The film tells the story of a father’s search for his teenage son, who went missing in the Vistula River.
In a programme note, the Sundance Film Festival writes: "The Vistula River is hauntingly transformed into a purgatory for a grieving father, Daniel, as he painstakingly scours each of its winding turns, pulled between the uncertainty of life and death in his search for any trace of his missing son, Krzysztof."
The note adds: "Director Michał Marczak intuitively lets his camera drift between the placid surface of Poland’s longest river and the murky secrets of its depths, mirroring the stoic façade and inner tumult of a father torn between hope and grief."
It goes on to say: "As weeks stretch into months and years, Daniel’s search slowly expands beyond the physical realm and into the digital world, as he begins to chart the darkened halls of his son’s online footprint in an effort to understand how systems of connectivity can lead a generation to the abyss of isolation."
Marczak, 43, won the directing prize in the World Cinema Documentary category at Sundance in 2016 for All These Sleepless Nights.
The Sundance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah, opens on January 22.
It is one of the world’s major showcases of independent cinema.
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Source: festival.sundance.org