Borys Lankosz graduated from National Film School in Lodz, Poland. His diploma film, a 2001 documentary entitled "Evolution" ("Rozwoj"), won the 45th San Francisco International Film Festival as well as many other international and Polish film festivals. The jury in San Francisco decided to award the film "because of its remarkable mood, tone and beauty." In proceeding years Lankosz made many documentary films which won the acclaim of audiences, critics, and award s at prestigious international film festivals. Among the most notable of which are: "Poles Poles", a documentary about some of the most eminent Polish figures (such as Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as the legendary science fiction writer and author of "Solaris", Stanislaw Lem, among others) and "Radegast", a harrowing documentary tale about Western European Jews, who in 1941 were sent to the Lodz ghetto, which received the Silver Phoenix Award at the International Film Festival Jewish Motifs in Warsaw, the Finalist Award Winner of The New York Festivals, as well as being award ed a Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense Medal. Borys Lankosz is also the author of a film series entitled "From the Different Angle", filmed in China, Zimbabwe, Iran and France. This four-part series was broad-casted in prime time by the first channel of the national Polish public television. In 2009, Lankosz directed his first feature film "Reverse", which became a staggering success. At its premiere at the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia "Reverse" won 11 of the festival's award s, including the prestigious Golden Lion Award for Best Film and was selected as Poland's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign language film Oscar. "Reverse" become a box office hit, which in the Polish domestic market effectively competes with the biggest Hollywood hits such as Twilight Saga or 2012. The Polish Film Academy nominated "Reverse" for the Polish Film Award s: Eagles in 13 categories, eventually granting award s in eight of those, among them the Best Film Award . Soon thereafter, award s began to appear on the international arena. "Reverse" received FIPRESCI Award at the Warsaw Film Festival, the St. George Award at the Moscow International Film Festival, as well as the Grand Jury Prize for Best New Director at the Seattle International Film Festival.
A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it and tries at all costs to find her daughter a good candidate for a husband. The whole situation is controlled by the grandmother, an eccentric lady with a sharp tongue from whom no secret can be concealed. Successive admirers arrive at the pre-war tenement where the women live, but Sabina is interested in none of them. One day, appearing out of nowhere, comes the charming, intelligent, and terribly good-looking Bronislaw. His presence will spark off a series of unexpected events revealing the darker side of the women's nature.