Disco Boy

A person with a blurred face sits in front of a circular emblem with the text "MOVEMENT DELTA," featuring two gold stars and a graphic of a person in motion. The person is shirtless, wearing a headband and a gold chain, with dramatic lighting creating sha

Following a difficult journey across Europe, young Belarusian Aleksei (Franz Rogowski) reaches Paris to enlist in the French Foreign Legion — a highly selective military corp that allows any foreigner, even undocumented, to be granted a French passport. In the Niger Delta, Jomo (Morr Ndiaye) fights against oil companies that threaten the survival of his village. His sister Udoka (Laëtitia Ky), meanwhile, dreams of escaping, knowing that all is already lost here. Beyond borders, life and death, their destinies will intertwine.

Part of our "French Film Festival" and "New Visions, New Voices" series. Courtesy of Big World Pictures.

“Bold, visceral, phantasmagorical…Franz Rogowski is haunted, intense and typically brilliant.” – Carmen Gray, Sight & Sound

"Through this scenario, debut-feature director Giacomo Abbruzzese investigates contemporary globalist Europe—the intertwined consequences of capitalism, militarism, and immigration—while also creating an interior portrait of the emotional fallout from violence and guilt. Abbruzzese’s ambitious film is a jarring, visually rich tale of exploitation and the possibility of transcendence.” -New Directors/New Films

Our French Film Festival is supported by the Albertine Cinematheque, a program of Albertine Foundation & Villa Albertine, with support from the CNC / Centre National du Cinema, and SACEM / Fonds Culturel Franco-Américain. Cosponsored by the Department of Romance Studies.