Movies: Ifs Internationale Filmschule Koln Gmbh

Rebecca has recently split up with Ben. She now lives in the shared flat of her best friend sleeping on the sofa in a walk-through room. Rebecca is restless, walking through the streets of the big city, drifting. Rebecca goes to see her father in a n...

Sex is power, and Waseem, a Syrian gay-for-pay hustler seeking asylum in Cologne, wields it like a shield. Keeping his johns at an emotional arm’s length while satisfying their most carnal desires in order to eke out a living, he meets his match in L...

During her internship in a remote clinic in the Allgäu region, the young psychology student Lea immerses herself in a mysterious world of unorthodox therapy methods and demonic traditions....

A group of Slovakian squatters break up in a snow-covered ruin on the Danube....

Unspeakably powerful beings travel through space and time to fulfill wishes of randomly selected inhabitants of planets. When their attention turns to Earth, their selection process malfunctions and selects Greg, who is having a lousy day at the offi...

Three friends, a cabin in the woods and an invisible bear. Erik is suicidal out of conviction. His friends Alex and Ben take him to a cabin in the woods to get him back on his feet. When an old hunting rifle turns up, events take an unexpected turn. ...

Robin is eight when his mother Sabine becomes pregnant again. Because Sabine is overwhelmed with her child, new boyfriend and pregnancy, Robin has to go into care. When he returns home three months later, the situation has by no means improved. His m...

Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Ou...

True love never dies, the loving heart never stops beating ... for Kerstin’s ex Thomas, who she still hopes will come back some day. Instead of Thomas, her mother Charlotte shows up at her door, mid-50s and freshly single again, too. Charlotte moves ...

When the diligent cockroaches build a rocket to fly to the moon, they accidentally wake up one of the last humans from his virtual dreams....

A short documentary about the estrangement between mother and son caused by a tragic loss 20 years ago....

This anti-coming-of-age film follows Generation Y characters as they chase the desire for radical self-realisation....

Jasper (24) is filming a documentary about identical twins Jana and Nina (29). As he tries to get to the bottom of their symbiotic relationship, he is not the only one to realize that twins may not be inseparable after all......

Berlin, 1934. Many men are forced to live their hidden homosexuality. Erich, a photographer, has an appointment in his photo studio with Wolfgang, a Nazi soldier, with whom he shares a loving, tumultuous, and passionate relationship. For both of them...

In a world where technology threatens to replace human contact, Cam places his hope of finding true closeness in the android ASAMI....

A traffic light stops on red. More and more people gather in front of it and wait. As no one wants to take the first step, those waiting are forced to join forces....

The life of artist Astrid is completely disrupted by her father, who suffers from dementia. His monologues and constantly repeating stories from another time get on her last nerve. Only when Astrid begins to listen to him and engage with his world, w...

A woman is locked in a room, taking orders from a beam of light. Over time, however, she begins her emancipation....

25-year-old Ida lives in a symbiotic relationship with her unemployed and depressed mother Ildikó. Every day seems to be a weekend, as her mother has not worked for a long time and the apartment seems to be a vacation spot. After she finishes her stu...

In the form of a poetic-lyrical dialog, "Lost in Hope" tells the story of the Israeli Rachel and the Palestinian Jassir. Jassir wants to live in freedom, beyond the hopelessness and violence in his country. Rachel's dream is to study music. But first...