Bright Future
Overview of films
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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