Bag of Patience (2024)

Antoine and Colette

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

Shrimp

Shrimp explores the strange, interwoven and often hilarious daily lives of the women and men who work and play in a Los Angeles BDSM den.

Our Best Selves

A young couple go to an isolated cabin to deal their marital problems.

Tom Clay Jesus

Clay meets Tom. Tom ignores Clay. Tom meets Jesus.

By His Will

Elisha, a young religious teen dealing with his attraction to men, is torn between two worlds — the religious world from which he comes and the secular world that attracts and seduces him. He goes through a shaky journey that has him facing a decision that will shape his life.

Dirty Laundry

The story of a guy trying to get his washing done, late one fateful night.

SNAP!

The film deals with loss of innocence and the danger of exposed secrets.

Arañas

The limit of tension in a family reaches its peak when the father discovers a spiders nest.

Zepo

Time ago, a winter morning, a little girl went out looking for firewood, she went away from home and came across a blood trail... she followed it.

Refugee Poetry

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after fleeing from IS war and genocide. As he remembers the abomination, he writes a poem with the title “You drive me mad” in Kurmanji Kurdish. In his home country, Yazidic Kurds are forbidden to work in his profession. Then he eats his apple and wanders through Europe’s middle with more hope.

The Head Vanishes

Jacqueline has lost her mind a bit, but whatever, for her trip to the seaside, she has decided to take the train by herself, like a big girl!

The Assistant

Isabelle is a physiotherapist. After work, she is involved in a completely different activity.

The Audition

Florence Walker is an aspiring actress who's barely getting any auditions. After finding a sketchy casting call for a horror movie, she takes the opportunity in her desperation, but nothing is how it seems. On top of that, she experiences the horrors of anxiety and mental illness in this situation of complete presssure.

Amphora

Roberto, an older widower, and Félix, a young photographer, explore a complex attraction between them. In seduction, they face the anxiety, the fear of abandonment and the emotional paralysis (philophobia) that drowns them.

Ironing Board

A Gossy New Wave Production - A lonely and obsessive young man asks an old friend to help him fix a mysterious ironing board.

Where the Leaves Fall

Giacomo, a second-generation Italian-Chinese youngman, travels to Wencheng County to bring his late father’s ashes back to his hometown. There he stays at his grandfather’s house. The old man becomes Giacomo’s guide through the forgotten paths of his native culture, which now looks so distant from the daily life of a European twenty-something.

Visible: Transgender Youth Stories

Two teenagers seek the fullness of their identities with time on top and normality against it. First hand testimony of transgender kids and the support of their family.

Slow

An online hookup attempt takes a strange turn.

Gary and Milo

Two brains in jars exist exclusively in a game of PONG, oblivious to the world falling apart outside of their computer.

Feral

A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.

Laio

While out with his friends for fun one night in São Paulo, Leandro is confronted with glimpses of his own violence. The film is loosely inspired by the homophobic attack that occurred in the Paulista Avenue area, in which teenagers used fluorescent lamps as a weapon.

I Never Left You Alone

Claudia revisits the house where she spent summers.

Like Us

A lonely woman who takes care of her paralyzed husband saves an alien who cannot experience emotions.

The Box

An old man ends up taming the mouse he wanted to get rid of.

Excursion

Following a TV News which announce the landing of aliens in Romania, Eugen (9) steals a camera from the shop where his father works as a guard and starts filming his everyday life and then disappears. When he is found, the little boy's footage is misinterpreted by the media.

Indoors

During summertime, Nahuel moves to his friends to spend vacation time together. Between drinks, weed and foolish games, sexual tension starts to raise, but none of them dares to take the first step.

Private Beach

A moralist and surrealist fable in which a group of aristocrats have sole access to a private beach in the midst of Paris, where they enact strange games and stylized gestures.

Agora

Melvin, a flora-enthusiast, has Agoraphobia. He finds solace only in his house plants, but when he receives an enticing flier about the flower of the month, he is forced to venture outside in hopes of snagging the ultimate plant.

The Pig from Turkey

Musse is a mannerly local doctor trying to live by the rules, but the challenges from his environment threaten his ability to control situations and he becomes the person he despises.

(Un)alarmed

Derek, a young man indebted to his sleep and schoolwork fractures his perception of reality as his association of alarm and anxiety is numbed by the repetition of his stresses.

No Ill Will

Elinborg accidentally runs into her friend Marita at the supermarket. The conversation is civil yet slightly awkward, as Elinborg has forgotten Marita's birthday. However, something else is nagging Marita, who decides to corner her friend and ask if Elinborg has blocked her on Facebook.

Caldeira

Inès has lived all her life in the shadow of her sister, a brilliant volcanologist. As a challenge, she decides to join a scientific expedition that plans to climb a volcano.