Just Film: Thanks for Nothing

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.