Bright Future
Overview of films
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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. -
The Visual Feminist Manifesto
Farida Baqi | 74' | Syria | World premiere
Joy, dignity, love, pain: lyrical ode to the lives of women within a patriarchal system. -
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…