Closure, Michal Marczak’s searing account of a man desperately searching for his missing teenage son, won the Golden Alexander in International Competition today at the prestigious Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece. It’s the festival’s top honor.
Marczak’s film, which premiered in World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance, follows a man named Daniel whose son Chris is last seen on a bridge over the Vistula River in Warsaw. A rotating CCTV camera recorded images of the young man on the bridge, but after the camera cycled back to the spot, Chris was gone.
Marczak attended the Thessaloniki awards ceremony, held on a pier in the port city along the Aegean Sea.
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“I’m very moved, super moved,” Marczak told Deadline after winning the prize. “We were actually here in Thessaloniki presenting the
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