Borys Lankosz

Borys Lankosz is one of the most popular Polish filmmakers of his generation. Alumnus of the famous National Film School in Lodz, he made his debut in 2001 with a harrowing documentary 'Evolution' about neglected patients of a mental institution, awarded on various international documentary festivals, including San Francisco International Film Festival. His documentary 'Radegast' (2008) tells the story of Western European Jews, deported to the ghetto of Lodz via the namesake train station, the Nazi gates of hell. Polish moviegoers known Lankosz primarily for his feature movies - his dark comedy about Stalinism 'Reverse' (2009) (the plot can be summarized as 'Arsenic and Old Lace' meets '1984') was the Polish official entry for the Academy Award. His thriller 'A Grain of Truth', where the phantoms of medieval antisemitism seem to reappear in a contemporary small Polish town, was a box office hit of 2015.