Welcome to the opening of this year’s Umeå Film Festival! Your ticket includes coat check and a glass of sparkling wine. Collect your drink ticket at one of our box offices. Join us for drinks and mingling at Kajen from 18:30. The doors to the auditorium open at 19:00.
After 16 years in exile, Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) returns to post-war Germany with his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller). The year is 1949, and the Cold War is underway. In a black Buick, they travel through a divided country left in ruins by the Second World War, from American-controlled Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
Paweł Pawlikowski, director of Ida (2013) and Cold War (2018), returns with a new historical drama in his signature black-and-white style. Fatherland is an 82-minute road movie in which every frame seems to contain an entire world.
– Daniel Tollefsen Altamirano
18:30 Welcome drinks and mingling at Kajen
19:00 Speeches + Film screening begins at Vävenscenen
Coat check and a glass of sparkling wine are included in the ticket price. Collect your drink ticket from the festival staff upon arrival by showing your admission ticket.