Champions
Australian Premiere | 2016
Synopsis
On the day of the European Championship finals 2016, a group of Kurdish children from a refugee camp in north Iraq try to contact FIFA. The
children are calling the FIFA headquaters in Zurich to apply their Kurdish team for the Football World Cup 2018.
The short is about the limits that are set for certain minorities and people in difficult environments and about the childrens ability to dream big nevertheless.
We shot in a refugee camp between Erbil and Mosul were many Kurdish and Syrian refugees, among others live.
This short is dedicated to the kids of Kobane, the Champions.
Festivals
- LET’S CEE Festival in Vienna
- Human Rights Film Festival San Sebastian
- Diversity in CANNES
- Timisoara Refugee Film Festival
- Bucharest ShortCut CineFest
Production Team
Director
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Anastasija Bräuniger
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Country
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Iraq
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Runtime
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7 min
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Language
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Kurdish with English Subtitles
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Premiere Status
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Classification
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18+
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Year
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2016
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Screenwriter
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Anastasija Bräuniger |
Producer
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Anastasija Bräuniger
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Cinematographer
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Tufan Abubaker, Soran Ebrahim |
Editor
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Franziska von Berlepsch |
Cast
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