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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • Night Soil – Economy of Love

    Melanie Bonajo | 32' | Netherlands | World premiere

    Night Soil – Economy of Love portrays a Brooklyn-based movement of female sex workers who regard their work as a way for women to reclaim…
  • Nightlife

    Cyprien Gaillard | 15' | France | None

    A sensationally colourful nighttime drive with a relentless soundtrack. Cinema and music become a sculpture rich in hidden political references.
  • Ninah’s Dowry

    Victor Viyuoh | 95' | Cameroon | International premiere

    Women do not have much to say in the interior of Cameroon. Maybe not so surprising, but this beautifully-told story makes very tangible what it…
  • NN

    Héctor Gálvez Campos | 90' | Colombia | None

    A team of forensic anthropologists finds an unknown corpse during a dig 20 years after the political violence in Peru. The only thing that can…
  • Norteado

    Rigoberto Perezcano | 94' | Mexico | None

    Subtle, restrained feature debut in which the Mexican Andres undertakes various attempts to cross the border to the US illegally. In the meantime, he
  • Northwest

    Michael Noer | 96' | Denmark | World premiere

    Clever young local burglar in a suburb is commissioned by immigrant traders. When he also does jobs for local gangsters, the extra earnings bring majo
  • Not at Home

    Shahrbanoo Sadat, Katja Adomeit | 65' | Afghanistan | International premiere

    In Kabul, tensions within a family keep on increasing as tradition and reality clash. In Germany, an Afghan girl waits in a desolate refugee centre.…
  • not even nothing can be free of ghosts

    Rainer Kohlberger | 11' | Austria | World premiere

    Made without camera or film, Austrian artist Rainer Kohlberger’s algorithm-based abstractions engulf the cinema space with their light rhythms and opt
  • The Nothing Factory

    Pedro Pinho | 177' | Portugal | None

    Portuguese workers react to the threatened closure of their factory by occupying the building. In their blue overalls, they drink wine in the sun, pla
  • Novaciéries

    Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel | 16' | France | None

    A mysterious merging of cinema, performance and home video. A dancer practices his jumpstyle choreography in an empty steelworks.
  • Novena

    Enrique Collar | 96' | Netherlands | None

    Painter and filmmaker Collar allows his uncle Juan de Dios and his Paraguayan fellow villagers to more or less play themselves in this authentic portr
  • Now, Forager: A Film About Love & Fungi

    Jason Cortlund, Julia Halperin | 93' | USA | World première

    A couple are picking wild mushrooms to sell to chic restaurants. One of them offers her a job. While her culinary star is rising, their…