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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Bright Future

Overview of films

  • You Could Sunbathe in This Storm

    Alice Dunseath | 6' | United Kingdom | None

    Fabulous animation brings crystals and abstract shapes to life whilst casually posing existential questions. One of the most colourful films at the fe
  • Your Touch Makes Others Invisible

    Rajee Samarasinghe | 70' | Sri Lanka | World premiere

    A heterogenous docufiction investigating enforced disappearances during the 26-year-long Sri Lankan Civil War.
  • yours,

    Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, Maaike Neuville | 82' | Belgium | World premiere (festival)

    A tender love letter consisting of five works dedicated to the filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
  • Zara

    Ayten Mutlu Saray | 85' | Austria | European premiere

    In an expanse of stony Turkish landscape, two women roam around looking for the village of Zara. The Kurdish Mirka is returning to her birthplace…
  • Zarte Parasiten

    Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe | 87' | Germany | None

    In their second feature, the German directors Christian Becker and Oliver Schwabe follow a young couple who are parasitic on the lives of others. The
  • Zephyr

    Belma Bas | 93' | Turkey | None

    Teenage girl Zephyr spends her youth in the house of her grandparents, in the stunningly beautiful countryside. Every day she awaits the return of her
  • Zero

    Pawel Borowski | 110' | Poland | European premiere

    Twenty-four narrative lines (about jealousy, being unfaithful, revenge, despair and fate) cross each other in twenty-four hours, with the camera repea
  • Ziba

    Bani Khoshnoudi | 84' | France | European premiere

    Ziba is stuck, literally and metaphorically. Her life is static and isolated. Stranded in surroundings strange to her, she waits for her husband. Whil