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On May 27, 2023, 16-year-old Krzysztof Dymiński left home before dawn. He was last seen on Warsaw’s Gdański Bridge, above the Vistula River, where his father, Daniel, still returns day after day looking for answers. He builds a search boat. He uses cameras, drones, and metal detectors. He follows tips. He studies the water. He does this because stopping would mean facing what he can’t yet accept.
The facts of Krzysztof’s disappearance could invite a true-crime treatment, but director Michał Marczak chooses something harder to sit with. He follows Daniel to examine the labours that grief creates: charging batteries, checking equipment, following rumours, and returning home with nothing. The search puts Daniel’s anguish to work, but provides little healing. It also pulls him away from the family still waiting beside him. After premiering in Sundance’s World Cinema Documentary Competition, Closure won the Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival. This is a film that questions whether hope can sometimes be the very thing that keeps you trapped.
Content Considerations: References to suicide, kidnapping, missing teenager
Golden Alexander International Competition, Thessaloniki 2026
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2026
In Polish with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Executive Producer
Danielle DiGiacomo, Brian Levy, Julia Nelson, Christine De Soussa Gelb, Amy Shepherd, Danielle Turkov, Gary Hess, James Costa, Trevor Burgess
Producer
Monika Braid, Rémi Grellety, Katarzyna Szczerba, Karolina Marczak
Cinematography
Michał Marczak
Editor
Anna Garncarczyk
Original Music
Paweł Mykietyn
Michał Marczak
Michal Marczak is a film and music video director who has collaborated with artists including Radiohead (“I Promise”; “Identikit”) and Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke (“Beautiful People”). His film All These Sleepless Nights earned him the Best Director Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and appeared on numerous year-end lists, including Rolling Stone and IndieWire, which also ranked it among the 100 best films of the decade. His latest film, Closure, premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and was ranked #1 in IndieWire’s Critics Survey for Best International Documentary.
Filmography: At the Edge of Russia (2010); Fuck for Forest (2012); All These Sleepless Nights (2016)
Photo by Szymon Roginski
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