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'Ida' takes home BAFTA for best Foreign Film

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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 FILMPhoto: 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)

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