CLOSURE

In his powerful documentary, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, Polish filmmaker Michał Marczak (ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS) transforms a father’s desperate search for his missing son into a haunting meditation on grief, obsession and the human need to make sense of the inexplicable. In May 2023, 16-year-old Krzysztof, known as Chris, disappeared after being seen on a surveillance camera near Poland’s Vistula River. With no definitive answer about what happened, his father, Daniel, refuses to abandon the search. In addition to scouring the river with improvised equipment, drones and underwater cameras, he also retraces his son’s digital life, searching social media for clues that might illuminate the days and weeks before Chris’ disappearance. Marczak’s immersive observational approach places us alongside Daniel as each passing day brings new questions, with the river becoming both a physical landscape for investigation and an unsettling reflection of the liminal space between hope and irreversible loss. The film’s striking imagery and enveloping soundscape lend an almost dreamlike intensity to Daniel's painstaking process, while its intimate attention to his family life reveals the private cost of a search that cannot simply be switched off. As Daniel’s efforts extend to helping other families confronting similar disappearances, CLOSURE creates space for a wider reckoning. The film resists the neat conclusions of conventional mystery narratives and true-crime tropes to become a masterful study of the uniquely human ability to maintain hope and find meaning when the path towards closure seems infinite. –Abbie Algar

DIR/SCR Michał Marczak; PROD Rémi Grellety, Monika Braid, Katarzyna Szczerba, Karolina Marczak. Poland/France, 2026, color, 105 min. In Polish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Run Time: 105 Minutes

Opening Date: Friday, December 04, 2026

Genre: Documentary

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