Pawel Pawlikowski and Ruben Östlund will probably be among the many creatives featured on the Slano Movie Days in Croatia subsequent month.
Polish Oscar winner Pawlikowski (Ida) will arrive at the occasion together with his new film Fatherland, starring Sandra Hüller, which simply gained the best director award on the Cannes Film Festival, the place it had its world premiere. The movie can have its Croatian premiere on the Villa Riva Open-Air Cinema in Slano.
THR‘s overview referred to as 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 may also participate in a Movie Talks session with contributors of Slano Movie Days, the place he’ll talk about his new movie in a dialog moderated by Östlund. As a part of the Slano Movie Days program, one other movie by Pawlikowski will probably be proven, specifically Cprevious Battle, with star Joanna Kulig additionally attending the occasion and taking part in a movie speak.
In the meantime, Östlund will current a choice of his quick movies in Slano, together with Autobiographical Scene Quantity 6882, which follows a bunch of mates as they observe an tried bounce from a bridge into the water, and Incident by a Financial institution, a humorous reconstruction of a failed financial institution theft impressed by a real-life occasion from 2006.
Throughout a Movie Talks session, Östlund will focus on his inventive course of and his new undertaking, The Entertainment System Is Down, which he has written and directed, starring Keanu Reeves, Kirsten Dunst, and Daniel Brühl. The movie is presently in post-production.
The 2-time Swedish Palme d’Or winner (The Square, Triangle of Sadness) instructed The Hollywood Reporter at Cannes that he doesn’t anticipate the movie to be performed earlier than the tip of the yr. His new satire, set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia, the place the leisure system fails, sees passengers compelled to face the existential horror of boredom.
Slano Movie Days takes place June 17-21.
