Queen at Sea (English Subtitles)

As dementia erodes a woman’s ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interest, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy. Juliette Binoche plays the daughter who puts her own life on hold to help her mother and stepfather, opposite Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall. Queen at Sea had its world premiere in competition at the Berlinale and is the second film from Lance Hammer, who won the best director prize at Sundance for his debut Ballast. A restrained, unsentimental drama about ageing, intimacy and the difficult questions around consent and care.