'Fatherland' (Director: Pawel Pawlikowski, 2026): Friday, November 27, 7 p.m., and Saturday, November 28, 7 p.m., and Sunday, November 29, 2 p.m., Detroit Institute of Arts

From Oscar® nominated director Paweł Pawlikowski (Ida) comes a delicate, emotionally expansive historical drama set in 1949 that follows the Nobel Prize winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller of Anatomy of a Fall) on a fictionalized road trip across a Germany still reeling from the devastation of World War II – a nation in deep denial of its own culpability. Thomas Mann, revisiting his home after years of exile in the U.S., travels warily with his actress daughter across the strange new landscape of their now-unfamiliar country, revealing tense interpersonal dynamics and familial tragedies as they strive to come to grips with a shattered world that is at once alien yet deeply embedded in their memories. This eloquent, indelible portrait of birth of a new historical reckoning earned Pawlikowski the Best Director Prize at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. 

In German, English, Russian and French with English subtitles.

Website: https://dia.org/events/fatherland