Europe's New Faces

Name: Europe's New Faces
Genre: Documentary
Released: December 12, 2025
Duration: 159 min
Rating: 59

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Maxxie, Suzzee & Cinema | Release Date: December 12, 2025 | Not Rated

Summary: 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.

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 159 min

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Screen Rant Gregory Nussen

Dec 13, 2025

Through form and function, Abbas demonstrates the ironic and contradictory nature of his very enterprise, as the temporal fixity of the photograph clashes with the persistent movement of a migrant constantly pulled in multiple directions. Read full review

Murtada Elfadl

Dec 13, 2025

What Sam Abbas, as director, cinematographer and editor, does here is to disarmingly present the situation in snippets that give the audience all the details of crossing from Libya to Italy, including elements both harrowing and mundane. In so doing, he engenders empathy and understanding for these displaced people and their struggle, taking a humanist approach rather than an abstract one. Read full review

Bradley Gibson

Dec 13, 2025

Europe’s New Faces is a worthy exercise to pull back the curtain on the experience, but it should perhaps be edited down to 90 minutes or so and include some framing context so we know who and what we are seeing and why the migrants chose to make this trip. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Dec 17, 2025

The lack of story, structure, or any clear editorial principle is a serious impediment to empathy for these poor, struggling people; the 159-minute runtime feels like four years. Read full review

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