In our Monthly Film Series, we will show a variety of GERMAN or GERMAN language films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. On the 2nd Tuesday of each month, audiences will now have a chance to see these films on a regular basis at the CLINTON STREET THEATER. (Children movies will be playing on Sunday afternoons – please check our website.) All films are with English subtitles.
TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHER (Alle reden übers Wetter) Buy Tickets
TUESDAY, August 8, 2023 – 7:00 PM
Germany 2022, 89 min
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Clara is 39 and is taking a PhD in philosophy. She lives in a Kreuzberg flat share while her teenage daughter lives with her ex. Clara is having a secret relationship with one of her students. Her thesis supervisor, the strong and independent Margot, provides her with professional encouragement. When Clara visits her home in provincial Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for her mother’s birthday, she finds herself struggling with the pride and expectations but also with the rejection of her family and former companions. She begins to realize just how far she has moved away from her roots in her search for a self-determined life. But perhaps she had to move away. Because one’s perception of home can change.
Annika Pinske’s quiet drama is a study in familiarity and distance, liberty and compulsion, the countryside and the city. Sensitive, nuanced performances from an outstanding cast with an assured command of the local dialects allow the audience to experience the atmospheres of both Berlin’s university milieu and the rural family get-together.
Annika Pinske
Having grown up in Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany, she worked for the theatre director René Pollesch while studying philosophy and literature, and was later assistant to filmmaker Maren Ade (Toni Erdmann). In 2011, she began a directing degree at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). Her short films have screened and won prizes around the world, including a nomination for the 2015 German Short Film Award for Spielt keine Rolle and the 2016 German Short Film Award for Homework. Alle reden übers Wetter is her graduation film.
Filmography
2015 Spielt keine Rolle (Anyways); short film 2016 Homework; short film · Taschengeld (Change); short film 2022 Alle reden übers Wetter (Talking About the Weather)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022