'Ida' director Pawlikowski to chair London Festival jury
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
17.09.2015 12:15
Polish-born director Paweł Pawlikowski has been named President of the main competition jury of the London Film Festival, scheduled for 7-18 October.
Paweł Pawlikowski. Photo: Radio Gdańsk
He welcomed the nomination as “an honour, […] especially as my last film ‘Ida’ won the Best Film Award in 2013 at the very beginning of its journey.” The film is the story of a Roman Catholic nun set in the 1960s who discovers that she is Jewish and that her family was wiped out during the Holocaust.
The film’s greatest success was an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Earlier it won the BAFTA award in the same category.
Pawlikowski was a member of the jury of this year’s International Film Festival in Venice.
Born in Warsaw in 1957, Pawlikowski left Poland at the age of 14 and first lived in Germany and Italy, before moving to Britain.
He studied literature and philosophy. In the mid-1980s he took up film-making, initially focusing on documentaries and then moving to docudrama and feature films. His credits include BAFTA-winning Last Resort (2000) and My Summer of Love (2004). (mk/rg/rk)