Juliette Binoche joined BFI Southbank's preview of Queen at Sea, Lance Hammer's Silver Bear-winning second feature, eighteen years after his debut Ballast.
Juliette Binoche, an Oscar winner for The English Patient, joined BFI Southbank’s preview of Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea on the South Bank on Thursday 17 September 2026.
Hammer’s first feature, Ballast premiered at Sundance in January 2008. He released it through his own company rather than sell it. Queen at Sea, his second, came eighteen years later and took the Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlin.
The film follows a daughter who comes to doubt that her stepfather has her mother’s interests at heart, while her mother lives with advanced dementia. Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall play the parents.
Binoche was born in Paris in 1964 and has made more than sixty films in French and English. She won Best Actress at Venice for Three Colours: Blue in 1993 and at Cannes in 2010. She and Julianne Moore are the only two actresses to have won an acting prize at all three major European festivals.
Binoche joined a conversation on stage in NFT1 after the screening. It was the film’s only London date before Curzon released it in British cinemas.