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SUMMARY:"Closure" by Michał Marczak Opens in US Cinemas
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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, 28 October, 2026US theatrical release Watch the trailer
Wednesday, October 28 & Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 6:45 PMUS
premiere screenings with Q&As with the director Michał MarczakIFC
Center323 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.
Distributed by 1 -2 SpecialTitle: Closure (Bez końca)Director: Michał
MarczakProducers: Monika Braid, Rémi Grellety, Michał Marczak, Katarzyna
Szczerba, Karolina MarczakCountry: Poland and FranceYear: 2026Runtime: 106
minFormat: Documentary / DCP
US premiere screenings with Q&As with the director Michał Marczak is
supported by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
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