The Tim Hetherington Film Club, 114 Mount Street, W1K 3AH
'Ida' (82 minutes) will be shown in Arrupe Hall at Farm Street at 7.00pm on Tuesday 5th March, 2024
The film is free – with drinks and refreshments provided (the club does welcome / accept donations)
Booking ahead is invited (but not necessary). Please email David Hurst at dthurst52@gmail.com to book a seat.
The selection criteria for films shown at the Tim Hetherington Film Club at Farm Street is "important films about people that have made a difference".
This month's film is ‘Ida’ - a 2013 foreign language drama, written and directed by Pawel Pawlikoswki. The film was voted Best Film by the European Film Academy in 2014, Best Non-English Film by BAFTA in 2014, and Best Foreign Language Film at the 2015 Academy Awards.
Set in Poland in 1962, it follows a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun. Orphaned as an infant during the German occupation of World War II, she must meet her aunt, a former Communist state prosecutor and only surviving relative, who tells her that her parents were Jewish. The two women embark on a road trip into the Polish countryside to learn the fate of their relatives.
Hailed as a ‘compact masterpiece' and an ‘eerily beautiful road movie, the film has also been said to ‘contain a cosmos of guilt, violence and pain’.
Banner photo by Jeremy Yap on Unsplash
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