Bright Future
Overview of films
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Survival Song
Yu Guangyi | 90' | China | European premiere
Yu Guangyi documents in this prize-winning portrait of outsiders and marginalisation how a sacked Chinese forest ranger survives as a hunter gatherer -
Susa
Rusudan Pirveli | 85' | Georgia | World premiere
In a neo-realistic style, the dreamy boy Susa is followed in today’s Georgia. His mother’s illegal vodka trade takes him to the grubbiest corners of… -
Sweating the Small Stuff
Ninomiya Ryutaro | 114' | Japan | None
Ryutaro’s blue-collar life of working and drinking is interrupted by the news that Ryuko, a surrogate mother to him, is gravely ill. As we watch -
Swim Little Fish Swim
Lola Bessis, Ruben Amar | 96' | France | European premiere
A couple who have grown apart meet a young female French artist who wants to make it in the New York art world. They all… -
Symbol
Matsumoto Hitoshi | 93' | Japan | None
Surrealist comedy by the director of the cult film Dainipponjin could only have been made in Japan. A sad comic wakes up in a closed… -
Tales from Kars
Özcan Alper, Zehra Derya Koç, Ülkü Oktay, Ahu Öztürk, Emre Akay | 81' | Turkey | World premiere
Omnibus of five short films that were shot in the Province of Kars, in eastern Turkey. Among the five directors are three debutants who were… -
Tall as the Baobab Tree
Jeremy Teicher | 82' | Senegal | None
Because we cannot look behind the camera, this seems like a very African film. A realistic story about marrying off, acted by the inhabitants of… -
Tape
Li Ning | 168' | China | European premiere
With disturbing honesty, performance dancer Li Ning turned his life in China into a work of art. Using a range of cinematographic means for five… -
Tattoo
100' | China | World premiere
Group of young Chinese in a small village in the south of China earn their living with theft, drugs and prostitution. They spend the rest… -
TEKENCHU: THE RITE OF THE NAHUALES
Carlos Matienzo Serment | 80' | Mexico | World premiere
A Mexican folk horror film about the serial murder of children in various Indigenous villages. -
Telstar
Nick Moran | 114' | United Kingdom | International premiere
This feature début by actor/writer/producer Nick Moran is an infectious biopic made with flair of Joe Meek (1929-1967), the London music producer who -
I tempi felici verranno presto
Alessandro Comodin | 102' | Italy | None
Comodin’s second film (after Summer of Giacomo, IFFR 2012) is one of the most seductive, inimitable films of the year, in which the young direct