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Fatherland has been given an Australian release date from Madman Entertainment and MUBI for November 12, so we can now look forward to watching the new film from acclaimed filmmaker Paweł Pawlikowski. The announcement follows the film’s premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, where Pawlikowski won the Best Director award.
Check out the trailer for Fatherland below.
FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick taking them across a Germany in ruins – from US dominated Frankfurt to Soviet controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.
Written by Pawlikowski and Henk Handloegten, Fatherland stars Sandra Hüller, Hanns Zischler, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, and Anna Madeley.
Pawlikowski reunites with several collaborators from Ida and Cold War, including cinematographer Łukasz Żal, costume designer Aleksandra Staszko, and production designers Katarzyna Sobańska and Marcel Sławiński.
Fatherland opens in Australian cinemas on November 12, 2026. Are you looking forward to watching this one? Let me know in the comments section below.
