POPULAR PULA
FATHERLAND
DIRECTOR: Paweł Pawlikowski
COUNTRY: PL, DE, IT, FR
YEAR/DURATION: 2026. • 82′
biographical docudrama
Info
- SCREENPLAY: Paweł Pawlikowski, Hendrik Handloegten
- CINEMATOGRAPHY: Łukasz Żal
- EDITORS: Piotr Wójcik, Paweł Pawlikowski
- PRODUCTION DESIGN: Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska
- COSTUME DESIGN: Ola Staszko
- SCORE: Marcin Masecki
- CAST: Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Anna Madeley
- PRODUCERS: Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli, Ewa Puszczyńska, Jeanne Tremsal, Edward Berger, Dimitri Rassam, Lorenzo Gangarossa
- PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Our Films (IT), Extreme Emotions (PL), Nine Hours (UK), Chapter2 (FR)
- DISTRIBUTION: MegaCom Hrvatska
Festivals and awards
Cannes Film Festival 2026 – Best Director Prize (ex-æquo)
Filmfest München 2026. – opening film
Synopsis
The film follows the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, an actress and writer. In the summer of 1949, father and daughter travel through war-ravaged Germany — from American-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar — confronting a divided homeland and deep tensions within their own family after sixteen years of exile in the United States.
Trailer
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About the director
Paweł Pawlikowski (Warsaw, 1957) is a Polish-born British film director and screenwriter. He made many award-winning documentaries in the late 1980s and early 1990s, such as From Moscow to Pietushki (1990), Dostoevsky’s Travels (1991), Serbian Epics (1992), and Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995). After documentaries, his focus shifted to feature films, the first of which were Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004). Both films won BAFTA awards. In 2013, Pawlikowski made the highly acclaimed Ida, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015. His film Cold War won the Best Director Award at Cannes in 2018 and got three Oscar nominations for Best Director, Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography. He currently lives in Warsaw where he teaches film directing and screenwriting at the Wajda Film School.
Screenings
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- ARENA – MONDAY 13.7.2026.
23:50
- ARENA – MONDAY 13.7.2026.
