Ida
- Poland, Denmark
- 2013
- 82'
- 3 × Agata Kulesza
Poland 1962. Anna is a novice, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna that Anna is Jewish. Both women start a journey not only to find their family tragic story, but who they really are and where they belong. They question their religions and ideas they believed in. Both are trying to go on living but only one of them can.
- Director: Paweł Pawlikowski
- Screenplay: Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
- Cinematography: Łukasz Żal, Ryszard Lenczewski
- Scenography: Marcel Sławiński, Katarzyna Sobańska-Strzałkowska
- Costumes: Aleksandra Staszko
- Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen
- Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela, Adam Szyszkowski, Joanna Kulig
A Polish film director and screenwriter, considered to be one of the most important filmmakers of the modern European auteur cinema. He gained international recognition thanks to the films ‘Ida’ and ‘Cold War,’ the first of which won an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film, while the other was awarded for the best directing at the Cannes IFF, and nominated for Academy Awards in various categories. The film work by Paweł Pawlikowski is unique for its minimalistic narrative, distinct visual style, and the notions of identity, memory, and love, with European history in the background. His approach is a combination of formal discipline, black and white aesthetics (‘Ida’), and a powerful emotional load masked by the minimalistic form.
