ZANZIBAR SOCCER QUEENS
- dir. FLORENCE AYISI
- year. 2006
- country. UK
- run-time. 54 mins
- rating. U
UNDER THE OPEN SKY
- dir. FAIZ ULLAH, SHILPA PHADKE, NIKHIL TITUS
- year. 2016
- country. INDIA
- run-time. 35 mins
- rating. U
£5.00 (£3.50 conc.)
Doors 7:00PM
Film 7:30PM
From Florence Ayisi, co-director of Sisters in Law - winner of the prestigious Prix Art et Essai at the 2005 Cannes film festival - comes an inspiring, eye-opening, insightful exploration of a football team of determined, east African women and the coach-cum-social worker who leads them to overcome societal opposition and limited facilities to play the game they adore, in the process defining new roles and identities for women in a mainly Muslim society.
Spotlighting the Women Fighters team, this documentary shows how sport can be a gateway to personal change for women who have overcome great difficulties, elicited by Ayisi in moving, inspiring personal testimonies. Through these gripping stories of shattered dreams, shared aspiration and self-actualisation, Zanzibar Soccer Queens is an optimistic, inspiring film about women who found freedom in football.
“An illuminating group portrait of African women determined to play the game in a predominantly Muslim society”
+ Under t Open Sky
An acclaimed short doc about girls in the mainly Muslim town of Mumbra, India who find freedom in football and use it to reclaim public spaces usually thought of as being off limits to young women.