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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A flat search through death notices
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Stop feeding the salamanders!
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Christina lets Joel take nude photographs of her. Can she trust him with them?
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Two politicians shake hands. The situation gets out of hand.
Dialogue with a penal colony.
Are we shaped by our memories or are we shaping our memories?
Fabrice is getting abused by his girlfriend, what is he going to do?
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A journey into the depths of the subconscious.
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Maximilian loves daydreaming, but his mother won’t let him.
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David is not ready for fatherhood. He starts using steroids.
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15-year-old Mia is facing an overwhelming transformation.
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Together with his mother Finn moves into an old house.
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Lolita goes anarchy.
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Silent hide-and-seek.
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When his mother discovers the hiding place, Manuel loses his last refuge.
In a photo booth, a baby is crying.
Anna travels around to find locations for a movie production.
At a party. Young artists and bon vivants.
A story from the swiss backcountry.
Emma and Gloria are having coffee before work.
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To rekindle their sex life, a young married couple decides to resort to role-play.
A figure, made of lumps of earth overgrown by something.
Cem runs away from his family who want to ship him back to Turkey.
A musical journey with Pippo Pollina.
Boris surprises his 10 year old son Frederik with a fishing trip.
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him.
She´s on a train. He sits down opposite her.
Two patients meet each other in a hospital.
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Three muslim women, three generations, one family.
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The War ends. An old soldier returns to the ruins of his hometown.
3 adolescents, 7 days, an egg, an eye, an unlimited horizon, the loss of innocence.
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Three atients in a psychiatric institution with the same goal: they want out!
Right in the middle of.
An inward journey through a distant country
A young man thinks about where he might be today, if certain things had been different.
Everyday life is a gray prision, one that gradually wears down the variety of life.
A young man is waiting for her to give him a sign, that may never come.
It’s a normal day in a coffee shop of a small American town. Suddenly the oxygen runs out.
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The shy sales girl Anna passes the crêperie each day on her way to work.
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STANDBY is a little story about a young man’s uncertainties.
The story of a young woman and the longing for her deseased mother.
Reto makes guided tours through Zurich.
An Indian family searching for the proper formula for “love” and “marriage”.
A Game with the convergence of nature and urban space.
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Since the death of his grandmother, Leo (15) has to do housekeeping for his grandfather.
Connie (14) is new to the village.
Es gibt viele unterschiedliche Ansätze, Fiktion zu erklären.
Immer wieder zieht es den Autor in sein griechisches Heimatdorf zurück.
A experimental portrait of a exil scout.
The Man and the Girlfriend live in a loose relationship.
Daniel Schmid became a storyteller – and remained one all his life.
A perch is caught, left lying, then stolen, only to be found again.
Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
An evening at the Crazy Fish Sushi Bar.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
Lisa and Michael travel around the world as Swiss seamen.
Elena is almost thirty but her life still doesn’t seem to have started.
A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Life is expensive.
A father and his little daughter are at the supermarket, suddenly the cellphone rings.
A Boxer is visited by his brother.
Bruno, an unsuccessful sales rep, doesn’t have the heart to cook a lobster.
A story about love and death
Lisa starts her new part-time job at a canteen.
Fredy is a photographer. He is afraid of getting blind through an upcoming eye surgery.
The last days of World War II.
Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
In a sleepy mountain village in the Bunderland, Father Ernst Vial celebrates Mass.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
A village in Switzerland. Every friday, Muslims come to pray in the old schoolhouse.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
Antoine glaubt fest an eine Sache: Seine Mutter komme sie ihn besuchen – als Engel.
Ein Essay über geträumte Bilder und der Suche nach Wirklichkeit.
Dolores has had enough.
A couple have been living together in a long relationship.
Toggenburg. Since the day I left the valley, I have missed it.
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.
Fourteen-year-old Leander thinks his willy is too small.
A musician, a physicist and a man with a disability pension.
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.
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.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
The child prodigy Floh has a wild story to tel.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
Iuna is spending her spring vacation in canton Jura with her friend Svetlana.
Two key monents in the lives of Curdin and Lea: their meeting and their later separation.
Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
The vintner Jean is being replaced by the wine expert Luc.
12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
It’s easy to believe in love – if you live 697 kilometers away from it.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
The story of Sibylle, who has to deal with her grandmother's senility.
Viktor is a vampire who feels like a failure because he has not managed to bite anyone.
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
Diana is a respectable woman of 67 who lives an uneventful life.
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.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
Zurich East is a documentary roadmovie and a tribute to friendship.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
A little boy is standing with his mother in front of the toyshop „Belmondo“.
Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
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.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A round of inconspicuous events.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Man and the power of nature in the mountains.
A postcard. A little holiday story, in a country without borders.
A fleeting lighting mood brings a painful memory of the surface.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
Love is just a projection.
At a dinner with her boss everything goes wrong for Karin.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
Wilhelm Tell takes Walter into the mountains, where he abuses him behind a rock.
An island owner and his life between dream fulfillment and everyday life.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
ACEDIA I ist ein interaktives Video über Langeweile, Überdruss und Betriebsamkeit.
Can birds fly in the cage?
A love story in Vienna.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Life moves in mysterious ways.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
16.7.1969. Der erste Mensch betritt den Mond. Malcolm ist der Zweite – oder Dritte.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
Without commentary, Steff lets boys and ancestors explain their world view.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
An untold war story