Ida

From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes Ida, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past.
18-year old Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naïve, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism.

Year:

2013

Length:

80 minutes

Country:

Poland Denmark

Director:

Pawel Pawlikowski

Genre:

Drama

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Shown at

1. 13th Annual Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival - 2014
2. 17th Annual Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival (Detroit) - 2015
3. 17th CAJE Miami Jewish Film Festival - 2014
4. 20th Annual Jewish and Israeli Film Festival (Allentown) - 2015
5. 21st Annual Harrisburg Jewish Film Festival - 2015
6. 23rd Toronto Jewish Film Festival - 2015
7. 24th Washington Jewish Film Festival - 2014
8. Ames-Azalak Rochester Jewish Film Festival - 2014
9. Atlanta Jewish Film Festival - 2014
10. Central Massachusetts Jewish Film Festival - 2015
11. Falmouth Jewish Congregation Summer Jewish Film Series - 2014
12. Fresno Jewish Film Series - 2015
13. Houston Jewish Film Festival - 2015
14. Jüdisches Filmfestival Wien - 2015
15. Michiana Jewish Film Festival - 2014
16. New York Jewish Film Festival - 2014
17. North Louisiana Jewish Film Festival - 2015
18. Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival - 2016
19. Santa Cruz Jewish Film Festival - 2015
20. Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival - 2014
21. Stockholms Judiska Filmfestival - 2014
22. Winnipeg International Jewish Film Festival - 2015