All These Sleepless nights

In this film, Marczak captures that precise moment in our twenties where unique freedom allows us to reinvent ourselves in the rush of a passing moment. It viscerally summons this point in time, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers as students Kris and Michal resolve to push their experience of life to the limit. After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Along with his best friend Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, they roam the metropolis at night. With only instinct and desire as their guides, big ideas intermingle with drugs and sex and one thing seamlessly gives way to another. However, when Kris falls for Michal’s ex-girlfriend, the relationship between the two best friends falls apart. Determined to find his true self Kris navigates between his memories and future hopes - soon realizing that his crusade to understand life has started to overshadow living it. Marczak paints an intimate portrait of a displaced youth challenging to realize itself in a city that is suspended between its traumatic past and a future powered by a fervent new generation. His fluid, dream-like shooting and editing is reminiscent of the French New Wave’s spirit of discovery, yet all the while our protagonist’s youthful adventure transcends Warsaw - his desire for selfhood, to belong, resounds with each of us, eternally.