28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
International Competition

Poland, France 2026 108 Colour
Shortly before dawn on May 27, 2023, 16-year-old Chris sneaked out of his house and took a bus to Warsaw. A closed-circuit camera captured images of him standing for twenty consecutive minutes on a central bridge in the city, silently looking out over the water. When the camera returned to the same spot a few moments later, Chris was gone. Daniel, Chris’s father, has been searching for him ever since, along the banks of the Vistula River, improvising methods and means of investigation. Mapping out a hypothetical path of loss and suicide, Daniel becomes a timeless and yet contemporary tragic hero, struggling to unearth answers to questions doomed to remain unresolved. A heart-wrenching journey through unfinished mourning and undying sorrow, with the unattainable promise of closure as its final destination.