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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Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight.
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Kurt locked himself in the closet and refuses to come out.
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An abandoned tourist resort at the end of the world.
Lejla works with her friend Anci in a noble hotel restaurant on the top of Sarajevo.
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Three couples who are close friends get together for a leaving party.
The last days of World War II.
Alice is waiting for her acceptance letter from the arts college.
Three men living on a camping site between a highway, a river and two cliffs.
Ralph is secretly in love with his flatmate.
Shenthuya, Jana, Joana, Haris and Renad attend school receiving special tuition.
Alphons is on the way to his suicide
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Julian, a simple farmer's son from the country side, loves his home in the mountains.
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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.
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Zwingerlin is stuck in a seaport.
A car dealer who believes he is a cowboy and a man in a suit.
Istanbul, Bosphorus. The old ferryman Captain Riza is the last one in his business.
On the shore of a forsaken island Hannu digs in the snow, attempting to relocate a place.
Die junge Japanerin Kimiko steht kurz davor, ihre Heimat zu verlassen.
Antoine and Meier were best friends as teenagers.
Tom visits his parents with his girlfriend to break important news.
Due to their mother's illness, a brother and sister have to make concessions
I want to know, how someone can learn to tame his/her inner beast.
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12 year old Florian is in love with the much older Juanita.
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Katharina fährt durch Polen.
Once upon a time, there were Jonathan and Paul, and both loved Sophia.
One day two old ladies meet unexpectedly at a hairdresser’s.
Married for 30 years, Ernst and Edna lead the usual life of couples their age.
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“.
A short story about lonelyness in the midst of a modern-day family.
Mary and Jacques are fleeing from the police with their booty on Christmas Eve.
This film should have been about the former nannies of the director.
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Oscar and his father watch Oscar's son play a football match.
Laila, 18 delivers pizzas, but she dreams of becoming a musical comedy star.
Mari-Carmen and Conchita are playing and talking. They open a fictional dialogue.
In a letter to a friend, I tell about my thoughts about the flow of life.
A couple prepares to receive their guests.
A couple takes a car ride in the Alps.
More than 800 people inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich.
Konrad falls in love with a beautiful, unknown man in a photo.
Film, Opera and Music become one.
One morning, Siegfried discovers something strange in his toilet cistern.
A young man is put to the test as a newly trained customs official.
"Un momento" describes Bellino's brief encounter with love.
One day Lea ruthlessly runs after a new challenge.
The author sends her alterego “Susi” on a search to find the prince of here dreams.
Paul works as an employee in a big office.
In 1970 Nico G. was adopted. 30 years later he wants to find his birth mother.
Rita was the great role model of my childhood.
Choreographer Barbara Cleff places an advertisement and wakens many dreams.
An accountant dies and finds himself on the train that is supposed to take him to paradise
Wesley visits Salome, he had a holiday romance with her in London.
A round of inconspicuous events.
A film about the tangled paths of love.
Maria represses her loneliness by sacrificingly caring for other people's problems.
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.
Today is his best day, today is the supernova.
Never has the shy Thomas let his feelings run wild for his father.
Der Computerspezialist Adam wird in ein abgelegenes Kloster gerufen.
We have technology on our side. - Will mother nature be with us, too?
In the private prison CIP manipulates Dr. Block the time perception of a prisoner.
Zurich Central Station. She is from Berlin, he is from New York. Their eyes meet...
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.
A young father and pilot takes off for the last flight.
An agent is searching for a missing person at Dr. Gruber.
Love is just a projection.
Boredom and unfulfilled longing determine the life of the young casino owner.
Vanessa gets lost in the timeless labyrinth of her decisions.
Three thefts on an afternoon…
An experimental game with the image of the woman.
Carla loves the vastness of the sky, close to the clouds.
Ein Paar liebt sich in einem Hotel.
Pofonok tells the story of victory and defeat and life in Budapest.
The everyday meanness in life lure Andrea into the sidelines.
Childhood experiences can leave their mark. Paul is being followed by them.
Zeynep, a turkish women, is about to be deported
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Life moves in mysterious ways.
Can birds fly in the cage?
A love story in Vienna.
One morning we woke up and realized we were ordinary.
Moris must be forced into isolation.
Two horror movies in a love movie.
A couple is fighting until the end becomes a new beginning.
A successful director is looking for a young actress.
A film about the proliferation of the unconscious - the longing of the princess.
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.
The restless collector Klemens is alone with his vision, he has to clear his storerooms.
The bond between two siblings suffers the burden of domestic violence.
Once upon a time O. wakes up from a nightmare...
An untold war story
Wild Bees are being displaced from their habitat by farmed honey bees.
A political hero's journey without a happy ending
Can homeless Nia escape her predicament?
Thorns turn into flowers through love.
Three people, a film crew, one goal. They want to make a sustainable change in society.
A night on an empty campsite turns into a nightmare for three young camp leaders.
Petting mice, styling dogs, killing cows.
Shannet shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by transphobia.
An inexplicable shift in the rules of the world brings to light people’s forgotten dreams.
A lonely artist is called by a disembodied voice.
Frida goes through a rollercoaster of emotions, told in a surprising and multilayered way.
I’m on my way. It leads me through my memories. All the way to home.
Book antiquarian Karlsen can not get away from his store.