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Fatherland

2026. 82 m. Paweł Pawlikowski. MUBI. Poland/Germany/Italy/France. German/French/English/Russian. Rated NR.

With Fatherland, winner of Best Director at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski picks up where he left off with his award-winning Ida and Cold War, exploring – in his elliptic, distilled style – the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe.

Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.

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"Fatherland is an elegant, engrossing film; chilly at times, but also poignant as repressed feelings finally bubble to the surface. This is another expansive, enriching work from a modern master."
Phil de Semlyen, Time Out

"Much like in Mann’s work, Pawlikowski’s exploration of a critical chapter in the lives of Thomas and Erika Mann shows that the distant past doesn’t just echo into the present. It reverberates with a quietly devastating resonance."
Sophia Ciminello, Awards Watch

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Paweł Pawlikowski is a Polish filmmaker who began his career directing award-winning documentaries in Britain before moving into narrative features with Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004), both BAFTA-winning films. His film Ida (2013) won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the first Polish film to do so. It also won five European Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director andBest Screenwriter. Cold War (2018) premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where Pawlikowski was awarded the Best Director Prize, and later received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Director. It also won five awards at the 2018 European Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.