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Closure

Film Language

Polish

Director

Michaƚ Marczak

Executive Producers

Danielle Turkov Wilson, Amy Shepherd, Tamar Guttmann, Clifford Wilson, James Costa, Trevor Burgess, Gary Hess, Danielle DiGiacomo, Brian Levy, Christine D’Souza, Julia Nelson

Producers

Monika Braid, Michał Marczak, Rémi Grellety, Katarzyna Szczerba, Karolina Marczak

Co-Producer

Sara Skrodzka

Impact Producer

Mercy Brewer

Editor

Anna Garncarczyk

Co-Editor

Anna Garncarczyk

Cinematographer

Michał Marczak

Sound

Katarzyna Szczerba, Konrad Błaszczyk

Contact

Rémi Grellety rgrellety@warboys.fr

Daniel didn’t hear his 16-year-old son, Chris, slip out of the house that early morning. He didn’t know what drew him onto a bridge over the Vistula River in Warsaw—only that it was the last place he was seen. A rotating CCTV camera captured him there, and then, between turns, he vanished, leaving two possibilities: that he plunged into the river, or made it off the bridge unseen. Since that moment, Daniel and his wife, Agnieszka, have lived suspended between desperate hope and paralyzing fear.

Unable to wait passively for a breakthrough in the police investigation, Daniel builds a custom boat outfitted with cameras and drones, determined to search the river’s murky depths himself. This marks the beginning of an all-consuming quest. Day after day, he returns to the Vistula, developing new tools and techniques in his relentless pursuit. Soon, other families—caught in a similar limbo and searching for answers—begin to reach out.

The long, solitary hours on the water become a reckoning, pushing Daniel to reexamine the life he lived before Chris disappeared. As months pass and the weight of uncertainty deepens, he grapples with the tension between the impulse to keep searching and the painful reality of a home reshaped by the possibility of irreversible loss.

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Michaƚ Marczak

Director, Closure

Michał Marczak is an award-winning filmmaker whose latest film CLOSURE premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. His breakout feature ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS earned the Best Director Award at Sundance in 2016 and appeared on numerous year-end lists, including Rolling Stone and IndieWire, which also named it one of the 100 best films of the decade.

His earlier feature FUCK FOR FOREST premiered in competition at SXSW and received theatrical distribution in multiple countries, with Dazed & Confused calling it one of the “top ten most innovative and genre-pushing documentaries of recent years.” In addition to his feature work, Marczak directs music videos and has collaborated with artists including Radiohead (“I Promise,” “Identikit”) and Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke (“Beautiful People,” which premiered at Sundance Next Fest 2020). IndieWire named him one of the top ten cinematographers of 2017.

In recent years, he has expanded into screenwriting, with two features currently in pre-production: TAKE ME TO THE SEA and an adaptation of A COUPLE OF POOR, POLISH-SPEAKING ROMANIANS, co-written with Dorota Masłowska. Marczak studied film at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and is a member of the European Film Academy and the Cinema Eye Honors.

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