Bag of Patience

Esmeralda

1922

Silent adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic focusing on the character of Esmeralda rather than Quasimodo.

You Haunt Me

Invalid Date

Ben Howardson, a grieving middle-aged man, grapples with the loss of his accomplished concert pianist mother, Eileen Howardson. Her absence has left an indelible void in his life. Ben returns to his childhood home to pack up Eileen’s belongings. Upon entering, he encounters an unsettling sensation. What awaits him within those walls is an extraordinary event that will transform his life. Ben will confront his painful past, his paralyzed present, and his uncertain, yet hopeful future.

ABC Book

1976

A staged cinematic parable, it presents in symbolic images a painful diagnosis of Poles' sense of identity in the 1970s.

Whiskey Sour

2016

A career hitman is cosmically outmatched by his next mark.

Verona

2013

Ten years after the end of the dance music duo Verona, Elias come back to Brazil to meet his former partner, Walter, who is going to marry the young and talented Filipe. Walter lives in a countryside house, where he celebrates the end of his youth and the beginning of a new moment in his life.

Nurse

2003

A short film from Barbara Bialowąs.

I Have to Run

2025

A gay artist flees the repressive laws and war in Russia to go to Berlin, leaving his boyfriend behind. Meanwhile, life in Berlin turns out to be less inclusive he had expected.

Stand Up!

2011

Irish anti-homophobic bullying advertisement, created as part of BeLonG To Youth Services annual Up! LGBT Awareness Weeks.

Rose

1993

A professor is entranced by a flower in the garden of his apartment building. It opens up when he gets closer to it but it closes when danger approaches.

Los hervideros

2005

Two men carry a palm tree through an endless desert to an unknown destination. Los Hervideros (Seething with Rage) is an audiovisual parable about the origin of human conflicts.

Pushover

2023

A man's life is upended by increasingly threatening phone calls demanding he leave a review for a paperweight purchased online.

Beyond the Rush

2016

Shattered by a lifetime of isolation and self loathing due to his mentally ill mother's psychological abuse, a son's obsession to reunite with her leads his life spiraling wildly into an abyss of darkness.

Stray

2019

An elderly woman returns to her home after a violent break-in that has robbed her of her husband and her peace of mind. Now alone, only she can discover if she is ready, or able, to begin life again.

Esther

1910