Bedrock
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| Saturday, 18 April | 14:15 | La Maison du Cinéma | 
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Bedrock paints a psychological portrait of Poland through the eyes of Poles living today among various remnants of the Holocaust.
This observational documentary offers a nuanced and delicate journey across a landscape where the bones of victims and the architecture of extermination are intimately tied to the lives of its protagonists.
A little girl visits her friend in a former concentration camp turned psychiatric hospital. A young Polish Jew undertakes the impossible task of saving from destruction the remains of Jewish victims buried across the country. As the annual commemoration of a pogrom approaches in a small town, a local Catholic family argues over the complicity of the Polish people. In the village of Birkenau, football fans celebrate their team’s victory.
Through vignettes depicting haunted places inhabited by everyday people, Bedrock peels back layer after layer to reveal the identity complexities linked to trauma, memory, and responsibility. Examining the echoes of a brutal past, the film invites us to confront a dystopian present.
Official Selection, Panorama – Berlinale – 2025
Official Selection – Festival du Nouveau Cinéma – 2025
Guests
Kinga Michalska Réalisatrice
Kinga Michalska is a polish queer visual artist and filmmaker based in tiohtiá:ke / mooniyang / montreal. Their work examines issues of memory, identity, displacement, and things that haunt us. They are interested in the periphery of who and what makes history. They hold a ba in cultural studies from the university of warsaw and an mfa in photography from concordia university. Their work has been shown in multiple exhibitions and film festivals in canada, poland, the uk, korea, switzerland, italy, and germany.
Will attend:
- Saturday, 18 April | 14:15 - La Maison du Cinéma