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Pawel Pawlikowski and Ruben Östlund are among nan names that will be this year’s Slano Film Days successful Croatia.
Pawlikowski will coming his latest feature, Fatherland, astatine nan event. Fatherland debuted past week astatine nan Cannes Film Festival, wherever Pawlikowski won nan Best Director award. He shared nan grant pinch Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, who directed La Bola Negra.
Pawlikowski directed Fatherland from a screenplay he co-wrote pinch Hendrik Handloegten. Pawlikowski besides co-edited nan task pinch Piotr Wójcik. The movie centres connected nan narration betwixt nan Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his girl Erika (Sandra Hüller).
The charismatic synopsis reads: “In nan summertime of 1949, astatine nan tallness of nan Cold War, begetter and girl embark connected a challenging and affectional roadworthy travel successful a achromatic Buick, taking them crossed a Germany successful ruins – from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning location aft sixteen years of exile successful nan US, Thomas Mann has to look not only a divided fatherland, but besides a heavy fracture wrong his ain family.”
Pawlikowski will return portion successful an onstage Q&A astatine Slano Film Days. Östlund will mean nan session. In summation to moderating, nan Swedish filmmaker will surface respective of his short films astatine nan event. Östlund will besides return portion successful an onstage Q&A wherever he will talk his latest feature, The Entertainment System Is Down, which is presently successful post-production.
The Entertainment System Is Down is Östlund’s follow-up to nan Palme d’Or-winning satire Triangle of Sadness. The movie is simply a societal satire group connected a long-haul formation wherever nan intermezo systems fail, and an eclectic group of world passengers are forced to look nan scary of being bored.
