BALANCE

BALANCE

BALANCE

Director: Björn Schürmann
Feature film | Germany | 2025
79 min | Dolby 5.1

59th Hof International Film Festival
2025

Johannes, a moderately successful musician, receives a visit from his daughter Clara, who lives with her mother in the Netherlands. Everything is prepared for one of their usual, brief encounters: the guest room is aired out, the bathroom has been haphazardly cleaned. Clara is just passing through anyway, she’s planning to travel on to Korea the next day. But when her flight is delayed, father and daughter suddenly have more time than they know how to fill. What happens when there’s suddenly space to truly connect? Johannes suggests spending a few days at the old family cabin by the Baltic Sea. What begins euphorically becomes a journey of discovery, where music plays the leading role.

With Andreas Nickl, Kevin Patzke, Larissa Kiers

Screenplay Ina-Lene Dinse, Cinematography Paul Maximilian Näther, Editing Barbara Ophoff, Production design Alexia Fernandes, Set design Laureen Thews, Costume design Bettina Weiß, Casting Vanessa Gräfingholt, Sound Philipp Rosenberg, Sound design Jaime Guijarro-Bustamante, Paul Bickhoff, Music Florian Mönks, Philip Hochstrate, Andreas Westermann, Make-up Konstancja Bartoszewska, Mina Ghoraishi, Production Björn Schürmann