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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • Viva água

    Cynthia Madansky | 9' | Italy | World premiere

    Musical dream consisting of processed film, freely acted passages and abstract colour fields. A meditation on the philosophical work Áqua viva by Clar
  • Las voces

    Carlos Armella | 106' | Argentina | World premiere

    Feature film about a documentary maker who begins a sinister friendship with his reclusive subject in the largely depopulated Mexican outback. Narciss
  • Wadjda

    Haifaa Al Mansour | 100' | Germany | None

    Wadjda is 10 years old, lives in Saudi Arabia and wants a green bicycle. Her conservative surroundings think that a girl should not be on…
  • Wailings in the Forest

    105' | Philippines | International premiere

    Shot in the Marilog forest in southern Philippines, Bagane Fiola’s film follows a family, actual members of the indigenous Matigsalog community,
  • The Waiting Room

    Igor Drljaca | 92' | Canada | None

    Jasmin, a successful actor, has to flee from Bosnia in the 1990s and ends up in Canada. In a series of dryly humorous moments, this…
  • The Wanderer

    Avishai Sivan | 86' | Israel | None

    Debut with a clean design about a young Orthodox Jewish student with failing parents and a failing body. He silently seeks solace in long and…
  • Was du nicht siehst

    Wolfgang Fischer | 89' | Austria | None

    In Fischer’s debut film, occasionally resembling a horror thriller, 17-year-old Anton accompanies his mother and her new boyfriend to a remote holiday
  • Wasteland

    Rowan Athale | 106' | United Kingdom | None

    In sombre Yorkshire, a blood-covered Harvey is interviewed by Inspector West. In flashbacks, we see how Harvey, determined to get his revenge on a dru
  • Water Hands

    Vladimir Todorovic | 93' | Montenegro | World premiere

    ‘Water hands’ is the literal Chinese word for ‘sailor’. The sailor himself remains off-screen in this film, just like the woman who is waiting for…
  • Wavumba

    Jeroen van Velzen | 80' | Netherlands | World première

    Fascinating, personal debut that follows an old fisherman in Kenya who can immerse himself in a world of stories, especially concerning his unwavering
  • We Chose the Milky Way

    Eva Marie Rødbro | 27' | Denmark | International premiere

    An anthropological visit to a mysterious tribe of young girls on a planet called Earth. Welcome to a world where everything is artificial, except frie
  • We Make Couples

    Mike Hoolboom | 57' | Canada | World premiere

    We Make Couples is a master documentary maker’s six-years-in-the-making Marxist love story. Crammed full of thoughts on cinema, politics and the pleas