This is an engaging drama by director Karel Kachyna about the growing pains of a young teen (Jorga Kotrbova) and the hardships of a noble steed mistreated by a cruel neighboring farmer. The teen is having a hard time figuring out adult modes of behavior, and at the same time her heart goes out to the horse that is suffering under the treatment of the farmer next door to her family. As the teen adopts the horse as a friend, some clarification will be sure to come on the meaning of adulthood and the benefits of compassion.

A debt collector who has lost his sense of pain after being in an accident when he was young falls in love with a street vendor who has acute hemophilia.

After being diagnosed with progressive Parkinson's disease, the legendary Croatian experimental filmmaker Ivan Faktor (b. 1953) decides to visualise his physical state with a mobile phone camera. Through interventions into received documentary modes, he creates a surprisingly spirited inner world of an artist imprisoned in space. This is filmmaking as the act of self-preservation. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/pain

After being diagnosed with progressive Parkinson's disease, the legendary Croatian experimental filmmaker Ivan Faktor (b. 1953) decides to visualise his physical state with a mobile phone camera. Through interventions into received documentary modes, he creates a surprisingly spirited inner world of an artist imprisoned in space. This is filmmaking as the act of self-preservation. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/pain

Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able condition to be judged.

A young woman goes undercover at Liza's Palace of Pleasure to investigate a series of disappearances.

Thom Pain is just like you, except worse. One night, he finds himself on a stage, in the dark, in a theatre. In the audience are people who, just like him, were born and will die. Thom is going to try to make sense of it all. He's going to try to save his life, to save their life, to save your life - in that order. A camera crew captures the night, as various forces align to produce a reckless and accidentally profound event.

John Vandermark (Cumming) has taken in a struggling writer, Sebastian St. Germain (Boreanaz), who overstays his welcome. When John discovers that Sebastian has simply been using him, he turns the tables on his young tenant in an effort to make him work off his rent debt. When Sebastian dies accidentally in the process, John tries to make it up to him by helping him get his book published posthumously. When the book is published, John can't help but take credit for the work of genius... and Sebastian comes back to haunt him.

Symphony of Suffering is a showcase of shorts from some of the most prominent filmmakers within the fetish-gore sub-genre. An anthology with films from Jonathan Doe (Erotic Grotesque Nonsense trilogy), Jack Mulvanerty (Scarlet Piss Princess), White Gardenia (Mutilation Theater), and Blucifer (Putrid Menstrual Slime). With the feature scored to the Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal, the oldest known melody in recorded history; Symphony of Suffering attempts to showcase that the intertwining of pain and art are just as deeply infused and rooted in human expression as the origin of music itself. Jonathan Doe's "Lost & Found" Blucifer's "Sakura" White Gardenia's "Thalia and Melponeme" Jack Mulvanerty's "Can Carry No Weight"