MOCAK Summer Cinema | Close

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 22 August 9 pm

Close

Belgia, Holandia, Francja, 2022

directed by: Lukas Dhont

1 h 43 min

In French and Dutch, with Polish subtitles

Lukas Dhont’s Close, a Cannes Grand Prix winner with an Oscar nomination, is a sensual, tender story about the friendship of two 13-year-olds. Léo and Rémi love spending time with each other; their relationship is intense, spontaneous and lively. But silly gossip, peer pressure and getting lost in a world with unclear rules of engagement cause Léo to start distancing himself and hurting Rémi’s feelings. No one in contemporary cinema knows how to work with young actors like the author of the memorable Girl; every gesture, glance and word spoken by the teenage actors are poignant with authenticity. Dhont talks about the helplessness inherent in adolescence;who, at 13, can judge the strength of their own feelings and decisions? The 31-year-old Belgian director does not judge anyone and is guided by an extraordinary empathy that distinguishes only the greatest humanists of world cinema. Close is more than a beautifully filmed coming-of-age story. Above all, it is a universal film about accepting one’s mistakes and learning to live through the most difficult, most painful emotions.

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=GWN8XJHe27w