Rum Punch
Balazs Gyenes | 2025 | Comedy | 18 min
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
At a rum punch-fueled dinner party, chaos and secrets spark unlikely bonds.
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Parvaneh, a young, Afghan migrant is living in a transit centre for asylum.
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Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
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Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
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Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
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Connie (14) is new to the village.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
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A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
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Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
The last days of World War II.
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Life is expensive.
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Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
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Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
The film is a remarkable journey through the rooms of a hotel.
Endo and Andre are two bothers who haven't spoken to one another for years.
Just enough money for cigarettes and to have their own apartment, an unattainable dream.
Mannu and Flo are broke. But they have a plan: Canada.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
A hospital waiting room at two o’clock in the morning. Two strangers meet.
The film accompanies four mentally handicapped musicians in their everyday lives.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
Dolores has had enough.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
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12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
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Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Both say that it was the love of their lives. But this love could not be.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
A round of inconspicuous events.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
Love is just a projection.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
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One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Can birds fly in the cage?
Life moves in mysterious ways.
A love story in Vienna.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
An untold war story
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.