Biography
Robert Bolesto is a Polish screenwriter and playwright. He was born in 1977 in Kętrzyn and trained as an electrician before studying materials engineering and completing writing workshops at Collegium Civitas in Warsaw in 2002.
Bolesto began in theatre, collaborating with Laboratorium Dramatu and serving as literary manager at Warsaw’s Powszechny Theatre from 2006 to 2007. He moved into film with the screenplay for Hardkor Disko (2014). His subsequent credits include The Lure (2015), The Last Family (2016), for which he received the Polish Film Award for best screenplay, A Heart of Love (2017) and a segment of The Field Guide to Evil (2018). He wrote the screenplay for Hot Spot (2026).
