The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
Jerzy Skolimowski is an award-winning Polish director, scriptwriter, actor and painter. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959 and directing in Lodz Film Academy in 1962. With over twenty films to his name, his work includes Berlin Golden Bear winner “The Departure” (1967), drama “Deep End” (1970), Cannes Grand Prix winner “The Shout” (1978), the political drama “Moonlighting” (1982), and “The Lightship” (1985), 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 is an accomplished painter who has taken part in the Venice Biennale and exhibited across Europe and the US.
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize
SCA'22: EO
SCA'22: EO
N13
Genre
Kertant Europą
Run time
1h 26min
Genre
Kertant Europą
Run time
1h 26min
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
Jerzy Skolimowski is an award-winning Polish director, scriptwriter, actor and painter. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959 and directing in Lodz Film Academy in 1962. With over twenty films to his name, his work includes Berlin Golden Bear winner “The Departure” (1967), drama “Deep End” (1970), Cannes Grand Prix winner “The Shout” (1978), the political drama “Moonlighting” (1982), and “The Lightship” (1985), 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 is an accomplished painter who has taken part in the Venice Biennale and exhibited across Europe and the US.
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize
Jerzy Skolimowski is an award-winning Polish director, scriptwriter, actor and painter. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959 and directing in Lodz Film Academy in 1962. With over twenty films to his name, his work includes Berlin Golden Bear winner “The Departure” (1967), drama “Deep End” (1970), Cannes Grand Prix winner “The Shout” (1978), the political drama “Moonlighting” (1982), and “The Lightship” (1985), 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 is an accomplished painter who has taken part in the Venice Biennale and exhibited across Europe and the US.
Festivals: Cannes Film Festival – Jury Prize