Length: 38 minutes
Category: Documentary, Short
Country: Iran
Year of production: 2005
Screened in: 2012 Festival Cinema Invisible
Synopsis
This long short illustrates the difficulties of national Iranian women’s soccer team playing with international teams. The movie sets in Tehran during the ninth presidential election. The female players endure all kinds of personal and social hardship and restrictions during their practices hoping they have the chance of playing in an international game. Their enthusiasm for playing soccer mixes with people’s excitement about presidential elections in 2005. We hear the candidates’ promises for better and brighter days. The screen shows the city covered with their pictures, but all indication is towards an uncertain future for the country, and for the team. Family of the captain of women’s team is gathered around TV to watch the male national soccer team wins an international game when the phone rings only to tell the captain that her team has not received permission to play.
