Disco Boy

France/Italy/Belgium/Poland/ 2023 – directed by Giacomo Abbruzzese | 91 min.

Aleksei (Franz Rogowski) is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he desperately wants to bury. He joins the French Foreign Legion, which promises him the possibility of French citizenship. At the same time, far away in the Niger Delta, Jomo (Morr Ndiaye) is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his community and his future.

Their destinies intertwine in the most unexpected of ways. Described by Sight & Sound as “bold, visceral and phantasmagorical,” this striking new psychological drama won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, 2023 Berlin Film Festival. In French, Russian, Igbo, Polish, and Nigerian English.

“A visually thrilling, ambitious, and distinctly freaky adventure. A movie that dazzles you and carries you along with its storytelling.” —Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian