IFS Internationale Filmschule Köln gGmbH

A young man’s obsession with the half-naked figure of Jesus Christ leads him down a dangerous path of self-harm and masochistic tendencies

Marco gets his golden ticket out of the village and into a big football club. Between wild partying and doubts, he must decide if he dares to flee into the unknown.

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

Two people, strangers to each other, in a confined space: Karl, a loner by choice, suddenly is faced with having to accommodate young and outgoing Mo in his job as street cleaner. Normally it would just be a case of the young trainee working under the supervision of the experienced senior, however Karl is not yet prepared to hand over any of his responsibility.

A man in his early 70s recalls the time when his young lover got caught in a firestorm and her hallucinations grew stronger and stronger. The loss of his girlfriend, the trauma of a forbidden and impossible love, the feelings of guilt and the attempt to use language, literature and theatre to find a way out.

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 studies, however, everything changes. Ida has to decide between her sense of responsibility for Ildikó and her own happiness when she receives an offer of her dream job. For this, she would have to move from the apartment they share to Fehmarn.

Two women living alone are visited by a young strange man whose identity and intentions they begin to question as the evening progresses.

Din lives with his family in a small village near Chittagong, the largest port city in Bangladesh. When he and his friend set off to find a job in the city, they embark on an odyssey that takes them further than they could ever have dreamed of.

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

A laundromat at night. A woman asks a stranger to try on her husband's shirt, fearing that it has shrunk. As she asks him to rehearse the reunion between her and her husband, the clumsy rehearsal creates a rapprochement between the two unknowns.

Amidst a devastated landscape, two survivors discover a mysterious, moss-covered sanctuary where hope and fear collide.

Hanna, a young single mother and student, moves through everyday life with her daughter Ida in a careful balance of love and responsibility, while reaching the edge of her own limits.

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

Joe, a lonely employee at the lost and found office projects his desperate longing for a relationship onto a found mannequin. Fueled by the online incel community (involuntary celibate), he spirals into a tragic escalation of his fears that ultimately drives him to despair.

Azerbaijan. Yagub has nothing left but beats his disabled son Musa until a shattering message brings about a sudden turn.

1992. A group of multicultural refugees sit squeezed together in the back of a minibus. Plagued by cold, exhaustion and thoughts of a life left behind, a large cello case becomes the centre of what at first seems like a banal conflict.

While shopping for sweets for his birthday, an altercation he witnesses shatters Ben's childhood innocence and raises questions.

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.

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 fight for acceptance, the apprentice makes a far-reaching mistake.

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.