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At the Sea

Competition 2026
© 2026 ATS Production LLC
After rehab, Laura returns to her family’s Cape Cod home. Once the face of her late father’s renowned dance company, she built an identity tethered to his legacy and the cost of growing up in his shadow. Laura’s functional alcoholism, long ignored by everybody, finally reached a breaking point after a drunk-driving accident with her young son in the car. Now sober, she comes home changed, but to a family unprepared for this. Her husband Martin welcomes her cautiously, torn between devotion and mistrust. Their teenage daughter Josie meets Laura with hostility, while her son Felix remains distant. Over several days by the sea, family moments become pressure points, revealing buried anger, financial strain and the fragility of reconciliation. As Laura’s former colleagues push her to return to the career she abandoned, she confronts a deeper question: Who is she without the identity that once justified her self-destruction?
The film unfolds as an intimate character study that charts Laura’s path from denial towards acceptance as she approaches an understanding that healing is not linear and that love, sobriety and family demand a willingness to remain present in uncertainty.
by Kornél Mundruczó (Director), Kata Wéber (Screenplay)
with Amy Adams, Murray Bartlett, Chloe East, Brett Goldstein, Dan Levy, Redding L. Munsell, Jenny Slate, Rainn Wilson USA / Hungary 2026 English 112' Colour World premiere

With

  • Amy Adams (Laura)
  • Murray Bartlett (Martin)
  • Chloe East (Josie)
  • Brett Goldstein (Keegan)
  • Dan Levy (Peter)
  • Redding L. Munsell (Felix)
  • Jenny Slate (Debbie)
  • Rainn Wilson (George)

Crew

Director Kornél Mundruczó
Screenplay Kata Wéber
Cinematography Yorick Le Saux
Editing Dávid Jancsó, Ilka Janka Nagy
Music Sacha Galperine, Evgueni Galperine
Sound Design Steve Single
Production Design Jeremy Woodward
Casting Jessica Kelly, Rebecca Dealy
Producers Alexander Rodnyansky, Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swett, Stuart Manashil, Kornél Mundruczó, Alex Lebovici
Executive Producers Viktória Petrányi, Zsofi Oblath, Kata Wéber, Paul J. Diaz, Maria Breese, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Andria Spring, David Hillary, Jonathan Oakes, Michael Kupisk, Cole Garson, Lara Ta, Konstantin Korenchuk, Joe Simpson, Simon Williams, Juliana Lubin, Walter Josten, Patrick Josten, Jarrett Mahoney, Thomas Walton, Matt Macur, David Edelstein, Diane Gooch, Mickey Gooch Jr.
Co-Producers Rachel Rubin, Michael Learner

Produced by

Ryder Picture Company

Los Angeles, USA

AR Content

Los Angeles, USA

Hammerstone Studios

Beverly Hills, USA

Co-produced by

Ashland Hill

Santa Monica, USA

Proton Cinema

Budapest, Hungary

LB Entertainment

Jeff Rice Films

California, USA

World Sales

mk2 Films

Paris, France

Photos

Press Conference

Red Carpet

Kornél Mundruczó

The Hungarian director’s debut film, Szép napok (Pleasant Days), screened at Locarno where it won the Silver Leopard. His subsequent works premiered at Cannes where Delta won the FIPRESCI Prize and Fehér isten (White God) the main award in the Un Certain Regard section. His first English-language film, Pieces of a Woman, was selected for the Venice Film Festival where it received the Young Cinema Award while its lead actor, Vanessa Kirby, was honoured with the Volpi Cup as well as being nominated for an Oscar.

Filmography (selection)

2002 Szép napok (Pleasent Days) 2008 Delta 2014 Fehér isten (White God) 2017 Jupiter holdja (Jupiter’s Moon) 2020 Pieces of a Woman 2021 Evolúció (Evolution) 2026 At the Sea

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2026