Movies: Ifs Internationale Filmschule Koln Gmbh

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

The overworked and exhausted architect Leon longs for a shoulder to lean on. His confident girlfriend Jenni, however, is angry he's always working and doesn't have time for their relationship. Unexpectedly, Leon's 3D-architecture program produces a d...

Westfalia, 1873: Pillage and murder put the future existence of Hans' farm at stake. The farmer has to defend his remaining daughter and their goods against man and nature. A struggle of life and death begins....

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...

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......

When Dieter's wife Tamara, bored with her marriage, elopes, Dieter sets off for Mont Saint Michel with a chance acquaintance, Ronen....

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. ...

Lukasz wants to get out of the social hotspot. He thinks he has found a way out as a thug for Hamburg's "Milan" club, until his little brother turns up on his doorstep after the death of their mother....

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...

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...

How can you know something and still have forgotten it? How can you forget something and it's still there?...

He is a typical representative of our generation. Dissatisfied, aimless, fed up. His room is a self-created isolation cell, the computer the only thing he interacts with. His desire to understand the world leads to stagnation. Only when the internet ...