Ida

In the organizer's words:

PL 2013, 82 min., FSK: from 0, OmU
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Written by: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cinematography: Ryszard Lenczewski
Music: Kristian Eidnes Andersen
With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Adam Szyszkowski

Winner of 5 European Film Awards, an Oscar for Best International Film and 60 other awards, IDA is a road movie with a difference: in a Polish convent in the early 1960s, the young novice Anna is about to take her vows. At the abbess's insistence, she sets off for the city to visit her only living relative, the sister of her deceased mother. The two women are strangers and could not be more different: Anna - tender and innocent, but determined. Wanda, the aunt - tough and direct, with changing lovers and a penchant for alcohol. She is a judge and was feared after the war as "Red Wanda" because of her merciless judgments. Anna's visit, however, confronts her with a past that goes back even further: the events during the German occupation of Poland.

Shot in breathtaking black-and-white images, carried by the reduced, intense acting of the two protagonists and - despite the tragic subject matter - enriched with a certain lightness and seductive jazz sounds: a masterpiece.