The Teachers' Lounge

A closely observed workplace drama, this story of suspicion and unconscious bias is grippingly complex. Carla (The Crown’s Leonie Benesch) is a committed Polish-German teacher at a German secondary school. When one of her Turkish-German students is unjustly accused of thefts, Carla feels responsible for the fall out and is driven to find answers. But her investigation leads to uncomfortable questions that have serious consequences for her job…

A brilliant take on the fault lines in modern German society, this is has sophisticated narrative turns and superb characterisation driving it.