Screen/Society--Special Event--"Ida" (Oscar nominated film) + panel discussion

Film Screening: "Ida" (Pawel Pawlikowski, 2013, 82 min, Poland, in Polish, Latin, and French w/ English subtitles, B&W, Blu-Ray) / From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski comes "Ida", a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation. 18-year old Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naïve, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda, a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her 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 into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. / -- Nominated for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film! / Co-sponsored by Centropa and NCCAT (North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching) / View Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXhCaVqB0x0