Ida is a 2013 Polish drama directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, a co-production with Denmark, France and the United Kingdom, following a young novice nun in 1960s Poland who learns before taking her vows that she was born Jewish and travels with her aunt to uncover what happened to her family during the Second World War. Shot in black and white with a deliberately restrained visual style, it won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015, the first Polish film to do so.
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Which films were nominated against Ida for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film?
Leviathan, Tangerines, Timbuktu and Wild Tales.
Ida won the Foreign Language Film award at the 87th Academy Awards, held in 2015. The four other nominees listed by the Academy were Leviathan from Russia, Tangerines from Estonia, Timbuktu from Mauritania and Wild Tales from Argentina. Ida was submitted for Poland.
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Set in Poland in 1962, it follows a young woman on the verge of taking vows as a Catholic nun.
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Ida is a 2013 drama film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
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Ida is a 2013 Polish drama directed by Pawel Pawlikowski, a co-production with Denmark, France and the United Kingdom, following a young novice nun in 1960s Poland who learns before taking her vows that she was born Jewish and travels with her aunt to uncover what happened to her family during the Second World War.
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Ida (Polish: [ˈida]) is a 2013 drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
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Ida (Polish: [ˈida]) is a 2013 drama film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz.
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