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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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Review: EO

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20/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

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28/10/2025 | Rome 2025

Yunan takes home the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films

Ameer Fakher Eldin’s film has received the prize presented for the seventh time by European Film Promotion and the Arab Cinema Center

20/10/2025 | Festivals | Awards | Europe

Three films shortlisted for the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films

Eva Libertad's Deaf, Georgi M Unkovski's DJ Ahmet and Ameer Fakher Eldin's Yunan vie for the award given out by a jury of 100 film critics from 16 Arabic-speaking countries

07/10/2025 | Festivals | Awards | Europe

Review: Hen

György Pálfi pulls off an audacious film revolving around the misadventures of a chicken and holding up a mirror to the far-from-squeaky-clean human world

09/09/2025 | Toronto 2025 | Platform

Kei Ishikawa’s A Pale View of Hills enters post-production

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30/01/2025 | Production | Funding | Japan/UK/Poland

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“I decided to use this fear of mine and make a film out of it”

CANNES 2024: Taking the Danish child killings of the 1910s as his starting point, the Swedish helmer recreates a period Copenhagen inspired by collective memory

19/05/2024

Piotr Domalewski's The Altar Boys enters the editing room

15/11/2024 | Production | Funding | Poland

The Seed of the Sacred Fig wins the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films

30/10/2024 | Europe/Middle East

Lorenzo Zurzolo and James Franco starring in Daniele Barbiero’s Squali

26/07/2024 | Production | Funding | Italy/Spain/Poland

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Toronto 2022	Contemporary World Cinema

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