Dorota Lech

Dorota Lech is the Festival Director of the New Horizons International Film Festival, a showcase of contemporary auteur-driven art house cinema as well as retrospectives and thematic programmes, held annually in Wrocław, Poland. She is also a Programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), selecting films from Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Additionally, she has curated retrospectives and special screenings at the Museo Reina Sofía, the Academy Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, as well as the TIFF Cinémathèque. Dorota has been a guest lecturer at the Łódź Film School, New York University, and Harvard's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies. In 2024 she was named by Screen International as a Future Leader in film curation.