Sundance Award Winner Michal Marczak to Direct Documentary ‘Closure,’ About a Father’s Search for His Missing Teenage Son

variety.com:

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Nine years after “All These Sleepless Nights” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim and picked up the directing prize in the World Cinema – Documentary category, Polish director Michał Marczak is gearing up to make “Closure.” The project, selected as part of the Pitching Forum at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s industry section, Agora, follows a father as he scours the depths of Poland’s Vistula River in search of his missing teenage son.

Speaking with Variety out of Thessaloniki, Marczak says the project came to him as a “complete coincidence” as he was location scouting for a fiction feature film he was planning to shoot by the Vistula.

It was there that he first spotted Daniel, the film’s main subject, as he navigated the river with a highly-technological boat, a sonar, and a drone. “We were wondering: what in the world is this man doing?

Is he a treasure hunter? Then we sat by the fire at night and he told us the whole story and we ended up helping him,” adds the director. “That day, he found a skull, and it turned out to be a six-year-old skull.