Company: Partner Pictures
Country: USA
Section: DOCUMENTARY- TEAM SPORT
Discipline: Basketball
Year: 2012
Director: Till Schauder
Editing: David Teague
Photography: Till Schauder, Bahman Kiarostami, Chris Valentic, Arash Senator
Soundtrack: Kareem Roustom
Producer: Sara Nodjoumi, Till Schauder, Abigail Disney
Time: 91 min
Projection: Friday 6 December – 6:55 pm – Sala Colonne

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Synopsis

The American basketball player Kevin Sheppard accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries: Iran. With tensions running high between Iran and the West, Kevin tries to separate sport from politics only to find that politics is impossible to escape in Iran. Along the way he forms an unlikely alliance with three outspoken Iran women. Thanks to these women, his apartment turns into an oasis of free speech, where they discuss everything from politics to religion to gender roles. Kevin’s season in Iran culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – a powerful prelude to the sweeping changes across the Middle East in the wake of Arab Spring.