What does life look like for a woman who doesn’t want to end up as a lifelong homemaker? A woman who doesn’t want to be defined by the word “mother?” 39-years-old Clara has left her native village in eastern Germany to earn a doctorate in philosophy in Berlin. As an ambitious intellectual, she has little time for her adolescent daughter, nor for her aging mother. When she comes home for a family gathering, she is finally forced to confront her own values. Will she succeed in finding a balance between ambition and her family?

Annika Pinske

Pinske studied philosophy and literature before beginning to work in film and study directing. She worked for two years as the personal assistant to Maren Ade, in which capacity she contributed to the successful film Toni Erdmann (2016). She has filmed several shorts, and her Homework (2016) earned an award for the best German short film. Her feature-film debut Talking About the Weather premiered in the Panorama section at this year’s Berlinale.