Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 5 minutes
Author Joel Golby recounts how during World Cup 2018 he became the number 1 fan of a soccer team he’d never heard of before - The Wild Boars FC. Trapped 2 kilometres beneath the earth in a flooded cave system an entire schoolboy soccer team braved days of freezing cold terror, while an elite rescue team from around the world attempted to save them. Even Elon Musk offered to rescue them with a mini submarine. As the world’s elite battle it out above ground, we hear the hilarious and incredible story of how the Wild Boars FC became the most beloved team on Earth.
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 5
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 4 minutes
Using the verbatim comments taken from the first video uploaded to YouTube of Zinedene Zidane’s infamous World Cup final headbutt (11 years ago and with 9 million views) this film excavates the anger, praise, damnation and forgiveness felt ...
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Las Leonas
Directed by Isabel Achaval, Chiara Bondi • Documentary • 2022 • 83 minutes
On the outskirts of Rome, six teams compete in the women’s soccer championship, the Las Leonas Trophy. All recent immigrants to Italy—the majority from South America—the participants work busy lives as caregivers and hous...
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No Place For You In Our Town
Directed by Nikolay Stefanov • Documentary • 2022 • 81 minutes
No Place for You in Our Town pulls the audience into the heads of the football hooligans from the roughest city in Bulgaria — Pernik. A once flourishing industrial center, today all that’s left is the urban legend about its citizens’...
