IFS Internationale Filmschule Köln 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 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.

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. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague...

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 Hannah by force.

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

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.

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.

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

Into the idyllic life of young mother Lilli and her daughter comes a young man who awakens Lilli's need for passion, variety and freedom. But the inseparable bond between mother and child will not allow an intruder to enter.

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.

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.

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

Nuh has not spoken to his father for 10 years. Now he buries him 4000 km away from his German homeland at the foot of the Ararat in a bitter attempt to make up for past mistakes, destroying his brother's new ideal world in the deepest east of Anatolia.

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 office. Teleported to the space embassy by an overly enthusiastic ambassador, Greg has a unique opportunity to save humanity. Will he take the chance?

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.

A quick home visit on the way home and then finally end of work! At least that’s how easy the young doctor Dr. Seder imagines it when he knocks on the door of the remote forest house after a long working day. But the bizarre old lady who takes care of her demented husband there doesn’t make it that easy for him. Inspired by the young man’s unexpected companionship, the lonely woman greedily clings to his closeness and hesitates to leave. Dr. Seder himself can hardly explain why he suddenly sits in the old woman’s beige wing chair with slippers on his feet and a steaming bowl of aunt Gretel’s pumpkin soup in his hand. But it was a long day and the soup tastes delicious. However, the old woman becomes more and more violent in her behaviour and for Dr. Seder the already strange situation becomes more and more disturbing. Even the soup suddenly gets a strange aftertaste…

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.

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 nursing home almost every day. She meets Philipp but she does not really know herself what is going on between the two of them.

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

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.

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.