International Film: Ida

The Internationl Film Series features Ida (Poland, 2013), directed by Paweł Pawlikowski. Before she takes her vows as a nun, young Anna is sent to find her only living relative. Wanda, Anna’s long-lost, bawdy aunt, reveals that Anna’s parents were Jewish and had named her Ida. As Anna struggles with these new revelations and Wanda’s insistence that she partake in worldly pleasures, they set out to unearth more of their family’s tragic past that occurred during the German occupation of Poland.