Sunday 14th November at 10.00 am – Fondazione Riccardo Catella – first floor
Calcio / Soccer
Iran FICTS Film Festival
I. R. IRAN 2021, 71 min
Director/Regista: Mehdi Ganji
Editing/Montaggio: Amir Adibparvar
Photos/Foto: Mohammad Hadadi
Soundtrack/Colonna Sonora: Afshin Azizi
Producer/Produttore: Behzad Tavakoli
In collaboration of the Spanish Football League (La Liga) a couple of talent football camps are organized in some cities in Iran. La Liga veteran football experts are to select 17 boys between 11 to 13 who would be later dispatched to the prestigious football camps in Spain to complete the course. Despite coming from different cultural backgrounds, they all think of football similarly: a launch pad that secures the future of their family. Parents hope for their children to go to Spain or other European countries and being recruited by a professional football clubs in near future, just to change the economic and social situations of their families. The boys, on the other hand, can already imagine themselves as football stars, although they have never been abroad and obtaining even a Visa could be a source of trouble.