The movie has been named best feature in the festival’s International Narrative Competition section.
The event's website describes The Hater as “a thrilling commentary on how misinformation thrives in increasingly polarized societies.”
The film tells the story of a law student named Tomek who takes a job at a public-relations company where he excels at dirty political games that he is asked to orchestrate on social media.
"But there’s a human price to his meddling," the tribecafilm.com website says. "As Tomek gets sucked in deeper, his humanity slowly drains away, and it becomes less clear what the end game is."
The annual Tribeca Film Festival was started in 2002 by actor Robert De Niro, film producer Jane Rosenthal and investor Craig Hatkoff.
Komasa’s previous movie, Corpus Christi, won an Oscar nomination in the Best International Feature Film category and also garnered 11 awards from the Polish Film Academy.
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Source: onet.pl, tribecafilm.com