Queen at Sea - Director Lance Hammer

Lance Hammer's extraordinary follow up film to his award winning debut film, BALLAST, Queen at Sea is a piercing examination of a woman and her stepfather face increasingly difficult choices while caring for her mother with dementia. Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (The Taste of Things), Academy Award nominee Tom Courtenay (45 Years), Anna Calder-Marshall (Wuthering Heights), and Florence Hunt (Bridgerton) star in this unflinching drama, which won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 2026 Berlinale. About the filmmaker - Lance Hammer is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He studied Architecture at the University of Southern California. His first film, BALLAST , premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival where he won the US Dramatic Directing Award. It also played in competition at the Berlinale. During its festival run BALLAST received multiple best picture and directing awards and four FIPRESCI prizes. It was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards. Hammer recently shot his second film, QUEEN AT SEA , in London, starring Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay.