International premiere

Thanks for Nothing

Local title
Aitäh eimillegi eest
Original title
Danke für Nichts
Director
Stella Marie Markert
Country
Germany
Year
2025
Festival
25th Youth and Children's Film Festival
Programme
International Youth Competition Programme
Genre
Drama, Dark comedy
Subject
mental health, youth

Four teenagers decide to take on the world.

Katharina, Ricky, Malou, and Victoria are four teenagers living in a group home, a place they have crafted in defiance of everything – parents, school, and society’s rules. With the dubious guidance of their social worker, Ballack, they’ve created their own little anarchic utopia. But Katharina, sick of the world and its expectations, is determined not to survive past 18. With her birthday looming in two weeks, her friends are scrambling to keep her suicide attempts under wraps, terrified that exposing the truth will destroy the only semblance of “home” they have ever known. In this darkly comedic tale of rebellion, abandonment, and surviving the absurd, “Thanks for Nothing” is the kids’ collective middle finger to the adults who have abandoned or failed them.

Director
Stella Marie Markert
Screenwriter
Stella Marie Markert
Cast
Lea Drinda, Sonja Weißer, Safinaz Sattar, Zoe Stein, Jan Bülow
Producer
Luc Vincent Hinrichsen
Cinematographer
Edgar Fischnaller, Jonas Kolahdoozan
Production Design
Fritzi Heubaum
Editing
Vreni Sarnes
Music
Rosa Lee Luna Markert
Sound
Daniel Fehl
Production
Schiwago Film GmbH
Distribution
FOUR GUYS Film Distribution
Runtime
Language
German
Subtitles
Estonian
Director
Stella Marie Markert

Stella Marie Markert began studying Film Production at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in 2017. She produced the short film “Hot Dog”, which was screened at numerous international festivals. In 2019, she participated in the exchange programme of the Paris film school La Fémis. In 2021, her “Handbook of a Privileged European Woman” won one of the coveted awards in the “Europe in Film” competition, which was initiated and funded by the German Federal Foreign Office to celebrate Germany’s EU Council Presidency. Since August 2022, she has been studying for a Master’s degree in Feature Film Directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. “Thanks for Nothing” is Stella Marie Markert’s feature film debut.

Presented by

Goethe Instituut

Screenings

8th Hall Apollo Kino Coca-Cola Plaza
Screening060812 / Aitäh eimillegi eest
SubtitlesEstonian
Q&A duration
Screening duration
1st Saku hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening091113 / Aitäh eimillegi eest
SubtitlesEstonian
Screening duration
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