Kinga Michalska

Kinga Michalska is a Polish queer filmmaker and visual artist based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They use mediums of photography, film, and video installation to examine shared cultural spaces such as home, kinship, land, memory, and hauntings. They are interested in the periphery of what and who makes history: amateur historians, geological processes, personal archives, oral history, queer intimacies, and speculative fiction.

Kinga Michalska holds an MFA in Photography from Concordia University (Montreal) and a BA in Cultural Studies from the University of Warsaw (Poland). Their work has been presented in numerous festivals and exhibitions around the world, including in Canada, Poland, South Korea, the UK, Switzerland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their debut feature documentary BEDROCK (2025) premiered at the Berlinale Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) and won the Best Polish Film Award at Millennium Docs Against Gravity.