MOCAK Summer Cinema | Little Mother

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 29 August 9 pm

Little Mother

Petite maman

Francja, 2021

directed by: Céline Sciamma

1 h 12 min

In French, with Polish subtitles

Would we have been able to be friends with our own parent if our paths had crossed when we were both children? Such a situation happens to eight-year-old Nelly. She meets a peer who bears a striking resemblance to her mother. This unusual event becomes the starting point for a story of friendship that transcends generational barriers and is also a brilliant study of the power of a child’s imagination. In her latest film, Céline Sciamma, the author of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which won the Cannes Prize, explores the theme of working through grief (we meet the protagonists when the doyenne of the family passes away), but brings to the fore the extraordinary tenderness of family relationships and celebrates the curiosity about the world that young Nelly infects us with. Little Mother is a fairy-tale story, full of discreet warmth and at the same time a love letter to that moment in our lives when reality was first and foremost experienced with the heart. Although the events are set in France, many of us will find here a reflection of our childhood memories, our favourite games, smells and tastes.

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=izIR5ux-EAY