Enrique Sánchez Lansch was born in Gijón, Northern Spain to a Spanish father and German mother.
His work brought him beyond Germany to Italy, France and Greece, writing and directing films mostly on the subjects of music, opera and ballet.
After some years of producing and directing fiction programs for television, Enrique Sánchez Lansch spent a year developing new projects and improving his film and screenwriting skills at Columbia University in New York, and at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Since 2002 he has been based in Berlin, working as a director and writer of feature length films, both documentary and fiction.
Piano Encounters won the second prize for best documentary 2010 at the SEMINCI, the international film festival in Valladolid, Spain.