How do football coaches address key social problems in Genova in Italy (racism/immigration and integration), in Kumasi in Ghana (poverty) and in Cape Town in South Africa (women's emancipation, equality, LGBTQ+)? In this inspiring character-driven documentary series, will they save their (amateur) players? 

EPISODE 1 : GHANA

IT | 2024 | 52' | HD | English (sub.), French (sub.), Italian (sub.), Spanish (sub.), German (sub.) I By Christian Nicoletta | Reassemblage Produzione Audiovisive, 4Rooms srl

How did football coach Sani give a future to thousands of (poor) kids from Ghana over the last 55 years? Kaka reveals his own story.

Sani is The coach behind the success of generations of professional football players from Ghana. Kaka, his former player for 13 years, while waiting for a visa to go and play football in a professional European team, returns to meet him. How did Sani give a future to thousands of poor kids over the last 55 years? 

EPISODE 2: SOUTH AFRICA (in editing)

ZA/IT | Completion 2025 | 80', 52' (26' under request) | HD | English (sub.), French (sub.), Italian (sub.), Spanish (sub.), German (sub.) I By Christian Nicoletta and Sylvia Vollenhoven | Reassemblage Produzione Audiovisive, Vision In Africa and 4Rooms srl

We do not only address football as an instrument to fix social issues but also inequality, women emancipation and the power of the queer world... Did you know Cape Town could be considered the LGBTQ+ capital of Africa?

We tell the story of Athi, a 30 yo lesbian girl who grew up in the slums of Cape Town. There it was not accepted to be lesbian. She also loved to play football and for years she had to pretend to be a boy to do that. Then she met Grassroot Soccer, an eucational programm to help young girls to study, to play football and understand their rights. In the years she became a coach herself and also a queer activist and a role model for young girls. She now works in a programm where she teaches in the schools of the slums, to young girl about sexuality, igyene, HIV prevention. Since the age of 16 she has a girlfirend , Sipha. Sipha is becomeing a lawyer dealing with female and queer rights. The two since 2 years moved to live together in a more friendly environment and they are now able to freely live as a lesbian couple. While being lesbian is not well accepted in areas where Xhosa people live, it is well accepted in the coloured areas as it has always been part of the local culture. In the city of Cape Town, while there is many inequality coming from apertheid, and the slums are close to very rich villas, separated by electrified fences, there is a lot of acceptance of the queer world. We see Drag Queens shows in clubs attended by gay and non gay people. Sipha plays in a Netball tournment where gay boys freely take part to the matches. Athi call freely Sipha my babe in public. 

At the Grassroot soccer association Athi became friend with Rosie,a white girl from California who first worked as a manager in the NBA, who decided to achange life and relocated in Cape Town to pursue a  life where sport is used to improve people lives. Both Athi and Rosie played goalkeepers and when they meet they match immediately. They become coaches and managers of the project together. Then, during Covid, Grassroot Association closes. Rosie has to go back to USA to take care of her dying mother. Athi suffer an injury that prevent her from playing for a long time. But after one year Rosie decides to come back to CT, where she marries Uhluru,  a local guy. Athi and Rosie start to meet again with the respective partners and dream to create a new project together, a football academy for girls in Cape Town, where both rich and poor talented girls will have the chance to pursue their dream in the first training  centre of this kind.

The next generation of the Blackfoot First Nation in Canada battles the opioid crisis laying waste to their community by preserving ancient indigenous equine traditions. Through their 400 year-old practice of horsemanship, teenagers recovering from drug addiction, PTSD and low self-esteem, reconnect with their ancestral identity and regain self-confidence. We follow Pat who runs an equine therapy program rooted in ancestral traditions. Will they find their way on their challenging road to recovery through quest for identity?

Students from a suburb professional high school in Bron, France have the chance to participate as mechanics in a team for the 24 H Le Mans Truck Race and to experience the circuit for a weekend alongside real professionals. Not belonging to the students who have a paved promising future, the Trucks Racing will enable them to start dreaming their life.

During one whole season, we follow ASKA Marousi, a wheelchair basketball team from Athens in Greece (the inventing country of the Olympic Games), while they join the 1st division of the Greek national league. This team consists of both disabled and non-disabled men and women, including athletes who migrated to Greece, which adds to the mixture of differences! We experience how fun this sport is...as any sport, even if differently played, its socialising dimension but also its economic aspects as not everyone can afford it. Discover their coach, their training sessions, games and international traveling procedures as never seen before in advance of the forthcoming Paralympics.

Stéphane, autistic, and Audrey, dyslexic managed to qualify for the Special Olympics World Games, as middle-distance runners. They are willing to demonstrate to the world that they deserve recognition as anyone else. Determined to become world champions, we follow them from the preparation in Canada to the finals in Dubai. Do their chances rely on their physical or mental condition? Will they win despite the fact that they’re special …or thanks to it?

Moroccan women challenge the patriarchal society by taking part in an ancestral horse ritual formerly trusted by men, the FANTASIA. The young woman Afrae Ben Bih is training her team of female riders for the event. Despite the support of women and men of their community, will they achieve to be recognized in the manly world of the FANTASIA competition?

Through the extreme sport of parachuting, three women want to prove to themselves that they can overcome their limits and free themselves from prejudices towards women still existing in our society. Free fall world champion, Lieutenant of 1st Regiment who just joined the army and Muslim mother of an immigrant family, they are all determined to jump. But what happens when you’re alone facing your fears?

In North Morocco, two surf associations are trying to keep children and teenagers from deprived families away from the street and its harmful temptations. Abdellah El Ghazal, former surfing champion, as well as Youssef and Samia, offer them a safer framework to grow up promoting the values of education, environment and solidarity.

Three women - an Irish surfer, an Iranian snowboarder & an  Iranian diver- decide to introduce surf in Iran. In the Southeastern region, known for its waves, their belief in the values of sport allows them to connect with others and gain a new visibility in the society despite their veil. Surf could also bring economic development to the region. This film has been edited by the famous Iranian filmmaker B. Kiarostami, son of A. Kiarostami.

A group of Senegalese women share a passion: playing football! In a muslim society in which people prefer women to play a more traditional role, "Ladies' Turn", an NGO, organizing a female soccer tournament, fights to get the chance to play the final in Dakar's newest stadium. Will they manage and win the visibility they deserve reflecting the role that women are forging in the Senegalese society?

Three internationally renowned French sport champions make us go behind the scenes of golf. Despite their apparent tranquillity and solitude on the course, they resolutely master this intellectually and physically highly-demanding discipline, with a strong team and competitive spirit. Raphaël Jacquelin is the best French international player. Jean Garraialde was the best player in France before retirement. Bruno Saby, former rally driver, brings a complementary input on this thrilling "game".