Wednesday, 28 October, 2026
US theatrical release
Watch the trailer
Wednesday, October 28 & Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 6:45 PM
US premiere screenings with Q&As with the director Michał Marczak
IFC Center
323 Avenue of the Americas (at West 3rd Street), New York, NY 10014
“A visceral film that defies the true-crime genre.” — IndieWire
“Staggering, philosophical, and deeply cinematic, CLOSURE is an overwhelming meditation on life, death, and man’s search for meaning.” — Silver Screen Riot
“One of the best, most expressionistic nonfiction filmmakers working today.”
— Rolling Stone
Polish filmmaker Michał Marczak’s acclaimed documentary CLOSURE opens in US cinemas on 28 October 2026, following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
The film begins its US theatrical release with two special screenings and Q&As with the director at New York’s IFC Center on Wednesday, 28 October, and Thursday, 29 October, both at 6:45 pm.
Blurring the boundaries between documentary, thriller and intimate family drama, CLOSURE follows Daniel Dymiński, a father consumed by the search for his missing 16-year-old son, Chris, last seen on surveillance cameras walking across Warsaw’s Gdańsk Bridge. Armed with drones, GPS trackers and homemade inventions, Daniel searches the turbulent Vistula River, clinging to the hope that his son might still be alive. As the search continues, the family confronts the devastating possibility that they may never discover what happened.
The film has since screened at leading international festivals, including True/False, DC/DOX, Sheffield DocFest, Doc10 in Chicago, AFS Doc Days and Millennium Docs Against Gravity. At the latter, it received the Best Cinematography Award, the Silesian Audience Award and the Arthouse Cinema Association Award. It also won the Golden Alexander for Best Documentary at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.
Closure was produced by Monika Braid, two-time Oscar®-nominee Rémi Grellety (I Am Not Your Negro, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat), Michał Marczak, Katarzyna Szczerba, and Karolina Marczak
The film is a production of Braidmade Films, in co-production with Warboys Films, co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, in association with Think-Film Impact Production, and with the participation of Bird Street Productions. Other partners include CANAL + Polska, National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, Mazovia Warsaw Film Fund, France Télévisions, CME Social Impact Center, Procirep Angoa, and Great Hill.
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Title: Closure (Bez końca)
Director: Michał Marczak
Producers: Monika Braid, Rémi Grellety, Michał Marczak, Katarzyna Szczerba, Karolina Marczak
Country: Poland and France
Year: 2026
Runtime: 106 min
Format: Documentary / DCP
US premiere screenings with Q&As with the director Michał Marczak is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
