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EO

by Jerzy Skolimowski

synopsis

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.

international title:	EO
original title:	IO
country:	Poland, Italy
sales agent:	HanWay Films
year:	2022
genre:	fiction
directed by:	Jerzy Skolimowski
film run:	86'
screenplay:	Jerzy Skolimowski
cast:	Sandra Drzymalska, Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Tomasz Organek, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo
cinematography by:	Michal Dymek
production:	Skopia Film, Alien Films
backing:	Direzione generale Cinema e audiovisivo del Ministero della Cultura DGCA - MIC, Polish Film Institute/Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

Photogallery 20/05/2022: Cannes 2022 - Eo

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Toronto 2022	Contemporary World Cinema

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