Bedrock (Bedrock)

Bedrock is an observational documentary that draws a psychological portrait of Poland from the perspective of Poles living on Holocaust sites today. 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. The film examines echoes of the violent past to confront the dystopian present.