‘24.eco competition
[Dutch premiere]2023 | France, Italy, Belgium, Poland | 92’
by Giacomo Abbruzzese
DISCO BOY
After joining the French Foreign Legion young Belarusian Aleksei departs for the Niger Delta to protect oil companies' investments against revolutionary activist Jomo. Awarded at the Berlinale for its visual impact, Abbruzzese’s haunting ode to Beau Travail poetically contrasts a brutalised Nigerian landscape with the Parisian club scene by means of a pulsating score and European cinema posterboy Franz Rogowski.
