The 47th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced all of the titles selected for its Bright Future main programme dedicated to young, emerging film talent. The 48 feature films (some of which have been announced previously here) offer a wide range of subject matters and geographical origins, seen through the eyes of daring filmmakers with a fresh, clear style and vision. Within this line-up, all feature-length film debuts that are having their world or international premiere in Rotterdam are eligible for the Bright Future Award, worth €10,000.

Some of the main highlights of the section are the world premieres of the new films by Spain's Alberto Gracia (FIPRESCI Award for The Fifth Gospel of Kaspar Hauser [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] at Rotterdam in 2013) and Portugal's Susana Nobre, as well as the international premieres of films by Italy's Fulvio Risuleo and Belgium's Ruben Desiere.

Here are all of the feature films confirmed for the Bright Future section:

Bright Future – Competition

August at Akiko's - Christopher Makoto Yogi (USA)
Azougue Nazareth - Tiago Melo (Brazil)
The Bangle Seller - Ere Gowda (India)
Counting Tiles - Cynthia Choucair (Lebanon)
Ella & Nell [+leggi anche:
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The Flower Shop [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ruben Desiere
scheda film] - Ruben Desiere (Belgium/Slovakia)
The Heart [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Fanni Metelius (Sweden)
Impermanence - Zeng Zeng (China)
Look Up [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Fulvio Risuleo (Italy/France)
My Friend the Polish Girl [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Mateusz Dymek (United Kingdom/Poland)
Poisonous Roses [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Fawzi Saleh (Egypt/France)
Rabot [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Christina Vandekerckhove (Belgium)
Respeto – Alberto Monteras II (Philippines)
The Return [+leggi anche:
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Their Remaining Journey - John Clang (Singapore/USA/Taiwan)
Tower - Sebastián Múnera (Colombia/Mexico)
Bums - Gustavo Biazzi (Argentina)
Windspiel [+leggi anche:
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Bright Future – Premieres

All You Can Eat Buddha - Ian Lagarde (Canada)
Ambiguous Places - Ikeda Akira (Japan)
Blockage - Mohsen Gharaei (Iran)
Wandering Star [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alberto Gracia
scheda film] - Alberto Gracia (Spain)
Hit the Night - Jeong Gayoung (South Korea)
My Own Private Hell - Guto Parente, Pedro Diógenes (Brazil)
Jonaki [+leggi anche:
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Ordinary Time [+leggi anche:
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The Pain of Others - Penny Lane (USA)
Permanent Green Light [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Dennis Cooper, Zac Farley (France)
Sol alegria - Tavinho Teixeira (Brazil)
YEAH - Suzuki Yohei (Japan)

Bright Future

¾ [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Ilian Metev
scheda film] - Ilian Metev (Bulgaria/Germany)
Cocote [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias (Dominican Republic/Argentina/Germany/Qatar)
Drift [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Helena Wittmann e Theresa …
scheda film] - Helena Wittmann (Germany)
The Wild Boys [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bertrand Mandico
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The Gulf [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Emre Yeksan
scheda film] - Emre Yeksan (Turkey/Germany/Greece)
Gutland [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Govinda Van Maele
scheda film] - Govinda Van Maele (Luxembourg/Belgium/Germany)
The Watchman - Alejandro Andújar (Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico/Brazil)
Life and Nothing More [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Antonio Méndez Esparza
scheda film] - Antonio Méndez Esparza (USA/Spain)
Meteors [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gürcan Keltek
scheda film] - Gürcan Keltek (Turkey/Netherlands)
Mama - Jin Xingzheng (China)
Milla [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Valérie Massadian (France/Portugal)
The Nothing Factory [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Pedro Pinho
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Resurrection [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Kristof Hoornaert (Belgium)
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Dawid Ogrodnik
intervista: Ivana Mladenovic
scheda film] - Ivana Mladenovic (Romania/Serbia/Belgium)
Sweating the Small Stuff - Ninomiya Ryutaro (Japan)
Closeness [+leggi anche:
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Those Who Are Fine [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] - Cyril Schäublin (Switzerland)