The Owners - A Big World Pictures release

Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese
Country: France/Italy/Belgium/Poland
Year: 2023
Running time: 92 min
In Ibo, French, English & Polish with English subtitles

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Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his community. Aleksei is a soldier, Jomo a guerrilla fighter. Because of one more senseless war, their destinies will intertwine.

Winner: Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, Berlinale 2023.

COMING TO THEATERS IN FEB. 2024!

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PLAYDATES

3/29-4/9/23 New Directors/New Films, New York, NY

10/24/23 FIAF, New York, NY

11/3-12/23 Denver International FIlm Festival, Denver CO

11/30-12/17/23 AFI EU Showcase, Silver Springs, MD

2/2/24 Quad Cinema, New York, NY

2/9/24 Laemmle Glendale, Glendale, CA

2/16/24 Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL

REVIEWS

“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

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