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Dutch film director
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Sacha Polak (born 1982) is a Dutch film director.
Career
In 2012 Polak's feature film debut Hemel played at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. 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.
In 2015 Polak's second film Zurich played at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.
That same year Polak announced that she would make her English language debut with Vita & Virginia about the love-affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West starring Romola Garai as Sackville-West
Personal life
Polak's mother died of breast cancer 11 months after she was born.
Director Meral Uslu is her step-mother.
Filmography
- Hemel (2012)
- Zurich (2015)
- Vita & Virginia (????)