Three years ago, director Michal Marczak—not quite aged out of the scene—immersed himself in the club and party culture of Warsaw’s early-twenty-somethings, determined to cast and document this army of would-be lovers in their endless summer dance of intense and fleeting pleasures.

“I knew it was now or never,” Marczak said at a recent screening of ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, speaking of his need to capture the reckless abandon of his protagonists while he was still young enough to appreciate it.

During the filming of this poetic “feature-documentary,” the sense of disillusionment that the characters only flirt with descended on the country as a whole, as the Polish government took a hard-right swing into nationalism.

ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS won the Best Director award in the World Cinema—Documentary section at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, and is now playing at the Nuart.

ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, through April 13.

Saturday through Monday, and Wednesday and Thursday: noon, 2:30 pm, 5 pm, 7:30 pm, 9:50 pm. Director Q & A on Saturday after 7:30 pm show.

Tuesday, April 11 at noon, 2:30 pm, 5 pm and 10:10 pm.

NUART THEATRE, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd., West Los Angeles.

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Krzysztof Baginski and Eva Lebuef in All These Sleepless Nights. Press photo.