Bedrock

Event Description

Event type: All Ages

While on a family trip in Poland years ago, the Montreal-based filmmaker Kinga Michalska discovered that the travel itinerary included an amusement park built very close to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. That shock became the inspiration for BEDROCK, Michalska’s powerful documentary about the often discomfiting and contradictory ways that the legacy of the Holocaust persists not just in similar locations all over Poland but in the lives of people living there. In regards to the latter, the film’s subjects range from a Jewish man dedicated to finding the forgotten remains of Holocaust victims to rowdy football supporters in the village of Birkenau. By considering the histories of these places alongside present-day signs of conflict and tension, Michalska’s incisive film serves as a timely warning that the potential cost of denying history is allowing it to repeat.