IFS Internationale Filmschule Köln GmbH

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 come true. But suddenly that dream begins to crumble as more and more defects appear. Cables run into dead ends, the fire protection malfunctions and entire rooms go missing. Desperately Thomas is trying to fix the building until he finally accepts that the opening date has to be postponed. Now he must confront his own responsibility in this faulty system and draw the necessary consequences

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.

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 Lars: a kind, affluent professional with a growing personal interest in Waseem. This gripping tale of transactional identity explores the tactical exchange of trust and intimacy in a partnership, and the divisions between immigrants and their host countries in contemporary Europe.

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.

At a Babelsberg studio, two German actors try to outdo each other with their Hollywood experiences. At a chic Düsseldorf café, two expatriate French women envy each other’s respective life. At a construction site somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia, a foreman informs the supervising archaeologist that he as ordered the concrete without her approval. In a trendy Café in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, a recently departed meets a friend of his ex to obtain a box with things he’d left behind. A Dutch business consultant desperately tries to sell his inflated services to a Bulgarian arms contractor at Brussels Airport. On a rooftop in the Belgian Eifel, the owner and the future heir of a family workshop quietly discuss the recent passing of the family’s grandfather.

Flocke and Proschinki have a plan. Always, somehow. Every day, the two of them stroll through the streets and stores of the city - and, of course, they always take something with them. They always paint their next coup in the wildest colors. They have been living together in an old rust bucket for over a year. And they can't go on like this any longer. Flocke dreams of winning the lottery, Proschinski thinks in more practical terms: the "blue one", that is the spacious vintage car belonging to bigwig Harald, which they should get their hands on. But how? Well, a plan like that has to be well thought out. It goes without saying that they don't always agree right away. Things only become dangerous when an idea shakes the foundations of their friendship.

Niko drifts aimlessly through everyday life without paying attention to social rules.

During the First World War, the battle reaches the small village and changes the fate of an elderly woman and her 12-year-old friend.

When the grieving student Patricia finally wanted to contact her deceased grandmother via the Ouija board at the scene of the accident, an uninvited guest asked to enter.

Sometimes the decisions we are faced with take a completely unexpected turn. This is exactly what happens to Jürgen, a terminally ill man who is on his way to the last thrill of his life.

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 strangely reserved when she calls her boyfriend Janis. Mara flees home from the hospital, but finds a completely changed apartment where another woman has taken her place and throws Mara out of the apartment. It slowly becomes clear that no one recognizes Mara, she seems to have completely "fallen out of the world".

After Arthur tries to take his own life, a time of awkward conversations and quiet moments begins for the group of friends. But as if that wasn't enough, they also have to bring a giant rabbit down to earth.

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 Cologne.

While a married man waits in his lover's posh stairwell to pick her up for a date, his manifested guilty conscience, a dark shadow, plays its games with him.

Marianne and Isabel are two sisters confronted with sibling jealousy and smouldering problems from the past, while their mother is hoping for a life-saving kidney donation. Both sisters are potential donors and are faced with the decision of which of them will donate an organ to keep their mother alive.

Two employees of the immigration office pay Mona an unannounced visit to check on the marital relationship between her and her husband Parviz - who is not to be found.

A tough strip. Bärbel now seeks her fortune in the West and falls in love with Scotty the pilot.

Oliver has had an unsuccessful career in West Germany and returns to his East German home village. He now wants to sell the house where his mother died alone. His childhood friend Ronny helps him clean up the mess. But he can't admit his personal and professional failure to him either.

High school teacher Andreas Vossen (39) is an avid soccer fan who goes to his team's games every Saturday. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, however, he spends his weekends enjoying fights with hooligans. His double life is jeopardized by the appearance of a new pupil. Benny (18) is a hooligan by conviction. A confrontation begins that drives the teacher more and more into a corner.

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 pocket call: Max won't show up. Never again. As if she couldn't fall any lower at that moment, Antonia accidentally sets her apartment on fire to make matters worse. That's what happens when you drown your sorrows in wine and are no longer in control of your senses. The perfect dinner turns into Antonia's involuntary baptism of fire...