Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are and where they belong. They question what they used to believe in.

Cast & Crew
Producers: Ewa Puszczyńska, Piotr Dzięcioł, Eric Abraham
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Script: Paweł Pawlikowski, Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Director of Photography: Ryszard Lenczewski, Lukasz Zal
Production Design: Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska
Music: Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen
Sound: Claus Lynge
Editing: Jaroslaw Kaminski
Cast: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela
Production: Opus Film, Phoenix Film Investments

Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards (Oscar), USA, 2014; Golden Lions – Best Film, Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Best Production Design, Polish Film Festival, Gdynia, 2013; Grand Prix, Ecumenical Jury Award, Warsaw IFF, 2013; Golden Frog, Camerimage,  Toruń, Poland, 2013; Best Film – Grand Prix Asturias, Best Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Production Design, Gijón IFF, Spain, 2013; Spotlight Award, American Society of Cinematographers, USA, 2014; FIPRESCI Prize, Tromsø IFF, Norway, 2014; International Cinematographers' FF Manaki Brothers, Bitola, North Macedonia, 2014, European Film, European Director, European Screenwriter, European Cinematographer, European Film Awards, 2014; Best Film Not in the English Language, BAFTA Awards, UK, 2015; Best European Film, Goya Awards, Spain, 2015

Pawel Pawlikowski
Filmmaker and academic. Born in Warsaw, Pawlikowski left Poland at 14. Lived in London, Germany and Italy, studied literature and philosophy at London and Oxford, making films since 1987. His filmography includes over dozen films. Among his awards are the European Film Academy Special mention (Dostoevsky’s Travels, 1991); Gran Prix, Documentary FF Marseille and Gran Prix, Festival dei Popoli, Florence (Serbian Epics, 1992); Grierson Award, Best British Documentary, 1995 and Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival (Tripping with Zhirinovsky, 1995); BAFTA Best Newcomer, 2001; Best Film Edinburgh FF, Best Film Thessaloniki FF, Best Film Gijon FF (Last Resort, 2000); Best Film Edinburgh FF, 2004, Best Screenplay Evening Standard Awards, 2005; BAFTA Best British Film 2005; Best Director Directors’ Guild of Great Britain, 2005 (My Summer of Love, 2004). Pawlikowski’s retrospectives have been held in San Francisco, 1995, La Rochelle, 2005, Bradford, 2005, Buenos Aires, 2007, Gijon, 2007, and London Riverside, 2008.
In 2015 his masterpiece Ida, won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Polish film to do so. His most recent film, Cold War, earned him the Best Director Prize at the Festival de Cannes 2018 and three nominations for Best Director, Best Photography and Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards. It also won five awards at the 2018 European Film Awards including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenwriter.

Filmography
Open Space (1987, TV Series, doc., 1 ep.), From Moscow to Pietushki (1990, TV doc.,), Dostoevsky's Travels (1991, TV doc.), Serbian Epics (1992, TV doc.), Tripping with Zhirinovsky (1995, TV doc.), The Stringer (1998), Twockers (1998, TV short), Last Resort (2000), My Summer of Love (2004), The Woman in the Fifth (2011), Ida (2013), Cold War (2018), Muse (short, 2025), Fatherland (2026).