20 years later, remembering East German film and football
The sixth edition of the 11mm Fußballfilmfestival revels in Ostalgie (“Eastalgia”) by screening 14 films from or concerning the former East Germany. With film listing and podcast »
Tag: "documentaries"
The Zen of Mathare: brew changaa, carry water, play soccer
The final installment, from Nairobi and Cape Town, from Gwendolyn Oxenham‘s diaries supporting The Soccer Project, a documentary about pickup soccer worldwide.
Nov 30, 2008 | 2 comments
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Cinema | Football’s happy existence inside Parisian ‘museum’
The third installment, from Paris, from Gwendolyn Oxenham‘s diaries supporting The Soccer Project.
Nov 28, 2008 | 0 comments
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Cinema | Attempting Jewish-Arab reconciliation in a 10-minute game
The second installment, from Jerusalem, from Gwendolyn Oxenham‘s diaries supporting an in-process documentary film, The Soccer Project, about four recent college graduates and their pursuit of improvisational soccer matches around the world.
Nov 25, 2008 | 0 comments
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Cinema | Trading ‘fruitcakes’ for fútbol as ‘Soccer Project’ reaches La Paz
Filmmaker, writer and footballer Gwendolyn Oxenham chronicles The Soccer Project, an in-process documentary film that tells of the intimate bonds soccer creates through pickup games (aka “kickabouts”) in South America, Israel, France, Kenya and elsewhere.
Nov 23, 2008 | 0 comments
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Israel | Bnei Sakhnin, by cultivating football, hopes to harvest peace
A small Arab Israeli town of 25,000 residents, nestled in a lower Galilee valley among fig and olive orchards, with an illustrious history and a difficult present, has become world famous within the past three years—all thanks to its soccer team.
A new documentary film, Sons of Sakhnin United, examines Bnei Sakhnin’s place as a bridge builder in divided Israel.
Sep 05, 2007 | 4 comments
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