Fight Club Rush 19: Gronvall vs. Sosa

Fight Club Rush 19 took place on February 23, 2024 at Quality Hotel Friends, Stockholm, Sweden.

The Way Back Home

An atmospheric venture into slow cinema, following Rose, a down and out gay prostitute, trapped in the minutiae of his quiet and isolated life.

Gunpowder

At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.

Spark in the Dark

The lives of a newly married couple and their mutual friend unravel after the wife becomes the victim of a gang rape during a honeymoon.

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.

Calypso

Inspired by Homer's Odyssey, the film creates a queer reinterpretation of the nymph Calypso who traps Odysseus on her island. This intimate and sensuous rendition unveils the characters' emotional states through subtle gestures and contemplative portraits, delving into feelings of love, longing and abandonment. "Alienated by the outside world, Calypso (Jamieson Edson) and Odysseus (Cameron Stetz) lay naked in bed allowing their bodies to be warmed up by the light of day, and the realness of touch. Penelope (Quagliata) denudes herself behind and in front of the camera. The voice of the Greek nymph Calypso is expressed by silent intertitles adapted from Homer’s Odyssey." - Mónica Savirón, Museum of the Moving Image

Hunger in Waldenburg

Powerful semi-documentarian depiction of the miserable working and living conditions in the Silesian city of Waldenburg.

Circle

This short film follows a man lost in the woods driven by his fear of the unknown.

Abschied vom Garten

The early retired Gert spends the last summer in his garden, a place that has become a real home for him. The garden will be demolished to create a shopping center on its grounds. The only thing Gert can do is remember memories of happy times he spent with his family in the garden.

Dirty Tricks

The Good Life

I documented the First Story's walking tour with Elder Carolyn King with a manual time-lapse on Super-8. Reconciling myself as a mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler 'walking the red road' while being a person with physical disabilities. Learning to live mino-bimaadiziwin as a settler to Turtle Island and Tkaronto. (Jaene F. Castrillon)

Box

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

Thermopylae

A distraught man in coat and tie grips the guardrail at a remote cliff overlooking the Pacific. At a boys' high school in toney Rancho Palos Verdes, Mr. Radford teaches classics. His best student is the earnest Andrew. Late one evening, Andrew stops by Mr. Radford's office; Andrew's been the only student to do well on a recent exam. They chat, and something happens that brings a sleepless night to Mr. Radford. The next day, Andrew misses Mr. Radford's class, and after, Mr. Radford is aghast to see Andrew and Andrew's father waiting outside the principal's office. What's the teacher's fear, and what will he do about it?

Tulad ng Dati

A movie about the Filipino rock Band The Dawn.

A Woman Full of Trouble

Evil. As her footfalls draw near so does your fate. When Candy stops for a cup of joe, the trouble she brews will haunt you for decades.

The Adjutant of the Czar

Drama of plot and intrigue in Imperial Russia.

Penalty of Justice

Life is wonderful until one day the sportsman is brutalized, falling a victim to a corrupt criminal justice system. Not giving up, he seeks justice at the European Court of Human Rights.

Ancient Astronauts

Scientists investigate the possibility that alien life-forms influenced human evolution, citing the existence of strange monuments around the world to support their theory.