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Pawel Pawlikowski, Ruben Östlund Set for Slano Film Days 2026

Pawel Pawlikowski, Ruben Östlund Set for Slano Film Days 2026

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 …

Ruben Östlund Shoots New Scene of ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’

Ruben Östlund Shoots New Scene of ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’

Ruben Östlund may not be competing at Cannes this year — the two-time Palme d’Or winner (The Square, Triangle of Sadness) took his new, still-unfinished film, The Entertainment System Is Down out of contention for the 2026 fest — but he still found time for a quick trip to the Croisette. The Swedish filmmaker told The Hollywood Reporter he is still deep in post-production for the film, and does not expect it be done before the end of the year. Kirsten Dunst, Daniel Brühl, and Keanu Reeves are among the starry cast in Östlund’s new satire, set on a long-haul flight between England and Australia where the entertainment system fails and passengers are forced to face the existential horror of boredom. Östlund said he continues to tweak the movie, including adding a new sequence with Succession star Nicholas Braun. “I’m going to Amsterdam. We’re going to shoot a little additional scene that came up during the editing,” he said. “I got an idea during the editing that I think is really great so we’re going …