“Football Under Cover”: Documentary about women’s football (soccer) in Iran
November 18, 2008 by mhueter
Filed under Feminism, Soccer, Sports Programs, Sportsmanship, inspiration
A new documentary (released this year) discusses the reality of women’s soccer players in Iran.
The plot: An amateur female soccer team from Berlin goes on a nerve-wracking journey trying to carry out the first female soccer match in the history of Iran. And it happens in front of over 1,000 cheering female fans.
According to Cinema Without Borders, Football Under Cover won two prizes in Berlin film festival, The TEDDY for the Best Documentary Film and VOLKSWAGEN Audience Award.
This documentary has been capturing attention across continents. For example, check out this NPR article. Also, popular soccer blog, The Global Game has even featured information about this movie.
Can anyone figure out where we can see it? I’d love to view this.
Check out the trailer below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyMc0bW_b8M
Thanks very much for the link. I, too, would love to see this picture. One idea would be to advocate for a screening at a film festival in your area. The documentary has shown in Washington, DC, New York, LA and at other festivals in North America. It becomes available on DVD in Europe on November 21, so this is a possibility if you have a multi-region DVD player or DVD player on your computer. The official site is http://football-under-cover.de/.
Hi John! Glad you stopped by. Thanks for the tip, and the official link. I’ll try and figure out where (and when) in the DC area there is a film festival. I’ll also encourage some of my blogger friends across the country to do the same.
Great of you to point out this film – I pulled up a post from earlier this year -http://prettytough.com/football-under-cover/ – in which we mention another similarly themed film called “Offside” that you may be interested in.
As a film school graduate, I would think there’d be a great opportunity to try to get in touch with a film professor. See if you can scrape together a few email addresses from any of the local universities and try to get in touch. I would hope that they would be willing to help you out, or at least give you some more information, or get you in touch with someone who can get it for you.
Filmies love this kind of stuff!