The high-profile project is being unveiled on the sidelines of Rome's MIA market Prominent Polish documentarist Michał Marczak – a Sundance Film Festival prizewinner with “All These Sleepless Nights” – is set to make his narrative feature debut with “Perfection,” a buzzy drama about hipster millennials in Berlin, based on Italian author Vincenzo Latronico’s eponymous novel that was shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize. German producer Roman Paul, of Razor Film (“Quo Vadis, Aida?”), Britain’s Andrea Calderwood, head of prominent London-based indie Potboiler Productions, and Italy’s Marta Donzelli, partner in Vivo Film (“The Last One for the Road”), have teamed up on the high-profile project. Donzelli was instrumental in winning the bidding war for the book’s rights that were negotiated with Claire Sabatié-Garat, who is Latronico’s literary agent.
Friends move back home, have children, grow up. Frustrated that their progressive politics amount to little more in practice than boycotting Uber, tipping in cash, or never eating tuna, Anna and Tom make a fruitless attempt at political activism,” it goes on to add. Marczak, who won 2016 directing prize in the Sundance World Cinema – documentary category for “All These Sleepless Nights,” is known for his hybrid style that blurs the lines between documentary and fiction.
His most recent work is multiple prize-winning “Closure,” about a teenager who disappears and his father’s relentless search for him, which also bowed at Sundance and will be released in U.S. theaters via 1-2 Special on Oct. 28. Marczak’s films are “hybrid films, some of which focus on young people, for whom he has a very good eye and ear,” Paul noted, adding that “his sense of visuals is sublime.” He also pointed out that Marczak lived in Berlin and shot a film there, 2012 doc “Fuck for Forest” about a real-life Berlin-based non-governmental organization that raises money for environmental causes by producing and selling eco-pornography online. Marczak will write the English-language screenplay for “Perfection” that, unlike Latronico’s atmospheric novel, will include dialogues.
The producers are “in constant dialogue” with Latronico who “has been very supportive of our choice of director,” though the book’s author will not be directly involved in the screenplay, they said. The “Perfection” project is in early development with Marczak attached as director, the next step being the writing of a treatment, followed by a screenplay.
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