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Ida

Ida

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Poland, Denmark | Polish
2013 | 80min. | Black & White
Subtitles: Arabic, English
Format: DCP
18+

Set in 1962, Ida offers a layered exploration of religious and personal identity that brings alive the gravity and grimness of history with its austere yet poetic imagery. It tells the story of Anna, a beautiful 18-year-old novitiate nun, who is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. Shot in shadow-filled black and white in the old, boxy Academy screen ratio with music playing an important role, this devastatingly beautiful film makes audiences mourn the fact that they don’t make ‘em the way they used to any more.

Anna is a longtime orphan who has been raised in the convent she hopes to join. One day, to her surprise, the mother superior insists that she spend time with an aunt, Wanda, that she never knew existed. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery . . . of each other and their past. Wanda is not only a former hardline Communist state prosecutor notorious for sentencing priests and others to death but also a Jew. Anna learns that she, too, is Jewish and that her real name is Ida.

The revelation about her past sets Anna on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family. She must choose between her birth identity and the religion that saved her from Nazi massacres. And Wanda must confront decisions she made during the war when she chose loyalty to the cause before family. Winner, Best Film, Gdynia Film Festival; FIPRESCI prize, Toronto Film Festival.

—Alissa Simon

Director,  Pawel Pawlikowski

Director,  Pawel Pawlikowski

Pawel Pawlikowski is a Polish-born, UK-based, BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker. He was born in Warsaw but left Poland at the age of 14 to live in Germany and Italy, before moving to the UK in 1977. He studied literature and philosophy at London and Oxford and started making documentaries for the BBC in the mid-1980s. He moved into fiction with the made-for-TV film Twockers (1998), followed by the features Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (2004) and The Woman in the Fifth (2011).

Cast and Crew

Director
Pawel Pawlikowski
Cast
Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik, Joanna Kulig
Production Company
Opus Film ,Phoenix Film, Portobello Pictures
Music
Kristian Selin, Eidnes Andersen
Producer
Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł, Ewa Puszczyńska
Screenwriter
Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Editor
Jarosław Kamiński
Cinematographer
Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski
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