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Fatherland follows Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika on a 1949 journey through divided Germany to receive Goethe Prizes, using severe black-and-white imagery.
The opening sequence is extraordinary: a nun drops to the floor in devotion, hidden under the swathes of black habit puddling across the stone floor. There is more of this to come in photographer Alys Tomlinson and film-maker Cecile Embleton's beautiful black and white documentary. It is film of stillness, long, long takes and careful framing and would look at home playing on the walls of an art gallery.