Ved prisoverrækkelsen forklarede instruktør Pawel Pawlikowski:
“Although it was every financier's nightmare, Ida has succeeded in crossing all European borders, reaching audiences from France to Hungary, from the United Kingdom to Malta – which may be the proof that art still has a role to play in cinema today, and that the more personal and specific the film, the less rhetorical and calculating it is – and the more universal its reach.”
Lux prisen blev første gang uddelt i 2007 med netop det formål at fordre europæisk integration på tværs af grænser med filmen som medium, og facilitere filmdistribution på tværs af EU.Læs mere her