“IDA” 2013 | 1h22’ [PL\DK] | OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings

Ciclo OUTRA FÉ

[OTHER FAITH Cinema Screenings]
(Curadoria de Alexandre Braga)

“IDA” 2013 | M/12 | 1h22’ [PL\DK]
De Pawel Pawlikowski

Sexta Dia 29/05 às 19h30 [Friday 05/29 at 7:30pm]

Na Polónia dos anos 1960, uma jovem noviça descobre que é judia e parte com a sua tia numa viagem para descobrir o destino da família durante o Holocausto. O percurso torna-se uma busca silenciosa por identidade e fé.
In 1960s Poland, a novice nun discovers she is Jewish and travels with her aunt to uncover the fate of her family during the Holocaust. The journey becomes a quiet search for identity and faith.

Spoken in Polish | Subtitled in English

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OTHER FAITH begins with an ancient yet ever-renewed question: what happens when religious language ceases to be merely an inherited tradition and once again becomes an inner experience? For centuries, the symbols of faith were conceived as instruments of transformation — images, gestures and narratives meant to provoke an intimate shift within the human being. Yet when these symbols harden into external structures — institutions, doctrines, inherited narratives that precede us — a risk emerges: religious storytelling may cease to be a path of revelation and instead become a script that speaks in our place.

This cycle brings together two remarkable films that explore precisely this fracture — the moment when institutional faith no longer coincides with lived truth.

In Ida (2013), by Paweł Pawlikowski, a young novice in 1960s Poland discovers, just before taking her vows, that she belongs to a Jewish family scarred by the Holocaust. The journey she undertakes with her aunt is not merely historical or familial — it is a spiritual crossing in which inherited religious identit