Wednesday October 21st 2015

Director: Pawl Pawlikowski 
Starring: Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza.

Anna is an orphan and a teenage novitiate nun living in a rural convent in the 1960s. She is on the point of taking her final vows, but before this irrevocable step she is told by the prioress of the convent that she should visit her remaining family. This turns out to be her Aunt Wanda, a former prosecutor of the post-war Stalinist regime, living in Gdansk. From her aunt she learns that her birth-name is Ida, and she discovers further unsettling facts about her childhood and the deaths of her parents. The film won an Oscar in 2015 for director Pawlikowski, and special praise for its unusual and outstandingly beautiful cinematography.