Bright Future
Overview of films
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Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship
Fırat Yücel, Erhan Örs, Hakan Bozyurt, Can Memiş, Sibil Çekmen, Serra Akcan, Nadir Sönmez, belit sağ | 66' | Netherlands | International premiere
A collection of politically daring films stresses the need for criticality in times of censorship and repression. -
Selbstkritik eines bürgerlichen Hundes
Julian Radlmaier | 99' | Germany | World premiere
Young filmmaker Julian, ironically played by Julian Radlmaier himself, falls for young expat Camille, and offers her the leading part in his -
Una semana solos
Celina Murga | 110' | Argentina | None
Calm and without mock drama, Murga shows a group of rich children in a fenced-off compound in Buenos Aires who have the place to themselves… -
Sensation
Tom Hall | 107' | Ireland | None
When all you have left to make love to is sheep, life can only improve. Except that we are in Ireland, a bankrupt economy where… -
Sentimental Animal
Wu Quan | 108' | China | International première
Mysterious, oppressive and occasionally shocking film in stylised black-and-white (shot by a colleague director Zhang Yuedong) about the latter days o -
The Sentimental Engine Slayer
Omar Rodríguez-López | 97' | USA | World premiere
In this psychedelic debut by the music phenomenon Omar Rodriguez Lopez (best known for The Mars Volta), he himself plays the lead. Barlam (in his… -
Separations
Andréa Seligmann Silva, Mieke Bal | 83' | Netherlands | World premiere
Autobiographical documentary in which the film maker Andréa Seligmann Silva investigates why she and her brothers and sister left their home country o -
September
Penny Panayotopoulou | 105' | Germany | None
Ana leads a withdrawn but not unhappy life with her dog. But when her beloved pet suddenly dies, she tries to share her grief with… -
Septien
Michael Tully | 79' | USA | International premiere
We all have an idea of what an American film is. Septien may change that. A story that does not allow itself to be predicted.… -
Shame
Steve McQueen | 99' | United Kingdom | None
Fassbender and Mulligan star in McQueen’s second, once again stunning and very physical feature film. Their past slowly unravels, with disastrou -
She Comes Back on Thursday
André Novais Oliveira | 108' | Brazil | None
Unusual and refreshing voice in Brazilian cinema, in which the influence of Asian Masters shines through. Scenes from the everyday life of a black mid -
The Shell Collector
Tsubota Yoshifumi | 87' | Japan | World premiere
The latest discovery by a blind shell collector puts the relationship between man and nature on edge: a rare mollusc that is extremely poisonous, but