Lenkiewicz co-wrote the Polish-language film '' Ida '' ( 2013 ) with Paweł Pawlikowski , its director . The film is set in Poland in the 1960s and is the story of what happens when a novitiate nun first learns that she is an orphan of Jewish parenthood . The first version of the screenplay was written in English by Lenkiewicz and Pawlikowski , when it had the working title '' Sister of Mercy '' . Pawlikowski then translated the screenplay into Polish and revised it . The screenplay for '' Ida '' won the European Screenwriter category at the 27th European Film Awards in 2014 , and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film at the ceremony on 22 February 2015 . She co-wrote , with director Sebastian Leilo , the script for the adaptation of '' Disobedience '' in 2017 . She and collaborators Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer wrote the screenplay for '' Colette '' in 2018
27th European Film Awards
27th European Film Awards
Rebecca Lenkiewicz