Annika Pinske
Directing
Biography
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.
Known For
Clara is studying for a Ph.D in philosophy in Berlin. In this middle-class male academic environment, she feels pushed to one side. She returns to her childhood village in former East Germany for her mother's birthday, and becomes aware that a distance has grown between her and her family.
Talking About the Weather
Between ice cream parades, captain dinner and the usual tourist attractions of Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava, passenger Else (84) meets Captain Niko (41) on the Danube cruise ship "MS Europa". On the way to the Black Sea, old routines and relationships begin to falter until Else disappears in the delta and Niko dances in the Panorama Lounge of his ship, bleeding. A film about motherhood, masculinity, home and the (im)possibility of becoming a different person.
Into the River
The story about having to grow up and beeing allowed to remain a child.
Change
A young father, his twelve-year-old daughter, a night club, two secrets and a lie that will solve everything.
Homework
HANS (54) died. His ex wife CONNY (33) is now in charge of their daugther LEO (10). After their divorce Leo spent most of her time with her father Hans. Conny is overwhelmed by the new circumstances. Her way of dealing with the loss is supression instead of grieving. From then on, Conny tries to manage her full time job as a stage designer and constantly being on the phone while also taking care of her daughter. As accomplices of an unconventionel lifestyle, Conny and Leo find a new and unique form of a mother and daughter relationship.