Thanks for Nothing
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.
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.
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