Camerimage to Honor Jerzy Skolimowski, Director of Cannes Winner “EO”

EnergaCamerimage, the cinematography-focused movie pageant about to happen in Torun, Poland on Nov. 12-19, will bestow one in every of its highest honors to writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski, who will obtain the Marshal of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Area Movie Award 2022.

Skolimowski, a longtime stalwart of Polish cinema, made information in Cannes earlier this yr when “EO,” which he wrote and directed, shared the pageant’s Jury Prize. The movie follows the titular donkey, kidnapped from his beloved circus-performer proprietor by animal rights activists, as he endures the total gamut of human habits, good and unhealthy.  It’s a narrative of individuals’s hopes and desires, mirrored through the angle of a donkey. At Cannes it delighted viewers with the spectacle of youthful filmic vitality created by an 84-year-old grasp of European cinema.

Not surprisingly, “EO” was chosen in August by the Polish Movie Institute because the nation’s candidate for this yr’s Oscar race.

The filmmaker will obtain his Camerimage award in the course of the pageant’s jubilee version. It is going to be offered to him by Marshal Piotr Całbecki simply earlier than a particular screening of “IO.”

Skolimowski started his movie profession as a screenwriter of such movies as “Harmless Sorcerers” (1960) and “Knife within the Water” (1962)” – a part of the outburst of creativity often known as the Polish New Wave, which itself was symbolic of Japanese European artwork flourishing beneath a repressive Soviet-dominated regime. He then discovered success as an actor, director, poet and painter. His movies took residence accolades from such movie festivals as Venice and Berlin, along with Cannes.

The screening of “EO” at Camerimage might be open to all members of the American Movie Academy taking part within the Competition. Skolimowski may even obtain a monetary award, which he has determined to spend totally on the promotion of “EO” to lift the movie’s possibilities of securing an Academy Award® nomination. A Q&A with the filmmaker will observe the screening.