Fresh Face: ‘Disco Boy’ Director Giacomo Abbruzzese On His Long Journey To Making The Berlin Competition Cut With His First Feature

Paris-based Italian director Giacomo Abbruzzese says making the Berlin Film Festival competition cut with his first feature, “Disco Boy,” which toplines German star Franz Rogowski (“Passages,” ”Und…

But he also points out that his remarkable debut was a long time coming.

That chance meeting was just a starting point for the film’s complex narrative, which Abbruzese developed at the Cannes Film Festival’s Cinefondation and during a Clermont-Ferrand Festival residency. On a mission to the Niger Delta, Aleksei encounters Jomo , an environmental activist who fights against oil companies that threaten the survival of his village. His sister Udoka , meanwhile, dreams of escaping, knowing that all is already lost in her native country. As the parallel destinies of these three characters intertwine, the film, which starts out naturalistic, “gradually becomes a bit psychedelic, mysterious, shamanic,” as the director puts it.

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