The Match Factory has boarded sales on Lance Hammer’s Queen At Sea and Eva Trobisch’s Home Stories, both of which will have world premieres in the Berlin Film Festival Competition next month.
Hammer’s second feature – and first since 2008 – stars Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay, in the story of a woman with dementia and her husband and daughter struggling to act in her best interests.
It is produced by Tristan Goligher for The Bureau, with whom The Match Factory worked on Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years. Anna Calder-Marshall and 2024 Screen Star of Tomorrow Florence Hunt also star.
US filmmaker Hammer’s debut Ballast won him the best director prize at Sundance and played the Berlinale in 2008, going on to six nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards.
German director Trobisch’s third feature Home Stories is a family drama about belonging and the search for identity. It is produced by Trimafilm in co-production with Komplizen Film, if…Productions, and ZDF/ARTE, in collaboration with The Post Republic.
Trobisch’s debut feature All Good won best debut film at Locarno Film Festival in 2018, while her second feature Ivo played in Berlin’s Encounters strand in 2024.
The two new titles take The Match Factory’s Berlin Competition films up to four, alongside previously announced Rosebush Pruning from Karim Ainouz, and Rose by Markus Schleinzer.
Berlin Film Festival will open on Thursday, February 12 with the world premiere of Shahrbanoo Sadat’s No Good Men as a Berlinale Special title.
German director Wim Wenders will preside over the Competition jury.
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