His debut, a harrowing documentary „Evolution” was awarded on various international documentary festivals, including San Francisco International Film Festival. Polish moviegoers known Lankosz primarily for his feature movies – his dark comedy about Stalinism „Reverse” (2009) was the Polish official entry for the Academy Award. 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.