All These Sleepless Nights — Trailer

added: Wed, Jan 18th '17

Part documentary on the Polish nightlife culture. Part observational study on carefree twenty-somethings living in Warsaw.

"All These Sleepless Nights" is a highly cinematic take on the cinema-verite style of the French New Wave, as it observes the laid-back lifestyles of several college students in Warsaw, Poland.

Trying to capture the intimate moments of transition when a young person enters adulthood, Polish documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Michal Marczak, who previously helmed the eye-raising environmentalist doc. "F-ck for Forest," seems to have mastered the art of interpreting reality through a highly visual media.

For his efforts on "Sleepless Nights," Marczak was rewarded with a Directing Award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. The film has since gone on to screen at a number of noted festivals last year. It's now gearing up for an official theatrical release, which is slated for sometime in the spring. In the time being, you can watch the trailer, above.

synopsis:
Many of us know the freedom of our twenties -- unfettered by responsibilities or mortality, inventing ourselves in the rush of the moment. All These Sleepless Nights viscerally summons that feeling, chronicling life across two Warsaw summers when students Kris and Michal resolve to experience life to the limit. After Kris breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible and Warsaw is his playground. Along with best friend Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, they roam the metropolis at night, floating from party to party, dancing until dawn in makeshift clubs and city squares. 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 indomitable and alluring Eva, the relationship between the two best friends falls apart. Determined to find his true self, Kris navigates between his memories and future hopes, soon realising that his crusade to understand life has starting to overshadow living it. In a profound and compelling celebration of cinema, filmmaker Michal Marczak captures the very heart and soul of a generation awake enough to dance to their dreams.

directed by Michal Marczak

release date Spring 2017