Award-winning Polish film IDA is back on screen at Kino Pod Baranami

(with English subtitles!)

December 19, 2014 - April 9, 2015



Internationally acclaimed and award-winning film Ida by Paweł Pawlikowski is back on screen at Kino Pod Baranami.

Ida - the great winner of numerous film festivals, awarded with five European Film Awards and an Academy Award - will be screened with English subtitles (daily from December 19).


IDA | IDA
dir. Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland/Denmark 2013, 80’

Oscars 2015: Best Foreign Language Film, nomination - Best Cinematography
38th Gdynia Film Festival: Best Film;
Best Photography; Best Actress (Agata Kulesza); Best Production Design
38th Toronto International Film Festival: FIPRESCI Award
57th BFI London Film Festival: Best Film
29th Warsaw Film Festival: Warsaw Grand Prix
Camerimage 2013: Golden Frog
Wiesbaden goEast 2014: Grand Prix
Off Plus Camera Kraków 2014: Polish Film Noble at Polish Feature Film Competition
European Film Awards 2014: Best European Film; People's Choice Award; European Director; European Screenwriter (Pawel Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz); European Cinematographer – Prix Carlo Di Palma (Łukasz Żal & Ryszard Lenczewski)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2014: Best Foreign Language Film
LUX Prize 2014: LUX Film Prize

Shooting in black and white, and using the 1.37:1 Academy frame - the almost-square frame of classic cinema - Pawlikowski sets his film in sixties Poland. Anna is a novice, an orphan brought up in a convent. Before taking her vows, she is determined to meet Wanda, her only living relative. Wanda tells the girl that she is Jewish. They both set off on a journey to discover the tragic history of their family, as well as to understand who they really are.

This film is impeccably executed and judged, achingly written, finely structured and eloquently shot. Scene after scene is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment; yet 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 is gauged to perfection in a film that will have everyone reaching for superlatives. (Piers Handling, Toronto International Film Festival)


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