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Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski (80min, Poland, 2013) 

In Polish with English Subtitles
Narrative
DC Premiere

Direct from its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, this Oscar-contender seamlessly weaves together two deeply resonant narratives of identity set in Poland in 1962. 18-year old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when she first meets her only living relative.

Her aunt Wanda, a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, shocks Anna with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey to the countryside, to the old family home and into the secrets of a repressed past.