MOCAK Summer Cinema | 20,000 Species of Bees

As usual, during the summer holidays, MOCAK invites viewers to evening film screenings. This year’s edition is inspired by the exhibitions currently on show.

The screenings will take place on Fridays from 4 July to 29 August in the museum arcades.

The 2025 Summer Cinema repertoire comprises contemporary European films, whose topic and emotional ambience correspond to the contexts of the current exhibitions. A generation of bold young filmmakers consistently use their idiosyncratic style to tell stories about entering adulthood, turbulent relationships with peers and adults, facing traumas, finding fulfilment, drawing strength from imagination, and the experiences of joys and sorrows from the perspective of childhood – a time when everything was simpler and yet most difficult. Breaking down the conventions of a specific genre, experimenting with the format or employing the convention of a fairy tale, each of the filmmakers touches on a different truth about what we experience as children and how it affects all of our later life.

Admission 10 PLN. Tickets can be purchased at the museum box office from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm and online (while the limited numbers last). Tickets purchased electronically will be sent to the email address provided once the payment has been credited.

Cinema curator: Adrian D. Kowalski

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Friday 4 July 9 pm

20,000 Species of Bees

20,000 especies de abejas

Spain, 2023

directed by: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

2 h 5 min

In Spanish, with Polish subtitles

Best Spanish film of the year, and winner of the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin IFF. The ten-year-old (!) Sofia Otero is the youngest-ever winner of this award at the Berlinale. In 20,000 Species of Bees, she plays a character who, one hot summer, amidst buzzing hives, the bustle at the pool and family squabbles, begins frantically searching for a place of her own in the hive. She is a child who shall challenge the established norms, rules and traditions, bringing long-hidden secrets to light and causing the women of the family to examine their own choices and repressed desires. Her childish rebellion will remind them that there are many ways to manifest the truth about oneself. This cinematic debut of the director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren is a tender and gentle story about acceptance, full of admiration for the diversity of a world that has room for as many as 20,000 species of bees. So why is it that the enormous wealth of ways in which human personality, gender or sexuality manifests itself is so often objected to? 20,000 Species of Bees is also a moving portrait of a family that is like a hive: everyone has a role, everyone protects each other. There is room here for lost mothers, courageous daughters, outspoken aunts and grandmothers who guard the family secrets. And although in this hive, brimming with emotions, generations and experiences collide, each of its inhabitants has the right to want her whole life for herself.

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=u9IBlaFL3uo