Europe’s New Faces. 2025. Directed by Sam Abbas

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Europe’s New Faces. 2025. France/Italy/Switzerland/USA. Directed by Sam Abbas. Courtesy the filmmaker

Europe’s New Faces. 2025. France/Italy/Switzerland/USA. Directed by Sam Abbas. World premiere. In English, French, Italian, Arabic, Bengali; English subtitles. 159 min.

Sam Abbas’s extraordinarily moving Europe’s New Faces confronts the humanitarian crisis of African and South Asian refugees and asylum seekers adrift both in the Mediterranean Sea and in the legal limbo of the EU’s broken immigration system. Four years in the making and woven together with music by Bertrand Bonello (Beast, Nocturama), the film relates intimate stories of tragedy and hope as Abbas charts the migrants’ flight from Libya (and from the horrors of torture, rape, and slavery), across dangerous waters on a makeshift boat (where they risk drowning or detention), to forge a fragile but vibrant new community in a Paris squat (where they face eviction or worse).

This film accompanies Doc Fortnight 2025: MoMA’s Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.

Past events

Sun, Mar 2, 4:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Fri, Feb 28, 7:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with Sam Abbas

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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