International premiere

Thanks for Nothing

Local title
Aitäh eimillegi eest
Original title
Danke für Nichts
Director
Stella Marie Markert
Country
Germany
Year
2025
Programme
International Youth Competition Programme
Genre
Drama, Dark comedy
Subject
mental health, youth

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
Music
Rosa Lee Luna Markert
Sound
Daniel Fehl
Runtime
Language
German
Subtitles
Estonian, English

Presented by

Goethe Instituut

Goethe Instituut

Screenings

Hall Electric Cinema, TARTU
Screening073012 / Aitäh eimillegi eest
SubtitlesEnglish, Estonian
Screening duration
Trailer