"A highlight of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Paweł Pawlikowski won the award for Best Director, *Fatherland* explores masterfully the themes of identity, family, love and guilt amid the turmoil and confusion of post-war Europe. *Fatherland* centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, a politically engaged writer, actress, and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging road trip in a black Buick 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, as the towering figure of his son Klaus Mann, looms over everything he says and does." Timetable Meet and greet 18:15 Screening 18:30 Discussion + drinks Cine Lumiere cafe 20:00

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