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Mined Zone

DISCO BOY

• Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese
• FRANCE, ITALY, BELGIUM, POLAND / 2023 / DCP / Colour / 91’ / French, English, Igbo, Polish; Turkish,  English s.t.

• Screenplay: Giacomo Abbruzzese
• Director of Photography: Hélène Louvart
• Editing: Fabrizio Federico, Ariane Boukerche, Giacomo Abbruzzese
• Music: Vitalic
• Cast: Franz Rogowski, Morr Ndiaye, Laëtitia Ky, Leon Lučev, Matteo Olivetti, Robert Wieckiewicz, Michal Balicki
• Producer: Lionel Massol, Pauline Seigland
• Production Co.: Films Grand Huit
• World Sales: Charades
• Turkish Rights: Mars Film

2023 Berlin Best Cinematography

The feature debut of Giacomo Abbruzzese, Disco Boy world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival where it won a silver bear for outstanding artistic contribution. Disco Boy stars Franz Rogowski as Aleksei, a Belarussian, who travels across Europe without any documentation to enlist in the French Foreign Legion to be granted a French passport. In the Niger Delta, Jomo, an eco-rebel, fights against oil companies that threaten the survival of his village. His sister Udoka, meanwhile, dreams of escaping. Now a commando, Aleksei is sent there on a mission. Beyond borders, life and death, their destinies will intertwine? Visually arresting to the beat of electronic music, Disco Boy delves into the unknown, the darkness of human soul, ‘gradually becomes a bit psychedelic, mysterious, shamanic,’ as Abbruzese puts it, ‘I wanted to make a war film where both perspectives, both sides were fully explored.’

This film is screened with the generous support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.