Pawel Pawlikowski and Ruben Östlund will be among the creatives featured at the Slano Film Days in Croatia next month.
Polish Oscar winner Pawlikowski (Ida) will arrive at the event with his new film Fatherland, starring Sandra Hüller, which just won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival, where it had its world premiere. The film will have its Croatian premiere at the Villa Riva Open-Air Cinema in Slano.
THR‘s review called Fatherland “a masterful exploration of family, history and angst,” lauding it for being “immaculately performed by Hanns Zischler and especially Sandra Hüller, grounding the film throughout with an uncanny, expressive stillness.”
Pawlikowski will also take part in a Film Talks session with participants of Slano Film Days, where he will speak about his new film in a conversation moderated by Östlund. As part of the Slano Film Days program, another film by Pawlikowski will be shown, namely Cold War, with star Joanna Kulig also attending the event and participating in a film talk.
Meanwhile, Östlund will present a selection of his short films in Slano, including Autobiographical Scene Number 6882, which follows a group of friends as they observe an attempted jump from a bridge into the water, and Incident by a Bank, a humorous reconstruction of a failed bank robbery inspired by a real-life event from 2006.
During a Film Talks session, Östlund will discuss his creative process and his new project, The Entertainment System Is Down, which he has written and directed, starring Keanu Reeves, Kirsten Dunst, and Daniel Brühl. The film is currently in post-production.
The two-time Swedish Palme d’Or winner (The Square, Triangle of Sadness) told The Hollywood Reporter at Cannes that he does not expect the film to be done before the end of the year. His new satire, set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia, where the entertainment system fails, sees passengers forced to face the existential horror of boredom.
Slano Film Days takes place June 17-21.
