{"id":786785,"date":"2026-07-08T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786785\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:55:08","slug":"fatherland-to-open-sarajevo-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/786785\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fatherland’ To Open Sarajevo Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s\u00a0Fatherland<\/a>\u00a0is set to open the 32nd\u00a0Sarajevo Film Festival<\/a> and the Polish helmer is set to personally welcome audiences at the gala screening on August 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, which rounds up Pawlikowski\u2019s\u00a0Cold War\u00a0trilogy, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where it won the Best Director award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFatherland\u00a0centers on the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra H\u00fcller), an actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins \u2013 from U.S. dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tReturning home after sixteen years of exile in the U.S., Thomas has to face not only a divided fatherland, but a deep fracture within his own family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt seems like the film suits Sarajevo Film Festival because it is steeped in history and in conflict, in situations which are still within living memory in Bosnia,\u201d said Pawlikowski. \u201cIt feels like a good context to show the film. And I have a relationship with the Sarajevo Film Festival that stretches back for decades.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPawlikowski\u2019s 1992 documentary film\u00a0Serbian Epics\u00a0was screened in the early days of the Sarajevo Film Festival. His feature\u00a0Cold War\u00a0opened the 24th\u00a0Sarajevo Film Festival. The following year, in 2019, Pawlikowski was honored with the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo, alongside a retrospective of his work presented within the Tribute To program.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is a festival that I feel very close to,\u201d he said. \u201cI value the relationships I formed in Sarajevo with Miro, with Jovan. It is a kind of real relationship with people who are film lovers, but also have a sense of history. My films, especially the last three, which are steeped in history, have a very good home there. I\u2019m happy to be back and very thrilled that it is opening the festival.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tPawlikowski\u2019s 2013 film\u00a0Ida\u00a0won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the first Polish film to do so. It also won five European Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 32st Sarajevo Film Festival takes place August 14-21, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s\u00a0Fatherland\u00a0is set to open the 32nd\u00a0Sarajevo Film Festival and the Polish helmer is set to personally welcome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,340978,344,336074,61748],"class_list":["post-786785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-fatherland","tag-movies","tag-pawel-pawlikowski","tag-sarajevo-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}