For the 19th consecutive year, the California Film Institute presents a selection of Oscar® submissions from around the world for consideration in the 2023 Academy Awards® Best International Feature Film category. For Your Consideration is a rare opportunity to watch a selection of these outstanding international films, many of which are top film festival prize winners.
POLAND’S SUBMISSION FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM • 2023 ACADEMY AWARDS® SHORTLIST
NY FILM CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION WINNER BEST FILM NOT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE & BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Revered Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski creates a new way of seeing the world in a film that chronicles nature’s beauty alongside human kindness and cruelty, from a donkey’s point of view. While comparisons are inevitable to Robert Bresson’s conceptually similar 1966 masterpiece Au Hasard Balthazar, this extraordinary tale is its own beguiling beast, playing with color and sound to render our silent protagonist’s journey across Poland and Italy an entrancing, hyper-vivid odyssey. Recent documentaries such as Gunda and Cow have sought to illuminate the lives of animals without resorting to cloying anthropomorphism, and EO, the winner of this year’s Cannes Jury Prize, takes this approach to the next level. Through this donkey’s expressive eyes, and its alternately hypnotic, whimsical, and disturbing adventures, the film illustrates how mad and magical everyday life can be—and that’s before Isabelle Huppert shows up near the end for a riveting, scene-stealing cameo. In Polish, Italian, English, and French with English subtitles Director Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland/Italy 2022) 86 min.
MVFF45 Official Selection
This program contains material that may be disturbing. Viewer discretion is advised.
MONDAY, MARCH 13 • 7:15
$13.25 General | $9.75 Senior • Youth • Matinée | $7.75 CAFILM Members