WORLD PREMIERE AT IDFA
Written and directed by DANAE ELON
A MESSAGE OF COURAGE, JUSTICE AND HOPE by the protagonist PROFESSOR DR. IZZELDIN ABUELAISH
Directed by Tal Barda
Written and Directed by Nick Butler
Produced by Nick Butler, Kyle Mac, Lucas Meeuse
Bedrock is a psychological journey across today’s Poland that weaves together stories of Poles living on Holocaust sites. Through a series of intimate encounters, this poetic film looks at the unsettling contradictions people learn to live with.
Surrounded by, and living in, oppression, injustice, deprivation, and refuge, Professor Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish chose education, wisdom, courage, and determination. When the 2008 war waged in Gaza and claimed the lives of his three daughters and his niece, he responded with bravery, faith, endurance, and steadfastness.
Set in the run-down Cloudy Falls apartment complex, the film follows tenants chosen at random by the narrator, Rita, the glib superintendent. They include Terry, a middle-aged man enamoured with the drifter squatting next door; Brigit, a YouTube spiritual debunker; and Riley, a compulsive liar whose tales are catching up with her, along with the collection of neighbours who surround them.
If Jerusalem stone could speak, it would tell this story: from Imperial Britain to Israeli occupation, Jerusalem buildings were clad in it. This is the story of how beauty and abuse go hand in hand.
In an alternate world where hearts are made of objects and suppressing emotions is self-care, a lonely woman rips out her own heart for the man she loves, only to discover that he has run away with it.
