Jakob Gehrmann

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

A lonely man is silently longing for a companion, when a crack appears in his floor...

A young refugee struggles with learning the German language while being existentially at the mercy of the bureaucratic system. Receiving an overwhelming amount of letters from the authorities triggers fears and war memories in him. Reality and imagination blur, raising the question of what is still "real" and what is "fictional" in his everyday life.

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…

Levi is sitting in his favorite pub, drinking beer and waiting. For his ex-girlfriend. Tonight he will make everything better. But he waits in vain, and when she doesn't show up and the mysterious Marla turns up instead, the evening takes a different turn. Levi is enchanted by Marla's spontaneous nature and even leaves the pub with her. We follow the two of them through the night. With every minute that Levi spends with the stranger, things become more chaotic. Levi searches for answers without knowing what the question actually is. He follows Marla on her warm paths through the darkness, while he himself gets lost in the in-between.

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.

The pensioner Mr. Kummer is desperate to attend a Christmas party of his estranged family, who have invited him by surprise. A story about the loss of illusion.

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.