Europe's New Faces (2025) - 159mins (trailer | watch)

The film is an observation of the migrant experience; from crossing the Mediterranean Sea out of Libya to settling in Paris-based squats. In a view free from prejudice, we quickly see how the experiences of migrants vary in extremes during the different stages in their journey to a better life.

**Eligible for the 98th Academy Awards**

MoMA Doc Fortnight 2025 (World Premiere)

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2025

“A striking and emphatically humanizing portrait of African migrants"
- Natalia Keogan, IDA Magazine

“An Inherently Humanistic Portrayal of a Diaspora in Waiting"
- Gregory Nussen, Screen Rant

“A plea to recognize the humanity of migrants and a testament to our failure to do so"
- Marc van de Klashorst, International Cinephile Society

“Images reign supreme in its 159-minute runtime"
- Camillo De Marco, Cineuropa

“Powerful imagery and structural ingenuity"
- Caleb Anderson, Gazettely

Europe's New Faces Review: Abbas's mission is de-glorification, Screen Rant

Europe’s New Faces Review: It modestly and honestly captures its subjects’ lives, In Review Online

Europe’s New Faces Review: Downright beautiful, because of Abbas’ compositional talent and eye for cinematography, International Cinephile Society

Europe’s New Faces Review: Cinematic Endurance and Human Cost, Gazettely

Our guide to what's opening this very busy week in movie theaters, ScreenAnarchy

The Film’s We’re Eyeing in December, In Their Own League

Portraits of America: Sam Abbas, Egyptian-American filmmaker, with latest film Europe's New Faces (in French), Critikat

A literal and metaphoric image dominates the key art for Europe's New Faces, ScreenAnarchy

Exclusive: Clip of Doctors Without Borders Mission From Sam Abbas’s ‘Europe’s New Faces’, International Documentary Association Magazine

Abbas follows the day-to-day lives of migrants in a Parisian squat and the sea rescue operations of an NGO to show how they’re living in limbo, Cineuropa

Sam Abbas on ‘Europe’s New Faces’, International Documentary Association Magazine

A close-up immersion into the gritty details of the migrant experience, FT

Sam Abbas Unveils Movie ‘Europe’s New Faces’ Featuring Music By Bertrand Bonello, DEADLINE