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When she was just eight years old, Nadia Nadim had to flee Afghanistan, along with her mother and siblings, after the assassination of her father by the Taliban. Over the years, Nadia has become one of the best soccer players in the world, playing for Paris Saint Germain and representing her adopted homeland Denmark in […]

Three months before the Women's World Cup in France 2019, which they won, US players filed a class action gender discrimination lawsuit against their football federation. Produced by HBO, LFG (an acronym for Let`s fucking go) is a documentary that follows this story by focusing on the players who led the cause: Megan Rapinoe, Jessica […]

Between August 15 and September 5, 1971, the second edition of the women's football world championship was held in Mexico. In the tournament, which FIFA did not officially recognize, the national teams of Argentina, Italy, England, Denmark, France and Mexico participated. Confidential Destination, ESPN's documentary program, presents us, from the hand of directors Martín and […]

Tala is a young Arab girl whose love of soccer is mitigated by her father's attempt to protect her from ISIS threats while she's locked away in a war zone apartment. Tala's pleas, her father dumps their TV out the window and it smashes to bits in the street below. ISIS prohibits TVs, and he […]

Gery plays football for FC Horndorf. He manages to make the leap from his youth football team to his town’s testosterone-ridden first team. From all sides he’s bombarded with input about his plans for the future. Only Gery is still uncertain what he, himself, wants. Steh Auf Du Sau! Florian Moses Bayer Austria, 2022 29 […]

Martin Bengtsson is one of the most promising football talents Sweden has ever seen. At sixteen, his lifelong dream comes true when he is bought by one of Italy's most prestigious clubs. Yet that dream comes at a very high price in terms of sacrifice, dedication, pressure and - most of all - loneliness. Martin […]

One Sunday in the spring of 1975, two very special teams played a football match on the field of Parma's Citadel Park. On the one hand, the team formed by the workers of the film “Salò or the 120 days of Sodoma” (the last film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini before his tragic murder). On […]

Juanjo Giménez is a film director, screenwriter and producer. His short film "Timecode" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. Militant defender of the short film as cinematographic expression, throughout his career he has made four short films in which football plays a leading role: “Libre Indirecto”, “Máxima pena”, “Rodilla” and […]

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2022 Thinking Football Film Festival, “Tigrar” tells the story of Martin Bengtsson, a child football prodigy who falls into a self-destructive spiral after fulfilling his lifelong dream and signing for Inter Milan. Based on the player’s autobiography, the film deals with the consequences of mental illness in sport. […]

Genoa, 1990. Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini's Sampdoria embark on an epic adventure that will change Italian football, achieving goals few thought possible. "La bella stagione" (The Beautiful Season) is the story of an incredible journey to victory, told through the voices of the players involved and the journalists who covered that season. The director […]

In this new section called “Thinking Football Revisited” we bring back one of most popular entries from a previous edition of the Thinking Football Film Festival. “I Believe in Miracles” follows the rise of Nottingham Forest under Brian Clough and his right-hand man Peter Taylor as they take the club from the English second division […]

Cameroon went into the 1990 World Cup in Italy as the ideal victims. However, in the opening match they defeated the world champions, none other than Diego Maradona's Argentina in what was probably the biggest upset in World Cup history up until that point. That was just the first step in an adventure that will […]