Paweł Pawlikowski Nation is able to open on the 32sd The Sarajevo Movie Competition and the Polish director will personally welcome the viewers on the gala screening on August 14.
The movie, which summarizes Pawlikowski’s story Chilly struggle trilogy, premiering on the Cannes Movie Competition earlier this yr the place it gained the Greatest Director award.
Nation focuses on the connection between Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller), an actress, author and rally driver. In the summertime of 1949, on the peak of the Chilly Battle, father and daughter embark on an emotional street journey in a black Buick, taking them throughout a ruined Germany – from American-ruled Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Returning house after sixteen years of exile in the USA, Thomas should face not solely a divided homeland, but additionally a deep divide inside his circle of relatives.
“It appears that evidently the movie is appropriate for the Sarajevo Movie Competition as a result of it’s rooted in historical past and conflicts, in conditions which are nonetheless within the residing reminiscence of Bosnia,” Pawlikowski stated. “It looks like a superb context to indicate the movie. And I’ve a relationship with the Sarajevo Movie Competition that goes again many years.”
Pawlikowski’s 1992 documentary movie Serbian epics was screened initially of the Sarajevo Movie Competition. Its particularity Chilly struggle open on 24th Sarajevo Movie Competition. The next yr, in 2019, Pawlikowski obtained the Honorary Coronary heart of Sarajevo, alongside a retrospective of his work introduced as a part of the Tribute To program.
“It’s a competition that I really feel very near,” he stated. “I recognize the relationships I made in Sarajevo with Miro, with Jovan. It is a form of actual relationship with people who find themselves movie buffs, however who even have a way of historical past. My movies, particularly the final three, that are stuffed with historical past, have an excellent house there. I am blissful to be again and really blissful that that is opening the competition.”
Pawlikowski’s 2013 movie Ida gained the Academy Award for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie, the primary Polish movie to win such an award. It additionally gained 5 European Movie Awards, together with Greatest Movie, Greatest Director and Greatest Screenwriter.
The thirty second Sarajevo Movie Competition will happen from August 14 to 21, 2026.