THANKS FOR NOTHING

description

Okay, what would you do if your best friend tries to kill herself, another one is being deported, the third is in a manic episode, the fourth has stopped speaking, and your corrupt social worker is unsuccessfully trying to cover it all up from child services?

Katharina, Ricky, Malou, and Victoria are four teenagers living in a group home – a place they’ve 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’ve ever known. In this darkly comedic tale of rebellion, abandonment, and surviving the absurd, THANKS FOR NOTHING is the kids' collective FU to the adults who've abandoned or failed them.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Filmfest München 2025
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025
Tromsø IFF 2026
SXSW 2026
TIFF Next Wave 2026

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Stela Marie Markert was born in Berlin. She worked in various film roles, including casting director, agent, and production assistant, before studying production at Filmakademic Baden-Würtemberg. Her first produced short film, HOT DOG (2019), screened at major festivals like Sundance and Clermont Ferand. She turned to directing in 2022 at Filmuniversität Babelsberg. Her short film HANDBOOK FOR A PRIVILEGED EUROPEAN WOMAN won the Jury Prize from the German Film Academy. In 2021, she made her directorial debut with KROCKETPARTIE. THANKS FOR NOTHING (DANKE FÜR NICHTS) is her debut feature.