Thanks for Nothing

Thanks for Nothing

by | Jul 17, 2025

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Thanks for Nothing

The four friends Katharina, Ricky, Malou and Victoria live together in a sheltered housing project. With the support of their corrupt social worker, Ballack, they have created a world in which their own rules prevail. There are no parents, no school and no other obligations. However, the youth welfare office is breathing down their necks and trying to destroy their little anarchic paradise. Katharina’s repeated suicide attempts in particular attract the attention of the social services. If she is caught doing it again, the four of them will lose their apartment. But Katharina has no intention of getting older than 17, and her birthday is already two weeks away. Her friends try to protect Katharina from the outside world and cover up the suicide attempts.
Credits

Cast: Lea Drinda, Sonja Weißer, Safinaz Sattar, Zoe Stein, Jan Bülow, Sophie Rois, Ludger Bökelmann, Kathrin Angerer and many more

Screenplay: Stella Marie Markert
Director: Stella Marie Markert
Cinematography: Edgar Fischnaller, Jonas Kolahdoozan
Editing: Vreni Sarnes
Sound: Yunzheng Hu, Henrik Gueffroy
Music: Rosa Lee Luna Markert
Casting: Liza Stutzky, Andrea Rodríguez
Production Design: Fritzi Heubaum
Costume: Sophie Peters
Make up: Annegret Schmidt, Hanne Hamann
Producer: Luc Vincent Hinrichsen
Production Management: Anna-Katrin Winkler
Producers: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis

A production by Schiwago Film and Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Co-Production with ZDF – Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Funded by Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
In cooperation with: Young Talent Foundation Berlin

Year of Production: 2025

Festival Participation
  • 42nd Film Festival Munich 2025
  • Oldenburg International Film Festival 2025
  • Leipzig Film Art Fair 2025
  • 29th PÖFF Tallinn 2025

The Academy

The Academy

by | Dec 30, 2024

The Academy

A young, idealistic student seeks her way as an artist in the adventurous and ruthless world of an art academy and becomes part of a colourful community of artists and professors who all struggle with the absurdities of life, love and the art world.

Credits

Cast: Maja Bons, Luise Aschenbrenner, Jean-Marc Barr, Andreas Lust, Isolde Barth, Christoph Luser, Jörg Besser, Joscha Baltha, Dagobert, Jan Tsien Beller, Felix Phönix Lehmann, Jonathan Joél Albrecht, Miguel Abrantes Ostrowski, Janusz Szczurowski, Michael Brandner

Written by: Camilla Guttner
Director: Camilla Guttner
Director of Photography: Luca Bigazzi
Editors: Beatrice Babin, Christian Bach
Sound: Alex Rubin
Composers: Ege Ateslioglu, Meerkat Meerkat (Songs)
Casting: Anja Dihrberg
Production Design: Markus Dicklhuber
Costume: Mara Laibacher, Luisa Rauschert
Make-up: Julia Schlotke, Steffen Roßmanith
Producers: Marcos Kantis (Schiwago Film), Korbinian Kalleder (SuperCine), Josef Brandmaier (Penned Pictures), Camilla Guttner (Standing Ovation Production)
Commissioning Editor: Corinna Liedtke, Anke Hirschel (WDR), Birgit Kämper (ARTE), Nathalie Lambsdorff (BR)
Funded by: FilmFernsehFonds Bavaria, German Federal Film Fund, German Federal Film Board FFA, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)

Year of production: 2024

Festival Participation
  • 41st Film Festival Munich 2024
  • 18th Ahrenshoop Film Nights 2024
  • 33rd Raindance Film Festival
Awards

Bavarian Film Award for Best Emerging Actress 2025 to Maja Bons

Muxmäuschenstillˣ

Muxmäuschenstillˣ

by | Aug 15, 2024

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Muxmäuschenstillˣ

In a world that has fallen out of joint, walking upright means walking askew. Mux is askew. Mux is different. And Mux is back.
After years in a coma, the self-proclaimed revolutionary and world-improver awakens to a world he no longer understands. He is a stranger in his own land. And yet the question arises: Have we all been asleep, rather than him?
With his long-time caregiver Karsten and the Manifesto of Muxism in tow, Mux takes up the fight for a fairer world.

Credits

Cast: Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Tilman Vellguth, Bettina Hoppe, Sophie Roeder, Henriette Simon

Written by: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Director: Jan Henrik Stahlberg
Directors of Photography: Ralf Noack, Carolin Hauke, Philip Jestädt
Editors: Sarah Clara Weber, Natalie Trapp
Sound: Phillip Lehner
Composer: Rainer Oleak
Casting: Stephanie Maile
Production Design: Kathrin Adam, Carola Gauster, Lada Stepanenko
Producers: Mirjam Erdem, Stella Wejchert
Line Producers: Charles Breitkreuz, Anna-Katrin Winkler
Producers: Martin Lehwald, Marcos Kantis (Mux Filmproduktion)
Co-Producers: Jana Kreissl, Tobias Gaede (Silva Film)
Funded by: Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), MV Film Funding

Year of production: 2024

Festival Participation
  • 34th Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Schwerin
  • 46th Max Ophuels Film Festival 2025 (Opening Film)
  • 41st Film Festival Munich 2024

Inside

Inside

by | Feb 17, 2023

Inside

“Inside” tells the story of Nemo an art thief who enters a collector’s penthouse apartment hunting for valuable works of art. As he enters, the security system locks everything down. And then malfunctions. He is locked inside. At Sirst, he expects his partners in crime to arrive, then the security guards or the police. Or the owner. But no one comes. Then he hopes and prays for a cleaning lady to come. A servant. Someone to clean the aquarium. Anyone. But no one comes. And days stretch out into months. He is locked inside a prison adorned with exquisite, strange, even eerie works of art: works that he both covets and admires, but which are now, for him, useless. Instead he must use all of his cunning and invention to survive. To break into all the locked spaces to Sind all the food and liquid he will need. The luxury penthouse – this locus of perfection and aspiration – has become a prison. A desert island. A torture chamber. And then a place of revelation.

 

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Credits

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Gene Bervoets, Eliza Stuyck

Written by: Ben Hopkins
Director: Vasilis Katsoupis
Director of Photography: Steven Annis
Production Design: Thorsten Sabel
Art Curator: Leonardo Bigazzi
Editor: Lambis Haralambidis
Composer: Frederik van de Moortel
Producer: Giorgos Karnavas (Heretic), Marcos Kantis (Schiwago Film), Dries Phlypo (A Private View)

Festival Participations
  • Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2024
  • 23rd Columbus Film Critics Association Awards
  • 30th Palić European Film Festival
  • 27th Sofia International Film Festival
  • Reims Polar – International Thriller Film Festival 2023
  • 73rd Berlin International Film Festival
Awards
  • Hellenic Film Academy Awards 2024:
    Best First Film Director – Vasilis Katsoupis; Best Actor – Willem Dafoe
  • 27th Sofia International Film Festival:
    Best Director – International Competition (Vasilis Katsoupis)
  • 30th Palić European Film Festival:
    Special Mention – International Competition (Vasilis Katsoupis)
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Styx

Styx

by | Feb 13, 2023

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Styx

Rike – a doctor from Europe, 40 years old – embodies a Western idea of happiness and success. She is educated, self-confident, determined and dedicated. Rike makes her daily living as an emergency doctor in Cologne before she starts her vacation in Gibraltar. There she sets sail alone with her sailboat. The destination of her journey is the Atlantic island Ascension Island. Her vacation comes to an abrupt end when she finds herself in the immediate vicinity of an overloaded, wrecked fishing boat after a storm at sea. Several dozen people are in danger of drowning. Rike first follows the usual rescue chain and requests assistance by radio. When her pleas for help go unanswered, time is running out, and a third-party rescue proves unlikely, Rike is forced to act.

 

Credits

Cast: Susanne Wolff, Gedion Odour Wekesa
Screenplay: Wolfgang Fischer, Ika Kuenzel
Director: Wolfgang Fischer
Camera: Benedict Neuenfels
Composer: Dirk von Lowtzwow
Editing: Monika Willi
Production design: Wolfgang Fischer, Benedict Neuenfels, Ina Kuenzel, Volker Rehm
Costume: Nicole Fischnaller
Make up: Elke Hahn
Sound: Andreas Turnwald
Production Management: Dirk Seibert
Line Producer: Charles E. Breitkreuz
Co-producer: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Bady Minck
Producer: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Editors: Andrea Hanke (WDR), Georg Steinert (Arte)
Broadcaster: WDR, Arte
Sponsor: Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Eurimages
Austrian Film Institute
Malta Film Commission
German Film and Television Fund
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
German Federal Film Board (FFA)
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)

Festivalteilnahmen
  • 68th Berlin International Film Festival (Section: Panorama Special)
  • 29th Emden-Norderney Film Festival
  • 28th Film Art Festival Mecklenburg Western Pomerania
  • 14th Festival of German Film Ludwigshafen am Rhein
  • 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
  • 29th Ankara International Film Festival
  • 37th Istanbul Film Festival
  • Odessa Film Festival
  • 42nd Hong Kong International Film Festival
  • 21st Shangai International Film & TV Festival
  • 4th Valetta Film Festival
  • 18th New Horizons Film Festival
  • Galway Film Fleadh
  • Jerusalem Film Festival
Preise

Bavarian Film Award:

  • Best image design

Berlinale:

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
  • 2nd place Panorama Audience Award
  • Label Europe Cinemas (initiative for the promotion of European cinema)
  • Heiner Carow Prize of the DEFA Foundation

German Film Award:

  • Silver LOLA for Best Feature Film
  • Best female lead
  • Best image design
  • Best sound design

German Human Rights Film Award:

  • Best feature film

Emden-Norderney Film Festival:

  • Creative Energy Award for outstanding individual achievements: Susanne Wolff (Acting) and Benedict Neuenfels (Cinematography)
  • Island scholarship “A desk by the sea” for director Wolfgang Fischer

Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg Vorpommern:

  • Main prize “Flying Ox
  • Audience Award
  • Award for best music and sound design

Austrian Film Award:

  • Best direction
  • Best Screenplay
  • Best cut