[5] In 2016, Thorsten's directed the documentary film, Furusato, which premiered at DOK Leipzig and won the Golden Dove Award.
[1] Thorsten wrote and directed his first feature documentary, The Irrational Remains (German: Der irrationale Rest), shot on 35mm.
[9] The film tells the story of three young friends from East Berlin, two of whom attempted to escape the GDR only to be caught and imprisoned in 1987.
[10] Sixteen years later, the trio, all of whom remained in Berlin after the wall fell but never tried to find one another, are finally ready to see each other again.
As they take turns telling their stories, they return to their pasts—the frontier forest through which they fled, the prison cells in which they were tortured—and confront feelings of betrayal, by their country, their families, and each other.