Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

MAGICAL SUBSTANCES: MUSIC ON FILM

All These Sleepless Nights

Poland, United Kingdom
2016 — 100' / Color

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Synopsis

After a breakup with his girlfriend, Kris sets off with his friend Michal in search of new experiences. Stylishly capturing the romantic yearning, drunken debating, aimless wandering and self-indulgent philosophizing of youth, Michal Marczak’s highly constructed documentary/fiction hybrid is a moody collage of a year’s journey through house parties, parks and clubs of Warsaw.

Director Biography

A CalArts graduate, Polish director-cinematographer Michal Marczak has made an art of blending narrative storytelling and you-are-there vérité filmmaking. His first two films, At the Edge of Russia (2010) and Fuck for Forest (2012), earned him a reputation on the festival circuit as one to watch; his latest, All These Sleepless Nights, earned him the Best Directing Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.

Director

Michał Marczak

Producer

Julia Nottingham

Lucas Ochoa

Marta Golba

Thomas Benski

Cinematographer

Maciej Twardowski

Michał Marczak

Editor

Dorota Wardęszkiewicz

Sound

Jan Pasemann

Katarzyna Szczerba

Contact

The Festival Agency
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