'Ida' takes home BAFTA for best Foreign Film
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
09.02.2015 08:29
Paweł Pawlikowski's film 'Ida' won at the British equivalent of the Oscars in a tight race on Sunday.
Photo: Facebook.com/IDA THE FILM
“This is fantastic,” said director Pawlikowski, as he picked up the award at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.
“I once won a Bafta for the best newcomer, then one for the best British Film, and now for best foreigner, so I think we should just skip the formalities and give me a lifetime global achievement award,” he joked.
Other nominees in the “Not In The English Language” category included Russia's Leviathan, India's The Luncbox, and Belgian/French Deux jours, une nuit.
The evening was hosted by British comedian Stephen Fry.
Ida follows the plight of an orphan in the 1960s who was handed over to a nunnery as a child during the Second World War.
Just before she takes her vows, her Mother Superior instructs her to visit her sole surviving relative, a disillusioned Stalinist judge, and the mystery of her Jewish past is revealed. (rg)