6th Ekran Polish Film Festival November 5th-9th 2014 www.ekran.ca
IDA dir. Pawel Pawlikowski @ 6th EKRAN TPFF
Revue Cinema
Toronto, ON
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IDA dir. Pawel Pawlikowski @ 6th EKRAN TPFF
Ida

Nov. 7th - 7PM @ The Revue Cinema

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 (Agneta 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.
In this beautifully directed film, Pawlikowski returns to his native Poland for the first time in his career to confront some of the more contentious issues in the history of his birthplace. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, Ida is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment; Ida is also personal, intimate, and human. The weight of history is everywhere, but the scale falls within the scope of a young woman learning about the secrets of her own past. This intersection of the personal with momentous historic events makes for what is surely one of the most powerful and affecting films of the year.
Poland's submission to the 2015 Oscars in Foreign Language Film Category

80 min

Directed by
Paweł Pawlikowski
Writter by
Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Cast
Wanda - Agata Kulesza
Anna - Agata Trzebuchowska
Lis - Dawid Ogrodnik

Location

Revue Cinema (View)
400 Roncesvalles Ave.
Toronto, ON M6R 2M9
Canada

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None

Minimum Age: 16
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

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Owner: Ekran Polish Film Association
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Ekran Polish Film Association 2765 Lake Shore Blvd. West #207 Toronto, Ontario M8V 1H2 P: 416.255.7266 | www.ekran.ca Member of The Film Festival Association of Toronto WWW.TFFA.CA 6th Ekran Polish Film Festival November 5-9 November, 2014 www.ekran.ca