Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Fatherland' to open 57th IFFI in Goa

New Delhi, Nov 14 (UNI) The 57th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will open with Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski's 'Fatherland' (Ojczyzna), bringing the nine-day celebration of international cinema to Goa. Set in the summer of 1949, the film explores the relationship between Nobel Prize-winning German author Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika during the Cold War. Returning to Germany after 16 years of exile in the US, Mann embarks on a challenging journey with his daughter in a black Buick car. The journey takes them through various parts of war-ravaged Germany, from American-influenced Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. During the…