Career
In 2012 Polak"s feature film debut Hemel played at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival. 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.