North American Premiere TIFF 2022
Films We Like, in association with Janus Films and Sideshow, announced today the acquisition of EO by legendary Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski. The film premiered in competition at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival where it was awarded the Jury Prize.
With his first film in seven years, director Jerzy Skolimowski directs one of his most free and visually inventive films yet, following the travels of a nomadic grey donkey named EO. After being removed from the traveling circus, which is the only life he’s ever known, EO begins a trek across the Polish and Italian countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness in equal measure, all the while observing the follies and triumphs of humankind.
Last year, Films We Like, Sideshow and Janus Films partnered on the release of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, which won the Academy Award® for Best International Feature, and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was the first Japanese film ever nominated for Best Picture and grossed over $2.3 million in North America, while sweeping critics awards for Best International Feature nationwide. It also won the Gotham Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Independent Spirit Award for Best International Feature.
EO will have its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released this fall in theatres across Canada.
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ABOUT FILMS WE LIKE
Founded by award-winning documentary filmmaker Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential, Carmine Street Guitars) Films We Like is a boutique distributor of documentary, independent, and international films in Canada. Recent releases include Anonymous Club, The Passengers of the Night and Montana Story.
ABOUT JANUS FILMS
Founded in 1956, Janus Films was the first theatrical distribution company dedicated to bringing international art-house films to U.S. audiences. Janus handles rights in all media to an extensive library that includes the work of Michelangelo Antonioni, Věra Chytilová, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Abbas Kiarostami, Akira Kurosawa, Ousmane Sembène, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, and Yasujiro Ozu.
ABOUT SIDESHOW
Sideshow is a theatrical distribution label founded to release visionary films. Sideshow recently partnered with Janus Films on the release of DRIVE MY CAR, which was nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film, which it won. Their upcoming releases include: Shaunak Sen’s ALL THAT BREATHES, the first documentary to win the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes L’Œil d’Or for Best Documentary; Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS, which shared the Jury Prize at Cannes with EO; and Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s TORI AND LOKITA, which won the 75th Anniversary Prize at Cannes.