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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • 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…