The French collective Apax Skate Crew brings together women and LGBTQIA+ minorities around a shared passion for skateboarding, promoting inclusion and diversity in a still predominantly male world.

A group of amateur female hockey players set out to revive Estonia’s Women’s National Team. From the start, their journey is full of obstacles: uneven skill levels, language barriers, wide age gaps, and a total lack of government support. What unites them is one thing only: the desire to play and win at the World Championships. To get there, they must transform from enthusiastic amateurs into a true national team. A skilled coach from Latvia steps in, bringing the experience and hope the women desperately need. But will that be enough? 

How do football coaches address key social problems in Genova in Italy (racism/immigration & integration), in Kumasi in Ghana (poverty) and in Cape Town in South Africa (women's emancipation, 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 (FOR PRE-BUY)

ZA/IT | Production: August 2026; Completion September 2027 | 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

How does a football coach fix inequality, enables women emancipation and reveal the power of the queer community in Cape Town, considered the LGBTQ+ capital of Africa?

In a city where women’s bodies are never safe and dreams are destroyed by gross inequity, queer goalkeeper Athi Sidondi, her partner Sipha and her American best friend Rosie try to build South Africa’s first women’s football academy but when their dream collapses, they reinvent what it means to fight for the ball.

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".