Jan Komasa

[8] Film generated a big buzz afterwards which ultimately led to a sweeping box office success (with 900,000 admissions in Polish cinemas - $4,878,284 and $2,348,656 abroad[9]).

[10] Suicide Room was distributed by Wolfe Video, the oldest and largest exclusive distributor of LGBT films in North America.

[11] He created a concept of a unique full-length documentary he directed - Warsaw Uprising (2014) which was a critical and box office success with 700,000 viewers in Polish cinemas.

The film received very good reviews from Los Angeles Times (“Warsaw Uprising” is not only a unique, remarkably assembled documentary-narrative hybrid but also a powerful look at the personal and public devastation that can occur during wartime.

Movies rarely feel as authentic as this”[12]) to Village Voice (Despite its context in a global conflict, “Uprising” is a strangely intimate film.

[26][27][28][29] His film The Hater (2020) became one of the first movies disrupted by COVID-19 outbreak premiering on 6 March 2020 in Poland before the cinemas in the country were closed down 6 days later due to partial national lockdown administered by the Polish government.

To mitigate inevitable losses and take advantage of still ongoing advertising campaign The Hater began being distributed on VOD platforms domestically on 18 March.