Mubi has released the official trailer and artwork for Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Fatherland” following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The historical drama was among the festival’s standout titles this year, eliciting plenty of critical praise and being tipped as an awards season contender.

“Fatherland,” which in Cannes won the best director award in a tie with Spanish helmers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for their “La Bola Negra,” will be released by Mubi in U.S. theaters this fall. Mubi is also distributing “Fatherland” in the U.K., Ireland, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and India.

Shot in black-and-white — just like Pawlikowski’s preceding two works, “Ida” and “Cold War,” which also delve into the World War II years and their aftermath — “Fatherland” revolves around the rapport between Nobel Prize-winning author Thomas Mann, played by Hanns Zischler (“Munich”), and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is an actress, writer and rally driver. Set in the summer of 1949 at the height of the Cold War, the father and daughter embark on a road trip in a black Buick traveling from the U.S.-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar across a Germany in ruins.

“Mr. Mann, whose side are you on: Stalin or Mickey Mouse?” Mann says to himself in a revelatory interior monologue featured at the start of the film’s trailer, sitting meditatively in the Buick with Erika at the wheel.

“The two actors are pitch-perfect, with Hüller’s Erika tart yet polite, reining herself in until she can’t take the old man’s buried narcissism anymore, at which point she lets her feelings fly,” wrote Variety chief film critic Owen Gleiberman in his review. A hint of Erika’s rage can be seen at the end of the trailer.

For this film, Pawlikowski reunited with his longtime filmmaking team, which includes the Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lukasz Zal, costume designer Aleksandra Staszko, editor Piotr Wójcik, production designers Katarzyna Sobańska and Marcel Sławiński and composer Marcin Marsecki.

With a 82-minute runtime, “Fatherland” was the shortest feature film in the year’s Cannes competition lineup.

Pawlikowski’s “Ida” won the 2015 international Oscar and a slew of other awards. Pawlikowski won the best director award at Cannes in 2018 for “Cold War,” which went on to score many other accolades, including three Oscar nominations.

“Fatherland” is produced by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Mieli for Mediawan-owned Our Films, Ewa Puszczynska for Extreme Emotions, Jeanne Tremsal and Edward Berger for Nine Hours, Dimitri Rassam for Chapter 2 and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Circle One. The film is a Mubi, Our Films, Extreme Emotions (Poland), Nine Hours (Germany) and Chapter 2 (France) co-production, in collaboration with Circle One (Italy) and Apocalypso Pictures, with the participation of Arte and Pathé. 

See the poster for “Fatherland” below and watch the trailer above.