The International Film Festival - Around the World in 8 Films - is hosted by Paradise Valley Community College and free to the public. Located at 18401 N. 32nd Street in northeast Phoenix, doors open at 6 p.m. and each film begins promptly at 6:30 p.m. A post-film discussion will take place with Gary Zaro, director of PVCC’s Film Festival.
Ida (PG-13; 2013, Poland, 88 minutes)
Anna, a sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative. Naive, Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda, a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heart-wrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. Watch trailer