IDA Film Screening

Ida is a film about an 18-year old Polish woman who is about to become a nun, but is unexpectedly launched on a journey into her past – and Poland’s past - that makes her question her whole life and everything she believes in.
Director Pawel Pawlikowski, a long-time resident of London, returned to his native Poland to shoot the film, which starts with Anna, the young novice, preparing to take her final vows in the convent where she was abandoned as an orphan baby in 1945.

The Mother Superior tells her she has one surviving relative whom she then visits – Wanda, a hard-drinking, promiscuous communist party official whose character is very different to the innocent teenage girl who grew up in the convent. The aunt shocks Anna by telling her that her real name is Ida Lebenstein, and her parents were both Jews who were killed in the war. The two women then decide to travel back to the old family home in the countryside to find out what happened in the past – uncovering secrets neither expect. Beautifully shot in black and white, the film skillfully portrays two individuals coming to terms in their own way with some momentous historical events they had no control over.

The film will be screened at the Laemmle Royal on Beverly Boulevard
at 7:30PM on Tuesday, February 17th.

For more information on the event, please visit the official Los Angeles World Affairs Council event page here: http://www.lawac.org/Default.aspx?tabid=103&eventid=30267

You can also reserve by calling (424) 258-6160.