MOCAK Summer Cinema | Bad Tales

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 15 August 9 pm

Bad Tales

Favolacce

Włochy, Szwajcaria, 2020

directed by: Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo

1 h 38 min

In Italian, with Polish subtitles

The film is set in a Roman suburb, during a hot summer,. The heat pouring down from the sky makes time almost stand still. But once you step into the world created by the D’Innocenz brothers, you’ll find yourself a long way from the Italian dolce vita. At first glance, the families living here do not appear in any way special. Like many others, they have their shared joys and sorrows and emotional ups and downs. It is just there are far more of the downs than the ups – and moreover combined with growing frustration and aggression caused by personal, material or class circumstances. Homes are not safe havens, instead becoming silent witnesses to the sadistic behaviour of fathers and the passivity of mothers. The indifference of the adults hits the children the hardest, and they may turn out to be the real subversive force of this evil tale... It is certain that this story, framed in the formula of a dark contemporary fairy tale, is a cinema of extreme emotions, involving for the viewer, it hits the raw nerve. The original title, Favolacce, is a combination of the Italian words ‘favole’ – story – and ‘parolacce’ – a curse.

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=p3o0JffRT0E