Curious Film is proud to announce that Ida, winner of this year’s Oscar® for Best Foreign-Language Film, begins a return season in cinemas today.
Melbourne’s Cinema Nova and the State Theatre in Hobart are the first cinemas confirmed to screen Pawel Pawlikowski’s black and white masterpiece, set in 1960s Poland.
Agata Trzebuchowska plays Anna, a beautiful 18-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother’s sister WANDA.
Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of each other and their past. Her aunt, she learns is not only a former hard-line 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. This revelation sets her on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family.
Ida is written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, and directed by Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love).
Running time: 80 mins. Rating: M