Disco Boy (ctba)

France | 2024 | 93’ | TBC | Giacomo Abbruzzese | French, Ibo, Russian and Polish with English subtitles | Franz Rogowski, Morr Ndiaye, Laetitia Ky

Alienated from his homeland, young Belarusian Aleksei (has his sights set on becoming a French citizen. After a painful journey through Europe, he enlists in the Foreign Legion. But fate propels him into the Niger Delta where fearless, charismatic revolutionary Jomo is battling the insidious oil conglomerates that threaten his community’s future. While Aleksei seeks a new family in the Legion, Jomo dreams of being a ‘disco boy’. In the jungle, their paths converge, intertwining their destinies across borders, bodies, life and death. A bold, ambitious, immersively shot and sound-tracked (with a trippy, driving electronic score by Vitalic), this is a thrillingly vivid odyssey exploring the effects of European industrial and military activities in Africa and the weight of history and nationality on individual lives.