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All These Sleepless Nights

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, our sensitive yet perpetually inquisitive hero, breaks up with his long-time girlfriend, anything seems possible. He and Michal, handsome and wide-eyed, roam the metropolis at night, floating from encounter to encounter, with only instinct and desire as their captain. As they chain-smoke, drink, and party with abandon, big ideas are as palpable as the romance and sex in the air.
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.
Official Selection Sundance 2016 - World premiere
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Details

Year
2016
Type of project
Features
Running time
100 mins
Format
HD
Director
Michal Marczak
Producer
Marta Golba, Julia Nottingham, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa, Michal Marczak
Executive Producer
Robert Serek, Minette Nelson, David Eckles, Maxyne Franklin, Katarzyna Szczerba
Editor
Dorota Wardeszkiewicz
Screenwriter
Michal Marczak
Director of Photography
Michal Marczak, Maciej Twardowski
Sound
Jan Pasemann
Composer
Luto Lento, Filip Lech
Principal cast
Krzysztof Baginski, Michal Huszcza, Eva LeBeuf

Categories

Documentary

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Poland, UK coproduction

Endorfina Studio (PL), Pulse Films (UK)

Pulse Films

Julia Nottingham
17 Hanbury Street
London
E1 6QR

Sales Company

HanWay Films

Mark Lane
Kate Hide
24 Hanway Street
London
W1T 1UH

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