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Poland2026108 minPolish
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After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.

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After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.

The Vistula River is hauntingly transformed into a purgatory for grieving father, Daniel, as he painstakingly scours each of its winding turns, pulled between the uncertainty of life and death in his search for any trace of his missing son, Krzysztof. Director Michał Marczak intuitively lets his camera drift between the placid surface of Poland’s longest river and the murky secrets of its depths, mirroring the stoic façade and inner tumult of a father torn between hope and grief. As weeks stretch into months and years, Daniel’s search slowly expands beyond the physical realm, and into the digital world, when he begins to chart the darkened halls of his son’s online footprint in an effort to understand how systems of connectivity can lead a generation to the abyss of isolation. — JH

Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 29–February 1) and credentialed press and industry (January 28–February 1).

World Cinema Documentary CompetitionAll FeaturesInternationalNon-English LanguageNonfictionEnglish SDH SubtitlesEnglish SubtitlesOpen CaptionU.S. Only- less

Credits

  • Director(s)

    Michał Marczak

  • Producer

    Monika Braid

    Michał Marczak

    Rémi Grellety

    Katarzyna Szczerba

    Karolina Marczak

  • Editor

    Anna Garncarczyk

  • Composers

    Pawel Mykietyn

    Dirk Dresselhaus

    Ilpo Väisänen

    Hildur Guðnadóttir

    William Basinski

  • Sound

    Katarzyna Szczerba

    Konrad Blaszczyk

  • Executive Producers

    Danielle DiGiacomo

    Brian Levy

    Julia Nelson

    Christine D'Souza

    Amy Shepherd

    Danielle Turkov

    James Costa

    Trevor Burgess

    Gary Hess

  • Co-Producers

    Sara Skrodzka

  • Company

    Braidmade Films

  • Website
  • Contact

    Monika Braid

    monika.braid@gmail.com

    00447881755548

Meet the Artist

Panelist Name

Michał Marczak

    Directing Award, 2016 Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Documentary) for All These Sleepless Nights, named one of IndieWire’s 100 best films of the decade. His SXSW premiere Fuck for Forest became a cult documentary. He has collaborated with Radiohead and Thom Yorke on their videos and is now working on his fiction film debut.

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