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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 <strong>Best Cinematography Award, the Silesian Audience Award and the Arthouse Cinema Association Award<\/strong>. It also won the <strong>Golden Alexander for Best Documentary<\/strong> at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Closure <\/em><\/strong>was produced by Monika Braid, two-time Oscar\u00ae-nominee R\u00e9mi Grellety (<em>I Am Not Your Negro<\/em>, <em>Soundtrack to a Coup d\u2019Etat<\/em>), Micha\u0142 Marczak, Katarzyna Szczerba, and Karolina Marczak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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. 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