Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski • 2013 • Poland

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning period road movie excavates the sins of Poland’s twentieth-century history. It is 1962, and Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), an orphan given up to a convent during the war, is on the verge of taking her monastic vows. But first, she is ordered by her Mother Superior to visit her hard-drinking aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), her only living relative. Wanda reveals that Anna is in fact Jewish and that her parents were killed in the Holocaust; together, the two women set off in search of their graves. Shot in exquisite black and white that recalls the sixties stylings of the French New Wave and Polish Film School, Ida cuts to the heart of Poland’s post-war crises of conscience and the traumas of both the Holocaust and the Stalinist repression that followed.

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Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
Written by Paweł Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Cinematography by Łukasz Żal and Ryszard Lenczewski
Music by Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Starring: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik

In Polish with English subtitles

Winner of the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film