Overview
- Mubi released the official trailer and poster on Thursday, May 28 and confirmed it will open Fatherland in U.S. theaters this fall while also handling distribution in several international territories.
- The film premiered at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival where Paweł Pawlikowski shared the Best Director prize, a win that critics say has boosted the film’s awards-season profile.
- Fatherland is an 82-minute, black-and-white drama that follows Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, played by Hanns Zischler, and his daughter Erika, played by Sandra Hüller, on a 1949 road trip across a devastated postwar Germany.
- Critics at Cannes praised the film’s spare formal style and the performances, with several outlets naming Sandra Hüller a possible Best Actress contender as expectations rise for festival and awards coverage.
- The project is a multi-country European co-production that reunites Pawlikowski with longtime collaborators such as cinematographer Łukasz Żal and fits Mubi’s recent strategy of moving high-profile festival films into global theatrical and streaming windows.