Dialogue: Post-screening conversation with director, Michał Marczak.
Sunday, May 3, 2:00 p.m. | After his teenage son Chris goes missing in 2023, last seen by surveillance cameras walking on Warsaw’s Gdańsk Bridge, Daniel Dymiński sets out to find him. With relentless perseverance and using a host of tools—from GPS tracking devices to drones—Daniel obsessively searches for his child, scouring every inch of the nearby Vistula River and following up on every lead. Sightings of Chris across Poland fuel the family’s hopes; bodies are found in the water; Daniel will never give up.
Called “spellbinding” (Variety) and “a singularly stunning experience” (Filmmaker Magazine), this slow-burn mystery unfolds like a missing person investigation combined with a piercing and emotional portrait of the extremes one will go to for the people they love. “Haunting and heartstruck” (Indiewire), “gorgeously shot [and] one of the best documentaries of Sundance 2026, CLOSURE is a moving story of how grief and love can harden into determination” (RogerEbert.com). Producers: Monika Braid, Michał Marczak, Rémi Grellety, Katarzyna Szczerba, Karolina Marczak.
Doc10, now in its eleventh year, is Chicago’s only all-documentary film festival that has firmly set its place in Chicago’s cultural scene. Each year the festival screens the 10 best documentaries culled from Sundance, Berlin, Venice, and other top-tier festivals across the world, giving Chicago audiences the first—and often only—opportunity to see these extraordinary films on the big screen. Synopses provided by Doc10. Post-screening conversations will follow all showtimes. Visit doc10.org for tickets and more information.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu