MOCAK Summer Cinema | Driving Mum

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 1 August 9 pm

Driving Mum

Á ferð með mömmu

Islandia, Estonia, 2022

directed by: Hilmar Oddsson

1 h 52 min

In Icelandic, with Polish subtitles

Jón is a middle-aged man who lives with his mother in the Icelandic countryside. Over the years, she has dominated this relationship, completely subjugating her son. When his mother dies unexpectedly, Jón is determined to fulfil her last will, relating to her burial place. He carefully combs and dresses her corpse and plants it in the back seat of the car, where there is enough room for his beloved dog called Brezhnev, and sets off on a journey across the entire country. The journey will become for him not only a form of farewell to his mother, but also an opportunity to rethink their relationship and all the constraints he has had to face over the years. It is also a chance for a fresh start, as along the way Jón comes to realise that it is high time to start living on his own account. The idea for this film had been germinating in the head of the seasoned Icelandic director Hilmar Oddsson for 30 years. Here, the story of late adolescence and accompanying the deceased person on their last journey has been filtered through a Scandinavian sensibility, bursting with black humour. The result is a film that is the perfect combination of black comedy and road cinema.

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=qNlayPWVo9E