Not every road movie needs a human behind the wheel. EO follows a grey donkey with melancholic eyes as he passes from one owner, one circumstance, one country to the next, watching the world through a gaze the film never lets us fully translate.
What is EO about?
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, this 2022 Italian-Polish drama unfolds almost entirely from the point of view of its title character, a donkey named EO. Sold, freed, lost, and found again, he drifts through a string of encounters with people who are sometimes kind and sometimes cruel, carrying him from circus life into open countryside and eventually toward more unsettling company. Sandra Drzymalska appears as the young performer whose bond with EO opens the film, while Isabelle Huppert turns up later as one of the strangers he crosses paths with. Through it all, fortune keeps turning — joy into hardship, despair into unexpected relief — without EO ever losing the innocence the film builds its entire perspective around.
About the cast
Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, and Mateusz Kościukiewicz anchor the human episodes EO wanders through, with Isabelle Huppert, Tomasz Organek, Lolita Chammah, Agata Sasinowska, and Anna Rokita filling out the string of strangers he encounters along the way. Because the donkey is the true lead, every human performance here is written to serve a passing chapter rather than a full arc, which asks the cast for precision in short bursts rather than a conventional lead role.
Context & significance
EO belongs to a small tradition of European cinema that tells its story through an animal's eyes rather than a human protagonist's, and Skolimowski leans into that tradition rather than softening it for a wider audience. Made as a joint Italian-Polish production and released in 2022, the film moves across borders and settings the way its central character does — without explanation, without a fixed home, and without a script that ever hands EO a conventional plot. At 88 minutes, it stays close to its animal's-eye premise from beginning to end.
Watching EO on Ktime
EO is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking audiences the option to watch either version. The platform's Farsi-first interface is built for Persian speakers abroad, and streaming EO only requires a free K-Time account login — no separate purchase, no trial gimmicks.