Ida follows the life of Anna, who is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman, living in Poland in 1962 and 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.
Together, the two women embark on a voyage of discovery of each other and their past. 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 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.
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.
Ida is released on May 22nd, and thanks to Curious Films we have 10 double in-season passes to give away to readers in Australia. To go into the draw for this giveaway, email your name and address to
sarah@trespassmag.com by May 20th. Please remember to put ‘Ida’ in the subject line of the email. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Winners will be notified by mail.
