Filmmaker Survey | Lance Hammer

Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay in Queen at Sea (Lance Hammer, 2026). With Queen at Sea (2026), American filmmaker Lance Hammer returns to direct his second film nearly two decades after his remarkable debut Ballast , which won the Grand Jury and directing awards at Sundance in 2008. Premiering in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, the new film deservedly took home awards for Hammer’s direction and for actors Anna Calder-Marshall and Tom Courtenay, who play a long-married elderly couple. Leslie (Calder-Marshall), who suffers from dementia, is cared for at home by her hus

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