MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service, and production company, is pleased to share the official trailer and artwork for Paweł Pawlikowski’s (Ida, Cold War) new film FATHERLAND, following its World Premiere in the Official Competition at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where Pawlikowski won Best Director.
Written by Pawlikowski and Henk Handloegten, the film stars Academy Award®-nominated Sandra Hüller (The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall), Hanns Zischler (Munich, Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, Kings of the Road), August Diehl (A Hidden Life, Inglourious Basterds), Devid Striesow (All Quiet On The Western Front), and Anna Madeley (Patrick Melrose, All Creatures Great And Small).
The film is a MUBI, OUR Films (a Mediawan Company, Italy), Extreme Emotions (Poland), Nine Hours (Germany), and Chapter 2 (a Mediawan Company, France) production, in collaboration with Circle One (Italy) and Apocalypso Pictures, with the participation of Arte and Pathé. It is produced by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli for OUR Films, Ewa Puszczynska for Extreme Emotions, Jeanne Tremsal and Edward Berger for Nine Hours, Dimitri Rassam for Chapter 2, and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Circle One.
Pawlikowski reunites with his longtime filmmaking team, which includes the Academy Award®-nominated cinematographer Łukasz Żal, costume designer Aleksandra Staszko, and production designers Katarzyna Sobańska and Marcel Sławiński.
Previously, Pawlikowski’s Ida garnered 70 international awards, including 5 European Film Awards and the 2015 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film. He won the Best Director Prize at Cannes in 2018 for Cold War, with the film going on to receive a further 52 wins and 126 nominations, including Academy Award® nominations for Best Foreign Film, Best Director, and Best Cinematography.
SYNOPSIS
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.
With FATHERLAND, 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.
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OUR FILMS is a film and television production company based in Rome, dedicated to every aspect of developing and producing feature films, television series, and documentaries.
Founders Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani are producers behind major international successes such as The Hand of Godand Parthenope by Paolo Sorrentino, Priscilla by Sofia Coppola, Queer and Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino, Maria by Pablo Larraín, The Eight Mountains by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, There’s Still Tomorrow by Paola Cortellesi, and Limonov: The Ballad by Kirill Serebrennikov.
In television, Gianani and Mieli have produced numerous series, including the eight-episode limited series M by Joe Wright, based on the life of Mussolini, as well as internationally acclaimed productions such as The Young Pope and The New Pope, both created by Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino, We Are Who We Are by Luca Guadagnino, and My Brilliant Friend, directed by Saverio Costanzo and adapted from the bestselling novels by Elena Ferrante.
During its first year of activity, OUR FILMS produced Portobello by Marco Bellocchio and Francesco De Gregori – Nevergreen by Stefano Pistolini, both selected out of competition at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. It also produced La Vita Va Così by Riccardo Milani and Figlio di Giano by Luigi Grispello, both selected for the Rome Film Fest, as well as Oi Vita Mia starring Pio e Amedeo, which became a box-office hit during the autumn film season, Fatherland by Paweł Pawlikowski, winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2026.
Currently in production Let Love In by Felix Van Groeningen.
OUR FILMS is part of the French media group MEDIAWAN.
Source: MUBI Canada
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