World Cinema Day 2009 Film
Football Under Cover (Germany 2008)
in German and Persian, with English subtitles
View the trailer!
SYNOPSIS
from www.football-under-cover.de
Tehran in April, 2006: The first official friendly match takes place between the Iranian women’s soccer team and a local Berlin girl’s team, in front of more than 1000 cheering female fans. The entire stadium is electric, charged with a high voltage of girl power. A couple of men hang around in front of the gates, trying to sneak a peek over the fence. They are barred from entering today. It has taken a year’s hard work on the parts of both teams of young women to make this happen. But now, after overcoming numerous obstacles, they are really playing. And these 90 minutes are about more than just a football game. Both the desire for self-determination and equality are being expressed here and it is clear: change is possible.
RATING INFORMATION
Football Under Cover is currently unrated. The film has been viewed and approved for the World Cinema Day high school audience by the Wisconsin high school teachers on the World Cinema Day advisory committee. If you have questions about the content of the film, please contact Wendy Johnson.
ABOUT THE DIRECTORS
from www.football-under-cover.de
Ayat Najafi was born in Teheran in 1976 and lives in Iran. He studied Stage and Set Design in Teheran, where participated in a number of different theatrical productions as director, author, actor and set designer. After completing his studies in 2001, he made several short films and took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2005. Football Under Cover is his first full-length film.
David Assmann was born in 1978 as the second of five children and went to school in Berlin, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, Santa Monica and Konstanz. Since 2001, he has studied script writing for the media at the University of Mainz, a course of studies which brings together theoretical and practical elements from film and theatre studies. Throughout his studies, he has also worked as editor, DJ and presenter on the monthly “Kinoscop” programme on Radio Rüsselheim. Football Under Cover is his first full-length film.
If you have questions about World Cinema Day, please contact the Language Institute Outreach Coordinator: Wendy Johnson
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