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After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
+ MoreAfter his teenage son goes missing, Daniel scours the depths of the Vistula River, torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the hope that his son may still be alive.
The Vistula River is hauntingly transformed into a purgatory for grieving father, Daniel, as he painstakingly scours each of its winding turns, pulled between the uncertainty of life and death in his search for any trace of his missing son, Krzysztof. Director Michał Marczak intuitively lets his camera drift between the placid surface of Poland’s longest river and the murky secrets of its depths, mirroring the stoic façade and inner tumult of a father torn between hope and grief. As weeks stretch into months and years, Daniel’s search slowly expands beyond the physical realm, and into the digital world, when he begins to chart the darkened halls of his son’s online footprint in an effort to understand how systems of connectivity can lead a generation to the abyss of isolation. — JH
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Michał Marczak
Monika Braid
Michał Marczak
Rémi Grellety
Katarzyna Szczerba
Karolina Marczak
Anna Garncarczyk
Pawel Mykietyn
Dirk Dresselhaus
Ilpo Väisänen
Hildur Guðnadóttir
William Basinski
Katarzyna Szczerba
Konrad Blaszczyk
Danielle DiGiacomo
Brian Levy
Julia Nelson
Christine D'Souza
Amy Shepherd
Danielle Turkov
James Costa
Trevor Burgess
Gary Hess
Sara Skrodzka
Braidmade Films
Monika Braid
monika.braid@gmail.com
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Directing Award, 2016 Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Documentary) for All These Sleepless Nights, named one of IndieWire’s 100 best films of the decade. His SXSW premiere Fuck for Forest became a cult documentary. He has collaborated with Radiohead and Thom Yorke on their videos and is now working on his fiction film debut.
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