Jerzy Skolimowski

Jerzy Skolimowski is a film director, screenwriter, playwright and actor. Skolimowski graduated in Ethnology, Literature and History from the University of Warsaw in 1959 and also from the prestigious Łódź National Film School (1962), having directed more than twenty films since his 1960 debut with El ojo torvo. The film La partida won the Golden Bear, followed by Barrier a year later. The director participated in Cannes’ competition on numerous occasions with films such as King, Queen, Knave (1972), The Shout (1978, winner of the Grand Jury Prize), Moonlighting (1982, Best Screenplay Award), Success Is the Best Revenge (1984), Torrents of Spring (1989) and Four Nights with Anna (2008), the latter marking his return to Poland after 17 years living in Los Angeles, where he dedicated himself to figurative and expressionist painting and sporadically acted in films. Essential Killing, from 2010, won three awards at the Viennale. Moreover, Skolimowski was honoured with the Golden Lion for Career Achievement at the Viennale in 2016 and EO earned him the Jury Prize of Cannes.

Festival de Cine de Sevilla