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.