Balance
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, and 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.
Cast
- Clara
- Larissa Kiers
- Johannes
- Andreas Nickl
- Stevie
- Kevin Patzke
Balance
Björn Schürmann
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2025
- Language
- dt., nl., engl. OF m. dt. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 79min
1.85:1, Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
Björn Schürmann
Born in 1978 in Witten. Studied Pedagogics in Berlin and co-founded the filmArche (the largest self-organized film school in Europe) in Berlin, where he also studied Directing. Active as a director and screenwriter.
Filmography
| 2004 | Was du nicht siehst | Kurzfilm | |
| 2005 | Communicator | Kurzfilm | |
| Frau Steinberg | Kurzfilm | ||
| 2007 | Fenster und Gardinen | Kurzfilm | |
| 2009 | Liebe Kinder | Kurzfilm | |
| 2011 | Bärenklau | Kurzfilm | |
| 2014 | Luftleerer Raum | Kurzfilm | 2014 |
| 2017 | Louie | mittellanger Film | |
| 2021 | Tilt | Kurzfilm | |
| 2025 | Balance | Spielfilm | 2025 |
“As a son and father, I am constantly moved and touched by questions of connection and distance. In BALANCE, I examine the uncertainties and conflicts between father and daughter. The relationship itself becomes the protagonist. The piece of music that Johannes and Clara create together remains like an echo in their relationship, beyond the farewell, beyond change, beyond the film.”
- Writer
- Ina-Lene Dinse
- Director of Photography
- Paul Maximilian Näther
- Editor
- Barbara Ophoff
- Production Designer
- Alexia Fernandes
- Set Designer
- Laureen Thews
- Costume Designer
- Bettina Weiß
- Casting Director
- Vanessa Gräfingholt
- Sound
- Philipp Rosenberg
- Sound Designer
- Jaime Guijarro-Bustamante
- Paul Bickhoff
- Music Composer
- Florian Mönks
- Philip Hochstrate
- Andreas Westermann
- Make-up
- Konstancja Bartoszewska
- Mina Ghoraishi
- Producer
- Björn Schürmann