere
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism. -
Nécrose
François Yazbeck | 80' | Finland | World premiere
Adam and Eve drift through a doomed landscape in a haunting, dream-like city elegy. -
Neverquiet (Film of Wonders)
Felipe Bragança, Marina Meliande, Karim Aïnouz, Ivo Lopes Araújo, Gustavo Bragança, Helvécio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina, Caetano Gotardo, Raphael Mesquita, Leonardo Levis, Carolina Durão, Andrea Capella, Marco Dutra, Juliana Rojas, Collective Film by 14 directors | 65' | Brazil | International première
A collective film, coordinated by Felipe Bragança and Marina Meliande (see also The Joy). They sent a letter of ‘unease’ to filmmakers in which they… -
New Jerusalem
Rick Alverson | 92' | USA | World premiere
Will Oldham excels as a naive, cocky American who’s found God. His co-worker at a tyre shop is an Irishman who has served in Afghanistan.… -
De nieuwe wereld
Jaap van Heusden | 85' | Netherlands | World premiere
Mirte is a cleaner in the reception centre for asylum seekers at the airport. She tries to forget her past through routine. When the charismatic…