Eo – Watch the trailer for Jerzy Skolimowski’s film about a donkey travelling across Poland

EO, a gray donkey with melancholic eyes and a curious spirit, begins his life as a circus performer before escaping on a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside in a journey marked by absurdity and warmth in equal measure.

Legendary filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, placing the viewer directly in the heart and mind of the four-legged protagonist.

Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début, THE MENACING EYE. In 1967 he was awarded the Golden Bear prize for his film THE DEPARTURE. Among his other notable films is DEEP END (1970), starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. He lived in Los Angeles for over 20 years where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and occasionally acted in films. He returned to Poland, and to filmmaking as a writer and director, after a 17-year hiatus with FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA in 2008. He received the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.

Eo opens in New York on 18th November and Los Angeles on 2nd December.