Mubi Swoops For Andrea Arnold’s ‘Bird’
Mubi has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Bird, the Andrea Arnold feature that is getting its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Written and directed by Arnold, the pic stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski (Passages, Great Freedom), and newcomers Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. The plot follows a 12-year-old girl, Bailey, who lives with her dad and brother in a squat in north Kent in southern England. As her dad has little time for his kids, Bailey seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. BBC Studios-owned House Productions made the film, which was shot in the UK around the Kent area. Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Lee Groombridge are the producers. Financiers include BBC Film, the BFI through National Lottery funding), Pinky Promise, FirstGen Content and Access Entertainment. Cornerstone is handling international sales and distribution, striking the deal with Mubi.
Mubi has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Bird, the Andrea Arnold feature that is getting its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Written and directed by Arnold, the pic stars Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski (Passages, Great Freedom), and newcomers Nykiya Adams and Jason Buda. The plot follows a 12-year-old girl, Bailey, who lives with her dad and brother in a squat in north Kent in southern England. As her dad has little time for his kids, Bailey seeks attention and adventure elsewhere. BBC Studios-owned House Productions made the film, which was shot in the UK around the Kent area. Tessa Ross, Juliette Howell and Lee Groombridge are the producers. Financiers include BBC Film, the BFI through National Lottery funding), Pinky Promise, FirstGen Content and Access Entertainment. Cornerstone is handling international sales and distribution, striking the deal with Mubi.
- 5/14/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Disney+ is moving into originals in the Central and Eastern Europe region with a green light for Polish drama Breslau (working title). The drama will follow a police officer investigating an horrific killing and production is underway, Deadline has learned.
The cast includes Tomasz Schuchardt (You are God), Agata Kulesza (Ida), and Sandra Drzymalska (Filip). Leszek Dawid (My Name Is Ki) directs from Bartosz Janiszewski and Magdalena Żakowska’s script.
The eight-part crime drama is set in 1936 in Breslau (the German name for the Polish city of Wrocław). It will tell the story of a commissioner Franz Podolsky, who investigates a brutal murder. Because of the upcoming Olympic Games, the pressure is on to catch the murderer.
“This is an important moment for Disney+ in Poland,” said Magdalena Cieslak, Director Original Productions Disney+ in Cee. “It’s our first Original production in Central and Eastern Europe and we are excited that such talented,...
The cast includes Tomasz Schuchardt (You are God), Agata Kulesza (Ida), and Sandra Drzymalska (Filip). Leszek Dawid (My Name Is Ki) directs from Bartosz Janiszewski and Magdalena Żakowska’s script.
The eight-part crime drama is set in 1936 in Breslau (the German name for the Polish city of Wrocław). It will tell the story of a commissioner Franz Podolsky, who investigates a brutal murder. Because of the upcoming Olympic Games, the pressure is on to catch the murderer.
“This is an important moment for Disney+ in Poland,” said Magdalena Cieslak, Director Original Productions Disney+ in Cee. “It’s our first Original production in Central and Eastern Europe and we are excited that such talented,...
- 5/13/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
Antoni Nykowski’s newest Polish-language adventure drama on Netflix, titled Mr. Car and the Knights Templar, has been adapted from a novel of the same name by Zbigniew Nienacki. Starring Mateusz Janicki, Jacek Beler, and Sandra Drzymalska, among others, the movie talks about an enthusiastic art historian and treasure hunter, Mr. Tomasz, who has to go on an adventure to find the hidden treasure of the Knights Templar, using the clues of a cross he discovers. The movie is meant to be enjoyed as a one-time watch, but it’s best to watch it with the whole family. With a few light-hearted jokes and a happy-go-lucky attitude, it might be just the movie you need this weekend. Read on to find out about this Polish film and decide if you should give it a try.
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Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘Mr. Car And The Knights Templar’?
Renowned Polish art historian Mr.
Spoilers Ahead
Plot Synopsis: What Happens In ‘Mr. Car And The Knights Templar’?
Renowned Polish art historian Mr.
- 7/12/2023
- by Indrayudh Talukdar
- Film Fugitives
Sexify is a series created by Kalina Alabrudzinska y Piotr Domalewski starring Aleksandra Skraba, Maria Sobocinska, Sandra Drzymalska and Piotr Pacek among others.
Sexify is a funny (and dramatic) Polish series about teens and the lives of these girls and thier new app. After the success of the first season, a second season has been released, which using the same daring lines, lets us see a more modern country in the pattern of classic American comedy… with, obviously, the subject of sexual discovery which is the great catalyzing element in the story, for its marketing and for the audience.
Sexify (2021-)
It is undeniable that Sexify almost manages to merge the realistic treatment in the Polish film industry in which an informal teen comedy tone, which isn´t totally wild, does manage to have a certain comedy level inside a more intelligent humor.
Warning: This series is more serious and...
Sexify is a funny (and dramatic) Polish series about teens and the lives of these girls and thier new app. After the success of the first season, a second season has been released, which using the same daring lines, lets us see a more modern country in the pattern of classic American comedy… with, obviously, the subject of sexual discovery which is the great catalyzing element in the story, for its marketing and for the audience.
Sexify (2021-)
It is undeniable that Sexify almost manages to merge the realistic treatment in the Polish film industry in which an informal teen comedy tone, which isn´t totally wild, does manage to have a certain comedy level inside a more intelligent humor.
Warning: This series is more serious and...
- 1/11/2023
- by Veronica Loop
- Martin Cid - TV
Eo Sideshow/Janus Films Reviewed for Shockya.com by Abe Friedtanzer Director: Jerzy Skolimowski Writer: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski Cast: Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Isabelle Huppert Screened at: Raleigh Studios, LA, 11/18/22 Opens: November 18th, 2022 Having a human protagonist makes it easy to carry a film, since the main character is, typically, able to speak and […]
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- 12/13/2022
- by Abe Friedtanzer
- ShockYa
Eo Review — Eo (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, written by Ewa Piaskowska and Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Tomasz Organek, Lolita Chammah and Andrzej Szeremeta. Eo is a harrowing Polish movie directed by Jerzy Skolimowski that makes the audience feel a lot of [...]
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- 12/2/2022
- by Thomas Duffy
- Film-Book
Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, a winding misadventure about a sweet-tempered donkey, inarguably qualifies as an animal’s-eye view of all that’s warm and cruel, comical and arbitrary about human nature. And of the world of animals, which can be so beautiful and terrifying at once. It’s similar to other, more sobering movies about animals, in this way — I’m thinking of recent documentaries like Andrea Arnold’s dairy farm chronicle Cow, or Victor Kossakovsky’s black-and-white, ethically produced Gunda, about a mother pig — only Eo, being a work of fiction,...
- 11/22/2022
- by K. Austin Collins
- Rollingstone.com
Eo Janus Films Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net, linked from Rotten Tomatoes by Harvey Karten Director: Jerzy Skolimowski Screenwriter: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski Cast: Hola, Tako, Marietta, Ettore, Rocco, Mela, Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Tomasz Organek, Lolita Chammah Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/19/22 Opens: November 18, 2022 Travel broadens. When […]
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- 11/19/2022
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
“The donkey is cute, but this is not a Disney movie,” said Jonathan Sehring, the former IFC Films head whose young distribution outlet Sideshow, with Janus Films, presents Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Jury Prize winning Eo at two NYC theaters this weekend. “We launched Sideshow for great movies that would otherwise get overlooked to give them the best release that they can possibly get,” he told Deadline.
Eo hits the big screen a year after the partners opened Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, tenderly leading the three hour-long Japanese film about a bereft theater director overseeing a production of Uncle Vanya through a decorated awards season expansion that garnered four Oscar nominations, a win for Best International Feature and some solid box office coin.
“It’s not something we invented. It was a very traditional platform release for, what we hoped when we acquired it, would be a critically acclaimed film.
Eo hits the big screen a year after the partners opened Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, tenderly leading the three hour-long Japanese film about a bereft theater director overseeing a production of Uncle Vanya through a decorated awards season expansion that garnered four Oscar nominations, a win for Best International Feature and some solid box office coin.
“It’s not something we invented. It was a very traditional platform release for, what we hoped when we acquired it, would be a critically acclaimed film.
- 11/18/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
How do you write music for a wandering donkey in Eo? Composer Pawel Mykietyn didn’t take the responsibility lightly.
“First off this donkey survived,” the Polish composer told the audience, with the help of an interpreter, at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. “I hope I don’t disturb the movie by music. … Sometimes it’s difficult to know what a donkey feels.”
Eo, by Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski and submitted by Poland to this year’s Oscar International Feature race, is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a a precious mule. “In the movie, the donkey is in a lot of different places, the donkey meets different people,” said Mykietyn. “There are different situations, some tragic, sometimes funny. I tried to follow the situation, follow the emotion … add some color.”
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
“It’s crazy,” added Mykietyn, whose...
“First off this donkey survived,” the Polish composer told the audience, with the help of an interpreter, at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. “I hope I don’t disturb the movie by music. … Sometimes it’s difficult to know what a donkey feels.”
Eo, by Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski and submitted by Poland to this year’s Oscar International Feature race, is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a a precious mule. “In the movie, the donkey is in a lot of different places, the donkey meets different people,” said Mykietyn. “There are different situations, some tragic, sometimes funny. I tried to follow the situation, follow the emotion … add some color.”
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
“It’s crazy,” added Mykietyn, whose...
- 11/11/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
- 9/2/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
- 9/1/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
Keep track of all the submissions for best international feature at the 2023 Academy Awards.
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
Entries for the 2023 Oscar for best international feature are underway, and Screen is profiling each one on this page.
Scroll down for profiles of each Oscar entry
An international feature film is defined as a feature-length motion picture produced outside the US with a predominantly (more than 50) non-English dialogue track and can include animated and documentary features.
Submitted films must have been released theatrically in their respective countries between January 1, 2022 and November 30, 2022. The deadline for submissions to the Academy is October 3, 2022.
A shortlist of 15 finalists is...
- 8/30/2022
- by Screen staff
- ScreenDaily
After staging a vastly scaled-down version in 2020, organizers of the Cannes Film Festival brought buzz back to the Croisette last year as the industry dipped its toes into the annual French gathering. As the 75th edition kicked off May 17, many in the business are all-in on the in-person experience and there are plenty of completed films for sale.
Mubi took an early lead in acquisitions, scooping up Léa Mysius’s sophomore film “The Five Devils” and Park Chan-wook’s mystery “Decision to Leave” in recent weeks. Other films arriving with distribution include Brett Morgen’s David Bowie doc “Moonage Daydream,” from Neon. A24 has five films premiering at Cannes, including Alex Garland’s “Men” and Claire Denis’ “The Stars at Noon.”
Still up for grabs are films like “Hunt,” the directorial debut of “Squid Game” star Lee Jung-jae, and Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister.”
Below find a constantly updated...
Mubi took an early lead in acquisitions, scooping up Léa Mysius’s sophomore film “The Five Devils” and Park Chan-wook’s mystery “Decision to Leave” in recent weeks. Other films arriving with distribution include Brett Morgen’s David Bowie doc “Moonage Daydream,” from Neon. A24 has five films premiering at Cannes, including Alex Garland’s “Men” and Claire Denis’ “The Stars at Noon.”
Still up for grabs are films like “Hunt,” the directorial debut of “Squid Game” star Lee Jung-jae, and Arnaud Desplechin’s “Brother and Sister.”
Below find a constantly updated...
- 7/12/2022
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize winner “Eo” has been acquired by Sideshow and Janus Films for North American distribution rights, the companies announced Wednesday.
Sideshow and Janus Films are planning a fall 2022 theatrical release, which was produced by Ewa Piaskowska and Jerzy Skolimowski (who also wrote the screenplay). The film is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas. Eileen Tasca is the Italian co-producer. Jeremy Thomas is the film’s executive producer.
The film shows a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. Here’s the logline: “The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. Eo, a gray donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune as it randomly turns his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss.
Sideshow and Janus Films are planning a fall 2022 theatrical release, which was produced by Ewa Piaskowska and Jerzy Skolimowski (who also wrote the screenplay). The film is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas. Eileen Tasca is the Italian co-producer. Jeremy Thomas is the film’s executive producer.
The film shows a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. Here’s the logline: “The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. Eo, a gray donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune as it randomly turns his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss.
- 6/1/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
Reteaming after last year’s collaboration on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to veteran auteur Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, which won the Jury Prize in Cannes this past weekend. A fall theatrical release is planned.
Eo is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. The titular beast meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune as it randomly turns his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not for a moment does he lose his innocence.
In his review, Deadline’s Todd McCarthy called the film “an exemplary, fresh and radiant piece of work from an 84-year-old director who has not lost his energy or own way of seeing things.”
Eo is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas and stars Sandra Drzymalska,...
Eo is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. The titular beast meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune as it randomly turns his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not for a moment does he lose his innocence.
In his review, Deadline’s Todd McCarthy called the film “an exemplary, fresh and radiant piece of work from an 84-year-old director who has not lost his energy or own way of seeing things.”
Eo is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas and stars Sandra Drzymalska,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Cannes sensation “Eo,” which tells the story of a donkey’s life, has been acquired for North America by Sideshow and Janus Films. The film is the latest collaboration for the U.S. distribution duo that brought this year’s best international feature Oscar winner, “Drive My Car,” to audiences Stateside.
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, “Eo” shared the Cannes Jury Prize with Félix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s “The Eight Mountains.”
The film, a word-of-mouth hit on the Croisette, shares a vision of modern Europe through the prism of a gray donkey, who meets all sorts of people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, as well as disasters and unexpected bliss — all without losing his beautiful innocence. Upon accepting the Jury Prize in Cannes, Polish director Skolimowski thanked “all six” of his donkeys.
The project is the latest collaboration between filmmaker and HanWay Films founder Jeremy Thomas and Skolimowski,...
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, “Eo” shared the Cannes Jury Prize with Félix Van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s “The Eight Mountains.”
The film, a word-of-mouth hit on the Croisette, shares a vision of modern Europe through the prism of a gray donkey, who meets all sorts of people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, as well as disasters and unexpected bliss — all without losing his beautiful innocence. Upon accepting the Jury Prize in Cannes, Polish director Skolimowski thanked “all six” of his donkeys.
The project is the latest collaboration between filmmaker and HanWay Films founder Jeremy Thomas and Skolimowski,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
The donkey tale has also sold across Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
UK outfit HanWay Films has closed a raft of deals on Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, which won the jury prize at Cannes on Saturday (May 28).
The film, which depicts the existential odyssey of a donkey, has been picked up for North America by Sideshow and Janus Films, and for the UK and Ireland by BFI Distribution.
HanWay has also secured sales for Benelux (The Searchers), Italy (I Wonder), Spain (A Contracorriente), Portugal (Nitrato), Greece (Odeon), Turkey (Bir), Middle East (Front Row), China (Dddream), Japan (Fine Films), Taiwan...
UK outfit HanWay Films has closed a raft of deals on Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo, which won the jury prize at Cannes on Saturday (May 28).
The film, which depicts the existential odyssey of a donkey, has been picked up for North America by Sideshow and Janus Films, and for the UK and Ireland by BFI Distribution.
HanWay has also secured sales for Benelux (The Searchers), Italy (I Wonder), Spain (A Contracorriente), Portugal (Nitrato), Greece (Odeon), Turkey (Bir), Middle East (Front Row), China (Dddream), Japan (Fine Films), Taiwan...
- 6/1/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
In one of analytic philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most widely shared quotes, he mused that “if a lion could talk, we would not understand him.” The barrier of language and gulf of understanding between man and animal is the subject of the quite wondrous Eo, a true surprise from the great Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, now enjoying his mid-80s. It is adapted—freely inspired may be a better term—from Robert Bresson’s iconic 1966 film Au Hasard Balthazar; from Eo’s opening minutes any memory or sense of that masterpiece’s forbidding stature is banished—we’re dealing with quite a different animal here. No, it isn’t as good. But it’s different, and a companion piece that flatters both that film and itself.
For Bresson—a cruel moralist, but definitely not a sadist—the donkey Balthazar was meant to unveil the human capacity for sin; with intensely...
For Bresson—a cruel moralist, but definitely not a sadist—the donkey Balthazar was meant to unveil the human capacity for sin; with intensely...
- 5/20/2022
- by David Katz
- The Film Stage
One of many good things to be said about “Eo,” surely the wackiest movie in competition at Cannes this year, is that you would have no idea it was made by an 84-year-old filmmaker in only his fourth movie since the fall of the Soviet Union. A master of the aesthetically liberated New Polish Cinema — fellow alum include Krzysztof Kieślowski, Agnieszka Holland, and Krzysztof Zanussi — Jerzy Skolimowski last won plaudits on the Croisette in the late ’70s and early ’80s for a string of British-made dramas starring the likes of John Hurt and Jeremy Irons. Horror film “The Shout,” with Alan Bates, took the Grand Prix jury prize in 1978. “Moonlighting,” in 1982, won best screenplay here. New York Times critic Vincent Canby called it “one of the best films ever made about exile.”
“Eo” is not like any of those, even if it does have something to say about exile.
Told...
“Eo” is not like any of those, even if it does have something to say about exile.
Told...
- 5/20/2022
- by Adam Solomons
- Indiewire
Give an animal a name, and it becomes a lot more difficult to send it to the glue factory. But people don’t stop using paste simply because they’ve made an equine friend. Named for the animal it follows from owner to owner, through various hardships and across national borders, “Eo” is a damning polemic on our relationship to other intelligent species — as free labor, food and companions — as seen through the dewy, wide eyes of a donkey whom we come to adore.
“Eo’s” inspiration is obvious. In Robert Bresson’s 1966 “Au Hasard Balthazar,” two kids christened a newborn donkey in the film’s opening minutes. By the end, when Balthazar sighed his last breath, audiences wept, such was the attachment they had formed. Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski reckons Bresson’s relatively austere classic was the only time he shed a tear in the cinema. Now, at the...
“Eo’s” inspiration is obvious. In Robert Bresson’s 1966 “Au Hasard Balthazar,” two kids christened a newborn donkey in the film’s opening minutes. By the end, when Balthazar sighed his last breath, audiences wept, such was the attachment they had formed. Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski reckons Bresson’s relatively austere classic was the only time he shed a tear in the cinema. Now, at the...
- 5/19/2022
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: French distributor Arp Selection has just acquired Cannes Competition movie Eo by Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski.
The film is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales and the deal was negotiated by Gabrielle Stewart and Arp’s Michèle Halberstadt.
Eo is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas and stars Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz. Pic was produced by Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski and Eileen Tasca.
Jeremy Thomas is the executive producer. Screenplay was written by Ewa Piaskowska and Jerzy Skolimowski.
Here’s the film’s official 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...
The film is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey. HanWay Films is handling worldwide sales and the deal was negotiated by Gabrielle Stewart and Arp’s Michèle Halberstadt.
Eo is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas and stars Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz. Pic was produced by Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski and Eileen Tasca.
Jeremy Thomas is the executive producer. Screenplay was written by Ewa Piaskowska and Jerzy Skolimowski.
Here’s the film’s official 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...
- 5/12/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Feature presents view of modern Europe seen through eyes of a donkey.
HanWay Films will launch worldwide sales on the Croisette next month on Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Competition selection Eo presented by Skopia Film and HanWay founder Jeremy Thomas.
The feature, which was announced in the Cannes line-up today, presents a vision of modern Europe through the eyes of a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, and feels the wheels of fate crushing his innocence.
Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski co-wrote Eo, which stars Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz...
HanWay Films will launch worldwide sales on the Croisette next month on Jerzy Skolimowski’s Cannes Competition selection Eo presented by Skopia Film and HanWay founder Jeremy Thomas.
The feature, which was announced in the Cannes line-up today, presents a vision of modern Europe through the eyes of a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, and feels the wheels of fate crushing his innocence.
Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski co-wrote Eo, which stars Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz...
- 4/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
As we look ahead to the new year, one of the first festivals of 2022 has unveiled its lineup. Slamdance Film Festival will return to both Park City, Utah for a physical festival from January 20-23, 2022, along with holding virtual screenings from January 20-30, 2022. With a lineup of 28 features, 79 shorts, and 7 episodes, the feature competition lineup was chosen from over 1,124 submissions.
“We are anti-algorithm. That’s always been true, but it’s more urgent than ever as we continue to celebrate truly unique voices that defy simple classification and transcend analytics,” said Slamdance President and co-founder Peter Baxter. “This year our programmers gravitated towards films that embody the true DIY spirit of guerrilla filmmaking and push the boundaries of what’s possible in storytelling. The Slamdance team is honored to introduce everyone of these storytellers, who are changing the media narrative and elevating the art form of independent film.”
See the lineup below.
“We are anti-algorithm. That’s always been true, but it’s more urgent than ever as we continue to celebrate truly unique voices that defy simple classification and transcend analytics,” said Slamdance President and co-founder Peter Baxter. “This year our programmers gravitated towards films that embody the true DIY spirit of guerrilla filmmaking and push the boundaries of what’s possible in storytelling. The Slamdance team is honored to introduce everyone of these storytellers, who are changing the media narrative and elevating the art form of independent film.”
See the lineup below.
- 12/9/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Slamdance has announced the full film lineup lineup for its 2022 edition, with a feature film competition that boasts 23 premieres, including 13 world premieres, six North American premieres, and four U.S. debuts.
The independent film festival, known for its “by filmmakers, for filmmakers” mentality, will showcase a total of 28 features, 79 shorts, and seven episodes during its 28th edition. Slamdance will be presented in a hybrid fashion, with a physical festival returning to Park City, Utah, from Jan. 20-23, bridged with an “accessible and robust” program of virtual screenings, running Jan. 20-30.
“We are anti-algorithm. That’s always been true, but it’s more urgent than ever as we continue to celebrate truly unique voices that defy simple classification and transcend analytics,” Peter Baxter, Slamdance president and co-founder, said in a statement announcing this year’s lineup.
“This year our programmers gravitated towards films that embody the true DIY spirit of guerrilla...
The independent film festival, known for its “by filmmakers, for filmmakers” mentality, will showcase a total of 28 features, 79 shorts, and seven episodes during its 28th edition. Slamdance will be presented in a hybrid fashion, with a physical festival returning to Park City, Utah, from Jan. 20-23, bridged with an “accessible and robust” program of virtual screenings, running Jan. 20-30.
“We are anti-algorithm. That’s always been true, but it’s more urgent than ever as we continue to celebrate truly unique voices that defy simple classification and transcend analytics,” Peter Baxter, Slamdance president and co-founder, said in a statement announcing this year’s lineup.
“This year our programmers gravitated towards films that embody the true DIY spirit of guerrilla...
- 12/8/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Fiorella Moretti and Hedi Zardi’s Paris-based sales agency Luxbox has closed several territory deals on Carlos Sironi’s “Sole,” which screened in Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section and Toronto Film Festival’s Discovery sidebar. The film just won the audience award at Pingyao Intl. Film Festival in China and a Special Jury Mention for the lead actors at Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal.
The film, which will be released in Italy this week by Officina Ubu, has been picked up in France by Damien Megherbi and Justin Pechberty’s Les Valseurs. In the U.S., the film has been acquired by 1844 Entertainment, which previously enjoyed success with Luxbox’s “The Heiresses” and “Rojo.”
Luxbox also sealed deals on “Sole” with Fabula in Turkey and Cine Colombia in Colombia. Further deals will be announced soon.
In “Sole,” Sandra Drzymalska and Claudio Segaluscio star as a couple who pose as parents to be,...
The film, which will be released in Italy this week by Officina Ubu, has been picked up in France by Damien Megherbi and Justin Pechberty’s Les Valseurs. In the U.S., the film has been acquired by 1844 Entertainment, which previously enjoyed success with Luxbox’s “The Heiresses” and “Rojo.”
Luxbox also sealed deals on “Sole” with Fabula in Turkey and Cine Colombia in Colombia. Further deals will be announced soon.
In “Sole,” Sandra Drzymalska and Claudio Segaluscio star as a couple who pose as parents to be,...
- 10/21/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The old adage about babies having babies gets markedly grown-up treatment in “Sole,” a crisp, reserved debut feature from Italian writer-director Carlo Sironi that examines the concept of parental instinct from an unusual point of view: that of a directionless young man play-acting the role of fatherhood, and finding himself unexpectedly broody in the process. An Italian-Polish co-production in which both nationalities feel narratively and spiritually integral to proceedings, Sironi’s film effectively blends the warm-blooded emotional stakes of classic Italian melodrama with the cooler, more rigorous language of new Eastern European cinema. It’s a head-turning hybrid that, while a little over-studied in parts, will travel well on the festival circuit, and is sure to feature prominently in new-director showcases.
Besides its more substantial virtues, “Sole” is surely notable for being among the bluest films ever committed to the screen — literally, that is, as Sironi bathes the screen in more shades of sky,...
Besides its more substantial virtues, “Sole” is surely notable for being among the bluest films ever committed to the screen — literally, that is, as Sironi bathes the screen in more shades of sky,...
- 8/30/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Sole
Director Carlo Sironi makes his directorial debut with Sole, a project which was selected for several notable initiatives during its development, including Residence de la Cinefondation at Cannes, the Script Station in Berlin, the Sundance Mediterranean Lab and TorinoFilmLab, where it won a Production Award. An Italian-Polish production through Rai Cinema, Kino Produzioni and Lava Films, the film stars Sandra Drzymalska opposite newcomer Claudio Segaluscio with a supporting cast of Barbara Ronchi, Bruno Buzzi, Marco Felli, Vitaliano Trevisan, and Orietta Notari. His short film Cargo (2012) was part of the Venice Film Festival.
Gist: Frittering away his days on slot machines, everything changes for Ermanno when Lena turns up in Italy trying to sell her baby and start life afresh.…...
Director Carlo Sironi makes his directorial debut with Sole, a project which was selected for several notable initiatives during its development, including Residence de la Cinefondation at Cannes, the Script Station in Berlin, the Sundance Mediterranean Lab and TorinoFilmLab, where it won a Production Award. An Italian-Polish production through Rai Cinema, Kino Produzioni and Lava Films, the film stars Sandra Drzymalska opposite newcomer Claudio Segaluscio with a supporting cast of Barbara Ronchi, Bruno Buzzi, Marco Felli, Vitaliano Trevisan, and Orietta Notari. His short film Cargo (2012) was part of the Venice Film Festival.
Gist: Frittering away his days on slot machines, everything changes for Ermanno when Lena turns up in Italy trying to sell her baby and start life afresh.…...
- 1/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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