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SUMMARY:"Fatherland" at the Arava Film Festival
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DESCRIPTION:Pawlikowski's new film, "Fatherland", premiered in the Official Competition
at the Cannes Film Festival, where it earned him the Best Director Award.
A Polish-German co-production, the film is set in 1949 and follows German
writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika as they travel across post-war
Germany. For Mann, who left his homeland sixteen years earlier, this is his
first return since going into exile. His homecoming confronts him with the
past and raises questions about identity, memory, belonging and the meaning
of homeland.
As they journey through the country, the two encounter a devastated and
divided Germany, vastly different from the one they once knew and left
behind. Their journey becomes not only a return to a country deeply scarred
by war, but also a personal and family reckoning with memories, tensions
and conflicts that often remain unspoken. Through the relationship between
father and daughter, the film explores the complex intersection of major
historical events and individual experience.
Thomas Mann, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature and one of the most
influential figures in 20th-century European culture, was a writer whose
life and work were profoundly shaped by exile and his relationship with his
homeland. His daughter Erika, a writer, actress and journalist, shared his
intellectual and political journey. Together, their stories offer a
distinctive perspective on post-war Germany and the struggle to come to
terms with its past.
Known for his precise filmmaking, distinctive visual language and interest
in characters caught between history, identity and memory, Pawlikowski
continues in his latest film to explore the complex relationship between
individuals and their homeland. The leading roles are played by acclaimed
European actors Sandra Hüller, August Diehl and Hans Zischler.
Held annually in the heart of the desert under the open sky, the Arava Film
Festival presents a selection of Israeli and international films. This
year's festival will take place from November 4–14 at the Eshosh Nature
Reserve, near the village of Tzukim.
 
Screening of Fatherland
Thursday, November 12 | 7:30 PM
For more details and tickets
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