MOCAK Summer Cinema | Hatching

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 25 July 9 pm

Hatching

Pahanhautoja

Finlandia, Szwecja, 2022

directed by: Hanna Bergholm

1 h 26 min

In Finnish, with Polish subtitles

Tinja is a shy teenage gymnast raised by a domineering mother who dreams of an Instagram-perfect life – with perfect breakfasts, ever-smiling children and faux family happiness. One day, Tinja finds an egg in the forest, which she decides to take home. Before the eponymous chick hatches, however, the egg grows to an enormous size. Those who are familiar with the seminal horror films from the A24 stable can expect from Hatching a metaphor for emerging womanhood. Hanna Bergholm’s feature-length debut, however, offers much more. The ingenious script combines horror, fairy tale and coming-of-age story. Gustav Hoegen, who is responsible for special effects, has previously worked on Star Wars and Ex Machina. He has created one of the greatest monsters in the history of European genre cinema. The result is a film that terrifies, moves and does not let you forget.

Trailer: youtube.com/watch?v=BimI6eccWXc