Football Under Cover

The second film in the DOXA Documentary Film Festival's 'Motion Pictures' Series.

Thursday November 26, 2009 | 7:00 PM
Fifth Avenue Cinemas, 2110 Burrard Street, Vancouver
www.doxafestival.ca

Directors: Ayat Najafi & David Assmann; 2008

Synopsis:
She shoots, she scores! An exhilarating and historic match between an Iranian and a German women's football team is played out in Tehran in 2006. Giving girl power its due, Football Under Cover follows the sporty girls as they struggle against what seems like endless bureaucratic oppression to make the game happen. Marlene, the lead on the Berlin-Kreuzberg team, visits officials in Germany and Tehran to lobby for it. Niloofar, the main player on the Iranian side, dresses as a boy to practice in a nearby park. Narmila is living out the dream of her mother, who gave up football when she married. Susu, a German Muslim, wants to learn what it's like to wear a headscarf while playing. A testimony to women's determination and strength, Football Under Cover is an inspiring story of cross-cultural politics colliding with a group of sports-loving women who just want to kick some balls and make a few new friends.

Official website:
http://www.flyingmoon.com/en/film_details.php?film_id=17

Tickets:
https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?ticketing=doxa

www.doxafestival.ca

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Women athletes
• soceer
• Iran
• Germany
• Islam

[yazeed911s]

iran is shiaa which is NOT the real islam

[BeStrongBeRighteous]

NEVER judge islam based on muslims bad behaviors.

People dont judge Germans because of what Hitler did or judge Americans because of what g. w. bush did.

[luisc4444]

so..... who won the game?

[shorty40merza]

behaviors are not punished by death, death is usually for big murder cases and big crimes like adultery and sodomy if 4 witnesses press charge and have all witnesses extreme details which is extremely hard to achieve.

[farsi8]

they make iran look soo bad

[CandyCosta]

@eyebrowsQ8

I was responding to a coment of a islamic fanatic.

I really hate women haters. And fundamentalist islamics (like fundamentalist christians) treat women like crap.

[eyebrowsQ8]

@samgee2007 islam promotes sports women in islam used to ride horses and learn how to be archers learn history before being ignorant

[eyebrowsQ8]

@CandyCosta that was uncalled for man

[CandyCosta]

@samgee2007 whats dangerous, football or "islamic affair"?

Btw have you stoned anybody this week?

[samgee2007]

@CandyCosta -please don't get involved in islamic affair and its dangerous!