Bright Future
Overview of films
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Il solengo
Matteo Zoppis, Alessio Rigo de Righi | 70' | Argentina | None
A ‘solengo’ is a wild pig living a life of solitude and also the nickname of Mario de Marcella, a wild man living in the… -
Solitary Acts (4, 5, 6)
Nazlı Dinçel | 25' | Turkey | None
These three films follow a young girl through her teenage years while she explores her sexuality and discovers her perversions. Humorous, intimate and -
Solo, Solitude
Yosep Anggi Noen | 97' | Indonesia | None
When rioting breaks out in Jakarta in July 1996 and Wiji Thukul’s critical poems are chanted in the squares, the Suharto regime accuses the poet… -
The Son
Noushin Meraji | 85' | Iran | None
Ultimately compassionate Iranian drama about an incompetent man in his forties living with his mother, who suddenly dies. -
The Songs of Rice
Uruphong Raksasad | 75' | Thailand | World premiere
In Thailand, a hymn to rice need not always be sung. A dance, or spectacular homemade fireworks can say the same thing. As can a… -
Soul of Sand
Sidharth Srinivasan | 99' | India | European premiere
A very Indian film in very Indian surroundings, yet not a very Indian film. A guard keeps watch strictly but pointlessly at a deserted mine.… -
The Sound of Light
Yamasaki Juichiro | 89' | Japan | International première
The filmmaker is a filmmaker, but the filmmaker is also a farmer. The film is about farmers and their problems pursuing a traditional life in… -
Southcliffe
Sean Durkin | 190' | United Kingdom | None
A mass murder turns the village of Southcliffe upside down. This oppressive Channel 4 mini-series, featuring the crème de la crème of the British film -
Souvenirs de la Géhenne
Thomas Jenkoe | 56' | France | International premiere
Thomas Jenkoe’s film visits Grande-Synthe, the Dunkerque suburb recently newsworthy as the northern power base for France’s Front National -
Speak
Yes! That’s Us | 85' | South Africa | International premiere
The Ugandan logline is ‘Obusilise bwogezi’, which means ‘silence speaks’. The protagonist is the deaf and dumb girl Hope, who is closely followed duri -
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Ben Russell, Ben Rivers | 98' | Estonia | None
We follow a man during three seemingly separate periods in his life: as a member of a commune, isolated in the wilderness and as a… -
The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda)
Metahaven | 70' | Netherlands | World premiere
This documentary by the Dutch design and research studio Metahaven emphatically argues that the Internet has become a disruptive geopolitical super we