After cutting his teeth on the short form for the decade prior it was a long process for Giacomo Abbruzzese to push out his feature debut. Among the standout Golden Bear competition films at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival (it walked away with the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution: cinematography for Hélène Louvart), with Franz Rogowski in the lead, Disco Boy (read our rave review) blended dreamlike visuals with a haunting exploration of survival, its a Molotov cocktail that followed desperate souls chasing the elusive promise of a better life – one without borders. Thankfully the Italian-born, France based filmmaker is already mounting his sophomore feature and on it appears that this new project might borrow some themes. Hopefully he’ll re-team with Louvart. Here is Everything We Know So Far … about Giacomo Abbruzzese’s Disorder.
After a long, film festival world promotional tour in 2023/24 for Disco Boy, this project would have been probably prepped parallel to other projects in the works from the filmmaker. Now back on the burner, it was recently selected as one of the ten projects at the Marche du Film’s pitch event called the Investors Circle initiative in Cannes and was part of Torino Labs.
Ana arrives in Milan from Albania in the early 90s. She gets a job dancing on a glossy, decadent TV show and makes her way by entertaining relationships with powerful men whose gaze fall upon her dazzling beauty. “The Stranger” is the mysterious leader of a migrant movement that sets fire to luxurious, downtown store fronts. Their meeting is the beginning of a love story. When he is killed, Ana takes upon his mission: attacking the heart of power.
Announced at last month’s Cannes Film Ferstival, Benoît Magimel is officially onboard.
Abbruzzese is re-teaming with his Disco Boy producers in Dugong Films’ Giulia Achilli and Marco Alessi, and Films Grand Huit’s Lionel Massol plus Albanian Era Films.
We are looking at a production start date for the 1st quarter of 2026 (it will be shot almost entirely in Italy) which means this could aim for the Cannes or Venice Film Festivals in 2027.
