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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • L’ultimo terrestre

    Gianni Pacinotti | 96' | Italy | None

    For his refreshing film debut, comic-strip artist Gipi adapted a strip by colleague Giacomo Monti. That background is tangible in this beautifully des
  • Unmade Beds

    Alexis Dos Santos | 93' | United Kingdom | European premiere

    By the maker of Glue. Sensitive, original and beautifully unshaven coming-of-age film about the Belgian Vera and the Spanish Axl who hope to find them
  • Unspoken

    Fien Troch | 97' | Belgium | None

    Second film by Fien Troch (Someone Else’s Happiness) focuses on the undealt with, suffocating sorrow of the couple Emmanuelle Devos and Bruno Todeschi
  • Las vacas con gafas

    Alex Santiago Pérez | 93' | Puerto Rico | European premiere

    A subtle drama about a solitary, eccentric professor who’s going blind, and he has to come to terms with this terrifying fact.
  • Los vagos

    Gustavo Biazzi | 92' | Argentina | International premiere

    Beautifully filmed, bittersweet coming of age story about the Argentine student Ernesto and his friends, who are delaying adulthood for a while with d
  • Vaho

    Alejandro Gerber Bicecci | 116' | Mexico | European premiere

    Debut film about three kids who witnessed a drama in their youth that still pursues them today. Were they only witnesses or maybe also responsible?…
  • Valley of Saints

    Musa Syeed | 82' | India | International première

    During a violent summer in the beautiful Kashmir Valley, a young boatman tries to escape. But then he finds a new love. It’s a story…
  • Vergiss mein nicht

    David Sieveking | 88' | Germany | None

    Gretel, the director’s mother, is stricken with Alzheimer’s. We follow her decline day by day while delving into her past as a mother, a spouse…
  • Vermilion Souls

    Iwana Masaki | 104' | Japan | None

    If you don’t want to see how a man put his fist and arm right up to his elbow into a woman, you have to…
  • Los viajes del viento

    Ciro Guerra | 117' | Argentina | None

    Visual and musical spectacle about an accursed accordion that entangles the player in the life of an artist. An old folk singer has had enough…
  • La vida útil

    Federico Veiroj | 67' | Spain | None

    Ode to love and a melancholy lament about fading film culture go hand in hand in this old-fashioned precise black-and-white jewel. About a man whose…
  • Vildanden

    Nadja Ericsson | 80' | Sweden | World premiere

    A gem of discretion full of allusions to the family dramas of Ibsen and Chekhov.