While Kate Plays Christine deservedly got attention at Sundance this year for pushing the boundaries of the documentary form, Michal Marczak‘s All These Sleepless Nights also warrants a mention. A beautiful journey as we float through the lives of youth in Warsaw, it got picked up by The Orchard for a U.S. release likely next year, but first it will be released in Poland and now the first trailer has arrived.
Winner of the directing award in its World Cinema – Documentary category at Sundance, the jury said, “This filmmaker made a visually stunning film with unique vision. We feel the director is pushing the art of nonfiction into brave new territories. We the jury is really looking forward to see what this talented filmmaker does in the future.”
I saw in my review, “Blurring the line between documentary and fiction like few films before it, Michal Marczak‘s All These Sleepless Nights is a music-filled ode to the ever-shifting bliss and angst of youth set mostly in the wee hours of the day in Warsaw, Poland. Marczak himself, who also plays cinematographer, is wary to delineate the line between narrative and nonfiction, and part of the film’s joy is forgoing one’s grasp on this altering perspective, rather simply getting wrapped up in the immaculately-shot allure of its location.”
Check out the trailer below.
All These Sleepless Nights hits theaters in Poland on November 4 and will be released by The Orchard.