BEDROCK

BEDROCK

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Press Screening Berlinale: FR, 7 Feb – 12:25, CinemaxX 6

World Premiere: tba
Screenings: tba

Director Kinga Michalska  is available for interviews.

BEDROCK by writer-director Kinga Michalska is celebrating its world premiere at the International Film Festival Berlin 2025 in the Panorama section. The debut documentary is a timely meditation on remembrance culture, weaving together stories of Poles living on Holocaust sites. BEDROCK is amongst a selected number of documentary films nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award.

Through a series of intimate encounters, BEDROCK looks at the unsettling contradictions people learn to live with and examines echoes of the violent past to confront the dystopian present.

SYNOPSIS
BEDROCK draws a psychological portrait of Poland from the perspective of Poles living on Holocaust sites today. This observational documentary is a quiet and subtle journey through a land where bones of the victims and the architecture of extermination are intimately intertwined with the protagonists’ lives. A little girl visits her friend in a psychiatric hospital that was once a concentration camp. A young Polish Jew takes on an impossible task of rescuing the remains of Jewish victims from destruction across the country. A Catholic family argues about Polish complicity in the pogrom in their small town as its annual commemoration approaches. Soccer fans from the village of Birkenau celebrate a victory of their local team. As we follow protagonists
navigating many spaces of trauma in their daily routines, layers of identity, memory and complicity are slowly revealed. Poles are at once as victims, witnesses but also perpetrators.

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, UK, Korea, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. Bedrock is their debut feature documentary.

BEDROCK is produced by 15065721 Canada Inc.
With support from Téléfilm Canada, SODEC, Catapult Film Fund, CALQ, Claims Conference Film Grant, Peter S. Reeds Foundation.

World sales are handled by Filmoption.

Production Company:
FILMOPTION PRODUCTIONS
3401 Saint-Antoine W.
Montreal (Quebec)
CA, H3Z 1X1
pcadieux@megafun.ca
Phone 514-603-6190
Website : Meet our producers — Filmoption

World Sales:
Filmoption
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Montreal (Quebec)
CA, H3Z 1X1
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