Sacha Polak

Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director.

Additionally her short Brother and her step-mother Meral Uslu's film on which she was a script supervisor, all played at the festival as well.

[3] Polak's next feature film was the movie Dirty God about a woman who sustained facial burns after an acid attack by her ex-partner.

[5] The lead actress in the film, Vicky Knight, won a BAFTA Breakthrough Brits award for new talent at the 2019 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards.

[6] Polak's mother died of breast cancer 11 months after she was born.