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Ida is presented in collaboration with the Sainsbury Centre's current exhibition Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval - an exhibition exploring the idea of routine and regulation. Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval reflects on the ‘rules’ that we live by today, through a dialogue between medieval experiments in a different way to live, and modern reflections upon how life is organised.

Pawel Pawlikowski's critically acclaimed Ida is a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the Nazi occupation. 18-year-old Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), 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. Naiive, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), 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.

With this beautifully directed Oscar winning drama, Pawlikowski returns to his native Poland for the first time in his career to confront some of the more contentious issues in the history of his birthplace. Powerfully written and eloquently shot, Ida is a masterly evocation of a time, a dilemma, and a defining historical moment. 

"An eerily beautiful road movie" Peter Bradshaw (The Guardian) 5-star review.

 
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion between exhibition co-curator Dr Edward Krčma, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Dr Sarah Godfrey, Associate Professor Film and Television Studies at the UEA. The panel will be compared by Kate Wolstenholme from the Sainsbury Centre.
 
Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval is on display as part of the Sainsbury Centre's current season, which asks: What is the Meaning of Life?. Exhibitions delving into the fundamental questions of human existence, from rulemaking, to time and play.
 

  • Release Date :
  • 16 Sep 2026
  • Certificate :
  • 12A
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