FATHERLAND by Paweł Pawlikowski will be presented in Competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival

April 9, 2026 – FATHERLAND, the latest feature film by Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida, Cold War), will be presented In Competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. MUBI holds all rights for North America, Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Italy, Spain, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, and India, and has released the film’s first image.

Written by Pawlikowski and Henk Handloegten, the film stars Oscar® nominee 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 production by MUBI, OUR Films (a Mediawan company, Italy), Extreme Emotions (Poland), Nine Hours (Germany), and Chapter 2 (a Mediawan company, France), 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.

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Pawlikowski reunites with his longtime collaborators, including Oscar®-nominated cinematographer Łukasz Żal, costume designer Aleksandra Staszko, and production designers Katarzyna Sobańska and Marcel Sławiński.

Pawlikowski’s Ida received 70 international awards, including five European Film Awards and the Academy Award® for Best International Feature Film in 2015. The director also won the Best Director award (Prix de la mise en scène) at Cannes in 2018 for Cold War, which earned 52 wins and 126 nominations, including Academy Award® nominations for Best International Feature Film, Best Director, and Best Cinematography.