"Ida" by Pawel Pawlikowski
17 MAY 2015
The film "Ida”, of the polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, awarded with 2015 Best Foreign Film will be exhibited at Serralves, at the moment when the Contemporary Art Museum exhibits the polish artist' exhibition "Monika Sosnowska: Architectonisation".The film will be exhbited in polish with portuguese subtitles.
Access: free entrance subject to prior registration.Information: Registration is now closed.Note: Please pick up your tickets at the Museum reception at 18h15, 15 minutes before the session begins.
Synopsis: Poland 1962. ANNA is a beautiful eighteen-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 ANNA, now IDA, on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family.IDA has to choose between her birth identity and the religion that saved her from the massacres of the Nazi occupation of Poland. And WANDA must confront decisions she made during the War when she chose loyalty to the cause before family.
Technical creditsWith Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna KuligOpus Film - Phoenix Film in association with Portobello Pictures – Fpsargument: Pawel Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewiczimage: Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewskioriginal soundtrack: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersenassembly: Jaroslaw Kaminskiartistic direction: Katarzyna Sobanska and Marcel Slawinskiproduced by: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol and Ewa Puszczynskadirected by: Pawel Pawlikowskico-production: Canal + Poland/Phoenix Film Polandco-financed by: The Polish Film Institute, Eurimages, The Danish Film Institute and The City Of LodzPoland, Denmarck - 2013 - 80' - cor
Festivals: London, Toronto, Warsow, Gijon
Consult here more information about the film.
Access: free entrance subject to prior registration.Information: Registration is now closed.Note: Please pick up your tickets at the Museum reception at 18h15, 15 minutes before the session begins.
Synopsis: Poland 1962. ANNA is a beautiful eighteen-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 ANNA, now IDA, on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family.IDA has to choose between her birth identity and the religion that saved her from the massacres of the Nazi occupation of Poland. And WANDA must confront decisions she made during the War when she chose loyalty to the cause before family.
Technical creditsWith Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Joanna KuligOpus Film - Phoenix Film in association with Portobello Pictures – Fpsargument: Pawel Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewiczimage: Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewskioriginal soundtrack: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersenassembly: Jaroslaw Kaminskiartistic direction: Katarzyna Sobanska and Marcel Slawinskiproduced by: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol and Ewa Puszczynskadirected by: Pawel Pawlikowskico-production: Canal + Poland/Phoenix Film Polandco-financed by: The Polish Film Institute, Eurimages, The Danish Film Institute and The City Of LodzPoland, Denmarck - 2013 - 80' - cor
Festivals: London, Toronto, Warsow, Gijon
Consult here more information about the film.
