The Match Factory is handling sales on Berlinale competition titles Queen at Sea by Lance Hammer, starring Juliette Binoche, and Home Stories, the third feature film by Eva Trobisch.

In total, the company has four Berlinale titles. The other two are Rosebush Pruning by Karim Aïnouz, produced by The Match Factory, and Rose, the latest film by Markus Schleinzer, starring Sandra Hüller.

Queen at Sea stars Binoche alongside Tom Courtenay. The film explores how dementia erodes a woman’s ability to communicate her inner life. As her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interest, they must navigate love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection, and autonomy. Alongside Binoche and Courtenay are Anna Calder-Marshall (Wuthering Heights) and Florence Hunt (Bridgerton). The feature is a production from The Bureau and is produced by Tristan Goligher. 

Home Stories features an ensemble cast that includes Max Riemelt, Eva Löbau, and Frida Hornemann. The film is produced by Trimafilm in co-production with Komplizen Film, if…Productions, and ZDF/ARTE in collaboration with The Post Republic. The film’s synopsis reads: “Who are you and what defines you?”, Lea is asked by the production crew of a reality talent show. She does not know. And with this question, her search for an identity within and beyond her family’s hotel in the forests of the former East Germany begins.

Perhaps Berlinale most starry offering, Rosebush Pruning stars Callum Turner (Masters of the Air), Riley Keough (Daisy Jones & The Six), Jamie Bell (All of Us Strangers), Lukas Gage (The White Lotus), Elena Anaya (The Skin I Live In) with Tracy Letts (Lady Bird), Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value) and Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl). 

The film was written by Efthimis Filippou (Kinds of Kindness) and produced by Viola Fügen and Michael Weber. The synopsis reads: In a Spanish villa, American siblings Jack, Ed, Anna, and Robert wallow in isolation and their inherited fortune. When Jack wants to move in with his girlfriend, and Ed uncovers the truth about their mother’s death, the fabric of the family begins to unravel.

Rose is the third feature by Austrian director and actor Markus Schleinzer. The film is described as a historical drama. The official synopsis reads: In the early 17th century, a soldier arrives at an isolated Protestant village in Germany claiming to be the heir to an abandoned farmstead. Even though he proves to be a good man, the villagers’ suspicions about his identity grow, and they force a reckoning.