The new edition of the Cannes Film Festival, scheduled from May 12 to 23, 2026, is taking shape with the long-awaited reveal of its official selection. The Pawel Pawlikowski film Fatherland (1949) is among the titles, underscoring its status as a must-see at this marquee event of world cinema.
It's been eight years since the Polish director unveiled a new feature. His previous film, Cold War, was also shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018, in the official competition. He left there crowned with the Best Director prize. The following year, in 2019, Pawel Pawlikowski had served on the jury under the presidency of Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Synopsis : In 1949, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann returns to Germany for the first time since the war, traveling with his daughter Erika, an actress, writer and rally driver. At the wheel of a black Buick, they embark on a grueling journey through a country they fled sixteen years earlier when the Nazis seized power. From Frankfurt under American occupation to Weimar, then under Soviet control, father and daughter traverse a ruined, divided Germany as the Cold War takes shape.
Fatherland
Film | 2026
In theaters: Coming soon
Drama | Duration:
Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski | Starring Hanns Zischler, Sandra Hüller, August Diehl
Original title: 1949
Nationality: Germany, Poland, Italy, France, United Kingdom
