Special Screenings · 44th Edition
Eo
EO
Director
Jerzy Skolimowski
Country
Poland, Italy
Runtime
1 h 26 min
Language
Polish
Premiere
MENA premiere (Middle East and North Africa)
Synopsis
EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, and endures the wheel of fortune.
Cast
Sandra Drzymalska, Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Tomasz Organek, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo
Screenplay
Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski
Producers
Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski, Eileen Tasca
About the Director
With over twenty films to his name, Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s work includes the Berlin Golden Bear winner THE DEPARTURE, Cannes Grand Prix winner THE SHOUT, the political drama MOONLIGHTING, and THE LIGHTSHIP, for which he won Best Director at the Venice Film Festival. He has also received the Golden Lion for the Lifetime Achievement from Venice Film Festival. Skolimowski collaborated with Roman Polanski on the screenplay for KNIFE IN THE WATER and THE PALACE.
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