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Sundance Award Winner Michal Marczak to Direct Documentary ‘Closure,’ About a Father’s Search for His Missing Teenage Son


Michal Marczak is to make “Closure,” which follows a father as he scours the depths of Poland's Vistula River in search of his missing teenage son.

Nine years after “All These Sleepless Nights” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim and picked up the directing prize in the World Cinema – Documentary category, Polish director Michał Marczak is gearing up to make “Closure.” The project, selected as part of the Pitching Forum at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival ’s industry section, Agora, follows a father as he scours the depths of Poland’s Vistula River in search of his missing teenage son. Speaking with Variety out of Thessaloniki, Marczak says the project came to him as a “complete coincidence” as he was location scouting for a fiction feature film he was planning to shoot by the Vistula. When asked about the almost decade-long gap between the success of “All These Sleepless Nights” and “Closure,” the director recalls working “non-stop” in the industry since the age of 16 and wanting to “take a step back” after the busy run with his doc.

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