MOCAK Summer Cinema | La Chimera

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 8 August 9 pm

La Chimera

Italy, France, Switzerland, 2023

directed by: Alice Rohrwacher

2 h 10 min

In Italian, French, English and Portuguese, with Polish subtitles

It is said that we all have our own chimera. Something we dream of but can’t get. For a group of petty thieves, who rob local graves and sell archaeological finds, it is a desire to get rich quick. It would mean deliverance from having to work. Arthur (Josh O’Connor), on the other hand, is reminded of Benjamina, the woman he had loved and lost. He does not give up easily, however, and decides to challenge the impossible – even if it means wandering through the mythical hereafter. In search of the legendary buried portal into another reality, Arthur joins forces with the robbers. He offers them his talent for pinpointing the locations of ancient treasures, while they reciprocate by digging up the countryside for him. Thus begins an extraordinary, magical journey into the unknown...

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=LVZrUdXz7ys