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| Born | 31 March 1973 Kraków, Poland |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Borys Lankosz (born 31 March 1973, Kraków) is a Polish film director.
He graduated from the National Film School in Łódź. His debut film "Evolution" (2001) received several awards, i.a. the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. He is the creator of the documentary series From a Different Angle, filmed in Iran, China and Zimbabwe, and the films Kurc and Poles Poles (with Wislawa Szymborska, Stanislaw Lem, Krzysztof Penderecki).[1]
His feature debut titled Rewers (Reverse) won first prize, the Golden Lion, at the Polish Film Festival in 2009 in Gdynia. Lankosz is also a director and screenwriter of several documentary and short films: Radegast (documentary film), Alien VI (short).
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.
- ^ Marek Olchawski: "Borys Lankosz" bulletfilm.com. 26 Jan 2010 <http://www.bulletfilm.com/filmmaking/borys-lankosz>