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Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is group to unfastened nan 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival and nan Polish helmer is group to personally invited audiences astatine nan gala screening connected August 14.
The film, which rounds up Pawlikowski’s Cold War trilogy, premiered astatine nan Cannes Film Festival earlier this twelvemonth wherever it won nan Best Director award.
Fatherland centers connected nan narration betwixt Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his girl Erika (Sandra Hüller), an actress, writer and rally driver. In nan summertime of 1949, astatine nan tallness of nan Cold War, begetter and girl embark connected a challenging affectional roadworthy travel successful a achromatic Buick taking them crossed a Germany successful ruins – from U.S. dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.
Returning location aft sixteen years of exile successful nan U.S., Thomas has to look not only a divided fatherland, but a heavy fracture wrong his ain family.
“It seems for illustration nan movie suits Sarajevo Film Festival because it is steeped successful history and successful conflict, successful situations which are still wrong surviving representation successful Bosnia,” said Pawlikowski. “It feels for illustration a bully discourse to show nan film. And I person a narration pinch nan Sarajevo Film Festival that stretches backmost for decades.”
Pawlikowski’s 1992 documentary film Serbian Epics was screened successful nan early days of nan Sarajevo Film Festival. His feature Cold War opened nan 24th Sarajevo Film Festival. The pursuing year, successful 2019, Pawlikowski was honored pinch nan Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, alongside a retrospective of his activity presented wrong nan Tribute To program.
“This is simply a show that I consciousness very adjacent to,” he said. “I worth nan relationships I formed successful Sarajevo pinch Miro, pinch Jovan. It is simply a benignant of existent narration pinch group who are movie lovers, but besides person a consciousness of history. My films, particularly nan past three, which are steeped successful history, person a very bully location there. I’m happy to beryllium backmost and very thrilled that it is opening nan festival.”
Pawlikowski’s 2013 film Ida won nan Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, nan first Polish movie to do so. It besides won 5 European Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.
The 32st Sarajevo Film Festival takes spot August 14-21, 2026.
