Movies: Ifs Internationale Filmschule Koln Gmbh

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....

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...

The evening of decision. All or nothing: Antonia's loving attempt to persuade her boyfriend Max to get engaged with a perfect dinner and thus save their relationship fails. And it's not just because she's a miserable cook. She also receives a fateful...

A nearly finished construction site. The wiring is completed, the walls are painted, the final inspections are being done. The construction manager Thomas Zetzsche is proud of his achievement. The prestigious building he created is a modern dream com...

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...

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. ...

The old farmer Ammi tries to understand the traumatic loss of his friend, who died in a mysterious way. We follow him as he gets confronted by the demons of his past and he tries to overcome his fear....

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

In 1938 an airfield was built at the northeastern-most end of America, the descent went slowly but incessantly through the Cold War. This is the story of how its inhabitants gradually moved away from the great world stage and had to reinvent themselv...

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...

The night in a big city. A young woman walks alone on a bridge, her gaze unfathomable. She stops, hesitates briefly, then jumps to her death. Under mysterious circumstances, Mara survives the jump and wakes up dazed in hospital. The doctors are stran...

Ada is looking for her biological father, who lives in seclusion on a remote island - and accidentally runs over his favourite sheep Steve on the way. At first, the father wants nothing to do with Ada. Only when she pretends to help him find Steve ag...

On his first day as an apprentice, Erik is assigned to a strange journeyman called Ludger. Together they drive to a mysterious power box in the middle of nowhere, but the tasks that Ludger keeps giving Erik seem to be a waste of time. In his ongoing ...

Having fled Albania over 30 years ago, Agim and Erjon have led different lives. Their father's last wish brings them back. There they have to confront their past, their fragile relationship and a country that has changed as much as they have....

Between psychosis, delusions of persecution and trauma, A finds himself at an interface between past and present after a stay in hospital. What is still reality and what is a fearful manifestation of traumatic encounters? By confronting herself with ...

Bruno's unreasonable-symbiotic relationship with his mother Ton is put to the test when her new partner Hannah moves into their shared bungalow in Spain. Until now Bruno alone has been the centre of his mother's attention, now he has to share it with...

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...

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...

The regular life of chimney sweep Marvin is shaken up. A new woman, a forbidden love. The ghosts he calls haunt him, in dreams, in delusions, during the day. And even his deceased father will not give him peace. A sooty story above the rooftops of Co...

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 ...