Watch Official Trailer for Pawel Pawlikowski's IDA

Music Box Films is proud to present IDA, the new award-winning film written and directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. IDA world premiered at Telluride 2013 and Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Film; then played the London Film Festival where it won Best Film, and was the Grand Prix winner at the Warsaw Film Festival. It played as an Official Selection in the 2014 Sundance and New York Jewish Film Festivals.

The film opens in Los Angeles on May 2 at the Laemmle's Royal. Watch the official trailer below:

Poland 1962. Anna (newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska) is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her mother's sister Wanda. Her aunt, she learns, is not only a former hard-line Communist state prosecutor notorious for sentencing priests and others to death, but also a Jew. Anna learns from her aunt that she too is Jewish - and that her real name is Ida.

This revelation sets Anna, now Ida, on a journey to uncover her roots and confront the truth about her family. Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of each other and their past. Ida has to choose between her birth identity and the religion that saved her from the massacres of the Nazi occupation of Poland. And Wanda must confront decisions she made during the War when she chose loyalty to the cause before family.

Following his breakthrough films The Last Resort and BAFTA-award winning My Summer of Love, IDA marks Polish-born, British writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski's first film set in his homeland. IDA stars Agata Trzebuchowska and Agata Kulesza.