Jewish Streamer ChaiFlicks Snaps Up Oscar-Winning Pawlikowski Movie ‘Ida’ & Other Titles

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has licensed Oscar-winning Paweł Pawlikowski movie Ida and a wealth of other titles following a deal with Music Box Films.

The SVoD platform that specializes in Jewish storytelling has licensed 15 titles from the Chicago-based outfit, including Golden Globe-nominated Gett: The Trial of Vivane Amsalem. Other titles include Memoir of War, Golden Voices and Aida’s Secrets.

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The main draw is Pawlikowski’s Ida, which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film in 2015 and follows a young Polish woman (Agata Trzebuchowska) as she prepares to take vows as a Catholic nun. The orphaned protagonist then discovers that her parents were Jewish, and joins her only surviving relative on a road trip to learn the fate of their families.

ChaiFlicks has more than 3,000 hours of Jewish films, TV series, and documentaries, and plans to launch Ida and the other new titles on its platform later this year. Music Box works in partnership with Chicago’s iconic Music Box Theatre and distributes the likes of Ida, Christian Petzold’s Transit and the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The deal with Music Box comes on the heels of ChaiFlicks’ acquisition of hits such as Shtisel and Israeli filmmaker Rama Burshtein-Shai’s Fire Dance.

“We are thrilled to partner with the team at Music Box Films and add these tremendous titles to our growing list of critically acclaimed Jewish movies, TV series and documentaries,” said Heidi Bogin Oshin, who oversees financial operations and acquisitions for ChaiFlicks. “We know that our subscribers will fully appreciate and enjoy the films alongside all the other great content we already offer.”

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