‘Closure’
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Millennium Docs Against Gravity Opens With Award-Winning ‘Closure’
The first weekend of Millennium Docs Against Gravity – the prestigious international film festival in Poland – is underway after opening with Closure, the new film directed by Warsaw native Michał Marczak.
The wrenching documentary about a father’s desperate search for his missing teenage son won the Golden Alexander at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece in March and premiered in World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance.
Marczak’s journey to make the film began as he spent time on the Vistula River in Warsaw. While on a raft with his family – the director was scouting locations for a fiction project — he noticed a man plying the waters intently in a boat. After engaging him in conversation, Marczak learned the man, named Daniel, was looking for his son Chris who had last been seen standing on the Warsaw Bridge overlooking the river.
“A rotating CCTV camera caught [Chris] there standing for 20 minutes. And as it swung back around, we don’t know if he jumped or made it off the bridge and possibly escaped,” Marczak told Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast. “The father decided to search the river by himself. He built this custom-made boat outfitted with cameras, sonars, drones to probe the murky waters. So, it’s a ‘an old man in the sea’ type of a story, a Fitzcarraldo-type character, fighting against all odds to find the truth about what happened.”
Marczak spent many months with Daniel as he continued his search, sometimes the two of them camping along the river.
“Many times, it was just easier to sleep on these islands or banks and so that you don’t waste time and that most of the time goes for the search,” he recalled. “After [searching] for hours and you sit down at night, exhausted, by the campfire, all these thoughts come to you — about what could I be doing better, or how could I navigate the challenges of raising my now two sons in this world? And where, as a society, we have gone wrong… Totally desolate, empty nature yields these kinds of more metaphysical conversations. So, we would just sit and contemplate our lives. And I would ask him for advice. He would ask me, and that’s how we became close to each other.”
Without knowing if his son jumped to his death or perhaps left the bridge and is still alive somewhere, Daniel cannot find closure, nor can his wife. Daniel keeps searching month upon month, unable to give up on his son, even as his father counsels against continuing what could be considered an obsession.
“It’s a psychological film about the effects of that situation on the family and on Daniel,” Marczak notes, adding, “and on other families as well.” Other families whose loved ones have gone missing after hurling themselves from the bridge.
Introducing the film at the Multikino Złote Tarasy venue in Warsaw, MDAG Artistic Director Karol Piekarczyk said Closure had helped him deal with grief in his own life. The impact of Closure has been similarly profound for many viewers. In Thessaloniki, Marczak told us about a voicemail he received from a person who had seen the documentary.
“He said, ‘Listen, I’ve had some bad days. I’ve had really deep, dark thoughts. But after I saw your movie, I know that I’m never, ever going to commit suicide,’” the director recalled. “And I cried when I heard that message.”
‘Closure’ director Michal Marczak holds the Golden Alexander award from the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece.
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At the festival in Greece, Marczak told us the film came together at almost lightning speed by documentary standards.
“We did this movie in 14 months from the moment we met the protagonist and we shot for a year,” Marczak explained. “We were super-fast editing as we went, just really trying to stretch our resources and to get this movie out.”
In addition to Sundance and Thessaloniki, Closure has screened at True/False in Columbia, MO and will screen next month at Sheffield DocFest in the UK and at the Sydney Film Festival in Australia.
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EXCLUSIVE: Karl Glusman (Eenie Meanie) has joined the cast of Giant Void, the upcoming independent sci-fi drama from writer-director Michael Reisinger, with The Blair Witch Project co-creator Eduardo Sánchez boarding as an executive producer.
Glusman joins Molly Burnett (Law & Order:SVU) , Elaine Hendrix (The Parent Trap) and Shahjehan Khan (Deli Boys) in the ensemble.
The film follows Chloe (Burnett), “a brilliant but isolated computer scientist whose potentially world-changing software uncovers hidden connections she was never meant to find. As she grows closer to a new co-worker (Glusman), the discovery forces her to question the nature of human connection, reality and humanity’s place in the universe.”
Pic is produced by Burnett, Reisinger, Andrew Baird (The Peanut Butter Falcon), Adia Stark, and Shepard E. Smith.
The film marks the feature directorial debut of Reisinger, whose screenplay was previously recognized by the Slamdance Screenplay Competition and Scriptapalooza. The film was independently produced in Colorado and is now preparing for a festival run.
“I’m honored to be part of this team,” Sánchez said about the completed film. “Giant Void is an amazing and emotional journey that will surely touch audiences everywhere. Can’t wait to get this film out there.”
Sánchez recently returned to the Blair Witch franchise as an executive producer on Lionsgate’s next film in the series.
Glusman is currently filming Replacer alongside Halsey, and his credits include Paul Schrader’s The Basics of Philosophy, Alex Garland’s Devs, Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, and Gaspar Noé’s Love.
Glusman is repped by Paradigm, Ilene Feldman Management, and Ziffren Brittenham. Sanchez is repped by Independent Artist Group, Atlas Literary, and Goodman, Genow.
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Netflix has found its leads for Icebreaker, its series adaptation of Hannah Grace‘s bestselling novel. Daisy Jelley (Poser, How To Have Sex) will play Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and Connor Simos (Subversion) will portray Nate Hawkins in the college hockey romance drama series.
In Icebreaker, she is the transfer gunning for Olympic gold. He is the campus star chasing the NHL. But when an accident forces their teams to share one rink, Anastasia Allen and Nate Hawkins collide—and discipline gives way to obsession, because the only thing more dangerous than wanting to win is wanting each other.
The book, the first in a trilogy, titled Maple Hills, spent 70 weeks atop the New York Times bestseller list. Originally published in November 2022 with a wide release in 2023, the blockbuster novel has surpassed nearly 5 million copies sold worldwide. Total sales for the three-book series have surpassed 7.5 million copies globally.
Icebreaker is created and executive produced by Jade Halley Bartlett (Road House, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Miller’s Girl). Amanda Lasher (Gossip Girl, The Bold Type, Togetherness) serves as showrunner, writer and excutive producer. Grace also executive produces along with Alex Cooper, Matt Kaplan and Mina Lefevre for Cooper’s Unwell Productions.
Icebreaker joins a lineup of Netflix adaptations, including I Will Find You, Little House on the Prairie, and the breakout series His & Hers Upcoming adaptations include East of Eden, Pride and Prejudice, The Corrections, and Lonesome Dove.
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Disney has unveiled premiere date for Steven Knight’s Oasis documentary on Disney+ and Hulu.
The feature will land on October 9, just two weeks after tickets to Oasis’ next round of tour dates were snapped up, including some shows in the U.S.
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger has already had a theatrical run where it became the UK’s highest-grossing documentary feature film of 2026. Described as an “unapologetically uplifting account of the biggest musical event of 2025,” Knight’s movie charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s reunion tour, Oasis Live ‘25, which was one of the most anticipated rock ‘n’ roll comebacks in years.
The film from Magna Studios and directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace features material from a rare joint interview between the Gallaghers, along with plenty of coverage of the sold-out concerts. Peaky Blinders creator Knight, a huge fan of the band, is writer-creator.
Angela Jain, Head of Content, Disney+ EMEA, said: “The great wait is over…as we now bring Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger to as many people as possible through Disney+, and to be doing it with exclusive unseen footage too, is so exciting for fans. The Oasis reunion has been one of our defining cultural moments of recent times. We have seen how the documentary has resonated with audiences around the world as they celebrate the power of Oasis and music through this evocative and moving reunion story.”
Oasis featured for the first time in a Saturday Night Live UK cold open over the weekend, with the Gallagher brothers revealing themselves as Russian spies after almost convincing Prime Minister Andy Burnham to join them.
Featuring never-before-seen footage, the film is a Magna Studios production, presented by Sony Music Vision in association with Sony Music Entertainment UK. The producers are Sam Bridger and Guy Heeley. The executive producers include Kate Shepherd, Marisa Clifford, Davud Karbassioun, Rob Stringer, Tom Mackay, Krista Wegener, Thomas Benski, Isabel Davis, and Tim O’Shea, with Oscar-winning sound mixers James Mather and Tarn Willers, cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos and editors George Cragg and Martina Zamolo leading the creative technical team. The film was commissioned by VP Unscripted Content for Disney+ EMEA, Sean Doyle.
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