During one full season we follow four football players in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. All of them try to give meaning to their lives in the hermetically sealed land strip where war and distress pose a daily threat. One turns to God, another turns to weapons, a third tries to build a civil life. On the football pitch their stories converge, there they can forget about everything for a short while.

directing, camera, sound Frederick Mansell, Laurens Samsom
second camera Ton Vanderplas
editing Floor Rodenburg
local production Sarhan Kalloub
sound mixing Erik Langhout
color grading Ronald van Dieren
online design & development Digital Natives
music Joos van Leeuwen, Jens Munnik , Huda Asfour
executive producing dimdocs Marty de Jong
commissioning editing BNNVARA Sjoerd van den Broek
executive producing BNNVARA Sander van den Eeden
broadcasting BNNVARA, NPO 2
length 84:49
year 2016
with support of Mediafonds
distributor CAT&Docs

Nominations

honoree Webby Awards – best of the internet 2017
long list L’OR Gouden Kalf – feature documentary 2017
long list L’OR Gouden Kalf – interactive 2017
long list Awwwards – creativity and webdesign 2017
short list Directors Award DDG – digital storytelling 2017
short list Meestervertellers – SVJ 2017
short list De Tegel – journalistiek talent 2017

Festivals

Middle East Now Florence 2017
DOK.fest München 2017
DOCSMX Mexico City 2017
Nederlands Film Festival Utrecht 2017
Offside Fest Barcelona 2018
Bristol Palestine Film Festival Bristol 2018

Tv screening
Ireland, Lebanon

Online content screened
Argentina, Israel, Italy