Summer Cinema at MOCAK: //Graduation//
Summer Cinema at MOCAK: Graduation
24.08.2018 at 9 pm
Published at:20.08.2018
From 29 June to 31 August you are invited to evening film screenings related to the exhibition Motherland in Art. The shows take place on Fridays in the MOCAK arcades. All films have Polish subtitles. Admission is free.
Each screening will be preceded by an introduction by the film expert Adrian D. Kowalski, who will be talking about motherland in cinema.
Friday 24 August, 9 pm
Graduation
directed by Cristian Mungiu, 2016
128 min
Acclaimed filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days) returns with this searing human saga about a father driven to extremes in order to protect his daughter's future. Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) is a seemingly honest doctor who regrets having settled in his native Romania, a country still teeming with corruption and back dealings. He channels his ambitions for a better life into his teenage daughter, Eliza (Maria Dragus), who's just one exam away from securing a scholarship to a prestigious British university. But when Eliza is attacked on the eve of her test, endangering her ability to pass, Romeo takes matters into his own hands to ensure her success. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Graduation is a masterful look at the complex moral choices and compromises some people make when desperation takes hold.