Rated: PG-13; 98 minutes; in German, Turkish, Polish, English; Directed by: Ilker Çatak
Starring: Leonie Benesch, Anne-Kathrin Gummich, Rafael Stachowiak
Nominated for Best International Feature at the Academy Awards, The Teachers’ Lounge follows Carla, a dedicated teacher, who starts her first job at a high school. When a series of thefts occur at the school and one of her students is suspected, she decides to get to the bottom of the matter on her own. Carla tries to mediate between outraged parents, opinionated colleagues and aggressive students, but is relentlessly confronted with the structures of the school system. The more desperately she tries to do everything right, the more the young teacher threatens to break.