Bright Future
Overview of films
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Phoenix
Bram Droulers | 65' | Belgium | World premiere
Freewheeling film celebrating both sexual and stylistic fluidity. Phoenix literally changes colour as the characters circle one another. -
The Piano in a Factory
Zhang Meng | 105' | China | European premiere
After their divorce, an unemployed steelworker and his nouveau riche ex-wife quarrel about their daughter, who decides to go and live with the one who -
Picasso
Jaakko Pallasvuo | 6' | Finland | None
Imaginary dialogue between the artist and Picasso. “I do not seek, I find,” Picasso says. And he means it. The rest of us are still… -
The Pinkie
Lisa Takeba | 65' | Japan | World premiere
Japanese filmmakers are brought up on genre films, TV nonsense, manga and street fashion. The result: films full of genre nonsense and manga fashion. -
Pinoy Sunday
Ho Wi Ding | 85' | France | None
It could have been a film about Pakistanis in England, but it’s a film about Filipinos in Taiwan. A serious film about immigrants in which… -
El placer es mío
Elisa Miller | 94' | Mexico | International premiere
Miller wrote this delicate love story before shooting her debut (Vete más lejos, Alicia, Tiger Awards Competition 2011). Miles from anywhere, a young -
The Plague at the Karatas Village
86' | Kazakhstan | World premiere
Surrealistic parable denounces political wrongs in Kazakhstan. The new mayor arrives in an isolated village where the inhabitants are dying of the pla -
Poem and Stone
Maryam Tafakory | 11' | Iran | None
The various colours, smells and flavours of Tehran are almost tangible. Can memories and the desire to be somewhere be captured in images? -
Un poison violent
Katell Quillévéré | 92' | France | None
When the young teenager Anna comes home from boarding school, she discovers that her father has left. Her mother clings onto the local priest, a… -
Poisonous Roses
Ahmed Fawzi Saleh | 70' | Egypt | World premiere
In this intriguing, skittish portrait of poverty in today’s Egypt, the camera follows 22-year-old Saqr and his 28-year-old meddlesome sister, Ta -
Police, Adjective
Corneliu Porumboiu | 115' | Romania | None
Prize-winning and praised, this extremely calm and occasionally dry, cool yet irresistible story about the boundary between maintaining the law and a -
Pomegranates and Myrrh
Najwa Najjar | 95' | France | European premiere
Mature, powerful début, dedicated to Palestine, tells of love in occupied Ramallah, without unnecessary sentiment. Young married couple Ziad and Kamar